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3120 games released in 2026 and reviewed here, best first.
3120 reviews
A dark-fantasy extraction ARPG with genuinely good third-person combat, undercut at launch by a "solo or trio" pitch that turns out to mean trio, missing regional servers, and a cash shop players keep calling scummy in the same reviews that praise the fighting.
6 / 10
MMO98 is a $6.99 incremental game about running a retro MMO development studio from a nostalgic Windows 98-style desktop, and while its aesthetic and premise have won real fans, an overwhelming share of reviewers, across nearly every language on Steam, say the game runs out of meaningful content within a few hours.
6 / 10
Read review of MMO98 Review: A Great Aesthetic Running Out of Content Fast
A precision platformer from Reventure developer Pixelatto built around discovering a hidden, 100-move moveset using only a D-pad and two buttons, Mixed across 95 English reviews for its wildly original concept, with a widely repeated, serious complaint that its controls are so overloaded they constantly trigger moves players never intended.
6 / 10
An idle/incremental fantasy RPG from the makers of Tower Walker, Mostly Positive across 86 reviews for a satisfying crafting loop and gorgeous art — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint that it plays as a near-reskin of its predecessor with too little genuine innovation, compounded by a well-corroborated retroactive power-nerf incident, though this review found real, verifiable evidence of an extraordinarily active post-launch update cadence that has since added genuine new endgame content.
6 / 10
Myosotis is a free 20,000-word visual novel from Try_Froggery and Fangsoft in which a murdered woman haunts her ex-boyfriend for answers, and this review's small Positive sample praises striking atmosphere and genuinely well-received writing, tempered by one detailed, unverified accusation that the story's text was generated by AI and left undisclosed.
6 / 10
SUPERLINK's free idle RPG lives in a tiny transparent window pinned to a corner of your desktop, where five heroes fight through 200 stages while you work. The premise is genuinely clever and the crafting systems run deep, but the game is barely a month old, its written review count is still too small to read as a verdict, and its own achievement data hints at a difficulty wall most players never get past.
6 / 10
A small, calm mining sim about drilling deeper for a couple of evenings — pleasant while it lasts, and honest about how little it's asking of your time.
6 / 10
A desktop pet, not a game in any conventional sense — Wukong or Amei sit on your screen, react to your typing and clicking, and let you draw their outfits by hand. Reviewed two days after launch, with almost no review corpus yet to judge it by.
6 / 10
A short, WarioWare-style collection of arcade mini-games set inside animated Ottoman miniature art, built by a Turkish studio around a specific and rarely-used cultural setting — near-unanimously praised by its small, almost entirely Turkish-language review sample for its hand-drawn visuals and music, but consistently criticized as too short and too shallow to be more than a brief, charming curiosity.
6 / 10
A Very Small, Very Cute Chore Neko Neko Shop is a $4.99 cozy organizing sim from solo-flavored studio KOZYEZ, released on Steam on September 15, 2026 with no prior demo or Early Ac
6 / 10
A third-person sci-fi horde shooter that pairs Vampire Survivors-scale enemy counts with build-your-own ARPG crafting, launched into Early Access with a specific roadmap, an honest price and zero independent track record to check any of it against.
6 / 10
Neuro Clicker is a $2.99 idle clicker built around a single evolving neuron and a wry, paperclip-narrated sci-fi framing, and while its tiny 3-review sample offers little critical depth, the developer's own rapid post-launch patch history and unusually strong accessibility support fill in a picture of a small, actively tended project rather than an abandoned shovelware clicker.
6 / 10
A Pocketpair-published metroidvania-roguelite hybrid about a cursed witch's hat that can possess fallen enemies earns a Mostly Positive Steam debut for its charm and combat feel, while a large share of its review sample argues it never fully commits to either half of its genre mashup.
6 / 10
A free, persistent sci-fi 4X space MMO that blends Ogame-style empire management with real-time fleet combat and an unusually responsive solo developer, undermined by a battle system reviewers describe as brutally attacker-favoured and an alliance meta that leaves solo players exposed.
6 / 10
Nightmare Class Project is a $6.99 solo-developed adventure from Strapatrocious that borrows the shape of the old licensed Harry Potter games and reworks it into something consider
6 / 10
A Rainy Night, a Sushi Counter, and a Store That Never Closes on Pressure Night Rolls Cozy Store puts players behind the counter of a small late-night convenience store, prepping f
6 / 10
A free, ambitious three-mode RTS platform spanning arcade territory conquest, grand-strategy planetary warfare, and a classic RTS mode, generous and full of potential but visibly held back by widespread lag, harsh AI, and a strong resemblance to Openfront.io.
6 / 10
A Familiar Premise, Told Through an Empty House No Place Like Home puts you in the shoes of a grieving widower returning to the childhood home he abandoned after his wife's dea
6 / 10
A Cursed Nap for the Whole Party Not Sleep Hero is a $5.99 turn-based strategy RPG built around a simple, mildly absurd premise: the game's Hero and their companions get pulled
6 / 10
Wake Up, Keep Moving, Don't Overthink It Noxcode is a solo-developer movement game with a premise so minimal it barely needs a story: wake up at the bottom of a procedurally ge
6 / 10
An ambitious co-op hybrid of open-world survival, base building, and extraction-shooter looting, held back at launch by rough optimization and instance balance that undercut a genuinely interesting core idea.
6 / 10
A co-op roguelite boss-rush built around MMO-raid-style encounters, whose genuinely striking art, music, and boss design keep pulling reviewers back in even as pacing, balance, and a rough launch state hold it back from being an easy recommendation.
6 / 10
A cozy sandbox farming and creature-befriending game built entirely from hand-sculpted clay artwork scanned into 3D, praised as one of the year's most charming Early Access debuts, but held back by unexplained systems, a punishing tiny inventory, and an unbalanced grind for its earliest currency.
6 / 10
A Tidying Spin-Off From the Old Market Simulator Team Old Market Restored launched September 16, 2026 from Alcedo Games, published alongside Gamersky Games, taking the shelves and
6 / 10
