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3120 games released in 2026 and reviewed here, best first.
3120 reviews
LEAVES 3 is the first fully 3D entry in ZAR 21's surreal puzzle series, and its Mostly Positive review sample loves the strange, handcrafted atmosphere and harder puzzles almost as much as it resents the clunky new mouse-drag controls and progress-blocking bugs, several of which persist in reviews posted months after the developer's active patch cycle began.
6 / 10
A cheap, genuinely ambitious idle RPG that grafts a Path of Exile-style sprawling skill tree onto auto-battling incremental progression — undercut by translation quality bad enough that even native Chinese-speaking players describe needing to "translate Chinese into Chinese," erratic balance, and a build-nerfing pattern that frustrates players in a game with no PvP to justify it.
6 / 10
A genuinely successful fusion of Arkham-style combat and open-world Gotham with LEGO charm, widely praised for its story and combat, undermined by the removal of classic LEGO game structure, cosmetics locked behind HBO Max subscriptions and physical toy purchases, a shorter advertised character roster than promised, and real performance problems in its open world.
6 / 10
A short, Japanese-language narrative adventure about cooking for a hard-drinking senpai over eight strange summer nights, earning a Mostly Positive reception for its nostalgic, low-stakes atmosphere while reviewers are sharply divided over its disclosed use of generative AI in its art and music.
6 / 10
A genuinely chaotic, generous co-op roguelite drawing frequent favourable comparisons to Risk of Rain 2, undermined by a specific, widely corroborated complaint that the game barely functions solo or in small groups, an itemisation system multiple reviewers call boring, and a documented balance patch that removed a mechanic reviewers say was one of the game's strongest points.
6 / 10
"Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!" Lost In Space - The First Adventure is a 3D point-and-click adventure built entirely around that one piece of pop-culture furniture — a l
6 / 10
A wiki-browsing detective game set in a fictional Eastern European town earns praise for its atmosphere and premise, but its own review sample is remarkably consistent that the mystery itself is too small and too easy, with a second half that trades deduction for guesswork.
6 / 10
An Early Access survival crafting game about leading a small tribe from mud huts to a Mesopotamian civilization complete with a great Ziggurat, drawing a Mostly Positive early reception for its distinctive Bronze Age setting and genuine sense of progression, tempered by broken co-op, laggy performance and content that a determined player can already exhaust in a single day.
6 / 10
A solo-developed post-apocalyptic RTS blending a global map-painter structure with They Are Billions-style horde defense and Factorio-style production chains, genuinely praised for its ambitious hybrid concept, held back by real endgame performance problems, unit-tracking bugs, unclear resource management at scale, and a generative-AI disclosure several buyers say they missed before purchasing.
6 / 10
From Early Access Demo To A Bumpy 1.0 Mall Rivals, from developer Creedon Games, first launched into Steam Early Access on March 24, 2026, after a well-attended February demo durin
6 / 10
A Warring States Answer to Manor Lords, Built on the Same Foundation Mandate Order, developed and published by the Chinese studio Digital Sky, launched into Steam Early Access on A
6 / 10
A Fears to Fathom-Style Debut for $2.49 Maple Ridge launched June 23, 2026, the debut release from solo developer Kyoto, and it wears its influences openly: a first-person, found-f
6 / 10
A retro-desktop incremental where you grow a Brooklyn bodega into a global chain through loans, tax bills and an IPO prestige loop. The 90s operating-system framing is doing more work than the economy underneath it, and five days of Steam achievement data already shows where players stop.
6 / 10
A genuinely strong lineup of 1990s Marvel arcade and console classics, headlined by an excellent official X-Men Arcade release, undercut by a rocky online launch and several games that haven't aged nearly as well as the highlights.
6 / 10
An honest, unassuming match-3 puzzler wrapped in a self-aware isekai parody premise, unanimously but modestly praised across its small English and Russian review sample for clean mechanics and dark comic writing, held back by reviewers themselves acknowledging real mechanical familiarity and a difficulty curve several describe as too easy to lose.
6 / 10
A co-op survival horror from Absam Studios where players push a rickety cart through a monster-filled maze, Very Positive across a large English review sample for its creepy atmosphere and varied monster designs, with a fair, repeated complaint that shallow combat and a frustrating cart-based inventory undercut the fun.
6 / 10
A Seventeenth Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review Medieval - Embers of War 2 released on Steam on 3 September 2026 and currently has zero Steam user reviews, extending an un
6 / 10
A genuinely addictive medieval business sim filling a real gap in an underserved niche — horse breeding, training and trading layered over farming, blacksmithing and caravan management — held back by a 1.0 release that a large number of its own fans say still feels like early access, with specific UI and tutorial problems and an underwhelming ending.
6 / 10
A dark, text-driven cyberpunk-noir RPG about runners taking jobs nobody signs their name to in a dying corporate city, mixing deep character-building and dice-style skill checks with turn-based tactical combat — a small but detailed and unanimously positive solo-developer review sample that consistently praises its worldbuilding while just as consistently flagging AI-generated prose.
6 / 10
A cozy ramen-shop cooking sim from solo developer SilentKeep, drawing a small, uniformly positive English review sample praising its relaxing aesthetic and responsive developer, tempered by corroborated complaints about thin content that unlocks quickly and a billing bug fixed only after launch.
6 / 10
Mimikaki Collect is a small, ASMR-flavored ear-cleaning simulation from Japanese developer Studio Mimosa, tasking players with picking debris out of a disembodied ear for money and spending it on tools and room decorations, and this review's sample — thin but positive, and heavily corroborated by an unusually generous achievement curve — finds a strange, low-stakes little game that knows precisely what niche it's serving.
6 / 10
A dark fantasy idle incremental about a party of damned souls descending a bottomless pit, five days old and already sitting at Mixed — not because it's broken, but because more than half its most-helpful negative reviews say the same thing in different words: a well-presented, competently built game that most buyers can fully complete in an afternoon.
6 / 10
A loop-based analog-horror game where you replay the same corridor hunting for what changed, told through VHS static and a flashlight that keeps something in the dark at bay — released two days ago to exactly two user reviews, split one positive and one negative.
6 / 10
Missing Texture is a free-to-play, chapter-based psychological horror game from developer GaspachoWork where the house itself can't be trusted, and this review's full 19-review sample is genuinely Mixed, split between reviewers charmed by its fragmented, interlinked story structure and others reporting rendering glitches severe enough to draw accusations of AI-slop production.
6 / 10
