A Girl A Rain Review
A Door Opens Onto an Endless Rainstorm A Girl A Rain opens its pitch with a line that reads more like a thesis statement than store-page copy: "We always misunderstand the wor
7 / 10
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A Little Perspective Review
A Sokoban Game That Rewrites The Rules Of What You Can See A Little Perspective, a solo project from developer Tad Cordle, released on Steam on April 3, 2026, at $14.99. It's a
8.5 / 10
Aquapark Tycoon Review
RollerCoaster Tycoon, But Wet Aquapark Tycoon is a $22.99 waterpark-building sim from developer Boxelware, the studio behind the space sandbox Avorion, released into Early Access o
7 / 10
Areteion Review
A 4X Card Game That Plays Like a Strategy Game First Areteion launched July 13, 2026, the solo-developed work of "juxtapositioned," and its pitch is unusually specific ab
7 / 10
AstroScaper Review
A Barren Rock, Turned Into a Puzzle AstroScaper launched August 27, 2026 from two-person Swedish studio Fun Fortress, and it belongs to a small but well-loved lineage of "zen
7.5 / 10
Beatdown City Survivors Review
Zombies, Cops, and a City That Fights Back Beatdown City Survivors released on Steam on June 10, 2026 from NuChallenger, a follow-up to the developer's beat-'em-up RPG Trea
8 / 10
Billgard Review
You Are The Cue Ball Now Billgard is a $3.99 physics-based party brawler from solo developer Triflgard, released on Steam on May 4, 2026 after a public demo period that ran from Fe
7 / 10
bonitāka's aquarium of medusae Review
A Birthday Gift, Shared With Everyone Some games are built to fill a market gap. bonitāka's aquarium of medusae was built as a gift the developer gave themselves for turning 22
7.5 / 10
Breathedge 2 Review
A Cracked Train, a Chicken, and a Corporation That Never Stops Selling You Things Breathedge 2 left Early Access limbo and launched into it properly on August 31, 2026 from RedRuin
7 / 10
Chill Drive Together Review
A Drive With No Destination, No Timer, No Score Chill Drive Together commits fully to a premise most driving games treat as a side mode at best: one road, no finish line, nothing t
7 / 10
Chronos Trap in Time Review
Zeus Needs A Mech Pilot, And Only You Will Do Chronos Trap in Time is a $12.99 vertical shoot-em-up roguelite from Swedish studio SCS Ogonvard AB, released clean on Steam on March
8 / 10
CompaDesk Review
A Pet That Lives In The Corner Of Your Screen CompaDesk, released September 1, 2026 by solo developer and publisher tekler, is a $4.99 desktop companion that sits quietly in the co
7.5 / 10
Cook with Card Review
A Kitchen Made of Cards Cook with Card takes the increasingly popular "everything is a physical card" genre, the one that Stacklands helped popularize, and points it squa
7 / 10
Cozy Country Review
Paint a Landscape, Then Walk Around Inside It Cozy Country's pitch is disarmingly simple: paint forests, place rivers, build a village, scatter some animals, then step out of t
7 / 10
CPU Invaders - Aim Hero Review
Your Desktop Is The Arena Now CPU Invaders - Aim Hero, released January 30, 2026 by Microblast Games as a spiritual sequel to the studio's earlier Steam Awards-nominated overla
7.5 / 10
Cyberscape Review
A Love Letter to Zero Tolerance Cyberscape entered Early Access March 23, 2026 from AtomicTorch Studio, the small team previously known for the survival-crafting game Cyrofall, bef
7.5 / 10
DAMON and BABY Review
A Fighting-Game Studio's Detour Into Isometric Action-Adventure DAMON and BABY, from Arc System Works, the studio best known for Guilty Gear and BlazBlue, released on Steam on
7 / 10
DarkStone Restoration Review
The Original Creator Comes Back for His Own Game DarkStone Restoration entered Early Access on June 24, 2026, and its premise is almost unheard of in the remaster business: it isn&
7 / 10
Deadzoned Review
A Nanite Plague, A Turn-Based Roguelike, And A Developer With A Track Record Deadzoned entered Early Access on September 7, 2026 for $4.99, a sci-fi turn-based roguelike from caiys
7.5 / 10
Detective INNA DUKE Review
A Missing Hamster, a Rainy City, and a Lot of Jokes Detective INNA DUKE launched June 10, 2026 from HmarkaTeam, a small studio putting its own comedic spin on the noir detective vi
7.5 / 10
Dicement Review
A Cheap, Small Sokoban Variant Built Around Pushing Dice Instead Of Boxes Dicement, developed and published by solo studio Voidtick, released on Steam on March 10, 2026, at $2.99.
7 / 10
DIMENGUARD Review
Pac-Man Never Had A Curse-And-Blessing System DIMENGUARD is a $4.99 solo project from developer RayMag that takes an unusually direct approach to genre-blending: it's a rogueli
7.5 / 10
Divider Dave Review
Why Be Alone When You Can Be By Yourself Divider Dave opens on its title character waking up in a pod with exactly one skill and no memory of how he got it: he can copy himself. Th
7 / 10
Don't Fall Review
A Summit, A Physics Body, And Eleven Reasons To Believe The Title Don't Fall is a physics-based 3D platformer from solo studio Shine 3D, released May 21, 2026 for $6.99, in whi
7.5 / 10