MOLDRISE Review
It Started in Your Foot. Now You Have to Go Up. MOLDRISE opens on the smallest possible scale — a splinter, a scratch, something wrong with your foot — and turns it into the entire
7.1 / 10
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It Started in Your Foot. Now You Have to Go Up. MOLDRISE opens on the smallest possible scale — a splinter, a scratch, something wrong with your foot — and turns it into the entire
7.1 / 10
A roguelite deckbuilder that swaps swords for shot glasses, casting players as a bartender who pacifies monstrous patrons with drinks instead of fighting them, and one of the more unanimously beloved Early Access launches this year, with a small but entirely positive review base praising its art, humor, and genuinely fresh hook.
7.1 / 10
A genuinely charming desktop slime pet that bounces along to your music, backed by a surprisingly capable local player and Workshop library — let down by a fiddly, half-finished interface.
7.1 / 10
A Bullet Hell Where You Never Fire a Shot Neon Dodge strips the genre it borrows from down to its single most stressful ingredient: the dodge. There's no gun, no return fire, n
7.1 / 10
Anti-Gravity Racing for Both VR Pilots and Flat-Screen Drivers Omega Pilot Evolution is a futuristic anti-gravity racer from solo studio XOCUS, built around a simple pitch executed
7.1 / 10
Cookie Clicker, But Make It Mad Max Rushcremental takes the familiar incremental-game shape — click to gather, spend to upgrade, watch numbers climb — and reskins it as a post-apoc
7.1 / 10
A Night Shift at a Sandwich Shop, With Something Watching Serve Or Die drops players into the graveyard shift at a small sandwich counter, building sandwiches to spec for a rotatin
7.1 / 10
An Early Access real-time tactical strategy game about modern drone warfare and air defense, built by a solo developer with an unusually fast, visible patch cadence, that's already earning strong goodwill despite real bugs, thin multiplayer population, and content still catching up to its ambitions.
7.1 / 10
A drone, a signal, and a beat that never stops Space Disco Outlaw drops you into the cockpit of an outlaw drone drawn toward a mysterious signal of unknown origin, and from the fir
7.1 / 10
Take You Home is a $4.99 monochrome puzzle-platformer from developer and publisher 79STUDIO where players swap colors and flip gravity to chase a mysterious black cat, and this review's unanimous 11-review sample praises its music, minimalist art, and satisfying "aha" moments, tempered by a real complaint about unclear which tiles can move.
7.1 / 10
Three True-or-False Horror Stories, For Free Tales of Fear - Episode Zero is a first-person horror anthology built around a simple, sticky hook: three short, self-contained stories
7.1 / 10
A demonically-contracted beaver gnaws an infinitely tall tree in this scrappy arcade roguelite, mixing genuinely funny weapon variety with a progression curve that overstays its welcome at higher difficulties.
7.1 / 10
Whispering Memories is a $7.99 psychological mystery visual novel from developer Stellar Forge about returning to a hometown that isn't quite right, and this review's full 5-review sample is unanimously positive, praising a genuinely branching, emotionally affecting story backed by a rich, replay-friendly ending structure.
7.1 / 10
A standalone XCOM-style strategy sequel that spent years in Early Access before its April 2026 1.0 launch, still shipping near-weekly balance and stability patches months after release.
7.1 / 10
A Battle Nun, A Broken Moon, And A Ship Full Of Nightmares 2nd EVE entered Steam Early Access on April 14, 2026 from two-person developer Gamer Cloud, and it wastes no time establi
7 / 10
A gorgeous, confident Bond origin story from the Hitman studio — that abandoned the sandbox design the Hitman studio is famous for, and asks NZ$99.99 for about fifteen hours you won't replay.
7 / 10
Abandoned Stories: Inherited Silence is a short, PS1-inspired psychological horror adventure from solo developer _atfs about a girl named Maria trapped in a house that hunts her, and this review's sample — though small — finds a tense, well-received chase-and-puzzle horror game whose developer has spent months actively tuning difficulty and adding free content in direct response to player feedback.
7 / 10
A four-dollar tower defence roguelite where the towers shoot themselves and you pick the upgrades — and whose players are averaging fourteen hours in its first week. The best value on this list, and the most repetitive thing on it.
7 / 10
A precision platformer from Asuwawagami starring Lily, an accident-prone Queen of the Underworld, Positive across 31 English reviews for its charming anime presentation, with a widely repeated observation that its brutal difficulty sits sharply at odds with its cute exterior.
7 / 10
Command Without Combat: A Different Kind of WWI Game Acceptable Losses is the debut Steam release from solo developer Zann Archive, and it takes a deliberately unglamorous angle on
7 / 10
A Noir Serial-Killer Puzzle Game, Played Completely Straight Aerial_Knight's MrFreezy, released September 1, 2026 by developer Aerial_Knight and publisher Aerial_Knight Games,
7 / 10
Riichi Mahjong Without The Gacha Agari is a $6.99 Riichi Mahjong client built and published solo by developer Ryan Sullenberger, released on Steam on June 12, 2026 with a clean his
7 / 10
The AI Writes The Code, You Catch The Lie Agents! Please? is a $4.04 indie puzzle-simulation from developer KIB Games that casts the player as the last human reviewer standing betw
7 / 10
A Door Opens Onto an Endless Rainstorm A Girl A Rain opens its pitch with a line that reads more like a thesis statement than store-page copy: "We always misunderstand the wor
7 / 10