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
303 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
Neon White
A first-person speedrunning platformer built around discarding cards for guns or traversal tricks, whose movement design earns some of the most enthusiastic praise this library has documented, attached to a visual-novel dating-sim story its own fanbase mocks almost unanimously while still recommending the game without hesitation.
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
The Archivist and the Revolution
A quietly devastating piece of interactive fiction about a chronically ill former surveillance worker in a dying, sealed city — critically acclaimed across the IF community (4th at IFComp 2022, an IGF Honorable Mention, an IFDB Award for worldbuilding) and, on this shelf, an example of touch support requiring no engineering at all: every choice is a plain tappable link.
8.5 / 10
The Case of the Golden Idol
A deduction puzzle game built around reconstructing twelve gruesome deaths across fifty years from frozen crime-scene tableaus, whose "aha!" moment design draws some of the most ecstatic, consistent praise this library has documented, tempered by a short runtime for its price and a divisive later UI overhaul.
8.5 / 10
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
An expanded, engine-rebuilt reimagining of 2013's landmark narrative game, still regarded as one of the most original and cleverly written pieces of interactive fiction ever made — its only real, substantive criticism, buried under an avalanche of in-character joke reviews, comes from longtime fans questioning whether the new content justifies a doubled price for people who already own the original.
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
ASTLIBRA Revision
A single Japanese developer's 15-year solo project -- a sprawling 2D action RPG that earned an Overwhelmingly Positive badge on scale and ambition alone, with a review corpus that argues hard over its writing, its grind, and whether its combat gets too busy to read.
8 / 10
Betrayal At Club Low
A dice-driven, one-sitting narrative RPG from the creator of the surreal Off-Peak series, whose replayable, tabletop-flavoured storytelling wins over nearly everyone except a small, vocal group of longtime fans who specifically miss the studio's earlier first-person exploration format.
8 / 10
Box Stacker
A genuine physics-based construction puzzle - place blocks to build a bridge, ramp, or structure so a car can reach a goal flag, then run a real Box2D physics simulation - confirmed working via real block placement and simulation on both desktop and phone, backed by a 192-level catalogue from a genuine multi-author community project.
8 / 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
Dwarf Fortress
A genre-defining colony sim capable of genuinely unmatched emergent storytelling, undercut by a UI that even loyal thousand-hour players still call clunky, a brutal onboarding curve, and real, well-documented performance and bug problems that persist years after its celebrated Steam release.
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
Freedom Planet 2
A seven-years-in-development sequel to a beloved Sonic-inspired indie platformer, whose refined movement and combat draw near-universal acclaim even from disappointed fans, while a smaller but detailed minority documents real bugs, readability issues and a story several call bloated compared to the tighter original.
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
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
A coming-of-age sci-fi RPG about growing up on an alien world across ten years and card- battle skill checks, praised by a huge share of its own audience as genuinely moving, undercut for a specific minority by a replay-driven structure several reviewers say betrays its own central promise that choices carry across lives.
8 / 10
Letter Guess
A clean, faithful word-guessing puzzle with an on-screen QWERTY keyboard confirmed to type and submit guesses correctly, letter by letter, when tested against real touch input at exact key positions.
8 / 10