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178 games released in 2020 and reviewed here, best first.
178 reviews
A moody Montana walking-sim mystery with strong voice acting and a gorgeous hotel setting, undone for a large share of its own audience by how it frames the relationship at the center of its plot — a dispute serious and widespread enough to be the review's central finding, not a footnote.
5.5 / 10
The Torchlight series' return from a scrapped free-to-play MMO experiment landed as a slimmer, shallower action RPG than its beloved predecessor — and six years on, its Mixed Steam rating hasn't moved an inch, even as the studio that made it no longer exists.
5.5 / 10
An open-world hacking game set in a beautifully realized near-future London whose headline "play as anyone" system draws real praise, undercut by a widely reported step backward from its own predecessor, single-player cosmetic microtransactions, and Ubisoft Connect DRM problems that dominate a meaningful share of its review sample.
5.5 / 10
A gorgeous, Breath of the Wild-indebted survival roguelite about a shipwrecked warrior sailing between procedural islands — praised for its art and boat-building, undercut by a identity crisis between story, survival and permadeath that most players never resolve, since fewer than one in eleven ever finishes it.
5.5 / 10
A NZ$1.49 clicker-idler that strips the genre down to a single warrior fighting an endless line of enemies, with just enough achievement structure to hold completionists — and just little enough content to leave everyone else asking what happened after 2021.
5.2 / 10
A five-years-late Kickstarter revival of the Archimedean Dynasty/Aquanox submarine combat lineage that split its own backers down the middle, then confirmed their worst fear by going quiet on patches within months of launch.
5 / 10
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
Pocketpair's first big multiplayer survival-crafting sandbox, Mostly Positive across nearly 18,000 reviews for genuinely inventive systems — and the subject of a years-long, very well documented community grievance that the studio deprioritised it after Palworld's success, which Pocketpair itself directly apologised for in a remarkable anniversary post published essentially the same week as this review.
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
Gust's turn-based adaptation of the Fairy Tail manga delivers real fan-service value in its combat and guild management, but a heavily compressed story, reused assets and a genuinely extreme 62-item DLC catalogue on top of a full-price tag turn even fans of the series against it.
5 / 10
A cheap, genuinely relaxing idle-clicker farm-decorating hybrid that saw a real burst of active development through 2021 before going quiet — and a specific, unresolved crash bug that more recent reviews say still ends long sessions without warning.
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 genuinely fun shark-RPG power fantasy, Very Positive across more than 21,000 reviews for its open-world predator loop — badly let down by a crash crisis that reviewers say dates back to launch in 2020 and remains, per reports as recent as mid-2026, largely unresolved six years later.
5 / 10
A genuinely inventive monster-breeding RPG with a darker Pokémon-adjacent premise and a crossbreeding system its own fans call one of the best in the genre, sitting inside a game that a remarkably large share of its players — across four years of reviews — describe as too bug-riddled to finish.
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
An asymmetrical multiplayer shooter that lets four soldiers complete objectives while a fifth player stalks them as the Predator — a genuinely fun premise reviewers say is let down by severe balance problems, thin map variety, and a playerbase reviewers describe as having quietly withered since the developer moved on.
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 fun, arcade-y co-op shooter pitting up to four players against occult Nazi zombie hordes, undermined almost universally by a DLC structure reviewers describe as locking the vast majority of the game's weapons and cosmetics behind a season-pass paywall that costs more than the base game itself.
5 / 10
Ninja Theory's stylish 4v4 melee brawler earns real credit for its art direction and team-first combat design, but reviewers document a thin launch content pool, a steep asking price, and a population that collapsed within its first year — a decline the developer itself has since confirmed by ending content updates entirely.
4.5 / 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 pixel-art dwarf-run weapon shop with a genuinely relaxing niche audience, undercut by a "worst interface I've ever seen" reputation, a marketed idle framing multiple reviewers say the actual linear gameplay doesn't deliver, and support that stopped within its first month.
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
