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831 games released in 2025 and reviewed here, best first.
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Bugfight Studio's dark comedy sandbox has players brewing bizarre, unpredictable potions to torment a captive goblin specimen, and a Very Positive review sample responds with over-the-top enthusiasm for its chaotic physics comedy while a smaller but serious cluster of reviewers raises real, specific complaints about the game's boss-narrator dialogue crossing from dark humour into genuinely uncomfortable territory.
5 / 10
A NZ$8.99 solo-developed idle cultivation RPG that reviewers repeatedly call "a cut-price Melvor Idle in xianxia clothing" — Mixed across 87 reviews, with a strong 2025 run undone by a dead-quiet Early Access: no update since 11 June 2025, and its own Steam interface page marks English support as "Not supported," which is why not one of those 87 reviews is in English.
5 / 10
A genre gap, finally filled LIBRITOPIA: Librarian Simulator stakes out territory the crowded "job sim" genre has genuinely left mostly untouched: running a public library
5 / 10
A genuinely novel Early Access experiment in which every NPC's behaviour is driven by a language model the player supplies themselves, reviewed here on the strength of its complete 21-review Steam record and the solo developer's own unusually candid admission that this is one of three AI-driven projects competing for his attention, and currently not the one winning.
5 / 10
Developer Mindflair Games, published by Excalibur Publishing, delivers an Early Access driving-survival game about repairing and roughing it across a post-disaster American wilderness in a broken-down RV, earning genuine praise for its cozy, cooperative loop from a portion of a Mixed review base, set against a dominant, heavily repeated complaint that its asking price far outstrips a currently thin, repetitive content set.
5 / 10
A villain-perspective dark-fantasy tactical RPG whose battle system draws real praise at launch, undercut by genuine game-breaking bugs, a scaling system reviewers call badly tuned, and — most damaging of all — a developer whose Steam news feed shows exactly one hotfix in the nine months since release, leaving launch-week problems unresolved.
5 / 10
Nostalgia rendered in low-poly charm Merchant 64 commits fully to a specific, narrow aesthetic idea: recreate the chunky, low-polygon look of an early Nintendo 64 game, and wrap it
5 / 10
A tiny desktop companion about a deer tending her meadow, praised for its cozy charm but criticised for running out of content in a single afternoon.
5 / 10
A free clicker-RPG hybrid with real equipment-crafting depth behind the big damage numbers, whose own developer has now documented, in public and in unusually plain language, why it launched rocky, never recovered, and was abandoned nine months later.
5 / 10
A pixel-art fishing RPG starring Viva La Dirt League's Baelin the fisherman, praised by fans for its comedy, voice cameos, and surprisingly deep fish-battling combat, but widely criticized, by fans and newcomers alike, for turning its MMO-fetch-quest parody into the real, tedious thing.
5 / 10
A cozy game genre gets a distinctly different apartment Panelka takes the now-familiar cozy interior-decoration sandbox formula and points it somewhere genuinely different: rather
5 / 10
A genuinely distinctive four-panel idle RPG about commanding up to eight heroes at once, with real fans logging four-digit hour counts, undercut by a free-to-play model a large share of reviewers call predatory for specifically monetising the ability to idle at all, plus unexplained account bans and an unusual pattern of frequent server connections a smaller cluster finds alarming.
5 / 10
Minds trapped in circuits, and in jank ReSetna sends you into a post-apocalyptic sci-fi world as the titular robotic warrior, hunting through seven hostile zones and boss encounter
5 / 10
A catastrophic November 2025 remaster launch — buggy, missing features veterans of the 2008 original say worked fine even in the community-patched Gold Edition — followed by a genuine, ongoing repair effort now six numbered patches deep, leaving recent reviewers split between "finally playable" and "still broken" depending on which specific issue they hit.
5 / 10
Microids revisits Benoit Sokal's 2002 point-and-click classic with new environments and streamlined controls, but unreworked cutscenes, cut atmospheric details, and a rocky bug-riddled launch leave longtime fans divided on whether this tribute honours the original.
5 / 10
Pew Pew Games' free-to-play co-op roguelite shooter has a genuinely enjoyable Hades-meets-Warframe core, but persistent performance issues, an unpopular kernel-level anti-cheat, and a review-bombing Discord promotion have left it drowning in Mixed reviews.
5 / 10
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A one-time-purchase idle gacha RPG whose spotless, tiny English review sample hides a much larger, sustained body of Chinese-language reviews describing server outages, resource-gating that contradicts its own "no grind" marketing, and a store description that literally calls the game "Mobile Castle of Maiden" — a name that gives away more about its origins than the English listing does.
5 / 10
A gorgeous pixel-art stealth metroidvania with a wonderful narrator and a genuinely distinctive Prince of Persia-meets-Mark-of-the-Ninja premise, undone by softlocking bugs that dominate its review corpus and, per an official patch history showing exactly one fix in fifteen months, appear to have gone largely unaddressed.
5 / 10
A NZ$4.49 desktop dino-breeder whose own vote-weighted tags rank it Creature Collector ahead of Idler, whose achievement data shows breeding and battling almost nobody finishes, and whose changelog stops three days after launch and never resumes.
5 / 10
Debut developer Final Arcade's budget-priced idle tower-builder wears its inspirations from Gnorp Apologue and Tower Wizard openly, and while its art direction and low-risk price draw genuine goodwill, a large and detailed share of its launch-week reviews describe a game released with serious, specific bugs, balance problems and missing quality-of-life features still unresolved.
5 / 10
Codebros Studio, a two-person Greek development team, delivers a first-person psychological horror game about a man haunted by a house's buried history, drawing real praise for its atmosphere and jump scares alongside an unusually specific, heavily documented reviewer thread cataloguing direct scene-by-scene similarities to Visage, Outlast, Layers of Fear and other genre touchstones, plus a genuinely split reception over its price relative to a four-to-six-hour runtime.
5 / 10
Nine years, a fired writer, a dropped studio and one troubled development later, Bloodlines 2 shipped as an action-adventure closer to Dishonored than an RPG — and its own most-upvoted review, at over 10,000 votes, says the original team "deserved better than this."
5 / 10
An isekai visual novel that drops a factory worker into a stranger, gentler version of his own workplace — 18 months into Early Access with the same three days of story it launched with, and its own developer now flagged by Steam as gone quiet.
5 / 10
A genre mashup of graveyard-management sim and nighttime zombie tower defense that reviewers say is genuinely fun and surprisingly cohesive, but let down by thin content that runs out fast, a string of persistent bugs including a missing manual save option, and a price several reviewers feel outpaces what's actually on offer.
5 / 10
