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839 games released in 2025 and reviewed here, best first.
839 reviews
A "Hades meets Monster Hunter" action roguelite from a small team at Ankama, the studio behind Dofus and Wakfu, built around slower, methodical part-breaking combat rather than fast Hades-style dodging -- Very Positive across 236 English reviews for its art and weapon-swap mechanics, but dogged from launch through mid-2026 by thin initial content and hit-detection complaints that a full year of free updates hasn't fully resolved.
6.5 / 10
A free scratch-card incremental with 91% positive reviews, median playtimes near 100 hours — and an achievement called "Reviewed" that 40% of its owners have unlocked. The engagement is real. So is the asterisk on the score.
6.5 / 10
What if Goat Simulator went to wizard school? Secret Agent Wizard Boy and the International Crime Syndicate sends players into a prestigious, thinly-disguised wizarding academy hid
6.5 / 10
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Brazilian studio The Root Studios, published by Nuntius Games and Vsoo Games, delivers a creature-collector take on the survivors-like genre starring over 20 elemental "Shards," earning warm praise for its art style, character designs and cross-genre ambition from a Very Positive review base, set against a genuinely divided corpus in which the two single most-voted reviews are both detailed, specific negative verdicts on its upgrade and progression design.
6.5 / 10
A pixel-art idle RPG roguelite designed to run in a tiny window tucked in the corner of your screen, genuinely loved by a small audience for exactly that, undercut by a game-breaking item combo and over a year of near-silence from its two-person developer between updates.
6.5 / 10
A cheap, monetisation-free idle roguelite about a turtle swimming home through hostile seas, cute and deep enough to pull multiple reviewers past 1,000 hours — and, according to a remarkably specific and well-documented cluster of complaints from equally invested long-term players, gated by prestige "timewalls" whose costs outpace how fast you can actually earn the currency to clear them.
6.5 / 10
Smallthing Studios' hand-drawn prequel sends Simon back to his roots decades before the classic 90s point-and-click saga, and a Very Positive review sample praises its nostalgic art, humour, and Chris Barrie's returning voice work while raising real complaints about obscure puzzle logic, a short runtime, and dialogue that some longtime fans say lacks the original's bite.
6.5 / 10
A tiny, gorgeous trip down the rabbit hole Slay the Alice follows its title character chasing a rabbit into a land of talking plants, presented as a short visual novel wrapped in d
6.5 / 10
A NZ$5.99 solo-developer hybrid that bolts a proper node-based skill tree onto Snake, making the run itself the resource loop rather than the thing an idle game politely ignores — checked against a 433-review corpus that agrees almost unanimously on where the game turns from clever to punishing.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely novel slot-machine roguelike deckbuilder that turns matching four adjacent symbols into gear upgrades, praised by its small but dedicated audience for a soundtrack and central hook unlike anything else in the genre, held back by heavy RNG reliance and real interface friction the developer is still actively patching.
6.5 / 10
A turn-based hero collector that grafts Uma Musume's training sim onto Honkai: Star Rail-style combat, with presentation to match — undercut by optimisation problems and a PvP ladder that leans harder on spending than its otherwise generous gacha deserves.
6.5 / 10
Fontty Games' Sunset Sprout drops a burnt-out office worker onto a tropical island to rebuild an abandoned farm, earning a Positive reception for its clicker-adjacent, hands-on production loop and relaxed tone, in a small but enthusiastic review corpus that treats it as a low-stakes, mouse-friendly alternative to Stardew Valley rather than a rival to it.
6.5 / 10
A genuine love letter to Baldur's Gate-era Infinity Engine cRPGs from the studio behind ATOM RPG, with writing and character-driven dialogue fans praise as some of the best in the genre, undercut by real balance problems and a launch its own community argues wasn't actually finished.
6.5 / 10
Matt Nava and Giant Squid's non-verbal surfing adventure lands with the same wordless, painterly beauty as Journey and ABZÛ before it — and, according to an unusually large and consistent share of its own admirers, a launch-week performance problem severe enough that even reviewers who call it a masterpiece are advising others to wait for a patch before buying.
6.5 / 10
Game Dev Tycoon studio Greenheart Games spent roughly a decade building a storybook tavern-management sim with a genuinely funny, combative narrator, and while its charm and staff micromanagement win over the vast majority of its Early Access audience, a large and detailed share of players say the current build runs out of meaningful content and progression well before its five-star ambitions are realised.
6.5 / 10
Turning brawlers into tactics, turtle by turtle Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown takes a genuine risk with one of gaming's most consistently arcade-brawler-shape
6.5 / 10
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Developer kinjo, working with Image Labo, delivers a compact fictional-language deciphering puzzle game about brewing medicine for a provincial town's patients from an undeciphered grimoire, earning strong, specific praise for its cozy deduction loop from a Very Positive review base, tempered by a repeated complaint about unfair logical leaps in its late puzzles and thin content once its multiple endings are exhausted.
6.5 / 10
Blue Backpack, the Cologne studio formerly known for Trüberbrook and Constance, tells a century of German history through the residents of a single Berlin flat, and while its art direction, voice acting and individual vignettes earn real praise, a specific and detailed share of players argue the short runtime, uneven chapter quality and rough interaction design leave the ambitious anthology structure undercooked.
6.5 / 10
A free-to-play, PSX-styled horror stealth game about breaking into Santa's workshop to reclaim the presents you were never given, praised for its funny elf dialogue and genuinely tense chase sequences despite a punishingly difficult escape once Santa spots you.
6.5 / 10
A tiny expedition from a trusted puzzle studio The Electrifying Incident is a bite-sized standalone spinoff from Draknek and Friends, the studio behind the widely acclaimed A Monst
6.5 / 10
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Pale Grin returns, and brings a bigger story with him The Happyhills Homicide 2: Out For Blood picks up six years after the events of its predecessor, resurrecting mass killer John
6.5 / 10
Two acclaimed writers, one enormous experiment The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- arrives with one of the more genuinely exciting premises in recent visual novel history: it&#
6.5 / 10
A neon-noir open-world cop sandbox that lets you play the officer instead of the criminal for once — a genuinely rare premise reviewers say the atmosphere and driving feel earn honestly, undercut by an arrest procedure with almost no real detective work and enough missing basic polish that a large share of its 9,241-review audience describes a game shipped one development cycle short of its own ambitions.
6.5 / 10
A solo/small-team pixel-art roguelike ARPG that opened to a torrent of goodwill in January 2025 -- same-day hotfixes, a warmly received early roadmap, comparisons to Octopath Traveler and Ragnarok Online -- and sustained nine months of real content updates before its news feed went quiet in October 2025, leaving a genuinely appealing but structurally shallow five-zone game that a growing number of 2026 reviews now call abandoned.
6.5 / 10
