Draco and the Seven Scales Review
A Pirate, a Cutlass, a Cannon, and a Curse Draco and the Seven Scales casts players as a pirate captain chasing down a kraken's dark bargain, sailing a retro-styled overworld d
9 / 10
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The Dream Of A Cockspur review
roccay's surreal point-and-click psychological horror about a stranded research team on a mysterious island earns a near-perfect "Very Positive" score for its unforgettable art, dense cosmic-horror storytelling, and unsettling atmosphere, with only its occasionally obscure puzzle logic drawing real criticism.
9 / 10
Woodo Review
A Coloring Book You Can Hold in Your Hands Woodo describes itself as feeling like a 3D coloring book you can touch, and that turns out to be an unusually precise pitch. Each level
8.8 / 10
Money for Girls: Amortized Review
A Detective Story Wrapped Around a Predatory Loan Money for Girls: Amortized casts you as a girl detective spending a sweltering summer trying to save her mother from a predatory l
8.6 / 10
Touhou Lensed Night Sky, Kaseigai
A shmup-roguelike Touhou fangame that spends its shop currency on your own survivability, wrapping a genuinely acclaimed story and soundtrack around bullet-hell patterns that turn brutal by the back half.
8.6 / 10
A Little Perspective Review
A Sokoban Game That Rewrites The Rules Of What You Can See A Little Perspective, a solo project from developer Tad Cordle, released on Steam on April 3, 2026, at $14.99. It's a
8.5 / 10
Clover's Quadrants
A beautifully painted sokoban-style puzzle game where each of the four movement directions doubles as an inventory slot, unanimously praised by reviewers for its ingenious mechanics, gorgeous art, and fair-but-punishing difficulty curve.
8.5 / 10
Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division
Solo developer Thomas Hsu's SQL-powered detective sim asks players to solve ten increasingly absurd crimes in the fictional city of Los Zorangeles by actually writing database queries, and an overwhelmingly positive review corpus — including plenty of working data professionals — praises its writing and world-building even as several reviewers flag a rough difficulty spike and thin quality-of-life tooling in the back half.
8.5 / 10
Dead as Disco
A beat-'em-up where every punch lands on the beat, 97.5% positive, half a million copies sold — and an Early Access launch so thin that its critics and its fans are describing the same game accurately.
8.5 / 10
Dear Magical Girls
A free, story-driven tower defense game about an overworked magical girl reshaping a living barrier to hold back monster waves — short, and so consistently compared to Madoka Magica by its own players that the comparison reads as a shared, spontaneous consensus rather than marketing.
8.5 / 10
Denshattack!
Undercoders' train-skating action game welds Tony Hawk-style trick combos and Jet Set Radio's graffiti-punk aesthetic onto a runaway commuter train, and the community's near-unanimous verdict is that the absurd premise works — a colourful, endlessly musical arcade rush that a small minority bounce off hard once the control scheme stops clicking.
8.5 / 10
Dreamcards Review
A Roguelike Deckbuilder About Dreams, Memories, And The Nightmare That Wants Your Deck Dreamcards, developed by Soneka Games and published by Vsoo Games and Soneka Games, released
8.5 / 10
Endacopia
A point-and-click adventure dressed as a 1996 educational CD-ROM, with something wrong underneath it. One of the highest-rated games on Steam this year at 99% positive — and its single-save-file design is the reason that number isn't higher still.
8.5 / 10
Hermit and Pig
An Earthbound-flavoured turn-based RPG about a socially anxious old man, his truffle-pig best friend, and a corporate conspiracy involving giant mushrooms — built around a genuinely novel idea where awkward conversations function as real combat encounters, and near-unanimously loved by the players who've played it.
8.5 / 10
HoloTrials: Case Covered
A free Ace Attorney-style courtroom mystery visual novel starring Hololive English's Myth and Council talents as a high-school detective drama, earning a Very Positive launch reception for its production quality and writing, with reviewers' honest caveats limited to a couple of quickly-patched launch bugs and a deep reliance on Hololive familiarity.
8.5 / 10
Metanoia Review
Two Simple Rules, A Circle's Existential Crisis, And A Pool Of Reviewers Who All Agree Metanoia, developed and published by Meteoric Works, released on Steam on February 27, 20
8.5 / 10
MOBU Review
Monks, Not Mechs MOBU, released July 16, 2026 by developer and publisher Saidera Studio, is a $5.99 arena shooter with roguelite bones, where players control a superpowered monk fi
8.5 / 10
MOCHI-O
A wonderfully weird, near-universally adored tower-defense-meets-bullet-heaven game about a weaponised hamster saving a collapsing world, with a handful of small but real launch-week bugs.
8.5 / 10
Nova Patria Review
Rome Never Fell, And Someone Finally Built A Colony Sim About It Nova Patria released on Steam on May 14, 2026 from small developer Sower Interactive, and it opens with a premise u
8.5 / 10
Omen Exitio: Hunger
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook that casts players as a journalist chasing a 1927 Brooklyn child-abduction case into cosmic horror, praised almost unanimously for its tailored writing, dense sound design, and mature handling of dread, with launch-window bugs that the developer patched quickly and a lack of failure states as its most notable structural gripe.
8.5 / 10
Our Wonderland
A free horror-fantasy visual novel about a messy, thirty-something friend group dragged back into the wish-granting wonderland of their childhood — remastered and re-released this July to a genuinely spotless review record.
8.5 / 10
Pathogenic
A hundred thousand copies in its first week, and deservedly — you play a single parasite tearing organelles out of immune cells and grafting them onto your own body. The best twin-stick roguelite of the year so far, with one genuinely misleading line on its store page.
8.5 / 10
Perfect Tides: Station to Station
A beautifully written, widely acclaimed coming-of-age narrative adventure that refines its predecessor's mechanics, alongside one deliberately distressing sequence some reviewers find a genuinely difficult, re-traumatizing design choice rather than powerful storytelling.
8.5 / 10
Rita Review
A Chicken, A Crossword, And A Grandmother Rita, a cozy puzzle-platformer from solo studio SporkTank, released in full on Steam on July 30, 2026 after nearly a year of demos, festiv
8.5 / 10