Browse by year
839 games released in 2025 and reviewed here, best first.
839 reviews
A gorgeously drawn, lofi-scored panda laundromat that plays almost nothing like a conventional idle game and everything like a desktop focus timer with decorations, which delights the audience that wants exactly that and frustrates the sizeable share who bought it expecting real systems underneath the art.
6 / 10
TAMSOFT's licensed Bleach fighter delivers flashy, accessible arena combat and a faithful story mode, but a rocky PC launch and a movement system many find clunky keep it from reaching the genre's top tier.
6 / 10
A looter-shooter with genuinely well-regarded gunplay, undercut by severe, persistent PC performance problems and a real, extensively documented public-relations crisis in which Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford spent days publicly dismissing player complaints — telling PC gamers to "code your own engine" and that "premium games are made for premium gamers" — turning a technical problem into what press outlets have called "the great Pitchford Twitter crashout of 2025."
6 / 10
FTL meets Slay the Spire, with a train doing the fighting Break Siege asks a genuinely interesting design question: what happens if you take the branching, node-based map structure
6 / 10
A cat-themed barista sim that launched into a rocky, thief-plagued economy before its developer patched a steady path toward the cozy game it wanted to be.
6 / 10
A budget tactics game that knows what it isn't Chains of Freedom sends a small squad into a fictional, dystopian Eastern European state to unravel a conspiracy amid mutated thr
6 / 10
N-Zone's licensed 3D platformer sends three unlikely heroes from the Chickenhare comics and films after a real-world treasure hunt tie-in, and a small but detailed Positive review sample praises its charming worlds and character-swap platforming while flagging real complaints about unpolished combat, dated Unreal Engine 5 presentation, and a price some reviewers say outpaces the content.
6 / 10
Read review of Chickenhare and the Treasure of Spiking-Beard Review
A cheap, story-driven block-mining game that found its 223-review audience largely through YouTube and Twitch coverage rather than storefront discovery — genuinely liked for its darker RPG-flavoured take on the digging genre, with reviewers just as consistently honest that it's still a rough, unfinished Early Access build.
6 / 10
Claymore Game Studios revives the classic Commandos formula with a faithful, challenging return to real-time tactics, though a rocky launch and stripped-back features compared to later series entries leave it short of its predecessors' best.
6 / 10
Cozy Desktop Konbini is a desktop-companion idle game from Evrac Studio, released on Steam on 18 April 2025, that puts players in charge of a small Japanese-style convenience store
6 / 10
Your cursor is the hero Desktop Survivors 98 has one of the more genuinely novel hooks to come out of the crowded bullet-heaven genre in recent memory: it doesn't play in a win
6 / 10
A cheap, pretty cosmic-evolution game about devouring your way from asteroid to black hole, widely praised for its visuals but just as widely called a shallow clone of the decade-old indie hit Solar 2.
6 / 10
Solo developer JL studio delivers Duil, a dark, pixel-art action-platformer about an immortal man seeking revenge on the undead army that destroyed his kingdom, earning praise for its atmosphere, power-up variety and branching mercy-or-vengeance choices from a small but strongly Positive review base, tempered by a repeated complaint about rough controls, a punishing death-and-resurrection mechanic, and confusing non-linear backtracking.
6 / 10
A small, genuinely charming idle game about running vending machines that supply adventurers deep in a dungeon, hurt by thin content and rough number-tuning that even its own fans point out, from a solo developer who fixed the game's biggest early complaint fast and then went quiet.
6 / 10
KONAMI's action-RPG adaptation of Hiro Mashima's manga trades budget and polish for genuine affection for its source material, delivering a combat system that starts stiff but blossoms, a story that ends before it should, and one of the deepest costume systems in anime gaming.
6 / 10
Read review of EDENS ZERO Review: A Scrappy, Sincere Trip Through Hiro Mashima's Cosmos
A free-to-play dungeon crawler built from a mobile game's bones, with real depth in its character creation and guild skill trees but a menu system that never stopped assuming you're holding a phone.
6 / 10
The raid loop it invented is still the best in the genre, and the company around it is the problem. NZ$85.99 to buy, another NZ$51.99 if you want the PvE mode, and a Steam launch so broken that 58 of the most-upvoted negative reviews were written in a single month.
6 / 10
Paradox's long-awaited return to its flagship grand strategy series is the deepest, most interconnected game the studio has ever built, praised by critics on release even as a huge and increasingly vocal share of its own player base argues the AI, UI and pacing needed far more time before launch.
6 / 10
A short, darkly funny incremental about exterminating all eight billion humans on Earth from a cursed Windows 98 desktop, praised for its distinctive presentation and pointed subtext about modern game development, while a real, detailed share of players argue its genre identity is confused and its content runs thin well before the credits.
6 / 10
A three-player co-op shooter set in Remedy's Control universe that launched thin on content at a premium price, improved substantially through a real year of post-launch updates, and was wound down in March 2026 anyway — a commercial disappointment whose timing coincided with the resignation of Remedy's CEO of nine years.
6 / 10
A cute, physics-driven toy-figure auto-battler with a genuinely fair, no-microtransaction take on blind-box collecting, undercut by thin content, real early bugs, a fading online population, and a specific asset-similarity allegation this review could not independently verify.
6 / 10
Closing out a genuinely distinctive trilogy Fuga: Melodies of Steel 3 brings CyberConnect2's tank-crew RPG series to its conclusion, wrapping up a story that's always stood
6 / 10
A solo developer's ground-up remake of their own earlier mushroom-harvesting incremental, adding a full third dimension and a reworked upgrade tree — charming enough that several players lost 10+ hours to it without meaning to, but dogged by a first act several independent reviewers call outright tedious.
6 / 10
A free browser idle-skilling MMO that openly plays the RuneScape/Melvor Idle songbook with a shared world bolted on -- competent, fair to free players, and over a year into development by the time its Steam Early Access page makes it look brand new.
6 / 10
