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825 games released in 2025 and reviewed here, best first.
825 reviews
A free, charmingly drawn idle RPG whose developer publicly acknowledged a save-corrupting bug two days after launch and then, on the evidence of its own update feed, never actually fixed it — with players still reporting lost progress from the same issue nearly a year later.
3.5 / 10
A promising Lovecraftian premise, undone in the execution SAVE puts players in the boots of a PMC operative contracted by Miskatonic University to investigate the hidden secrets of
3.5 / 10
A free Early Access idle RPG that promised a dozen interlocking skills in the mould of Melvor Idle, shipped one substantial content patch, and has since vanished from Steam entirely.
3.5 / 10
A solo-developed psychological horror farming simulator about tending crops and serving customers by day while trying to ignore something wrong beneath the surface, whose small but unanimously positive review sample praises its claustrophobic atmosphere and multi-ending structure, tempered by a shared concern that the core loop wears thin before the story concludes.
3.5 / 10
A rushed-feeling follow-up to an already shaky first remake, trading the original arcade rail shooter's gritty charm for flat lighting, weak voice acting, and technical problems that a slow trickle of patches has only partly fixed.
3.5 / 10
A pixel-art, RPG Maker-built turn-based JRPG about two reluctant heroes fighting a corrupting darkness, built around a visible-enemy, shield-breaking combat system openly modelled on Octopath Traveler, whose large and consistently positive review sample praises that combat while repeatedly flagging punishing early-game boss balance since smoothed by an active post-launch patch history.
3.5 / 10
A Nier: Automata-inspired action roguelite starring the Touhou Project cast, whose large Overwhelmingly Positive review sample praises its fluid combat, fantastic soundtrack, and rock-bottom price while repeatedly flagging real performance stuttering and a repetitive, content-thin roguelite loop.
3.5 / 10
A solid, budget-priced Vampire Survivors-style bullet hell with genuine online co-op for up to three players, backed by fast post-launch patching -- though with only a handful of public reviews on record, this is an early, promising snapshot rather than a settled verdict.
3.5 / 10
100 Cozy Games' cat-finding hidden-object title has genuinely good search tools, but a single short level, cats that barely resemble cats, and a price that didn't drop when content did leave this entry in the mass-produced '100 Cats' series hard to recommend on its own merits.
3.4 / 10
Read review of 100 Ruin Cats Review: A Tiny Hidden-Object Game Stretched Thin
FIVE-BN Games' free-to-play hidden-object puzzler draws genuine long-term fans who call it relaxing and challenging, but a well-corroborated pattern of reviewers reports puzzles becoming functionally impossible without paying for hint coins, alongside multiple independent AI-generated-content accusations.
3.3 / 10
Read review of Artifact Seekers 1 Review: A Hidden-Object Puzzler Locked Behind a Coin Paywall
Hitori De Productions' solo-developed survival horror has real atmosphere and strong cutscenes, but a heavily negative review sample describes recurring asset-flip accusations, save-destroying crashes, and a story that collapses within a few short hours.
3.2 / 10
Read review of Bleak Haven Review: A Striking Trailer, a Broken Game
A Ludum Dare 57 hidden-object game whose one real idea — hunt for things by dragging a shallow depth-of-field into focus instead of just scanning a static picture — is undermined by a flood-fill bug that freezes the browser for tens of seconds on an ordinary tap.
3.2 / 10
A genuinely likeable spin on the House-Flipper renovation genre, with a real ghost-catching hook reviewers enjoyed for months — undercut by severe, persistent bugs and a rights transfer to a new studio that this review independently confirmed via a year of Steam silence, exactly matching multiple reviewers' abandonment claims.
3.2 / 10
A genuinely inventive horde-survivor with handmade animation, sharp spell synergies, and a rare demo-to-release progression carryover, badly let down at launch by unfinished content and severe boss-fight performance drops -- though the developer has kept patching and expanding it since.
3 / 10
An action-adventure set across ancient Mesopotamian bazaars and palaces, mixing stealth, archery, and melee combat with light RPG progression, whose Mostly Positive review sample praises its atmosphere, story, and music while repeatedly flagging janky combat, dated animation, and performance problems well below what its trailers promised.
3 / 10
DINOGOD's debut mech-western, a farming sim bolted onto Armored Core-flavoured combat, earns a genuinely Mixed reception -- reviewers love its heartfelt story, voice acting, and setting, but a large share describe combat, controls, and pacing that never shake off a rough, unfinished feel.
3 / 10
A Nancy Drew-inspired first-person mystery adventure set in the Australian outback, whose Positive review sample praises its authentic rural-Australian setting, full voice acting, and internet-sleuthing puzzle design, weighed against a short 3-to-4-hour runtime, an underdeveloped ending, and real launch-week performance complaints.
3 / 10
A Mount & Blade and Sands of Salzaar-inspired autobattler RPG that hooks a large share of its review sample for 60, 100, even 300-plus hours, whose Mixed rating is driven less by the core gameplay than by a specific, widely corroborated backlash over an always-online requirement quietly patched into a single-player game, alongside near-universal translation complaints and quest-breaking bugs.
3 / 10
Ron Gilbert's Terrible Toybox trades point-and-click adventures for a vertically scrolling afterlife roguelite, and a Mostly Positive review sample enjoys its pixel art, humour, and Steam Deck-friendly pick-up-and-play loop, but a large share finds the runs shallow and repetitive well before the credits.
3 / 10
A genuinely novel idea -- a fantasy party that fights quietly above your taskbar while you work -- undercut by heroes who level in isolation rather than as a true team, thin progression, and a persistent debate among its own reviewers about how 'idle' it actually is.
3 / 10
A roguelike deckbuilder that ties card play directly to dice -- three heroes built around a d6, d8, and d12 respectively -- whose Mostly Positive review sample praises a genuinely clever, Slay the Spire-indebted core hook and strong pixel art, but is repeatedly undercut by a launch state riddled with save corruption, stuck inventory, and balance bugs that many reviewers say should have kept it in Early Access.
3 / 10
A cute, anime-styled bullet-heaven survivors-like whose Mostly Positive review sample praises a satisfying dual-weapon skill loop and an intense floor-based endless mode, but is repeatedly undercut by complaints about weak sound design, missing auto-aim, and -- in one specific, detailed review -- AI-generated character art.
3 / 10
A live-action FMV detective thriller and romance sim set aboard a luxury cruise ship, sequel to Detective Please Keep My Secret, whose large Overwhelmingly Positive review sample praises its cinematic production values and returning cast while sharing a wide range of specific, repeated complaints about clue-flooded deduction puzzles, static dialogue-heavy pacing, a rough English translation, and real bugs.
3 / 10
A budget dungeon crawler whose store page promises "endless procedurally generated dungeons," while every reviewer who has actually bought it describes roughly four fixed rooms, a death bug, and no way to quit the game without closing it through Windows.
3 / 10
