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350 games released in 2023 and reviewed here, best first.
350 reviews
A free solo-dev world-domination idle game patched seven times in its first two weeks, then left untouched for the three years since — long enough for its own achievement list to become the entire game, clearable in a single sitting.
4 / 10
A solo-developed survival game promising a journey from taming dinosaurs to building a Dyson sphere, undercut by detailed, independently corroborated reports that several of its levels are unmodified Unreal Marketplace demo scenes — and by a sequel announced five months after launch while the original sat unfixed.
4 / 10
A free-to-play mobile idle tavern-and-hero-management game ported to Steam in June 2023, whose ad-watch buttons routinely fail to load on PC and whose only post-launch fix, by the reviews' own account, arrived within its first two weeks.
4 / 10
A stylish, rhythm-infused action roguelite that its own players call genuinely exceptional — undercut by a single, devastating, independently corroborated fact: the publisher laid off its entire development team roughly six weeks after Early Access launch, and the game has sat frozen, unfinished and still for sale, ever since.
4 / 10
A dark-comedy business simulator about running an online drug empire, launched into Early Access in January 2023 by solo developer PiCorp and left there, seemingly untouched, ever since.
4 / 10
A handsome medieval-themed adaptation of the ancient board game for js13k 2023, whose board could never be interacted with in any mode during testing — not a touch-specific failure, but a total absence of any selectable piece, which matches a rendering bug the author himself has repeatedly acknowledged.
3.5 / 10
An Early Access satirical city-building incremental with a genuinely interesting hook — buildings you can see and place, not just an abstract number going up — abandoned by its developer within months of an August 2023 launch, with the same game-breaking bugs still unpatched three years later.
3.5 / 10
A cheap idle merge game with a genuinely likeable core hook — combine roughly a hundred monsters into stranger versions of themselves — undercut by launch-week bugs that several reviewers say are still unresolved three years later, and an endgame grind wall that independent reviewers separately clock at anywhere from ten weeks to seven years of idling.
3.5 / 10
A genuinely deep 13th-century resource-management sim, confirmed complete and well-liked by multiple competition judges — undone on this shelf by a missing viewport tag that makes the entire game unreachable on a real phone, from the very first tap.
3.4 / 10
A NZ$7.39 open-world survival crafting game with a tiny, split review sample — two of five reviewers report the game becoming unplayable within minutes, and no update or news post has landed since a week after launch in September 2023.
3.2 / 10
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A free pixel-art clicker from developer E-Crew, built on the same chest-and-card "idle collectible" template as Adventure Communist and Cell to Singularity, abandoned six weeks after its March 2023 launch.
3 / 10
A cheap fantasy-themed clicker from Leakage Games that can be fully completed in a handful of hours, undermined by a genre-breaking design choice — no progress at all while the window isn't in focus.
3 / 10
A NZ$3.19 idle clicker about tapping dragons for coins, sitting at a lifetime Mostly Negative on Steam with a tiny 13-review sample — and a consistent complaint running through almost every one of them, positive and negative alike: nobody reports playing past half an hour.
3 / 10
A full-price stealth-platformer built around Middle-earth's most compelling supporting character that arrived so technically broken it became a byword for launch disasters — its Steam player count hit zero within five months, and the studio that made it closed its development arm weeks after release.
3 / 10
