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82 games released in 2020 and reviewed here, best first.
82 reviews
A charming season-manipulation fantasy adventure with a genuinely smart central mechanic and a well-told story, sunk at launch by a level of bugs, screen-tearing and broken abilities that both critics and players describe as feeling closer to a beta than a finished game.
5 / 10
A genuinely novel pitch — Prohibition-era Chicago as a hybrid of XCOM tactics and Civilization-style empire management — from Doom co-creator John Romero's studio, undone by a buggy, shallow launch and, three years later, an outright abandonment that left a paid, pre-purchased second expansion permanently unreleased.
5 / 10
A tiny, stark, art-forward interactive short story from the makers of Milk Inside a Bag of Milk Inside a Bag of Milk, held back almost entirely by one specific, near-universally criticised element — its English voice acting — rather than its atmosphere or premise.
5 / 10
A Warhammer 40,000 gang-warfare tactics game with real strategic ideas, undone at launch by crashes, save corruption and broken AI so severe that its own most-upvoted review opens with a warning not to buy it — patched hard for nine months, then abandoned entirely in mid-2021.
5 / 10
A free idle game built around a genuinely beloved, emotionally resonant story about a cat companion named Kato, undercut by real, specific complaints that the idle mechanics are shallow and don't actually work offline, plus a screen-flashing effect some reviewers say risks monitor burn-in.
5 / 10
A licensed action RPG retelling Sword Art Online's Alicization arc, with combat fans genuinely like buried under launch-week performance problems, a slow first act that plays more like a visual novel than a game, and a gacha loot-box layer stacked on top of an already full-price purchase.
5 / 10
A mobile-to-Steam idle production-line game with a genuinely well-regarded crafting chain buried under aggressive monetisation and, more seriously, a documented save-reliability problem — one top-voted reviewer reports losing an entire weekend of event progress despite manually saving before logging off.
4.5 / 10
A PS5 launch title that charged a premium at the dawn of the $70 console generation for a repetitive looter-slasher critics rated Weak — and one that, six years on, still requires an internet connection to play solo, from a studio that shut down in January 2025 with no offline mode ever announced.
4.5 / 10
Even loyal fans of the prolific Chilla's Art horror catalogue widely call this one of the studio's weakest entries — a tedious back-and-forth walking simulator with a genuine progression-blocking bug and a sound-based puzzle with no accessibility option for deaf or hard-of-hearing players.
4.3 / 10
A genuinely inventive two-character roguelike deckbuilder that spent two years earning real enthusiasm in Early Access, then went silent — the developer's own news feed shows a "temporary suspension of regular updates" posted in May 2022 that was never followed up on, and the word "Abandoned" is now the single most common one-word review title in its history.
4 / 10
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