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75 games released in 2024 and reviewed here, best first.
75 reviews
11 bit studios' sequel trades the original Frostpunk's intimate, one-building-at-a-time survival for a zoomed-out, district-based political simulation set 30 years later — a deliberate redesign that draws Mostly Positive reception on its own terms, but recurs across a remarkably consistent share of longtime fans as having lost the emotional, personal intimacy that made the original a genre-defining classic.
7 / 10
A zombie-apocalypse colony builder with a genuinely singular hook — using real-world map data to let you fortify your own actual neighbourhood — that's spent more than two years in Early Access with the same recurring complaints, about squad micromanagement and interruption pop-ups, still surfacing in this week's reviews.
7 / 10
A gridless medieval city builder whose household-level burgage plot simulation is the best idea the genre has produced in years, sold on a trailer full of battles it mostly doesn't deliver. Two years and change into Early Access, the honest question isn't whether it's good — it's whether "still becoming" is a fair state to sell it in.
7 / 10
A genuinely strange free survival MMO whose defining flaw — seasonal servers that wiped everything you built — has quietly been fixed, while its veterans have moved on to a different argument entirely.
7 / 10
A card-shop management game that nails ten hours better than almost anything — and whose most-visible criticism, AI-generated art, turns out to have been answered in 2024 and has since vanished from its reviews.
7 / 10
An outstanding fighting game that added a cash shop and premium battle pass two months after launch, then spent a year buffing offence until its own 300-hour veterans stopped recognising it — and is only now climbing back.
7 / 10
A dungeon crawler that resurrects the original Wizardry's cruelty almost intact, then wraps it in a gacha character-summoning economy that never quite earns the same trust.
7 / 10
A generous, well-made free shooter whose most-upvoted review isn't about the shooting at all — it's about the kernel-level anti-cheat that reviewers say keeps running after the game is uninstalled.
6.5 / 10
BioWare builds its most mechanically confident combat in the series, then spends most of the RPG scaffolding around it — choice continuity, itemization, party structure — to do it, leaving a fun action game wearing a Dragon Age name plenty of longtime fans don't recognise.
6.5 / 10
A gorgeous arena fighter sitting at 85% lifetime — and 30% across its last hundred reviews, because a DLC released six days ago has Ultimate Edition owners saying they're being charged twice.
6.5 / 10
A hero-collecting idle RPG with real longevity behind it — five years in Early Access, fifteen-plus progression systems and no priced Steam DLC — undercut by a currency count that outgrows the player's patience and a guild structure that quietly punishes anyone without an active group.
6.5 / 10
A fruit-merging incremental that wears its debt to Gnorp Apologue openly and executes the formula well enough to earn Very Positive reviews, undercut mainly by a name that promises more hands-off progress than the game is actually willing to give.
6.5 / 10
A competent, familiar entry in a fifteen-year-old tower defense franchise that still lands well with newcomers, while a genuine and specific chorus of long-time fans call it the weakest Kingdom Rush yet — too short at full price, too reliant on paid campaign DLC, and too close to a decade of prior instalments to feel like real evolution.
6.5 / 10
A roguelite that turns inventory management from a chore between fights into the fight itself — and a look at whether a design built entirely around loot-shuffling has held up through more than a year of patches that keep rewriting its own rules.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely inventive Peggle-meets-roguelike hybrid whose own fans keep landing on the same specific complaint — the PC price doesn't yet match the amount of content on offer, and the identical mobile version is consistently cited as the better deal.
6.5 / 10
Frontier Developments' theme-park sequel launched into a genuinely well-documented content and feature regression from its predecessor — Steam Workshop removed, core PC1 content resold as DLC, a console-first UI — sitting Mostly Positive across more than 14,000 Steam reviews; this review can confirm, via a sustained year-and-a-half patch cadence through mid-2026, that Frontier did not abandon the game afterward, with a real, credited player-reported turnaround distinct from its rocky launch reputation.
6.5 / 10
A factory-automation game that puts the camera underground and gives you a gun that deletes stone, so verticality and terrain destruction do real design work instead of being a setting. The idea is stronger than the execution — a convoluted tech tree, a frame rate that sags under a big base, and a developer that's gone quiet since the 1.0 launch hold it back.
6.5 / 10
NC's weapon-swap MMORPG delivers the best guild siege in the genre right now and asks a real question about what its Auction House and $50 Character Boost actually buy. Reviewed with The Frozen Divide: Nix (level cap 60) live and Update 4.3.0's Battlegrounds season running.
6.5 / 10
Andrew Gower's post-RuneScape MMO is a genuinely inventive skilling game trapped inside a world that emptied out within weeks of launch, and twenty months of steady patches still haven't fixed either problem.
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 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 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
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
