Elden Ring
FromSoftware took the tight, authored corridors of the Souls formula and let them loose across an entire continent, trading hand-guided pacing for a world you're free to get lost, lost again, and overpowered in on your own terms.
9 / 10
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Games released in 2022
43 games released in 2022 and reviewed here, best first.
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God of War
A near-universally acclaimed reinvention of the series into a slower, more personal Norse epic — praised almost unanimously, with an honest, considered minority of longtime original-series fans who miss the classic combat, and a real, recurring Steam Deck "Verified" labeling problem tied to a documented memory leak.
9 / 10
Vampire Survivors
Poncle stripped aiming and attacking out of the action-roguelite formula and the result became one of the decade's most copied designs — a review of what actually holds four years later, now that the screen-filling spectacle has become the whole pitch.
9 / 10
Dwarf Fortress
The 2022 Steam release wrapped two decades of the deepest simulation PC gaming has ever built in a mouse-driven interface and a proper tileset. The question worth asking in 2026 isn't whether the game is good — it's whether that wrapping actually solved the problem it was sold to solve.
8.5 / 10
Patrick's Parabox
A puzzle game about pushing boxes into boxes that contain themselves — 99% positive, one of the highest-rated games in this library, with a motion-sickness problem its own longest-playing critic begged the developer to fix.
8.5 / 10
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
A fan remake that outgrew the game it copied, and has been updated every year for a decade. It's free on Android, open source on GitHub, and carries no ads or purchases of any kind — so the interesting question isn't whether it's good. It's why you'd ever pay for it.
8.5 / 10
SIGNALIS
A retro survival horror game that wears its Resident Evil and Silent Hill influences openly and still manages real originality — beloved for its atmosphere, queer storytelling and puzzle design, with one honest recurring complaint about how tedious that puzzle design gets.
8.5 / 10
Stray
Four years on, 97.2% positive across 176,389 reviews — and its critics are still arguing that the only reason it scores that well is that you play as a cat.
8.5 / 10
TUNIC
A game about a small fox that hands you an instruction manual in a language you can't read and lets that single idea carry an entire adventure — and a soulslike hiding inside a Zelda costume, which is where most of its arguments start.
8.5 / 10
Xenoblade Chronicles 3
The trilogy-closing entry that fuses the worlds of the first two Xenoblade games into one shared battlefield, built around Chain Attacks and a class system deep enough to hold up across an eighty-hour campaign — with a story some major outlets still found predictable.
8.5 / 10
Chained Echoes
A 16-bit-style JRPG built almost entirely by one developer over seven years, whose real achievement isn't the pixel art but a heat-gauge combat system that replaces MP attrition with active turn-by-turn risk management.
8 / 10
Cult of the Lamb
A roguelite dungeon crawler and a cult-management sim share one save file, and the question that actually matters almost four years on is whether they're still lending each other strength or just taking turns.
8 / 10
FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE
A spectacular retelling of the first five hours of a 1997 classic, stretched to forty — and a PC port whose launch grievances have quietly been fixed while the argument about the story hasn't gone anywhere.
8 / 10
Grounded
Obsidian shrinks you to the size of an ant and lets that single premise reshape exploration, combat and crafting all at once. Nearly four years after 1.0, the backyard is still one of the smartest survival maps in the genre — even as Obsidian's attention has visibly moved on to the sequel.
8 / 10
Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered
A near-universally beloved web-swinging superhero game whose PC port has carried an unresolved, save-corrupting crash bug since the day it launched — persisting across three years of patches and still blocking full completion for some players.
8 / 10
Rogue Legacy 2
The sequel that fixed nearly everything wrong with the original — and got criticised for it. Its sharpest reviewers say the classes are now too balanced and every run plays the same. Both things are true, and that's the interesting part.
8 / 10
Triangle Strategy
A tactics RPG built on genuine terrain manipulation and a persuasion-driven branching story, from the producer behind Bravely Default and Octopath Traveler — and a game whose own Steam reviews argue at length about just how much dialogue sits between its battles.
8 / 10
Vault of the Void
The deckbuilder that removed the luck. You see every reward in advance and rebuild your deck between every fight — which makes it the most controllable game in its genre, and is exactly why some players bounce off it. Six dollars, 251 achievements, and criminally under-noticed.
8 / 10
V Rising
A survival-crafting game with action-RPG combat and a boss list instead of a tech tree, built around a PvP fantasy that most of its players quietly opt out of. Two years past 1.0, with the studio now calling it content-complete, it's worth being precise about which version of this game you're actually signing up for.
8 / 10
Captain of Industry
A factory-automation colony sim where the terrain itself is a resource — you mine the ground you build on, dump waste that physically piles up, and the island's shape becomes a side effect of every production decision. Four years into Early Access, with two to four more to go by the developer's own estimate.
7.5 / 10
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
An excellent, warm, considerably shorter Spider-Man game — and 42 of its 100 most-helpful negative reviews reach for the same word to explain why they're annoyed: DLC.
7.5 / 10
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
The finest medieval battle simulator ever built, wrapped in a sandbox its own fans say is thinner than the 2010 game it replaced. Its most-upvoted negative review is a list of features Warband had and this doesn't.
7.5 / 10
Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
You brew potions by physically dragging a pestle across a map of alchemical effects, and it's one of the best crafting mechanics anyone has invented. The argument isn't whether it's good — it's whether a brilliant idea that stopped being developed is worth twenty-nine dollars.
7.5 / 10
PowerWash Simulator
A genuinely therapeutic cleaning simulator that reviewers describe helping with anxiety and bad days alike — undercut for a real, growing share of players by achievements locked behind a fast-multiplying string of paid DLC packs.
7.5 / 10