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178 games released in 2020 and reviewed here, best first.
178 reviews
A gorgeous, genuinely inventive tactical roguelite whose own core promise — perfect information about what will happen if you act — is undercut by a turn-preview bug reviewers say actively lies to you, on top of a difficulty curve and repeat-run structure many find punishing rather than replayable.
6.5 / 10
A gross, hilarious, brutally difficult physics-platformer about controlling the two flailing arms of a squishy abomination — genuinely inventive and gorgeously scored, with a specific, corroborated gap where a real online co-op mode should be.
6.5 / 10
An open-world tactics RPG with a genuinely deterministic, no-RNG combat system and a disorienting hand-drawn map that some players call the point and others call the reason they quit — on top of a well-documented difficulty curve that punishes you for doing the normal RPG thing and leveling up.
6.5 / 10
A "simple to learn, hard to master" arcade racer reboot with a genuinely excellent driving model and endless player-made tracks, undercut by a free-to-play label reviewers argue is misleading given how much content sits behind a recurring Club subscription that has narrowed further since launch.
6.5 / 10
A free ambient "focus companion" app that puts a cozy, lo-fi cottage on a second monitor to study or work alongside, earning near-unanimous praise for its vibe while reviewers repeatedly debate whether it's a game at all and flag one specific, alarming performance complaint worth taking seriously.
6.5 / 10
A cozy, D&D-flavored visual novel about a snowbound 1980s boarding school's tabletop club, wrapped around turn-based battles that a large, specific chorus of its own reviewers say the word "Tactics" in the title oversells.
6.5 / 10
A beautifully written, gorgeously drawn kingdom-management story about a king trying to save his family and his crown — undercut by one of the most consistently documented "your choices don't actually matter" complaints this review has come across.
6.5 / 10
A minimalist Snake built on a teaching engine with a real, touch-native on-screen control pad -- confirmed working, but paired with an unusually punishing pace and a visible cosmetic bug.
6.3 / 10
A free 3D hero-collector idle RPG that has quietly run six years and 160-plus servers on Steam, better known among its own reviewers for a Steam tag list — Nudity, Sexual Content, Hentai — that the actual client does not deliver on than for anything it does in combat.
6 / 10
A gorgeous roguelike migration-management game that mashes up Reus, FTL and a city builder into something genuinely original — undone for a large share of its own audience by "Vagaries," a random-event system multiple reviewers independently name as the single mechanic that turns skillful play into arbitrary punishment.
6 / 10
A cheap, genuinely inventive recursive-automation game built around "shrinking" whole factory sub-units into single reusable blocks — an idea reviewers compare favorably to shapez.io, undermined by a tutorial and interface multiple independent players call actively hostile to learning the game at all.
6 / 10
The strategy series' Bronze-Age take on the Iliad drew a record-breaking 7.5 million free claims on its Epic Games Store launch day, then met a very different reception a year later on Steam, where a stack of character DLC, a fantasy expansion and even a paid gore pack turned "half the roster is locked behind paywalls" into the review corpus's central complaint.
6 / 10
A cozy visual novel about brewing drinks for elves, orcs and werewolves working through very human problems in an alternate rainy Seattle, warmly received for its atmosphere and art but repeatedly compared unfavorably to VA-11 Hall-A, the game reviewers say it borrows its entire structure from without matching its depth.
6 / 10
A pixel-art wild-west roguelite shooter by Retrific, Very Positive across its Steam reviews for its charming Western presentation and character variety — undercut by an extremely consistent, unusual complaint about a jittery camera and shaking menus that reviewers report causes genuine motion sickness and cannot be disabled, alongside a well-corroborated complaint about repetitive, ammo-starved combat.
6 / 10
A precision dodge-and-survive game where players explore a grid of rooms filled with deadly, disc-shaped hazards, Very Positive across 577 reviews for its creative premise and presentation — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint from bullet-hell genre veterans that disc movement is randomised rather than pattern-based, undermining the mastery the genre is normally built around, alongside a shortage of content relative to price.
6 / 10
A lovingly hand-drawn homage to Sierra and LucasArts point-and-click adventures about one man's search for a simple pilsner in a town of craft-beer snobs — its writing and art earn near-universal praise, while its puzzle logic revives the genre's most notorious old flaw right alongside its charm.
6 / 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 solo-developer tycoon sim that flips the genre on its head — instead of playing an MMORPG, you build, price and manage one for a population of AI subscribers, complete with server crises, marketing hires and a happiness meter for the players you'll never actually control.
6 / 10
A sci-fi Souls-like set on a cosmic-horror space station, blending Dark Souls with Dead Space and Event Horizon, Mostly Positive across 1,618 reviews for genuinely striking atmosphere and full co-op support — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint about punishing platforming sections that kill on a single missed jump, and by extensive, well-corroborated bugs concentrated in multiplayer that this review found have gone unpatched for close to four years.
6 / 10
The fourth entry in a beloved point-and-click resource-management series trims away the grind that soured its predecessor, only for its own longtime fans to say it trimmed away too much else along with it, leaving a pleasant but noticeably thin two-to-four-hour prequel.
6 / 10
A colorful, Greek-mythology open-world action-RPG reviewers repeatedly describe as "Zelda and Assassin's Creed had a baby" and one of Ubisoft's most creative recent games, almost entirely overshadowed in its own review sample by an overwhelming wave of complaints about the mandatory Ubisoft Connect launcher.
6 / 10
A genuinely novel time-rewind combat mechanic — freely wind time back mid-battle to try a different move — carries a debut studio's fantasy tactics game a long way, but a marketed "RPG" with no items, equipment or character building, and a story that thins out at the midpoint, means fewer than one in thirteen players ever finishes it.
6 / 10
A cathartic, comedic first-person spider hunt that lets you burn down your own house to be rid of one arachnid — genuinely funny for the four-to-six hours it lasts, before a large share of its own fans say the joke runs out well before the game does.
6 / 10
