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303 games released in 2022 and reviewed here, best first.
303 reviews
The latest entry in a decades-old railroad simulation franchise with a genuinely huge, devoted user-content community and an unusually long, real support record, undercut by persistent performance problems worse than its own predecessor and a DLC business model that locks even basic visual quality behind hundreds of separate purchases.
5.5 / 10
A striking black-and-white samurai action game built on Kurosawa-style cinematography -- and a rare case where even the game's own top-voted positive review opens by calling the combat "GOD AWFUL," in a corpus where that complaint appears in three out of every four negative reviews.
5.5 / 10
Square Enix trades the turn-based tactics of the Valkyrie Profile series for fast, stylish hack-and-slash combat, and wins over players who take it on its own terms while alienating the fanbase it's named after.
5.5 / 10
A genuinely beautiful nature-themed idle game -- biologist-verified species cards, lush stylised regions -- ported from mobile with its premium-currency shop apparently removed days after launch, though reviewers as recent as 2026 still describe running into one.
5.5 / 10
A genuinely charming restoration-and-tinkering sim wrapped around a nostalgic story about a grandfather's workshop, let down by real technical problems, a short story with no proper free-play mode, and a support record that genuinely did stop for good in December 2022.
5.5 / 10
A two-dollar joke-premise Japanese-barbecue grilling minigame that, against every expectation for something this small, kept receiving real patches for over three years, launched on Switch, and spawned a direct spiritual sequel in 2026.
5.5 / 10
A VR-only MMO that launched to real excitement and $35 million in funding, then had its developer cease content work in 2024 and fold what paying customers bought into a free mode -- verified against press coverage, not just the review corpus that says the same thing.
5.5 / 10
A short, Turkish-produced full-motion-video thriller about a serial killer's psychology that lands its central performance and premise, undercut by choices that mostly don't matter and an English localisation reviewers describe as rough for years after a launch bug that was meant to fix it.
5 / 10
A genuinely charming, VR-capable forklift job simulator that real forklift operators are split on for authenticity, undercut by specific VR bugs, restrictive controls, and a racing-wheel support claim reviewers say didn't hold up to testing.
5 / 10
A cel-shaded, kingdom-building idle RPG that looks better than most of the genre and runs a genuinely competent hero-collection loop underneath — until its 0.2% top-tier gacha rate turns "collect dozens of heroes" into the game's actual monetisation engine.
5 / 10
A Vampire Survivors-style horde survivor with a hub town and RPG progression layered on top, whose Early Access development stopped dead months before an abrupt 1.0 launch that shipped roughly half of what its own roadmap promised.
5 / 10
A charming, atmospheric Wild West saloon-management sim whose full release is widely and specifically described by its own reviewers as worse than the free demo that preceded it, with every system exhausted in three to four hours and at least two specific, reproducible bugs never fixed.
5 / 10
A charming Kairosoft village-builder where recruited heroes auto-battle monsters while you expand the town around them, sold on Steam as an unadapted mobile port at roughly double what reviewers say the same game costs on phone app stores.
5 / 10
A charming incremental city-building RPG that launched into Early Access with real promise and genuine early support, then went quiet after one substantial update -- reviewed here from a small but complete sample that shifts, year by year, from excited to abandoned.
5 / 10
A solo-developed survival horror game set in a frozen post-Soviet ruin that's been substantially reworked more than once since its January 2022 debut, with a divisive shift away from open survival toward a more linear zombie-shooting loop that a real share of returning players say made the game worse rather than better.
5 / 10
A genuinely novel business-sim sequel -- build and run an internet cafe complete with a working in-game browser -- undone by a single, specific, four-years-unfixed bug that keeps showing up in reviews: save files randomly corrupting or wiping hours of progress, in a game its own last content update predates by over four years.
5 / 10
A solo-developed, Civilization-style pixel-art 4X strategy game with genuine strategic depth, held back for most of its life by severe, well-documented crashes and an interface reviewers describe fighting as hard as any in-game rival.
5 / 10
A WWII-flavoured, zero-gravity spin on Escape from Tarkov that launched with real promise in 2022, then spent four years wearing down that goodwill through persistent cheating, contested bans, and — as of an April 2026 developer post apologising for "the silence" — a 20-month content drought.
5 / 10
A cheap, genuinely improved sequel to 2018's Gamer Career Tycoon that lets you build a streaming career from a day job upward, undercut by a repetitive, click-heavy interface and content that visibly runs out once you've made your fortune.
5 / 10
The latest instalment in a long-running yearly geopolitical simulation series, offering genuine, unmatched depth for fans willing to run a country's economy, army and secret services, undercut by bugs its own loyal fanbase say have carried over unfixed for years and a full annual price for what many call a minor content refresh.
5 / 10
A cute, cheap goblin-blacksmith crafting and resource-management game with a small, genuinely fond following -- and an equally consistent complaint that there simply isn't much of it, with most players finishing in well under an hour.
5 / 10
A scrappy, choice-driven Eurojank RPG that launched buggy enough to land on Metacritic's worst-of-2022 list, then spent the following year patching its way toward the more competent game its ambitious branching story always deserved.
5 / 10
An open-world sci-fi gacha ARPG with real exploration and character-design appeal, whose review score is being shaped less by its combat or its shop than by an account-migration process that a large, consistent share of returning players say permanently deleted hundreds of hours and real money without adequate warning.
5 / 10
A VR spell-dueling MOBA with a genuinely inventive draw-your-own-spell mechanic, undercut by an unmoderated young player base, real pay-to-win complaints, and a serious, specific reviewer allegation that the Steam version is deliberately denied purchases the Meta store version gets.
5 / 10
