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506 games released in 2024 and reviewed here, best first.
506 reviews
A cheesy, Resident Evil-and-Turok-inspired dinosaur survival horror shooter from a small studio that improved meaningfully on its predecessor, undercut at launch by a genuinely buggy save system and repetitive level design, with two years of ongoing patches since narrowing the gap.
6 / 10
A genuinely lovely open-world cooking-and-exploration adventure about driving a customisable food truck around a fruit-covered archipelago, whose warm writing and tactile cooking systems earn it real devotion — undercut so consistently by game-breaking bugs that "I love this game but" is close to the default shape of its own reviews.
6 / 10
A side-scrolling idle ARPG that spent years quietly growing one of the clicker genre's largest skill trees in Early Access, then wrapped it in an energy-gated click system, RNG loot chests and a shard shop slow enough that a meaningful minority of players call the whole thing a grind built to sell its own solution.
6 / 10
A charming, ambitious co-op survival-automation hybrid about defending a towering avian city from underground insectoid swarms, whose real bugs and rough edges reviewers consistently forgive once they learn the honest, difficult story behind them — a small studio that shrank from ten developers to one and kept working anyway.
6 / 10
A moody isometric fusion of Dark Souls atmosphere and Diablo-style roguelite progression that a dedicated fanbase describes as genuinely special, whose real technical rough edges — a disorienting camera and unreliable hit detection chief among them — are compounded by a widespread, and independently disprovable, belief that the developer has abandoned it.
6 / 10
A cheap, cheerful mobile-idle-RPG port whose loot and skill-tree systems draw real praise, undercut by the genre's one unforgivable sin — it barely progresses while you're away — and by DLC "Fairies" that individually cost more than the base game itself.
6 / 10
A visually striking return for the space-RTS series that lands as Mixed on Steam — the dominant complaint, especially from reviewers who backed the game via its 2015 Fig crowdfunding campaign, is a weak, restrictive campaign, and the developer itself confirmed in November 2024 that the game's final planned update would indeed be its last as it moved on from the title.
6 / 10
A horror-otome point-and-click adventure built around a genuinely inventive hook — decipher an invented monster language purely from context and gesture — that earned a devoted, meme-fuelled fanbase, undercut by widely reported post-launch developer conduct issues and endings many players describe as unfinished.
6 / 10
A gently melancholic bartending-adjacent visual novel about a terminally ill lounge manager bonding with three regulars over shisha, whose gorgeous pixel art and sincere emotional core earn it constant comparisons to VA-11 HALL-A — comparisons that also expose how much thinner its actual content is at a noticeably higher price.
6 / 10
A small, solo-developed idle RPG built on a genuinely distinctive hook — permadeath and souls-like difficulty grafted onto an auto-battler — that rewards deeply invested fans with hundreds of hours while leaving newcomers to discover its harshest rules the hard way.
6 / 10
A Chinese xianxia-cultivation idle RPG with real depth — companions, secondary crafting professions, forty-plus realm tiers — undercut by a Simplified-Chinese-only interface, a launch window of patches that stopped in March 2024, and even native-speaking reviewers asking for basic feedback the game never gives them.
6 / 10
A five-dollar space idler about mining, salvaging and shooting your way across eight planets — polished, fair-priced and almost entirely spent by the time the credits should be rolling.
6 / 10
A one-person incremental RPG with genuinely deep systems — talents, ascension, raids, an enemy Codex that levels up the things you farm — that launched with real momentum and then went quiet for over a year without a single Steam review to its name.
6 / 10
A solo-developed, node-based automation game that scratches the Factorio itch without Factorio's build-everything-yourself demands, still in Early Access two and a half years in and still being actively rebalanced — most recently to remove the exact progression walls its players have been complaining about since launch.
6 / 10
A cheap, charming procedural-generation island builder whose own title promises more than the finished game delivers — a short, one-sitting civilisation puzzle rather than the ongoing incremental system a meaningful share of its own reviewers say they expected.
6 / 10
A genuinely excellent puzzle game — more than 10,000 hand-crafted brain teasers across 24 distinct types, spread through a beautifully designed shared world — undone commercially within eight months by a forced always-online requirement for content that never needed it, misleading "Online Co-op" marketing, and a privacy-policy complaint that became the single most-upvoted review on its entire Steam page.
6 / 10
A first-person puzzle game about a cabin in the woods where a vintage computer's game and the room around you are secretly the same puzzle, whose Inscryption-invoking premise earns real affection from many players and a specific, detailed pushback from others who argue the comparison oversells a shorter, simpler experience.
6 / 10
A competent turn-based tactics RPG whose own fanbase overwhelmingly reads it as a scaled-down follow-up to King Arthur - Knight's Tale — simplified systems, reused assets and a roughly eight-hour campaign — sold as a standalone game rather than the DLC-priced spin-off several reviewers argue it actually is.
6 / 10
A short, handsomely hand-drawn Zelda-and-metroidvania hybrid about restoring a plague-ruined kingdom — genuinely liked for its price and puzzle-gated exploration, but held back by combat almost every reviewer dislikes and bugs the developer stopped patching after its first few months.
6 / 10
A chibi idle RPG about a mushroom regaining its human form, built on a gear-collecting loop that hooks fast and monetises harder the longer you stay.
6 / 10
A dark, stylized horror-fantasy kidnapping simulator about a modern-day druid sacrificing neighbors to keep an uncertain god appeased, whose genuinely inventive premise and strong voice acting earn real admiration, undercut by a widely reported, poorly explained core mechanic that leaves many players confused before the story's short runtime concludes.
6 / 10
A cheap, genuinely distinctive mashup of clicking-for-gold and tower defense, reviewed here from every single review it has ever received across every language — a real but tiny audience likes it, and its sharpest critic makes a fair point about how demanding the clicking itself gets.
6 / 10
NetEase's free-to-play superhero take on the Overwatch formula launched with a genuinely player-friendly economic model widely praised as a new industry standard, but a real, specific, remarkably consistent complaint from players with thousands of hours — that its matchmaking is deliberately tuned for engagement over fairness — has become the dominant, load-bearing thread in its Mostly Positive reception more than a year on.
6 / 10
A charming card-based route-planning puzzle from Gamedev.js Jam 2024 — drag movement cards to plot a robot's path around a grid — let down on phones by severe letterboxing and a core drag interaction this review could not get to register through repeated real-touch testing.
6 / 10
