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320 games released in 2026 and reviewed here, best first.
320 reviews
A horde-survival roguelite that makes you actually fight, forcing constant swaps between melee and ranged weapons against enemies built to resist whichever one you're not holding — a deliberate answer to the genre's reputation for playing itself.
7.5 / 10
A Korean-folklore-themed bullet-heaven roguelite that entered Early Access after roughly two and a half years of private playtesting, already showing unusually confident art direction and a distinctive cultural setting — with one concrete, currently reported performance issue around its dash mechanic.
7.5 / 10
A 35th-anniversary cute-em-up that swaps the Cotton series' usual magical kingdom for a Japanese festival backdrop, brings back the well-received Cotton Rock'n'Roll team, and stacks ten wildly different playable ships — several borrowed wholesale from other cult shmups — on top of a launch corpus too small to confirm anything beyond the pedigree.
7.5 / 10
Pearl Abyss's massive, visually stunning open-world action-adventure launched to a rocky Mixed reception — a specific, documented 51% positive Steam score in its first days — before climbing to Very Positive within a week and staying there through five months of relentless, near-weekly patches, even as a real, ongoing thread of criticism argues the game never fully shakes its origins as an MMORPG stripped of its multiplayer.
7.5 / 10
A rune-socketed action roguelite where the world gets more dangerous the more of it you uncover — a genuinely inventive build system wrapped around a dodge that refuses to behave like the souls-likes it keeps getting compared to.
7.5 / 10
Kojima Productions' sequel arrived on PC nine months after its PlayStation 5 exclusive launch with one of the best-optimised AAA ports in recent memory and genuinely expanded delivery and combat systems, sitting Overwhelmingly Positive across nearly 26,000 Steam reviews — tempered by a real, remarkably consistent complaint from longtime fans that its writing, pacing and a hand-holding new companion character fall well short of the original's atmosphere and restraint.
7.5 / 10
A tiny, atmospheric roguelite built on one sharp idea — your torch is both your only light and your only weapon, so every swing costs you visibility — that's landed a perfect early score across two separate language communities in its first two days.
7.5 / 10
A deckbuilding roguelite where you draw your hand by working a claw machine. The gimmick is genuinely brilliant for about twenty hours — and then the argument starts about how much of each run you're actually deciding.
7.5 / 10
A survival-automation game that makes terraforming the actual win condition instead of a late-game side quest, tying every conveyor belt and machine you build to a planet visibly coming back to life around it.
7.5 / 10
A three-hour narrative RPG about a boy searching for a reason to live in a civilisation destroyed by a mind-controlling parasitic plant — priced under a dollar, drawing OneShot comparisons, and beloved so far by an audience that, as of this review, is entirely Turkish.
7.5 / 10
A tabletop-inspired isometric CRPG that invites Disco Elysium comparisons directly in its own marketing — Overwhelmingly Positive across nearly 8,000 reviews for fans who embrace its absurdist, Discworld-flavoured take on the formula, with an equally substantial and thoughtful critical minority arguing it borrows Disco Elysium's structure without matching the literary subtlety that made the original work.
7.5 / 10
A roguelike deckbuilder where your deck is literally the train you've assembled car by car, and every collision on the tactical grid can chain into a fight-ending disaster for whoever's standing in the way.
7.5 / 10
A Pomodoro-technique productivity companion disguised as an idle weapon-forging desktop pet — finish a focus session, a blacksmith maiden finishes a weapon, and you both work toward her freedom — loved so far by an almost entirely Chinese-speaking early audience.
7.5 / 10
Seven people spent twelve years building a handcrafted fantasy RPG where you are nobody special, and it shows in the best and worst ways — superb exploration and a classless build system, wrapped in a technical layer that isn't finished.
7.5 / 10
Quite possibly the best arcade racer ever made, set in the best map the series has built — and its two most-upvoted negative reviews are from people who couldn't play it because they block telemetry.
7.5 / 10
A pencil-drawn tactics RPG where combat plays out on a shared timeline both sides can sabotage, off to a strong start on a tiny early sample and a distinctive hook, with a controller gap and an unproven long game keeping the verdict cautious three days after launch.
7.5 / 10
A hand-drawn boss-rush action game whose bosses grow stronger based on the order you fight them — reviewed against a 239-review corpus, an achievement curve that confirms just how brutal the ending really is, and a single dominant complaint that crosses five languages.
7.5 / 10
Dante is a girl, Hell is a bullet heaven, and the deck-building actually works. The most beautiful thing in the genre right now runs into a difficulty wall at the second circle that has stopped six players in seven — and the studio is patching it weekly.
7.5 / 10
Bluehood Games' incremental mining sim nails the first ten hours — hand-mining gives way to smelteries, upgrade trees and a claimable world map of parallel dig sites at a fair one-time price. The prestige layer that's supposed to carry the back half is where players keep hitting a wall.
7.5 / 10
A Plinko-style incremental where every gumball you shoot is a physics object bouncing off gears for cash — a review of whether two hours of one-more-round number-go-up is worth the price of a coffee.
7.5 / 10
SUPERita's solo debut turns the incremental genre inside out — instead of walking away and letting numbers climb, you're stuck in a shrinking arena with a collapsing ceiling, spending loot on a talent tree and four companions between waves of monsters guarding a dragon's lair.
7.5 / 10
A classic Warcraft III-and-StarCraft-flavoured RTS from a solo developer who spent three to five years building it with a community of beta testers before MicroProse stepped in to publish its Early Access launch — and reviewer after reviewer reaches for the exact same comparison to describe it.
7.5 / 10
A nine-person Shanghai debut builds a hand-drawn action RPG around a parry that can't be spammed, and mostly wins the argument — undone by a text layer that clearly needed another month.
7.5 / 10
A brutal, funny Mario Party from the Buckshot Roulette developer, for ten dollars — with no matchmaking, and a developer who has now said plainly that there never will be.
7.5 / 10
