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75 games released in 2024 and reviewed here, best first.
75 reviews
Rat Monthly's pocket-sized incremental has you excavating relics tile by tile and building a museum around them — a review of whether its two-to-three-hour runtime earns its Overwhelmingly Positive reputation, or just ends before the cracks show.
7.5 / 10
Capcom's open-world action RPG is built around a genuinely strange idea — AI companions on loan from other players' worlds — wrapped in a combat system that rewards climbing monsters like furniture and a map that punishes you for wanting to skip the walk. Two-plus years of patches have quietly answered most of its launch complaints; the review score never fully recovered from asking anyway.
7.5 / 10
A voxel survival game that welds on a real RPG skill tree and dares you to dig, sculpt and build inside a world that is actively trying to kill you on a clock. Two and a half years into Early Access, with a 1.0 date finally on the calendar, the question is whether the fog and the talent tree were ever really talking to each other.
7.5 / 10
Erik Asmussen strips the conveyor belts and airships out of his own Factory Town and rebuilds the same economy as a menu-driven idle game — a genuinely distinct reimagining that nails offline progression but never quite explains the numbers it wants you to obsess over.
7.5 / 10
A free idle RPG about killing an infinite number of potatoes that turns out to have one of the most patient, best-supported progression systems in the genre, and very little interest in pressuring anyone to pay for it.
7.5 / 10
Cygames' stand-alone action RPG wraps a four-player hunting-game loop inside a JRPG's full production budget, and the combat mostly earns the spectacle around it. This is not the mobile gacha that shares its name — it's a single upfront purchase with no pulls and no premium currency — but its sigil-driven, Proud Quest endgame asks more patience than it repays.
7.5 / 10
The best co-op shooter of its generation and one of the most argued-about games on Steam. Its top negative review has thirty-four thousand helpful votes, its second has twenty-two thousand, and neither is about the shooting — which is superb.
7.5 / 10
A gorgeous, unusually faithful Indiana Jones game with excellent puzzles — and hardware requirements strict enough that its second most-upvoted critic warns you'll discover the problem after the refund window closes.
7.5 / 10
A five-dollar semi-idle RPG that sends three-adventurer teams into dungeons on their own while you sort, salvage and re-gear what they drag back — and a look at whether that loop still has somewhere to go once the opening classes stop being new.
7.5 / 10
Moon Studios spent over two years turning a thin, contentious Early Access launch into a nearly complete game — hand-painted world, precision souls-like combat, a real town to build up, and co-op that only actually arrived in January 2026 — with the full 1.0 release now dated for October 2026.
7.5 / 10
A haunting, atmospheric car-survival roguelike whose single biggest obstacle to a wider audience isn't its horror or its driving physics — it's a save system that a large, consistent share of reviewers say makes the game genuinely incompatible with an interrupted life.
7.5 / 10
A dark-fantasy roguelike where you spend an hour designing a character and about eight minutes watching them win — 98% positive, and its critics and its store page agree on exactly what it is.
7.5 / 10
The best-looking Heroes of Might and Magic successor anyone has made, still getting factions and campaigns four years on — with an enemy AI its own players have been complaining about that entire time.
7.5 / 10
Endnight's sequel to The Forest is the best-looking survival-horror island you can build a base on, and its rockiest reviews — mostly written in the first weeks after launch — argued a beautiful map was hiding surprisingly little to actually do. Recent sentiment suggests the gap between the two has narrowed since.
7.5 / 10
A genuinely frightening co-op horror game that's 93.9% positive — and whose most invested players, with sixty-hour averages, are now leaving negative reviews over the studio's use of AI-generated art.
7.5 / 10
A genuinely brutal, spectacular power-fantasy action game that nails the Warhammer 40K Space Marine fantasy — layered with real complaints about DLC pricing, always-online requirements, and a background installer that alarmed players even after the likelier explanation turned out to be more mundane than "malware."
7.5 / 10
One of the best-feeling shooters on the market, wired into a progression system that several of its own designers appear to have disagreed about — and, after two years in Early Access, finally close to 1.0.
7.5 / 10
Kuro Games' answer to Genshin Impact swaps careful elemental chemistry for a faster, parry-driven combo system and a stamina-free traversal kit — and two years of patches have turned a rocky, heavily-criticised launch into one of Steam's best-reviewed live-service action RPGs. The question this review actually answers is what that trade costs you.
7.5 / 10
A Tamagotchi-raising sim welded onto an idle RPG, charming in exactly the way its premise promises and shallow in exactly the way that premise risks — the hero grows on its own, but you rarely get to decide how.
7.5 / 10
HoYoverse's third live-service RPG throws out the open world entirely and bets everything on combat — parries, dodge counters and three-character chain attacks that reward real execution rather than a stat sheet. The review is about whether that trade is worth what the mission structure and the story pacing cost you.
7.5 / 10
The best-looking hero-collector on mobile pairs a genuinely thoughtful formation-based combat system with a gacha economy that turns its own leaderboards into the biggest reason to spend.
7 / 10
A first-person fantasy dungeon crawler where every raid ends one of two ways — you walk out through a portal with everything you found, or you die and hand it all to whoever killed you. Two years into Early Access on Steam, the extraction loop is still the sharpest thing about it, and the studio's legal history is still not fully behind it.
7 / 10
A Kickstarter-funded spiritual successor to Suikoden, built by the genre veterans who created it, that delivers on its hundred-recruit army-building promise while carrying a rough English localization and a completionist grind that its own Steam reviews argue about at length.
7 / 10
A calm, good-looking voxel factory game about building robots to sell them — a genre full of hostile worlds and existential stakes, this one just wants you to optimize a conveyor line in peace. Two years into Early Access, that's both its appeal and its ceiling.
7 / 10
