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481 games released in 2026 and reviewed here, best first.
481 reviews
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
NIS turns its flagship turn-based tactical RPG series into real-time action combat for the first time, and the series' own longtime fans are split down the middle — the humour and grind-loop identity survived the transition, but a four-to-five-hour campaign at full price and a single playable protagonist have drawn sustained criticism even from people who like it.
5.5 / 10
A promising winter entry in the Card Survival genre with a genuinely tense core loop and an unusually communicative solo-scale developer, held back by save-corrupting crashes reported across its entire Early Access life and a current content stretch several players finish in a single-digit number of hours.
5.5 / 10
A PSP-era Japanese JRPG finally reaching Western PC players via FURYU, whose reviewers split sharply between "runs great, lovely art, fun combat" and "crashes constantly, controller support doesn't work" — a divide specific enough to read as an inconsistent port rather than a bad game underneath it.
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
A solo developer's earnest first Steam game — a calm, click-to-fish incremental loop that early buyers call meditative and addictive — undercut by launch bugs (an aim circle that outgrows the screen, garbled talent-tree text) and a hard stop once the short talent tree is finished, with no ascension or replay option to follow it.
5.5 / 10
A solo-developer dungeon crawler where a small green-hooded adventurer works through expanding stone chambers on stamina, hearts and a growing key ring, with almost nobody outside the developer having weighed in on it yet.
5.5 / 10
A genuinely fresh management-sim concept — running a gladiator club up through Rome's divisions — undercut by combat AI its own players call the game's worst feature, wildly inconsistent difficulty, and a launch price several found too steep, all set against one of the most relentless Early Access patch cadences this library has documented.
5.5 / 10
A 3-6 player multiplayer parkour game that pairs precision platforming with a build-your-loadout ability deck and a level-based unlock ladder, launched with a single Russian-language user review and zero people playing it at the moment this was checked.
5.5 / 10
A gorgeous, genuinely relaxing incremental about scooping ocean plastic into a recycling boat, whose short-session reviewers love the art and music and whose longer-session reviewers hit a wall of confusing systems, a since-fixed missing autosave, and balance that still reads as broken weeks after launch.
5.5 / 10
You pilot a walking mech fortress across a desert, scavenging wrecks and extracting with the loot. Three hundred thousand people bought it in a fortnight. Its recent reviews are running at 41% positive, and the reasons are structural rather than cosmetic.
5.5 / 10
A relaxed, Yahtzee-inspired dice roguelike with real charm and a genuine "just one more round" pull, undercut by a severe reported Steam Deck stability issue at launch and an unresolved progression-breaking bug still being reported months after the last visible patch.
5.5 / 10
A solo-developed extraction RPG whose "Mixed" score understates a real design problem with its combat, and whose review section contains an unusual, specific pattern worth reporting plainly — at least two detailed reviews that read as substantively critical while marking the game recommended, explicitly out of sympathy for the developer.
5.5 / 10
A solo-developed auto-battler that dresses itself up as an idle RPG, delivers a genuinely satisfying handful of boss fights through three distinct heroes, and then ends before its skill trees, weapon collection or "idle" framing ever get the room to matter.
5.5 / 10
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 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 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 solo-developed cyberpunk vampire RPG that pairs first-person exploration with XCOM-style overhead combat, wrapped around explicit adult content. The pieces are promising; almost none of them are finished yet.
5.5 / 10
A free-to-play idle strategy MMO about building an egg-themed civilization, split almost exactly down the middle between players who find real layered depth in its economy and combat systems, and players frustrated by a slow start, progress-halting bugs, and lingering distrust of the developer's previous game.
5.5 / 10
A budget open-world flight sim from mobile studio Ovilex, offering 31 airliners and 50-plus real-world-inspired airports for one upfront price, launched the same day as a combat-flight sibling from the same publisher at the same price point, with zero user reviews yet to test either one against.
5 / 10
A tile-based, permadeath MMORPG built and coded almost entirely by one developer since 2017, released on Steam a day before this review with no cash shop of any kind, a single Frankfurt server capped at 500 players — and, at the moment of checking, three people actually on it.
5 / 10
