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3102 games released in 2026 and reviewed here, best first.
3102 reviews
GutterPunk is a free, student-made speedrunning FPS about wall-running through a brutalist dystopia, and its Mostly Positive review sample finds genuine movement-based fun undercut by crashes, missing key rebinding, and other rough technical edges typical of an unpolished passion project.
6.5 / 10
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A Forty-Sixth Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review Half Hour RPG launched on Steam on 11 September 2026 as a full release for Windows, and at the time of writing has zero use
6.5 / 10
A short, atmospheric point-and-click visual novel from solo artist-developer lvl374, casting players as a new employee at an information center that processes souls before they move on, Very Positive across 84 English reviews for its striking 1-bit art and contemplative writing about life and death — with a widely repeated complaint that its roughly 30-to-60-minute runtime leaves the story feeling like a brief exhibition rather than a full experience.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed tower defense game from 25 Crimson pitting armies of hamsters against cheese monsters, drawing a tiny but unusually substantive two-review English sample that credits its ambitious, synergy-driven systems and charming presentation while flagging a fair, corroborated complaint about pacing and balance.
6.5 / 10
The Dealer returns, and this time he's dealing cards over a bullet heaven. The card layer is the most interesting thing in the genre right now; the horde layer underneath it hasn't worked out how to make you feel powerful yet — and the deckbuilding in its own tagline is still on the roadmap.
6.5 / 10
A short, first-person psychological horror game from Ghostcase (Dread Flats, Dread Neighbor) about a mother searching a crisis-ridden, Chinese-folklore-inspired hospital for her missing daughter — praised for fair chase sequences, strong creature design and sound, and a surprisingly emotional story, but held back by an under-an-hour runtime and some unpolished scripted sequences.
6.5 / 10
Skills Fire When a Heartbeat Passes Through Them Heart Sequence is a solo-developed roguelike deckbuilder built around a genuinely distinctive central conceit: skills don't jus
6.5 / 10
A Journey to the West Horde-Survivor for Two Dollars Heavenly Battle is a $1.99 roguelite horde-survivor that swaps the genre's usual generic fantasy dressing for a specific, w
6.5 / 10
A tiny, solo-developed desktop-pet idle game about a duck that eats grass, lays eggs, and earns coins on a floating island — Positive across 26 reviews for its charm and background-companion appeal, with quick post-launch support but a couple of nagging quality-of-life bugs.
6.5 / 10
A relaxed, Papers Please-inspired book-lending simulator set in a steampunk Victorian university, following new librarian Rainn Echo across six weeks of checking books in and out while an unfolding mystery slowly reveals itself in hidden notes and morning news snippets, held back by a genuinely rough set of interface and stability complaints.
6.5 / 10
An Early Access tactical auto-battler where you train a rookie hero, choose how to handle captured villains, and manage a city-wide Fear meter that ends your run if it maxes out, drawing an early Positive reception for its tight combat loop and choice-driven boss encounters, tempered by reports of thin build variety and a short current content window.
6.5 / 10
The latest yearly entry in a devoted cross-platform hockey GM sim series, praised by longtime fans for fast simulation speed, deep customisation options and a responsive solo developer, undercut by real launch bugs including broken save progression and startup hangs for some players, plus honest acknowledgment from hardcore genre veterans that its strategic depth sits below dedicated PC-only rivals.
6.5 / 10
A delightfully chaotic physics-based co-op platformer built for laughing at your own failures, hampered at launch by lobby and voice-chat bugs that several reviewers say kept them from even starting a match, though a fast post-launch patch cadence has since addressed some of the biggest complaints.
6.5 / 10
A jumpscare wrapped in a clicker "Horripilant" casts the player as an amnesiac knight clawing through a forsaken dungeon, mixing point-and-click horror puzzling with idle
6.5 / 10
A viral, absurdist puzzle game about distorting pictures of horses with magnifying glasses turns out to hide a genuinely well-built matching puzzle under the memes, though a short campaign, minor interface friction, and divisive built-in jumpscares hold it back.
6.5 / 10
Horse Manager is a $2.99 solo-developed management sim from André Cerqueira that asks a simple question: what if you ran a horse racing stable, rendered entirely in charming retro
6.5 / 10
The third entry in Milestone's Hot Wheels racing series trades the track-based format of Unleashed 1 and 2 for four open-world islands, earning a Mostly Positive launch reception for its arcade handling, nostalgic Acceleracers and Highway 35 car roster and soundtrack, tempered by honest reviewer complaints about a heavier post-engine-switch feel, aggressive DLC monetisation, and real launch-week technical bugs.
6.5 / 10
A bio-cyberpunk top-down hero shooter from Altergaze, six years in the making, blending a single-player story campaign with 5v5 online multiplayer across a roster of mutant heroes, Positive across 23 English reviews for its striking character design and fast-paced combat — with a widely repeated complaint that combat felt janky and imprecise at launch, since substantially addressed by the developer's own patches.
6.5 / 10
A Fishing Game That Forgot It Was a Fishing Game How to Fish promises exactly what the title says, and then spends the rest of its runtime finding ways to break that promise in the
6.5 / 10
A Sentient Sausage Takes Over Your Desktop How to Grow Your Sausage is exactly as tongue-in-cheek as its title suggests: a small desktop widget-game where a sentient sausage hijack
6.5 / 10
A Text-Only World of Darkness Novel Set in Hollywood Hunter: The Reckoning — Day For Night is an entirely text-based interactive novel by Josh Labelle, published under Choice of Ga
6.5 / 10
A co-op horror-comedy about hauling wrong-looking wildlife through a national park that shouldn't exist, held back from the genre's top table by a punishment mechanic that erases a night's work for reasons the player often can't see coming.
6.5 / 10
A well-liked, honestly-scoped sequel where you pilot an experimental helicopter against battleship fleets — competent and satisfying for its advertised five hours, with one reported save issue this review couldn't independently confirm.
6.5 / 10
A budget dark-fantasy clicker where you tap cultists back into worshipers with a cross, told across twelve moody pixel-art areas — handsome and short enough not to overstay its welcome, but dogged by accusations that its loop is a close reskin of another incremental.
6.5 / 10
