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40 games released in 2020 and reviewed here, best first.
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A two-person Swedish studio's pixel-art ARPG stacks skill trees, runes, sockets and artifacts into a genuinely deep build sandbox for the price of a takeaway meal — but the achievement data shows most players never see the endgame that's supposed to justify it.
7 / 10
A solo developer's four-and-a-half-year Early Access project about running up to eleven characters at once — genuinely one of the deepest class-and-skill webs in the idle genre, sitting behind a shop that has gotten harder to ignore.
7 / 10
Mojang's accessible, co-op-first loot crawler wearing Minecraft's blocky skin over a Diablo-style structure — broadly loved for local and online co-op, and carrying one specific, heavily documented complaint its own Steam reviews won't let go of.
7 / 10
A genuinely inventive fusion of Metroidvania exploration and Pokémon-style monster taming with real tactical depth, undercut for a large share of its own fans by a late-game boss-scaling system that turns an excellent first twenty hours into a grind many never finish.
7 / 10
One of the biggest co-op horror games ever made, sitting on 836,000 reviews and a movie deal — and, right now, absorbing the fallout of a May 2026 customisation update its own top reviews call the worst in the game's six-year history.
7 / 10
A free auto-battling dungeon crawler that lets you script your party's behaviour instead of just watching it fight, undercut on desktop by menus that never stopped feeling like a phone app and a save file that a bad crash can wipe outright.
7 / 10
A free browser incremental whose entire subject is the prestige mechanic other incrementals treat as scaffolding — thirty-one reset layers stacked on top of each other, and the accidental parent of a modding framework that a very long tail of hobbyist developers have since built their own games on.
7 / 10
A full 3D remake of a 1995 Super Famicom classic that never got an official English release until this and a retro re-issue arrived together in 2019-2020 — faithful to the original's charm and class-change system, but missing the SNES version's local co-op and carrying writing a meaningful share of its own Steam reviews call dated.
7 / 10
Hazelight Studios' prison-break co-op predecessor to It Takes Two and Split Fiction remains Very Positive across more than 102,000 Steam reviews for its inventive, purely two-player design — but this review can confirm a real, still-current complaint It Takes Two eventually resolved: A Way Out's mandatory EA App launcher continues to cause connection failures, crashes and Steam-invite friction in reviews dated as recently as August 2025, with no fix announcement found anywhere in the developer's own Steam communications.
6.5 / 10
The officially licensed D&D idle game turns line-up positioning into a real tactical puzzle, then buries that good idea under one of the most persistent monetisation engines in the idle genre.
6.5 / 10
A dice-rolling incremental from solo developer Lutsgames that sells itself on genuine randomness, then spends its entire upgrade tree quietly smoothing that randomness away — and the game is more interesting for admitting it can't have both.
6.5 / 10
A genuine technical marvel that recreates the entire Earth in staggering, mesmerizing detail — sold on Steam behind a mandatory external-launcher download that reviewers have documented, consistently and specifically, running out Steam's refund window since launch day in 2020.
6.5 / 10
A free idle mining game about drilling straight down instead of resetting to start over — Playsaurus's other idle series trades Clicker Heroes' ascension loop for one continuous 2,500km descent. What that costs the game, and what its ticket economy actually sells.
6.5 / 10
The 2020 party-royale phenomenon remains Very Positive lifetime, but its Steam page tells a genuinely unusual and still-unresolved story — pulled from sale after Epic Games' acquisition, converted to free-to-play, and still drawing sustained, specific anger from paying original owners four years later.
6 / 10
Gaming's most famous redemption arc went into reverse — negative reviews fell to five in 2023, then spiked to thirty-one in 2025, and the players writing them have two thousand hours each and one complaint: the subscription.
6 / 10
A CryEngine action RPG that scrapped fixed classes for a rotating passive wheel anyone can bend around any weapon — undone at launch by a server collapse that ate people's characters, and undone for good in September 2024 when the studio switched the multiplayer off forever.
6 / 10
