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320 games released in 2026 and reviewed here, best first.
320 reviews
A local-multiplayer physics brawler set in a Japanese public bathhouse, where the "Survivor" in the name means outlasting three rivals on a frictionless floor with a water gun, not building a horde-clearing arsenal — a genre-savvy buyer needs to know that before anything else, along with the fact that every mode here is played on one couch, not online.
6 / 10
Read review of SENTO SURVIVOR : Slip, Grab, and Bathe in Glory!
An incremental dressed up as a slot machine parlour — pull the lever, earn virtual cash, automate your way out of debt — that most early reviewers finish in a single sitting, with the flattening mid-game progression curve as the main point of disagreement.
6 / 10
A solo German developer's top-down dodge-'em-up asks players to steer a glowing green orb through 500 hand-built rooms of hazards toward a time portal, backed by clean one-time pricing and a month-old public demo, but with zero user reviews yet to say whether the levels hold up past the opening stretch.
6 / 10
An unabashed Ragnarok Online homage with seven classes, thirty maps and a community that loves it. Its Early Access launch also spent a fortnight with the servers falling over and player trading switched off entirely after dupers took the marketplace.
6 / 10
A genuinely pretty, systems-rich cozy farming life-sim whose Early Access launch was overshadowed by a real corporate-backing revelation, a suspected fake-review campaign, and a broken promise about paid content — a case where the discourse around the game may matter as much to a buyer as the game itself.
6 / 10
A free auto-battler RPG that runs as a tiny window pinned to your taskbar, built on a six-class roster and a stack-nine-to-rank-up loot system — undercut by a storefront that sells two more classes and the extra bag space its own item design is engineered to demand.
6 / 10
A free idle RPG that lives in your taskbar became a genuine phenomenon — peaking at over 360,000 concurrent players, briefly outranking everything on Steam except Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2 — before its own server infrastructure buckled under that success and started eating players' item collections.
6 / 10
A one-developer rhythm game that throws out real words entirely and maps every letter to a piano note instead, running 42 lessons from 2 keys up to 30 across procedurally generated melodies. Released 5 August 2026 with a free demo, zero user reviews, and no achievement list to check any of its claims against.
6 / 10
A two-person team's espionage FPS split almost evenly between fans who compare it to Project IGI and critics who say its weapons don't hit as hard as its marketing promises — a complaint this review found the developer had already dated patches addressing within days.
6 / 10
A solo-developed RTS that lets you drop out of the top-down view and fight alongside your army as a third-person hero unit — a genuinely distinctive hook undercut by a campaign that arrived late in development and a handful of real, independently reported bugs.
6 / 10
A straight Steam re-release of the 1998 Nintendo/PC puzzle cult classic about raising terrain to hold back constant rain, published by trademark-holder Piko Interactive with no review corpus yet to check it against.
6 / 10
A free PSX-style survival horror game set in a deep-sea prison where cutting off a monster's limb makes it multiply — reviewed on its complete 16-review sample, which splits cleanly between reviewers charmed by its atmosphere and reviewers who call it an unfinished alpha.
6 / 10
A ten-dollar guild-management tactics RPG with a genuinely clever idea — your weapon determines your class — sitting behind a 90% Steam rating that doesn't survive close inspection. The game is decent. The review page is the story.
6 / 10
A technically polished remake of a beloved Yakuza entry, bundled with a well-regarded new prequel chapter, whose Mixed reception is driven by two distinct and separately documented problems — substantial cuts to the original's beloved side content, and a genuine, well-sourced controversy over the studio's decision to recast a character using an actor who has admitted to sexual misconduct, despite a sustained fan campaign asking them not to.
6 / 10
An idle game about writing software that picks the smartest possible theme for the genre — and then hits a scaling wall a few tiers in, while its design is still being rewritten in public.
6 / 10
Read review of Yet Another Incremental Game (but this time about coding)
A VR-supported open-world survival game whose entire, small early review sample dates from its first three days — a window that turns out to mostly predate two patches directly fixing nearly every specific bug those reviews describe.
5.5 / 10
A 2-6 player party shooter built around a single dropped-from-the-sky button that hands out a jackpot or a map-flattening nuke, filed under "Massively Multiplayer" on Steam despite six-minute rounds, a hard cap of six players and, a day after launch, zero people playing it at the moment this was checked.
5.5 / 10
A free-to-play physics shooter where armed cats launch each other off chaotic arenas — analysed across a 335-review English corpus, which surfaces a genuinely fun core concept alongside real, corroborated concerns about default-on voice chat and a young playerbase.
5.5 / 10
A free-to-play, Clicker Heroes-style idle mining game from a solo developer, split almost exactly down the middle — praised for being addictive and free, criticised by several independent reviewers for a progression curve that breaks within the first hour.
5.5 / 10
A peaceful, no-combat 17th-century settlement builder with a genuinely distinctive premise, whose 1.0 launch was undermined by severe save-game bugs and a real, developer-confirmed months-long gap in updates — followed by an official "we are returning" announcement and a fresh wave of patches that's already visibly improving sentiment in the most recent reviews.
5.5 / 10
A cheap third-person action game built as an explicit fan tribute to the hip-hop collective TeamSesh — reviewed on its complete 35-review English sample, most of which turned out to be one-word fandom slogans, with the real, substantive verdict hiding underneath them.
5.5 / 10
An idle incremental RPG wrapped around a genuinely creepy generational-horror premise — die, pass your DNA to the next generation, grow stronger, discover who's really benefiting — undercut by a specific, well-corroborated complaint from two independent reviewers that the core power fantasy runs backwards.
5.5 / 10
A deliberately frozen 2024-era build of Combat Waffle Studios' own VR extraction shooter, sold as a separate paid product to players who wanted a beloved removed map back in the live game — a genuinely unusual business decision that a large share of its own buyers resent even while enjoying what it delivers.
5.5 / 10
A cheap Melvor-style idle RPG whose worker-automation system is a genuine bright spot, undercut by additive scaling that stalls progress hard past the opening days and by flavour text several players independently flag as AI-written.
5.5 / 10
