Browse by year
3102 games released in 2026 and reviewed here, best first.
3102 reviews
A ground-up rethink of 1999 EverQuest that solves the original's group-or-quit problem with a three-class multiclass system, then complicates its own launch week with a subscription, a cash shop and a beta that visibly shrank player storage before anyone had paid for it.
7 / 10
A 20-minute survival roguelite that lets you rebuild your creature from over 125 evolutions every run, wrapped in a living ecosystem where you're just as often the prey as the predator — sharp and addictive early, but the same handful of builds start resurfacing once the novelty wears off.
7 / 10
Read review of Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite
A visually stunning PCVR adventure that opens with one of the best warehouse sequences in VR before settling into clunkier combat, real performance strain, and an abrupt, cliffhanger ending.
7 / 10
EXOTERRA is solo developer ManuHerreraDev's free first-person escape-room puzzler about a lone astronaut restarting a stranded spacecraft, and this review's large, overwhelmingly positive sample confirms a beautifully realized but genuinely short single-sitting experience whose complete lack of a save system is its one serious, repeatedly-reported flaw.
7 / 10
A hand-painted 2D desktop RPG about exploring enchanted realms, fishing quiet waters and filling out a Knowledge Book of everything you meet — released yesterday, priced under six dollars, and already dropping hints in its own patch notes that "single-player" might not stay the whole story.
7 / 10
Emeteria's debut turns into a fluid, chain-reacting sphere and reshuffles reality around you, and that idea alone is worth the price. The kicking-things-off-ledges combat underneath it never catches up.
7 / 10
A logic-driven puzzle platformer from solo developer Martin Zetterman where dying on purpose leaves useful corpses behind, unanimously positive across a small English review sample for its clever mechanics and gentle, forgiving theme, with fair complaints about an awkward control mapping and repetitive music.
7 / 10
A Forty-Fifth Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review Falk launched on Steam on 10 September 2026 as a full release for Windows and macOS, and at the time of writing has zero us
7 / 10
An Early Access wealth-management sim that most reviewers say genuinely delivers an addictive, educational property-investment loop with an actively responsive developer, though a detailed finance-professional review documents several advertised systems that don't yet work as described, and a separate reviewer directly disputes the developer's own denial of AI-generated content.
7 / 10
An Early Access medieval shopkeeper sim that has players set their own prices, expand their store and fend off thieves in a living fantasy city, drawing a Positive early reception praising surprising depth beneath a simple premise and an actively-patching solo developer, tempered by reports of a short, easily-exhausted content ceiling at launch.
7 / 10
A Pilgrimage That Never Quite Arrives Farther West borrows its setting from Journey to the West, one of the most adapted stories in Chinese fiction, and turns the pilgrim's end
7 / 10
A genuinely deep, defensively-focused 2D fighter that longtime fighting-game veterans specifically praise for reviving mechanics modern games have abandoned, undercut by a widely and repeatedly corroborated backlash over controversial real-world guest characters, a weak UI, a thin story mode, and reports of a shrinking online population only months after launch.
7 / 10
Cloned Soldiers, Cursed Bunkers, and a Cat in a Helmet FEAR OF FAITH entered Early Access on August 21, 2026 from UNBREAKABLE ARK, and it wears its pitch right on the store page: a
7 / 10
A scrappy but ambitious Resident Evil 2 and Silent Hill 2 homage lands a Very Positive Steam debut on the strength of its atmosphere, level design, and an actively patching developer, even as its own review sample is unusually blunt that the "timeloop" the game is named after barely functions as a mechanic, and that voice acting and technical polish lag behind everything else.
7 / 10
A genuinely inventive "Catan meets Balatro" dice roguelike about feeding a dragon for twenty years, widely praised for its addictive multiplicative scoring and charming presentation, undercut by a widely and cross-language-corroborated complaint that early-game runs can become effectively unwinnable from a single unlucky opening roll, plus a mono-only audio mix and a settings-menu bug that can delete saved progress.
7 / 10
A 1997 epic-scale Warhammer 40,000 tactics game gets a faithful, low-friction Steam re-release, and its rock-paper-scissors unit design and gloriously cheesy FMV cutscenes hold up far better than its 29-year-old visuals suggest.
7 / 10
Read review of Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000 (Classic) Review
From a StarCraft II Mod to a Standalone Deckbuilder Flaregate Network has an unusually specific origin story that comes up again and again in its reviews: it's the standalone e
7 / 10
A New Building in a Very Established Neighborhood Flats Full of Cats launched on Steam as a free-to-play entry on August 3, 2026, from Devcats, the studio behind a long-running str
7 / 10
Floating Isle Days is a pixel-art sandbox where a magical companion spirit does most of the physical labor on command, and its heavily international review sample is largely glowing about the resulting breadth of farming, building, and taming systems, while repeatedly flagging an almost nonexistent tutorial and at least one serious save-loss bug.
7 / 10
A Fifty-Sixth Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review Floors of Fate launched on Steam on 28 August 2026 from solo developer EmreSezer, and at the time of writing it has zero us
7 / 10
A text-based football world generator where you don't pick a lineup or call a tactic — you only approve or reject the transfers clubs propose, then watch decades of invented history unfold. A genuinely different angle on football management, launched with a five-review Steam page and some sharp early complaints about its own core promise.
7 / 10
Playing the Most Contested Figure in Modern Korean History For the Fatherland: Chronicle of Park Chung-hee is a solo-developed political and economic simulation that drops you into
7 / 10
Read review of For the Fatherland: Chronicle of Park Chung-hee Review
A Free, Five-Minute Fable About A Fish, A Bottle, And A Desert For the Fish in the Bottle, from developer and publisher makina game, released free on Steam on June 1, 2026. It'
7 / 10
A Discovery Queue Sleeper Hit Fortifend snuck onto Steam on March 9, 2026, with no marketing push and, for its first few weeks, almost no reviews at all, and a striking number of t
7 / 10
