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Games released in 2026

3120 games released in 2026 and reviewed here, best first.

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Find The Cat: Nightmare

Find The Cat: Nightmare pairs genuinely well-liked hand-drawn horror art with a hidden-object game its own Mixed review sample repeatedly describes as finished in fifteen minutes, missing basic genre features like level select and volume control, and undermined by cats that are almost too easy to spot.

4.5 / 10

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Fisher Idle

A NZ$2.69 boat-and-auction idle tycoon whose "Mixed" Steam rating is mostly a fossil record of its 17-month Early Access run — and whose core complaint, that the whole game empties out inside two hours with nothing built to replace it, still checks out against the game's own achievement data today.

4.5 / 10

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GOALS

A free-to-play, cross-platform football game chasing the FIFA/FC audience with faster, more responsive core gameplay, undercut by widespread pay-to-win complaints, brain-dead AI teammates, and balance patches that have left its review base Mostly Negative.

4.5 / 10

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Hunt Zombies Together

Hunt Zombies Together is a $0.99 co-op zombie survival shooter from solo Unity developer cnsgames, and this review's Positive sample (17 of 20 reviews) repeatedly frames it as a fun, disposable few minutes with friends at an extremely low price, while its more detailed reviewers are candid that the actual content on offer, one weapon, one map, and mostly reskinned enemies, runs out almost immediately.

4.5 / 10

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Idle Cats Dungeon

A free desktop-corner idle game whose entire pitch is progress that keeps running "alongside your daily tasks" — undercut by a cluster of matching player reports that it stops ticking the moment its window isn't the one on top.

4.5 / 10

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Jumpman

A single-level Super Mario Bros. homage built on the LittleJS engine — run, jump, stomp enemies and reach the castle flag — undercut by a touch jump button that does not work.

4.5 / 10

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Legend of YMIR

A Norse-mythology MMORPG with genuinely impressive Unreal Engine 5 production values, undercut by a blockchain-token economy that turns nearly every meaningful upgrade into a real-money or crypto-market transaction.

4.5 / 10

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Loop Miner

A mining incremental about a mole digging endless loops for resources and artifacts, whose demo-to-full-game jump and AI-generated cutscenes have drawn specific, detailed criticism, though at least one seasoned incremental-genre reviewer still recommends its pacing.

4.5 / 10

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Once a Pawn a King

A genuinely inventive chess-piece roguelike that built real goodwill through a year of Early Access, then left it on 25 June 2026 in a state reviewers overwhelmingly describe as a regression — after a publisher change and, according to a Steam review quoting the developers' own Discord post, the original team losing their jobs weeks before launch.

4.5 / 10

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Orion-7

A story-driven sci-fi Memory-game adventure — flip cards to find matching pairs, battle enemies and stranded astronauts with them — filed under "Massively Multiplayer" on Steam despite a single-player campaign, a PvP mode still labelled Beta on its own store page, zero user reviews and zero concurrent players at the time this was checked.

4.5 / 10

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POTUS Election Sim

An ambitious political career simulator built around an on-device AI that reads and judges the player's own written responses to debates and crises, undermined by a judging system reviewers describe as inconsistent, easily gamed by response length, and prone to repeating the same scenarios regardless of prior choices.

4.5 / 10

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R.E.G.O

A free first-person psychological horror investigation game about a night watchman uncovering a dark mystery on an isolated São Paulo farm, praised by a minority for its atmosphere and investigation hook but dragged down for most reviewers by a lack of save points, missing translations, and broken interactions.

4.5 / 10

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Rustbound Review

A Hopeful Premise for the Post-Apocalypse Rustbound asks players to rebuild rather than just survive: scavenge a forgotten ruin, turn it into a working settlement, and grow a shop-

4.5 / 10

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Saddle Up and Drive

Saddle Up and Drive is an $11.99 isometric open-world driving game from developer Sgriusoft about a reckless nephew running legal and illegal jobs across a 1970s desert map to save his alcoholic uncle's farm from the bank, and this review's 4-review sample is mostly positive, praising chaotic physics-driven charm while flagging real, specific rough edges in its current state.

4.5 / 10

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Serious Sam: Shatterverse

A co-op roguelite spin-off built by Behaviour Interactive rather than series creator Croteam, whose identity crisis, undercooked weapon progression and rough technical launch have provoked an unusually intense backlash from longtime franchise fans, complicated by credible reports that some of that backlash is itself being amplified by review-bombing.

4.5 / 10

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Slime Kingdom: Idle

A solo developer's idle kingdom-builder about growing an army of slime adventurers, with a genuinely varied opening few hours undercut by the one complaint an idle game can least afford — no offline progression — plus reported crashes and a late-game pace that reviewers describe collapsing into a grind with unclear win conditions.

4.5 / 10

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