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Games released in 2025

831 games released in 2025 and reviewed here, best first.

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The Dream Globe

A charming, cheap desktop-overlay farming idler set inside an antique snow globe, whose official store page advertises it as a "Full Idler" that runs independently — a specific claim directly contradicted by a detailed, recurring thread of reviewers reporting no real offline progression, save-loss crashes, and extremely slow pacing.

5.5 / 10

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Unboxathon

A cute, mystery-box-opening incremental game that hooks players fast with its addictive unboxing loop, while a large, detailed share of its own review corpus argues thin explanation, wobbly balance and a lack of quality-of-life features undercut a short, promising idea.

5.5 / 10

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Cave Crave VR

A physically demanding VR spelunking simulator that recreates real caves, including the infamous Nutty Putty cave, but whose Steam release has fallen noticeably behind its Meta Quest counterpart on content and updates.

5.4 / 10

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Drop Dead: The Cabin

A CoD Zombies-flavoured VR-and-flatscreen co-op wave shooter with satisfying gunplay and an established Quest fanbase, held back at Steam launch by a missing tutorial, item-handling bugs, and thin content.

5.4 / 10

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GORE

A short, cheap Lovecraftian walking-sim horror game about a fleshy alien bio-mass spreading through the Rocky Mountains, built on strong atmosphere and a divisive twist ending.

5.4 / 10

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Loan Shark

A short, atmospheric horror game about fishing off a tiny boat to repay a debt to a literal loan shark, built on genuine dread and clever wordplay but hampered by a threadbare fishing minigame and lingering technical issues.

5.4 / 10

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Magic Inn

A whimsical Early Access tavern sim casting players as an exiled wizard running a magical inn, praised for its cosy card-battle-and-cooking loop but held back by an unintuitive interface, unclear quest guidance, and the rough edges typical of an early build.

5.4 / 10

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Ritual of Raven

A charming, story-driven farming sim where you never touch a hoe yourself — instead you "code" magical golem constructs to garden, mine, and forage for you, with genuinely inventive ideas undercut by a menu system that fights you at every turn.

5.4 / 10

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To Pixelia

A pixel-art life sim that reviewers describe as The Sims crossed with GTA, offering an unusually broad mix of jobs, crime, romance, and farming — held back at launch by a wave of bugs, slow-grinding progression, and a widely repeated complaint that it should have released in Early Access.

5.4 / 10

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Butcher of the North

A budget-priced Christmas horror-comedy about a kid taking bloody revenge on a monstrous Santa, praised for its darkly funny premise, atmosphere, and well-timed jump scares, but held back by a very short runtime, oppressively dark lighting with no brightness option, and a divisive, abrupt ending.

5.3 / 10

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Citadel Anew Review: Promising Bones, Rough Edges

Solo developer Radical Byte's mash-up of base defense, tower defense, roguelite mining, and mech-piloting shows real ambition and a responsive developer, but reviewers report crashes, unclear signposting, and clunky inventory management holding it back from its potential.

5.3 / 10

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Don't Mess With Bober

A short, self-aware horror comedy about a vengeful, dam-building beaver hunting down the litterbug who wrecked its home — genuinely funny in places, but hampered by its brevity and a disclosed use of AI voice acting that a significant chunk of reviewers can't get past.

5.3 / 10

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JDM: Japanese Drift Master Review: A Stunning Map Let Down by Broken AI

Gaming Factory's indie love letter to Japanese touge culture nails its map and manga-inspired story, but a deeply divided review sample points to genuinely broken opponent AI and reputation-gated progression as the game's real problems.

5.3 / 10

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Medieval Blacksmith

A genuinely deep, satisfying custom weapon-forging simulator wrapped in a dark, divisive narrative — undercut by a specific, severe structural flaw where wrong dialogue choices can permanently end a save with no warning, and unverified reviewer allegations of AI-generated content.

5.3 / 10

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Skinwalkers Valley

A short, cheap first-person horror trip about a man, his dog, and something that shouldn't be following them through the woods, praised for its tension and its surprisingly effective canine companion, but hobbled by a game-breaking white-screen bug and a widely mocked driving section.

5.3 / 10

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Battlesmiths: Blade and Forge Review: A Good Crafting Idea Buried Under Mobile-Style Monetisation

A free tactical RPG built around actually crafting your squad's weapons and armour rather than looting them, with a genuinely liked core loop undercut by an aggressive, mobile-ported subscription and stamina system that dominates the Steam review sample.

5.2 / 10

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Desktop Cat Cafe

A genuinely charming little desktop-widget cafe sim undercut by widespread, still-present bugs in its core customer AI and placement systems — though this review's own check of the developer's patch history contradicts one reviewer's claim that the game has been abandoned.

5.2 / 10

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Frog Legs

A pun-stuffed, half-hour genre mashup that takes a group of Frogger-style frogs across the road and into a Doom-style shootout, Frog Legs is funnier than it has any right to be — and over before its best ideas get a chance to land.

5.2 / 10

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