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839 games released in 2025 and reviewed here, best first.
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A NZ$5.99 solo-developed idle RPG that builds a genuinely large xianxia cultivation ladder — four realms, twelve stages, a reincarnation-and-soul-perk prestige loop — undercut by a recurring, still-unresolved save-corruption bug and a depth ceiling its own most invested players describe hitting after two or three lifetimes.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed idle RPG whose gear-absorbing prestige system and genuinely deep loot hooked hundreds of hours out of its fans -- while a hands-on bounty system that fights the "idle" label and some brutally uneven scaling keep it at Mixed rather than a genre standout.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely beautiful open-world dress-up game whose Steam score is a permanent record of the worst month in its life — and whose players describe it, accurately, as both a work of art and a predatory gacha.
6.5 / 10
Debut developer Justin Wootten, published by Wickwire Game Studio, delivers a free, short horror walking simulator about a game developer's surreal dream turning nightmarish, earning strong praise for its atmosphere, sound design and dramatic pacing from a Very Positive review base, tempered by a repeated complaint about softlocks and crashes, and a smaller but pointed complaint that the experience offers little beyond atmosphere.
6.5 / 10
A gorgeous Norse-mythology horde-survivor that almost every one of its 3,141 English reviewers agrees has the best graphics in its genre — and just as many agree the systems underneath don't go anywhere near as deep.
6.5 / 10
A big-number aquarium idler that genuinely earns its Idler tag — fry-pack gacha, a quadrillion-scale currency and a decoration economy with real payoffs — but its own audience keeps calling it a Chillquarium copy, and the saltwater half has sat unfinished since mid-2025.
6.5 / 10
A turn-based duel-roguelike where combat is a match-3 grid that loops at the edges — a genuinely clever twist on a tired mechanic, wrapped around a run structure that's thinner than its 180-item loot pool wants you to believe, and prone to grinding to a standstill once enemies start stacking defence.
6.5 / 10
A perfect little summer postcard Kabuto Park's premise is disarmingly simple: it's summer vacation, and your job is to wander a handful of small, beautifully hand-drawn are
6.5 / 10
QueseraGames' PC port of its long-running mobile rhythm game strips out the gacha and stamina systems and adds a full visual-novel story mode, and a large, Very Positive review sample loves the soundtrack and charting while flagging an always-online requirement, a divisive difficulty rework, and real friction around keybinds and calibration.
6.5 / 10
A gorgeous, Unreal Engine 5 psychological thriller set in an alternate 1984 East Germany, marketed with just enough horror-adjacent messaging that a large share of its own reviewers say the wrong audience found it — and whose genuinely strong first three quarters give way, according to an equally large and specific share of that same corpus, to a confusing, over-exposited ending that undercuts the story's own emotional stakes.
6.5 / 10
Developer Tlön Industries, published by indienova and V Publishing, delivers a metroidvania fused with survival-crafting and factory-style automation, earning specific praise for its genre blend, art direction and writing from a Mostly Positive review base, tempered by a repeated complaint that manual plant-watering, shallow base management and inconsistent combat undercut an otherwise ambitious automation loop.
6.5 / 10
RainRingStudio's medieval kingdom-builder blends resource management, tech trees, and auto-battler combat into a satisfying growth loop, though a persistent language-reset bug and thin replayability hold it back.
6.5 / 10
A NZ$2.99 desktop-widget idle conquest game about an Evil Lord too tired to leave his throne, whose surprisingly polished minimalist art and UI several reviewers say look far better in motion than the store page's own screenshots suggest — reviewed here from a small, entirely positive but honestly thin sample.
6.5 / 10
A solo developer's yard-cleanup incremental turns raking leaves into a genuine tool-upgrade power fantasy — reviewed for whether a two-hour runtime and a single backyard are worth the Overwhelmingly Positive reputation, or just too little game for the price of admission.
6.5 / 10
Bristol outsourcing studio Meteor Pixel's first original IP turns a sticker book into a cozy decorating sandbox, and a genuinely charming, well-crafted sticker library wins over the vast majority of players even as a consistent, specific complaint about thin content and short runtime runs through a meaningful share of its own reviews.
6.5 / 10
A NZ$7.39 first-person forest-chopping incremental from Inner Realm Studios and Dumb Duck Games — 680 Steam reviews at 82.5% positive, checked against a full pull of every English negative review and the game's own achievement-completion curve, both of which land on the same structural complaint: a strong first two hours, then a wall.
6.5 / 10
A relaxing incremental about a magical wolf restoring a wasteland into a meadow, with a fast and genuinely responsive fix to its rocky launch performance, undercut by a late-game challenge that a real cluster of reviewers say has sat broken for the better part of a year.
6.5 / 10
A gorgeous Castlevania-meets-Dark-Souls action RPG whose strong opening hours give way, by a large share of its own reviewers' account, to boss reuse and repetitive combat -- and whose launch was briefly derailed by a real, since-resolved controversy over an overreaching EULA.
6.5 / 10
Nexon's Roblox Studio-style pivot for its 250-million-lifetime-player MapleStory IP — drag-and-drop and Lua-scripted creator tools built on 30 million ready-made assets, backed by real creator funding programs, and still working out an economy that pays creators less per sale than several of its platform peers.
6.5 / 10
Tribute Games and Dotemu, the team behind the acclaimed TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, bring their signature pixel-art beat-'em-up style to fifteen Marvel heroes fighting the Annihilation Wave — top-tier production values wrapped around a campaign one 100%-completionist clocks at 2.3 hours, short enough that a large share of the game's own admirers explicitly warn against buying at full price.
6.5 / 10
From starving peasant to trading dynasty Medieval Legacy opens with a genuinely effective hook: you're a single struggling family, one bad harvest away from real hardship, tryi
6.5 / 10
A megastructure worth wandering through Metal Garden drops a lone nomad into a vast, ancient, overgrown megastructure, tasking them with fighting through and exploring a brutalist
6.5 / 10
The third game in Slothwerks' beloved Meteorfall deckbuilder series swaps a solo hero for a three-character party, delighting a small but devoted review base -- while its promised next content update hasn't surfaced on Steam in the thirteen months since the developer's own last patch note.
6.5 / 10
A Windows-98-styled incremental about building a weapons manufacturer from a single hand-cranked bullet press to a nuke, undone late by an achievement wave that broke 100% completion for a lot of the players who loved it most.
6.5 / 10
