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303 games released in 2022 and reviewed here, best first.
303 reviews
A NZ$6.29 pixel-art idle-exploration RPG that pairs a genuinely appealing loop — explore fogged tiles, build a town, auto-fight through a side-scrolling combat screen — with balance so broken that its own players report HP-boosting gear leaving them with less HP, and a patch history that stops two days after a January 2022 launch.
3.5 / 10
A minimalist idle clicker from the same solo developer as The Billion Clicker -- this time undone not by an exploitable shortcut but by a balance curve reviewers describe as backwards, where per-click power falls as upgrade costs climb.
3.5 / 10
A free-to-play mobile idle dungeon crawler ported to Steam with a price tag but without a rebalance, leaving the energy gates and premium-currency walls in place while removing the only way to actually get past them.
3.5 / 10
A genuinely inventive body-swapping murder-mystery premise, permanently stuck as a single under-an-hour chapter after launching in Early Access with promised future content that never arrived.
3.5 / 10
A free-to-play idle RPG built on a genuinely inventive premise — real elapsed time is the core currency — buried under a UI so consistently criticised that reviewers are still calling it unusable four years and a dedicated overhaul patch later, alongside a confirmed in-game cash shop.
3.5 / 10
A genuinely well-regarded airport-management sim with a distinct, ground-handling-focused concept praised even by many critics, confirmed abandoned by this review's own check of a three-year Steam news silence — leaving a real, unfinished game for sale with no further development in sight.
3.4 / 10
A solo-developed beekeeping sim with real, specific depth that actual beekeepers among its tiny review sample genuinely admire — buried under a total absence of any tutorial, a broken hiring feature, and a game the developer never patched after its 2022 release.
3 / 10
A NZ$2.49 idle hero-placement tower defense from solo Chinese developer Yamate whose 30-wave campaign hits the same reproducible, game-breaking bug at wave 23 in two independent reviews a year apart, on top of a broken mana mechanic and unit upgrades that reset every time you quit — a serious flaw in a game built around idling away from the keyboard.
3 / 10
A NZ$6.29 xianxia-themed idle herb farm from a Chinese solo developer who shipped a near-identical idle game five weeks earlier — a decorative thousand-card compendium and an auto-battling cultivator sit on top of a loop with exactly one real decision, and both patches and the developer's attention stopped inside the first week.
3 / 10
A NZ$10.29 desk-diorama ant colony sim from a solo student developer, launched unfinished on 1 April 2022 (unintentionally, on April Fools), publicly apologised for, patched twice over the following five months, and then left behind — a review from November 2023 says the developer "completely abandoned" it, and the game's own tiny nine-review corpus backs that up.
3 / 10
A cheap, thin desktop-wallpaper colony builder with a review sample too small to trust on its own — but three separate negative reviews independently describe the game running unexpectedly in the background after being closed, a real and specific risk for Steam's own 2-hour refund window.
3 / 10
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A NZ$3.19 idle "tycoon" whose entire loop, according to multiple independent reviewers, is buying one of 36 plots and watching it pay a flat 1 coin regardless of price or level — the fourth Boogygames Studios template Wanderer has reviewed, and the thinnest one yet.
2.5 / 10
A cheap idle merge-RPG whose own store page is picked apart, feature by feature, in the single most-upvoted review in its sample — and whose save file, according to three independent reports, can be permanently corrupted by a crash.
2.5 / 10
A $9.99 fantasy trading card game promising decks, PvP and a growing card pool — that has sat on Steam since 2022 without a single user review or a live opponent to play against.
2.3 / 10
An idle clicker that markets itself as the cure for boring, infinite idle games — and whose own Mostly Negative review corpus says, with striking consistency, that it is exactly that problem in miniature, with a prestige system reviewers say offers no strategy at all.
2 / 10
