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Games released in 2026

3120 games released in 2026 and reviewed here, best first.

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Zoo Wars

A stripped-to-the-studs lane-battler where zoo animals replace troop cards, trading the genre's usual bloat for two-minute, six-card skirmishes.

6 / 10

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Aurora Hills: Chapter 2

Aurora Hills: Chapter 2 is a $7.99 atmospheric point-and-click mystery adventure from developer and publisher NovaSoft Interactive Ltd., continuing park ranger Ethan Hill's investigation into a wave of disappearances, and this review's large, Overwhelmingly Positive sample praises its haunting 1980s atmosphere while noting real complaints about tedious backtracking and a story that ends on a cliffhanger requiring a future chapter.

5.9 / 10

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Chicken Miner

A scrappy incremental about bonking chickens for cash and letting them mine minerals for you, with more mechanical depth than its price tag suggests.

5.9 / 10

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Desktop Raid

Desktop Raid pitches itself as a piece of software you leave running in the corner of your screen while you do something else, which is a fair description of what it actually is. A

5.9 / 10

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Endless Immortal Path

A Four-Review Game, So This Leans on the Store Page and Its Own Text Endless Immortal Path launched on 11 September 2026 from solo-attributed Chinese developer and publisher Fengsh

5.9 / 10

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Enthaur : Lost in Slumber

Enthaur is a FREE, first-person body-horror vertical slice from student studio PerWeak Studio, published by IIM Digital School, casting players as a homunculus climbing through the decaying flesh of a dying creature, and this review's small, unanimously Positive sample found it a genuinely atmospheric, if very short, horror experience.

5.9 / 10

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Fireboy & Watergirl 3: The Ice Temple Review: The Series' Toughest, Buggiest Entry Yet

Oslo Albet's official Steam port of the third flash-era co-op classic adds a slippery, momentum-based ice twist that reviewers find genuinely harder and more satisfying, but this entry is also the first in the series to draw repeated reports of crash bugs.

5.9 / 10

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Forage Wizard

A cozy click-and-craft alchemy sim with a genuinely satisfying early game, whose automation system, meant to be the whole point, falls apart in the back half, leaving both fans and critics grinding through the same manual resource-clicking they thought they'd left behind.

5.9 / 10

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Gaia Maker

Gaia Maker is a free-to-play planetary terraforming sandbox built on real physics and geology, and this review's Positive sample (12 of 13 reviews) reads it as an affectionate, well-crafted homage to 1990's SimEarth rather than a genuinely new take on the genre, undercut by a balance curve several reviewers found too forgiving once mastered.

5.9 / 10

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Harvest Cafe Review: A Charming Stardew-Style Opening That Reviewers Say Thins Out Fast

A farming-and-restaurant sim that blends Stardew Valley-style crop growing with a cook-and-serve business layer, drawing warm praise for its opening hours and cruelty-free animal husbandry, while one detailed critical review argues the content and polish drop off sharply once the tutorial ends.

5.9 / 10

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Impossible Pizza Delivery

Impossible Pizza Delivery is a $4.99 solo-developed physics rage-platformer from Blackjard Games that tasks players with driving and jumping a pizza-delivery vehicle across three obstacle-strewn, sheep-infested locations, and this review's small, mostly Positive sample praises its voice acting and addictive, forgiving-yet-brutal difficulty range while flagging real checkpoint frustration.

5.9 / 10

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Magic Forge Tycoon Review: A Clever Arms-Dealer Premise That Runs Out of Runs

A weapon-crafting tycoon that casts the player as an arms dealer fuelling wars between fantasy kingdoms, praised by reviewers for a genuinely interesting political hook but repeatedly criticised for a short, repetitive loop that mostly solves itself after one playthrough.

5.9 / 10

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Moo Who? Review

A Voice-Mimicry Hide-and-Seek Party Game Moo Who? is a small-lobby party game built around a genuinely unusual hook: hidden players disguised as farm animals have to make convincin

5.9 / 10

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MotoGP™26

The official 2026 MotoGP season brings a genuinely reworked, rider-weight-driven handling model that many returning players call a real step forward, but it's undercut by a widely reported, aggressive AI that rams and divebombs its way through races, plus real bugs and a familiar 'more of the same' fatigue.

5.9 / 10

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Myth of Empires: Throne Review: A Deep Free Sandbox Undercut by Pay-to-Win

Myth of Empires: Throne is a free-to-play seasonal survival sandbox with a genuinely deep crafting, taming, and base-building loop, but persistent server instability and an unmistakable pay-to-win edge in PvP have left the reception split down the middle.

5.9 / 10

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Partyforge Idle

A Day-One Mixed Score, Split Between an Enthusiastic Early Fanbase and Launch-Day Server Trouble Partyforge Idle launched on Steam on 20 September 2026 from developer SDY, and at t

5.9 / 10

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Rite or Ruin Review: A Classic Bluffing Game, Dressed Up in Eldritch Robes

Potato Puppy's online party card game reskins a familiar bluffing-and-wagering format with cultists, eldritch gods, and genuinely creepy character art -- reviewers love playing it with friends, though the small, entirely positive review sample and a missing controller option are worth knowing about before buying.

5.9 / 10

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