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3102 games released in 2026 and reviewed here, best first.
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A precision-platforming collectathon from Dustrider Studios about a climbing dragon hatchling, Positive across a small, unanimous English review sample for its satisfying movement and exploration, with fair, repeated complaints about physics jank and controller-menu bugs.
7 / 10
A free, roughly 15-to-30-minute student game from BYU's Center for Animation in which a rooster bard must romance, not slay, the dragon attacking his village through a soulslike-structured boss fight built around rhythm minigames — praised widely for its animation and music, held back by real jank in controls, audio mixing, and menu polish.
7 / 10
A visually gorgeous, warmly voice-acted remake of one of the Dragon Quest franchise's most beloved and expansive entries — Very Positive on Steam, but built around a genuinely controversial decision to substantially trim the content that made the original and its 3DS remake so sprawling, a cut acknowledged even by the game's own fans rather than disputed.
7 / 10
A short, richly atmospheric slow-burn folk horror game about tending an isolated farm while its former owner's secrets surface, built on genuinely striking Ukrainian folk-horror visuals and a beloved farm cat, let down by a widely disliked maze chase and an ending several players found anticlimactic.
7 / 10
A Second Haunting from the Dread Flats Team Dread Neighbor launched May 7, 2026 from Ghostcase, the small studio behind the earlier hit Dread Flats, published under the Erabit labe
7 / 10
A gorgeous, relentlessly chill liminal-space walking simulator that nails its dreamcore atmosphere but stumbles on optimization, weak puzzle clarity, and a story mode that undercuts its own relaxing premise.
7 / 10
A Fortieth Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review Dream Draw Dungeons released as a full, non-Early-Access title on Steam on 15 September 2026, and at the time of writing it ha
7 / 10
A genuinely deep, addictive squad-building card roguelike with suggestive monster-girl art, let down almost entirely by a severely incomplete English translation that reviewers name more than any other flaw.
7 / 10
DRFT fuses Vampire Survivors-style bullet-heaven combat with a physics-based drifting car, turning every slide into a moment of invincibility, and its small, unanimously positive review sample is backed by an unusually long, demo-driven pre-release history for a two-person team.
7 / 10
The AC-130 Mission From Call of Duty, Stretched Into a Whole Game Drone Sector entered Early Access on July 21, 2026, from developer Icosphere and publisher MicroProse, and reviewe
7 / 10
A roguelike dungeon crawler built around a genuinely distinctive "tipsiness" resource system layered on top of dice-roll skill checks, following a perpetually drunk rogue and a vampire seeking her ailing father, whose approachable early game hides a brutally demanding New Game Plus and hardest-difficulty mode that almost no reviewer has actually cleared.
7 / 10
Real chess rules underneath a board that fights back — pieces carry hit points and their own fog-of-war vision, captures aren't guaranteed kills, and a mid-turn real-time window lets you burn a cooldown spell before the clock passes to your opponent. Two days into Early Access it already has a working single-player mode against AI, up to four-player online lobbies, and eight patches.
7 / 10
A retro-styled fantasy shop sim with genuinely heartfelt writing, immaculate atmosphere and widely beloved pettable slimes and a shop cat, praised repeatedly as a labor of love in contrast to the AI-generated shovelware crowding the genre, held back by a short main story and real accessibility gaps including missing key remapping and a broken controller axis setting.
7 / 10
A Dungeon That Runs on Your Real Keystrokes Dungeon Companion's hook is unusual even by idle-genre standards: it turns real-world typing and clicking, measured as an APM count,
7 / 10
A Forty-Third Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review Dungeons & Death launched on Steam on 14 September 2026 for Windows and Linux, and at the time of writing has zero user rev
7 / 10
A colony-sim-meets-dungeon-crawler Early Access game from CanOpener, sending a small party of settlers between a growing camp and a randomly-generated dungeon, earning a Very Positive launch reception for its tense tactical combat and charming pixel art, tempered by honest reviewer complaints about a misleading RimWorld comparison, brutal default difficulty, and early balance issues.
7 / 10
Dungeon Trail is a small, retro-styled roguelike dungeon crawler built around a single clever idea: instead of leaving combat purely to the dice, you're given tools to cheat th
7 / 10
A short, charming point-and-click mystery visual novel steeped in Jamaican and Caribbean folklore, praised widely for its art, culture, and characters but consistently criticised for having little actual detective gameplay and choices that barely affect the outcome.
7 / 10
A genuinely loving, beautifully realised tribute to PS2-era 3D action platformers like Jak and Daxter, Kingdom Hearts and Ratchet & Clank, with movement, level design and a widely praised 40-track soundtrack that reviewers consistently single out as the game's clearest strength, badly let down by combat a large share of the same review base describes as flat, weightless and unrewarding, compounded by a missing key-rebinding option and no in-game map.
7 / 10
A day-old precision speedrunner that makes you spend your own health bar as a resource — slow time, cut down enemies mid-air, and burn "Echoes" for shortcuts and boosts across fifteen handcrafted courses, each chasing a five-rung Bronze-through-Par medal ladder.
7 / 10
A solo-developer top-down action-adventure from Josh Koenig Games built as a coffee-break homage to the Game Boy Color Zelda games, drawing a near-unanimous Very Positive review sample that credits its authentic retro feel and dungeon design while flagging a fair, corroborated complaint about undertuned bosses and a lack of achievements at launch.
7 / 10
A Kitten-Rescue Horror From the Last Half of Darkness Studio Edge Of Evil, released August 31, 2026 by WRF Studios, opens with a premise that's equal parts silly and grim: your
7 / 10
A charming, Tamagotchi-inspired desktop pet with genuinely lovable art and a social breeding system, undercut by widely reported crashes and incomplete English translation.
7 / 10
Lovely Hellplace, the studio behind the cult favourite Dread Delusion, returns with a turn-based tactical RPG about a troupe of actors turned demon-hunting mercenaries in a dying, infertile world. Early Access reviewers are overwhelmingly enthusiastic about its writing, art direction and PS1-JRPG atmosphere, but a hard-locked autosave system, erratic difficulty tuning, and roughly three to four hours of available content are the recurring complaints worth knowing before buying in early.
7 / 10
