High Times Review
Six Years of Donuts and Baggage High Times launched on Steam on July 23, 2026, from solo-turned-small developer Yangyang Mobile, following a 2024 Kickstarter and a long public demo
8 / 10
The Wanderer reading room
Game Reviews
Idle RPGs, MMOs, browser games and mobile RPGs, taken apart properly. Every review carries a score out of 10, what the game does well, what it does badly, and the kind of player it is actually for.
Browse the reviews
Hold the Core Review
Trading Safety for Power, One Risk Card at a Time Hold the Core is a $5.99 roguelite tower defense game built around a single, sharp design idea: between cycles, you draft Risk Car
7.5 / 10
Jiaozi & Shopkeeper Review
A Dumpling Shop You Build With Your Own Two Hands Jiaozi & Shopkeeper puts you behind the counter of a small dumpling shop, walking you through the entire process — sourcing ingred
7.5 / 10
Kitty Burger Review
A Papa's Pizzeria Formula, Reheated With Cats Kitty Burger doesn't hide its inspiration: it's a time-management order-assembly game in the well-worn Papa's Pizzeria
7.5 / 10
Land of Ghosts
A short literary horror adventure from solo developer brutal_vap built in RPG Maker MV, Very Positive across a rich English review sample for its rain-soaked atmosphere and honest handling of depression and suicide, with fair complaints about an overused narrative trope, corny dialogue, and technical rough edges.
7 / 10
Mandate of Heaven: Dynasty Breakout Idle
Four thousand years of history, reduced to a self-playing brick-breaker Mandate of Heaven: Dynasty Breakout Idle takes a genuinely odd premise — an idle incremental built on brick-
7.1 / 10
MECH DISTRICT
A Forty-Fourth Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review MECH DISTRICT entered Early Access on Steam on 11 September 2026 and carries zero user reviews at the time of writing. Tha
7 / 10
Micro Mages Maker Review: A Tiny NES Platformer Grows a Level Editor
Micro Mages Maker bundles the beloved 2019 NES-style co-op platformer Micro Mages with a genuinely capable level editor that exports real .nes ROM files, and its small but enthusiastic review sample treats that feature as close to a minor miracle.
7.9 / 10
Read review of Micro Mages Maker Review: A Tiny NES Platformer Grows a Level Editor
Mini Murder Mysteries
A bite-sized deduction puzzler in the Obra Dinn/Golden Idol lineage, offering nine tightly-scoped evidence-board whodunits that most reviewers found smart and satisfying, held back by a very short two-hour runtime and a small handful of reviewers who wanted more room to actually investigate rather than just review pre-assembled evidence.
7 / 10
Mirklurk: Every Step Matters
An unforgiving, turn-based swamp survival RPG in the lineage of NEO Scavenger and Project Zomboid, praised for genuinely satisfying crafting and combat systems buried in a punishing loop, but held back in Early Access by rough UI friction, real bugs, and a survival grind that some found tedious rather than tense.
7 / 10
Missing The Point Review: A Fishing Sim That Isn't Really About Fishing
Burner Phone's hand-painted fishing game opens as a simple, cozy pastime and quietly becomes something far more introspective — branching, fully voice-acted, and built to be replayed, even if the replay loop itself needs work.
7.9 / 10
Read review of Missing The Point Review: A Fishing Sim That Isn't Really About Fishing
Moonlight Dialogue Review
A Mobile Otome, Transplanted to Steam Moonlight Dialogue is an otome visual novel built around a chat-and-phone-call interface, in which you play the "Finder" at a moonli
7 / 10
Mothiary Review
A Solo Developer's Idle Game About Real Moths Mothiary released on Steam on July 27, 2026, from solo developer and publisher Denver, for $5.99, following a free demo that had b
7.5 / 10
Murder at the Birch Tree Theater
Murder at the Birch Tree Theater is a solo-developed deduction game that borrows The Case of the Golden Idol's word-cloud puzzle interface wholesale and points it at a community theater full of quirky animal actors, and its review sample agrees it is charming, easier than its inspiration, and strongest everywhere except its convoluted final chapter.
7.5 / 10
Mysteries of Old Tokyo
A 90s-style deduction adventure from solo developer Bolerosoft, tasking players with researching a collection of 1930s Tokyo postcards, Positive across a small but unanimous English review sample for its genuine passion for Japanese history and distinctive Golden Idol-adjacent puzzle design, with a fair complaint that its central deduction mechanic stays too simple and repetitive for some experienced puzzle players.
7 / 10
Nanomon Virtual Pet Review
A Digimon-Flavoured Tamagotchi That Lives on Your Desktop Nanomon Virtual Pet's premise is a direct throwback: raise a tiny digital monster that lives permanently on the edge o
7 / 10
Omen Exitio: Hunger
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook that casts players as a journalist chasing a 1927 Brooklyn child-abduction case into cosmic horror, praised almost unanimously for its tailored writing, dense sound design, and mature handling of dread, with launch-window bugs that the developer patched quickly and a lack of failure states as its most notable structural gripe.
8.5 / 10
Oscillon Review
Defend the Core, Build the Beat Oscillon is a $4.99 arcade survival game from Test Stack Studio, built around a simple, hypnotic loop: a paddle-like arc rotates around a central co
7.5 / 10
Outpacked Review: Tetris Meets Sudoku, and the Sudoku Wins
Outpacked's grid-packing puzzles about fitting picky items into luggage without breaking their logical constraints are cozy, clever, and consistently praised, with only its occasional detour into fiddly jigsaw-piece interludes drawing real criticism.
7.8 / 10
Read review of Outpacked Review: Tetris Meets Sudoku, and the Sudoku Wins
Painting PC
A cozy painting sandbox wrapped in a light commission-and-reputation career loop, praised for its relaxing free-painting feel and genuinely satisfying progression, with small tool-control gaps and minor bugs the main things standing between it and a fully polished experience.
7.5 / 10
Petunia's Purgatory Review
A Farming Idler That Lives on Your Taskbar, Not Your Screen The desktop-companion idler has become a small, crowded genre since games like Rusty's Retirement proved that people
8 / 10
Please Proceed To The Dungeon Review
A Papers, Please Formula Reskinned as a Dungeon Gatekeeper Sim Please Proceed To The Dungeon takes the document-inspection formula popularised by Papers, Please and moves it to a f
7.5 / 10
POJANGMACHA Review: Running a Korean Street Food Stall, Drunks and All
This first-person management sim about running a late-night Korean street food cart earns real, sustained praise for its atmosphere and chaotic customer management, with a large Korean-majority review base that stayed engaged even through a content drought between updates.
7.2 / 10
Read review of POJANGMACHA Review: Running a Korean Street Food Stall, Drunks and All
Poolscape
A PS1-styled liminal-space walking simulator from CosmicArcade about exploring a surreal network of pool rooms, Very Positive across its English review sample for its retro aesthetic and sound design, with fair, widely repeated complaints about deliberately slow movement and thin replayability.
7 / 10