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3120 games released in 2026 and reviewed here, best first.
3120 reviews
Medieval survivors defend a magic stone from monsters dropped by an alien ship, sever limbs, fit prosthetics and forge weapons out of what they cut off. A genuinely strange five-dollar idea from two developers — and about four hours of Early Access with the AI still half-working.
5.5 / 10
A solo-developed 18th-century Caribbean trading sim that pairs a genuinely layered supply-chain economy with a rough, one-day-old Early Access build — Mostly Negative across its first ten Steam reviews, with independent day-one reports of unbeatable enemy encounters, brutal docking damage and helm controls that pull you off the wheel to do anything else.
5.5 / 10
A live-action FMV interactive adventure from Joy Media Limited, casting players as a warehouse clerk surviving a frozen zombie apocalypse alongside three women through dice-roll survival choices, Very Positive across 2,728 reviews for its cast and production quality — with a well-documented launch bug locking out English-language players and a real complaint that the story ends on an unresolved cliffhanger.
5.5 / 10
A cozy shelf-stocking sorting sim clearly indebted to Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library, popular for the same satisfying tidying loop but dragged down by a verified, developer-disclosed use of generative AI for in-game textures and translations that a large and specific share of its own reviewers say produces broken, melted, or nonsensical product labels.
5.5 / 10
A cheap, nostalgic throwback to early-2000s browser tycoon games like Lemonade Tycoon, genuinely well liked in its small early review sample but consistently flagged as too short, too easy, and missing meaningful challenge once its systems are understood.
5.5 / 10
The opening episode of a true-crime-inspired horror anthology, delivering a genuinely tense highway-killer premise and a clever optional microphone-detection stealth mechanic, undercut by a flat, predictable story and a punishing respawn flow that forces long cutscene replays.
5.5 / 10
Taleweavers Alliance Anthology is a free visual novel collecting five short, illustrated stories written by Northern Ontario youths centering Indigenous and LGBTQ2S+ voices, and this review's mostly positive 6-review sample praises its sincerity and distinct art styles while noting the writing itself doesn't always match the ambition of its themes.
5.5 / 10
A Papers, Please-inspired bank teller bureaucracy sim with an appealing art style and moments of genuine resonance about the exhaustion of service work, undercut by a repetitive month-long loop, rough translation, and enough game-breaking bugs to actively frustrate players.
5.5 / 10
A brutal, faction-driven zombie-apocalypse survival RPG set in a Texan civil war, built around body-part damage, wall-penetrating gunfire and dismemberment-heavy combat rather than dice-roll hit detection — a tiny but unanimously positive early Early Access review sample, backed by achievement data confirming all four questlines are genuinely completable.
5.5 / 10
The Artifactory is a $19.99 Overcooked-style couch co-op game about crafting magical loot in a chaotic, constantly-breaking factory, and this review's Mostly Positive sample (13 of 17 reviews) consistently praises its cute art and genuine co-op fun while just as consistently flagging persistent control jank and conveyor belts that break down too often, with one long-term player reporting the same core bugs remained six months after launch.
5.5 / 10
An Inspector's Job Nobody Should Want The Door Factory launched September 18, 2026 from developer David Gallardo and publisher HeadArrow, putting the player behind a strange fa
5.5 / 10
A dark medieval-fantasy turn-based dungeon crawler where you physically build the dungeon's own layout from tile pieces as you explore it, with ten playable classes and an optional co-op mode — its tiny review sample is unanimously positive but almost entirely one-line praise, backed by achievement data showing a real spread in how often each class actually wins.
5.5 / 10
An addictive incremental deckbuilder with genuine engine-building satisfaction, undermined by a specifically documented paradox where unlocking more cards makes runs harder rather than easier, excessive randomness that multiple reviewers say defeats planning, and a developer practice of nerfing winning strategies that has frustrated players who worked hard to find them.
5.5 / 10
A striking, atmospheric dark-fantasy dice-roguelite let down by its single most repeated complaint, a widely shared feeling that combat offers little to no meaningful player choice, compounded by specific, repeated bugs and a fixed run structure that undercuts replayability.
5.5 / 10
A Cursed Monastery for the Price of a Sandwich The Horror Occultist drops you into a first-person psychological horror scenario straight out of the genre's back catalog: a curs
5.5 / 10
A years-in-the-making, Kickstarter-backed open-world farming sim that finally hit Early Access — and immediately ran into the one thing its audience cared most about. The co-op isn't the shared-farm co-op people bought it for, and the Mixed rating is mostly that discovery happening 392 times.
5.5 / 10
A Closed Carnival, a Bad Idea, and Someone Watching The Stalked 3 is the third entry in solo developer Korvinrular's episodic psychological-horror series, and it keeps the form
5.5 / 10
Tapes without much tape The Tall Man Tapes casts you as a UFO investigator sifting through a set of found-footage-style recordings in the woods, chasing down alien lights and a mys
5.5 / 10
A Grandfather's Keepsake, A Village to Rebuild The Village Above the Well opens on a small, sincere premise: a grandfather lost the only keepsake he had left of the woman he lo
5.5 / 10
A short psychological horror puzzle game from Beshbarmak games about a vacation apartment stay disturbed by strange moans from the unit above, drawing an extremely small English review sample that credits its dark, hour-long story while repeatedly flagging one specific, unfixed ringing-phone puzzle sound as a genuine problem.
5.5 / 10
A metroidvania platformer from Hero Concept built around KC Green's famous "This Is Fine" meme, drawing a genuinely Mixed English review sample split between charmed fans of its cartoon presentation and disappointed metroidvania players citing shallow structure, imprecise combat, and bugged achievements.
5.5 / 10
A tap-a-floor idle tower climber wrapped in Chinese mythology, with a genuinely tactile summon-and-collide combat loop undercut by a real-money marketplace that sells stat-buffing skins and a tutorial that explains almost nothing.
5.5 / 10
A spiritual successor to the classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms-inspired JRPG series Tunshi Tiandi, offering genuinely satisfying general-and-skill team-building on top of Liu Bei's rise from the Yellow Turban Rebellion, undercut by an awkward split keyboard-and-mouse control scheme and a total absence of maps or fast travel that a striking number of reviewers single out as painful.
5.5 / 10
A genuinely adorable, relaxing bakery-management sim for sweet-toothed slime customers, widely loved for its cozy art and seasonal detail, held back by specific recipe and visibility bugs, a lack of meaningful challenge for players wanting more than a purely relaxed pace, and the rough edges of a game whose Early Access period and 1.0 release both fell within the same year.
5.5 / 10
