The Return
A Forty-Second Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review The Return entered Early Access on Steam on 15 September 2026 with content through what the store page calls "Chapter
6.5 / 10
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The Severed Gods
A turn-based roguelite that reviewers keep describing the same way — "Octopath Traveler meets Slay the Spire" — with a genuinely distinctive height-based combat system underneath. Two days into Early Access it's fighting real launch bugs, but few Early Access debuts respond to their players this fast or this openly.
6.5 / 10
The Simen Rumors
A Chinese-developed visual novel anthology of fourteen short urban-legend horror stories, praised by a large, thoughtful review sample for genuinely unsettling early chapters and a rewarding interconnected twist revealed through its afterword, undercut by a widely and specifically repeated complaint that quality declines sharply in its back half, culminating in a lengthy, poorly-received locked-room mystery finale that many reviewers say the author couldn't satisfyingly resolve.
6.5 / 10
The Spirit of Twelve Review
A Twenty-Second Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review The Spirit of Twelve released on Steam on 10 August 2026 and has zero user reviews at the time of writing, extending this
6.5 / 10
The Tragedy at Deer Creek
A moody, well-acted point-and-click mystery about a photographer investigating an abandoned camp, praised for its bleak atmosphere, music, and fair puzzle design by most reviewers, but criticized by a substantial minority for a short runtime, high price, and an ending that solves its central mystery through unearned supernatural exposition rather than player deduction.
6.5 / 10
The Unfamiliars
A short, atmospheric first-person horror sim from a solo developer with an established following, whose genuinely effective scares and Night of the Living Dead homage were nearly undercut by real launch bugs — since addressed by nine patches in the game's first week alone.
6.5 / 10
THE WELL IS NOT EMPTY
A genuinely creepy, PS1-styled first-person horror game with distinctive monsters and excellent sound design that reviewers widely praise for atmosphere over jumpscares, undercut by a short two-to-three-hour runtime, a story that loses focus toward its end, and a specific, independently-reported bug where enemies can spot and kill players through walls.
6.5 / 10
The Wilds of Dacrima: Field Notes from a Poorly Supervised Alchemist and his Unruly Clockwork Companion
A 3D puzzle-platform adventure from Antler Studios following an alchemist and a clockwork companion through a colourful open world, unanimously positive across a small English review sample for its charm and satisfying puzzles, with fair, widely repeated complaints about game-breaking bugs and softlocks.
6.5 / 10
The Wraith Train: Illusory Domain Review
A Journalist, a Night Train, and a Realm Built From the Dead's Regrets The Wraith Train: Illusory Domain casts the player as journalist Li Yuanzhe, who boards the overnight exp
6.5 / 10
They Left Us Here
A short sci-fi survival horror set on an abandoned space station, the solo-developer debut from SCH GAMING, Positive across 40 reviews for genuinely atmospheric sound design and worldbuilding — undercut by real, apparently unpatched performance issues and a repeated key-hunt design complaint.
6.5 / 10
They Not Fae!
A short solo-developed horror game from Malerouille in which a teenager tracks her missing cat through a deserted office building, playing a tense game of hide-and-seek with monsters that hunt by sound and sight, drawing a small but consistently positive English review sample that praises its atmosphere and clever phone-based mechanics while flagging a shaky difficulty balance and a missing way to revisit in-game messages.
6.5 / 10
They See You
They See You sends a computer repair technician into a remote village overrun by a strange, hard-to-categorize digital horror, and its unusually international review sample loves the concept and its tense atmosphere while repeatedly flagging launch-week bugs and a total lack of performance or accessibility options.
6.5 / 10
Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists
A tactical narrative gamebook from A Sharp, the designers of King of Dragon Pass and Six Ages, sending a randomly-generated crew of heisters on short, choice-driven raids into hell, earning a Very Positive launch reception for its writing and art, tempered by honest reviewer complaints about heavy randomness, a vaguely-worded trait system, and thin strategic depth.
6.5 / 10
Thrifty Business
Spellgarden Games follows Sticky Business with a charming, wildly popular Unpacking-style thrift store decorator, but a review sample that's overwhelmingly warm still agrees the content runs out fast and the actual "business" side barely exists.
6.5 / 10
Tidying Simulator Review
A Whole House, Not Just A Shelf Tidying Simulator, released September 3, 2026 from solo-flavored developer and publisher GamJangJangi, takes the small, satisfying genre of "pu
6.5 / 10
Till Midnight
A free, tense seven-minute management simulation set aboard a Cold War-era nuclear missile submarine gripped by a communications failure, praised for its art, voice acting, and historical inspiration but hampered by an overwhelming tutorial dump and very little runtime.
6.5 / 10
TOHOTOPIA Review
Battle of Polytopia, Reskinned With the Cast of Touhou Project TOHOTOPIA's pitch is almost embarrassingly simple to state and, going by 781 Steam reviews at a 97% positive rate
6.5 / 10
Tomb of Chacal
A budget first-person stealth horror game that drops a lone archaeologist into a Mayan tomb full of patrolling "Guardians," built on a demo that spent over a year gathering feedback before the ten-level full release launched with no user reviews yet to check it against.
6.5 / 10
TONK Review
A One-Person World of Tanks Alternative TONK entered Early Access on July 23, 2026, from solo developer YourAverageOtter, who reviews note took over the project alone after a co-de
6.5 / 10
To Raise a King
A free, fully voice-acted medieval choose-your-own-path strategy game built by a solo developer working with AI tools at every layer of production, backed at launch by a small but entirely positive review sample praising its replayability and choice-driven storytelling.
6.5 / 10
Trail & Error
A chaotic Oregon Trail-inspired co-op survival game for up to eight players, praised for its physics-driven comedy and genuine hilarity with friends, but held back in its Early Access debut by wagon-physics bugs that can end a run through no fault of the player and only a couple hours of content per playthrough.
6.5 / 10
Turing Testimony Review
Wake Up With No Memory, Then Talk Your Way Through a Murder Every Week Turing Testimony opens on a genre-familiar setup: the player wakes up in an unfamiliar campus with fragmented
6.5 / 10
Turnbound
A stylish inventory-battler splices Backpack Battles-style tile management with an asynchronous PvP coin-flip that too often decides fights before the shopping even starts.
6.5 / 10
Typers Combat
Typers Combat is a $5.99 typing-as-combat game from developer Esoteric Games where every keystroke lands a hit, and this review's full 4-review sample is unanimously positive, praising an ELO-ranked PvP system backed by a ghost-replay feature and a genuinely sustained four-month run of free content updates.
6.5 / 10