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3102 games released in 2026 and reviewed here, best first.
3102 reviews
A well-liked swarm-vs-dragon incremental whose loudest launch complaint — no reason to replay once you've beaten it — is already being answered by a publicly announced three-part roadmap, one part of which has already shipped.
6.5 / 10
A free, gorgeously presented short exploration adventure set at a magical academy, praised for its polished art, voice acting, and intriguing premise, but consistently described by its small review pool as ending abruptly, feeling more like a demo-scale taste of a larger story than a complete experience.
6.5 / 10
A zombie-themed idle tower-defense game from DeadLogics about a single automated cannon fending off endless undead waves while players chase ever-bigger upgrades, earning a Positive launch reception for its addictive, low-effort progression loop, tempered by honest reviewer complaints about missing day-one content, clumsy UI, and a mismatch between marketing and its actual genre.
6.5 / 10
A one-person incremental where you orbit a planet, drill it out from a laser turret, and work through four hazard-themed seasons to reach the core — a chill, cheap loop with a travel-time problem the developer never quite solves.
6.5 / 10
A NZ$7.99 mining incremental that puts a slot machine in the middle of its progression loop, then declines to say clearly what a bad spin actually costs you — a genuinely interesting hook, undercut by how little the game or its early reception have yet proven about it.
6.5 / 10
Our Metal Bowl is a tiny, self-published metroidbrainia about a four-eyed creature and a shivering robot companion restoring a dead ecosystem, and its near-unanimous, mostly-positive review sample praises genuinely clever meta-puzzles while flagging real jank in a combat system that pairs one-hit-kill stakes with inconsistent hitboxes.
6.5 / 10
A cozy survival game built around a moving train OxyRail (listed on Steam as Oxygen Train) is an Early Access open-world survival and base-building game from OxygenTech Limited, se
6.5 / 10
A roguelite god-simulator from BetaLab pitting pantheons including Greek, Egyptian, Norse, Mayan, Taoist, and Christian faiths against each other over a procedurally generated pixel world, Positive across a small sample of English reviews for its Populous-and-Black-and-White-flavoured depth, with a fair complaint about Chinese-only voice acting despite English text support.
6.5 / 10
A live-action interactive drama about a double-agent infiltrating a collaborationist spy agency in Japanese-occupied Shanghai in 1939, built on genuine branching and a day-cycle resource system, undercut by a narrative its own dedicated audience says leans far harder into romance than the espionage thriller it was sold as.
6.5 / 10
An Early Access post-apocalyptic co-op raiding game about joining a mutant-hunting detective agency in a world with a distinctly post-Soviet flavour, praised in its earliest, tiny review base for a genuinely addictive "one more raid" loop and a setting that actually shapes the mood rather than sitting in the background.
6.5 / 10
A Rhythm-Driven Pilgrimage Through Guilt and Faith Penance casts you as Elías, a monk sent on a pilgrimage to uncover the truth behind his mentor Severinus's death, purifying f
6.5 / 10
A cozy perfume-crafting sim where you grow your own ingredients, distil and blend essences, and sell bottled scents and candles to a parade of regular customers, with a satisfying core loop that outlasts its thin, RNG-heavy endgame.
6.5 / 10
A memory-match card grid wrapped around a genuine dungeon-crawling RPG — flip pairs to fight monsters, loot treasure and trigger traps, then take what survives back to a Guild hub to level a deck capped at eleven cards.
6.5 / 10
A nostalgic pixel-art action RPG that repeatedly earns comparisons to genre classics like Secret of Mana and Secrets of Grindea, undercut by widely and specifically criticised translation quality and a sharply divisive difficulty spike in its final dungeon.
6.5 / 10
A Sequel Buried Under Its Own Internet Legend Pih 2 arrived on Steam on August 4, 2026, two years after its predecessor Pih (also known as Big Pig) turned into a minor internet phe
6.5 / 10
A free, Monty Python-flavoured rage platformer in the Getting Over It tradition, whose review section is mostly a running joke — but the two reviewers who wrote anything substantive independently flag the same real problem lurking under the intentional cruelty.
6.5 / 10
A nostalgic, 16-bit-inspired hardcore platformer whose tactical boss fights and atmospheric pixel art win over most players, held back in its current Early Access state by control responsiveness issues and inconsistent sprite quality that several reviewers say make some deaths feel unearned.
6.5 / 10
A classic Plinko board -- aim, drop a chip, and watch physics decide which scoring slot it lands in, with bonus balls for hitting score thresholds.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developer Early Access roguelite deckbuilder that casts you as a corrupt politician climbing from community leader to world leader, with fast five-to-ten-minute campaigns, a satirical Bloc-management system and cross-run meta-progression — reviewed here on a genuinely tiny early sample, but every one of the reviews it does have recommends it.
6.5 / 10
A Neon-Soaked, City Pop-Flavored Pachinko Roguelite Pop! Pachinko is a roguelite from Pangolin Interactive and Robot Lion Games that reimagines the Japanese arcade staple as a run-
6.5 / 10
A genuinely novel desktop idle sim that swaps the usual farm or factory setting for a satirical academic research lab, delivering a relaxing, motivating background companion undercut by an overwhelming early learning curve, incomplete localization, and at least one reported save-loss bug.
6.5 / 10
Aussie Rules Meets NBA Jam, With a Deck of Cards Bolted On Pro Jank Footy is Powerbomb Games and Tinker Town's pixel-art arcade take on Australian Rules football, and it wears
6.5 / 10
A genuinely novel 1:1-scale, single-server Earth city builder whose real-time-gated, deliberately slow pace and price tag divide reviewers almost exactly down the middle, even as nearly everyone credits the solo developer's unusually active post-launch support.
6.5 / 10
A Deep Simulation for a Very Specific Fan Pro Strategy Football 2027 is the latest yearly entry in a football sandbox that has been quietly running for close to a decade, built by
6.5 / 10
