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303 games released in 2022 and reviewed here, best first.
303 reviews
A small Norse-mythology platformer with a striking art style and a review base too thin and scattered to support a confident verdict either way -- read in full and reported honestly rather than padded into something more authoritative than the evidence allows.
4.5 / 10
An Early Access economic simulator built explicitly in the mould of the beloved Capitalism series, praised for genuinely ambitious production-chain depth but held back by a support record that burned bright at launch, went quiet for long stretches, and has produced nothing at all since a named "Revival" update itself stalled two patches in.
4.5 / 10
A relaxing environmental-cleanup sim that genuinely moves some players with its message, built from the same developer's earlier, more complete game with most of its systems stripped out, and left with a specific, game-blocking bug that's gone unresolved for well over a year.
4.5 / 10
A free-to-play idle tower defense from Swell Games that most of its own review base describes as a reskin of the developer's earlier Idle Monster TD, wrapped around one of the more aggressively itemised in-app purchase menus this library has documented.
4.5 / 10
A budget clicker from a developer who has shipped over a dozen near-identical low-poly idle games, where the Nordic theming turns out to be skin-deep -- the actual enemies inside the box are zombies, and the small but pointed Mixed review sample says the prestige loop underneath is the real problem.
4.5 / 10
A solo developer's flood-recovery clicker built entirely from free Unity Asset Store art — cheap, honestly priced, and stopped cold by a progression wall its own achievement data confirms.
4.5 / 10
A genuinely creative chess-variant creation engine sold at an unusually high price with a subscription-style monetisation structure baked in, real performance and multiplayer bugs, and one reviewer's "the game is shut down" claim this review found directly contradicted by the developer's own active update history through mid-2025.
4.5 / 10
A Xianxia-flavoured hybrid of tower defense and bullet-hell idle combat, sold on Steam with a promise of thirteen fully-voiced languages that its own small English review sample says never actually arrived, from a developer whose visible support stopped within a month of launch.
4.5 / 10
A budget merge-and-defend hybrid from a small Dutch studio that has released the same basic loop under half a dozen names. Four years after launch, it has collected precisely zero Steam user reviews — and the design explains why.
4.3 / 10
A deliberately empty joke sim where you are a cactus and nothing else happens, whose devoted fanbase has spent years asking the developer to fix a single broken achievement while the asking price quietly climbed nearly eightfold from launch.
4 / 10
A cheap, small-team open-world survival shooter with a genuinely promising opening hour undercut by a short, thin main quest, persistent bugs, and a widely repeated reviewer claim that it closely copies an earlier Epic Games Store title, all against a development record that appears to have stopped shortly after its full release.
4 / 10
A one-dollar idle clicker from a developer with a long, near-identical catalogue on Steam — this review independently confirms the store-page copy is reused word-for-word between releases — sitting at a genuinely even Mixed reception, undercut by a save bug that erased scaling progress and an achievement that reviewers say never registered.
4 / 10
A NZ$1.59 zombie-themed idle clicker with a defined 50-level endpoint, a prestige system added by later patches, and a review corpus that's split between genuine affection for its low-poly charm and recognition that it's one of at least four near-identical releases from the same developer in 2022.
4 / 10
A NZ$2.99 satire of Steam's own trading-card economy, where bots buy, sell and craft cards into badges to push a level counter upward — a clever premise that Steam's tiny, Mixed-rated review corpus says never grows past its opening idea.
4 / 10
A NZ$3.19 merge-idler about evolving cats through drag-and-drop merges — clean on monetisation, but backed by so little player evidence (two English Steam reviews in four years, zero concurrent players at time of writing) that its own storefront can't muster a score.
4 / 10
A tense, atmospheric digital adaptation of the Nemesis board game's Lockdown expansion that captures the tabletop's sci-fi horror mood convincingly, undermined by a solo mode that can't replicate the board game's multi-character play, a multiplayer population that's now too thin to reliably find games in, and two-plus years without an update.
4 / 10
A raw, unusually specific life-simulation about climbing out of poverty and debt that hooked a large early audience with real narrative ambition, before its developer went quiet in early 2023 and left the game listed on Steam but currently impossible to purchase, with the reason unresolved.
4 / 10
A medieval RPG/strategy hybrid that entered Early Access four years ago at a premium price and a rough, alpha-quality state, then redesigned its own core systems at least twice while its two-person team stayed unusually transparent with a patient but increasingly wary community.
4 / 10
A NZ$4.79 tower-defense-and-troops hybrid from the studio behind Merge Cats and Merge Beasts. It has collected exactly one Steam review in almost four years — and that review is negative, describing the exact lack of choice this write-up finds in the store listing itself.
3.8 / 10
A js13k 2022 runner-up with a genuinely well-built touch aim-and-cast loop for lobbing spells at approaching villagers, undercut by a hard, source-confirmed block — the ritual/upgrade screen that gates every level transition responds only to arrow keys and Enter, with no touch or mouse-click path at all, leaving a phone player stuck the moment the first wave is cleared.
3.8 / 10
A free dinosaur-zoo tycoon with genuine charm for young dino fans, undercut by aggressive, repeatedly reported cash-shop pressure, real technical instability spanning years of reviews, and a specific age-verification bug several adult players report locks them out entirely.
3.6 / 10
A blacksmithing sim with a genuinely appealing pitch — forge weapons, armor and tools in a sandbox medieval town — undercut by a buggy, unfinished launch its own reviewers call abandoned, backed by a Steam listing that has had no update and zero recorded players since release day.
3.6 / 10
A space-mining idle game that patched hard for ten straight months after its August 2022 Early Access launch, then went quiet in mid-2023 with its progression math still broken — four years and no 1.0 later, its own most dedicated reviewers call it the worst idle game they've played.
3.5 / 10
A cheap solo-developer idle RPG whose launch week produced one of the more one-sided review corpora in this library — a near-unanimous complaint about a bewildering interface, compounded by repeated, independently corroborated reports of the developer deleting critical reviews and banning players who asked for help.
3.5 / 10
