Donutal Review
Papers, Please, But The Papers Talk Back Donutal, released September 3, 2026 from developer and publisher Arc System Works, drops you into the year 2206 as a debt-saddled Chief Ext
7 / 10
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Papers, Please, But The Papers Talk Back Donutal, released September 3, 2026 from developer and publisher Arc System Works, drops you into the year 2206 as a debt-saddled Chief Ext
7 / 10
A Pirate, a Cutlass, a Cannon, and a Curse Draco and the Seven Scales casts players as a pirate captain chasing down a kraken's dark bargain, sailing a retro-styled overworld d
9 / 10
A Second Haunting from the Dread Flats Team Dread Neighbor launched May 7, 2026 from Ghostcase, the small studio behind the earlier hit Dread Flats, published under the Erabit labe
7 / 10
A Roguelike Deckbuilder About Dreams, Memories, And The Nightmare That Wants Your Deck Dreamcards, developed by Soneka Games and published by Vsoo Games and Soneka Games, released
8.5 / 10
A Kitten-Rescue Horror From the Last Half of Darkness Studio Edge Of Evil, released August 31, 2026 by WRF Studios, opens with a premise that's equal parts silly and grim: your
7 / 10
A Robot-Cowboy Co-Op Shooter That Became an Overnight Phenomenon Far Far West entered Early Access on April 28, 2026 from eight-person Spanish studio Evil Raptor, and within days i
7.5 / 10
A Pilgrimage That Never Quite Arrives Farther West borrows its setting from Journey to the West, one of the most adapted stories in Chinese fiction, and turns the pilgrim's end
7 / 10
Cloned Soldiers, Cursed Bunkers, and a Cat in a Helmet FEAR OF FAITH entered Early Access on August 21, 2026 from UNBREAKABLE ARK, and it wears its pitch right on the store page: a
7 / 10
A Noir Cat Detective in a Madlib Museum Mystery Feline Forensics and the Meowseum Mystery launched May 13, 2026 from solo Australian developer Nobody Crown, published under the Dev
7.5 / 10
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From a StarCraft II Mod to a Standalone Deckbuilder Flaregate Network has an unusually specific origin story that comes up again and again in its reviews: it's the standalone e
7 / 10
Battleship, Reimagined as a Race Against the Clock Fleet Hunters takes the pen-and-paper hidden-fleet formula nearly everyone grew up with and asks a simple question: what if nobod
7.5 / 10
A Free, Five-Minute Fable About A Fish, A Bottle, And A Desert For the Fish in the Bottle, from developer and publisher makina game, released free on Steam on June 1, 2026. It'
7 / 10
A Discovery Queue Sleeper Hit Fortifend snuck onto Steam on March 9, 2026, with no marketing push and, for its first few weeks, almost no reviews at all, and a striking number of t
7 / 10
Monopoly, But Somebody Finally Fixed The Pacing Fortune Avenue is a $6.99 3D board game from solo Belgian-flavored studio Binogure Studio that wears its inspiration on its sleeve:
7.5 / 10
A Sequel Built On A Beloved Free Predecessor Frostrain 2 is solo developer nemonan's follow-up to Frostrain, a free train-building roguelike deckbuilder that built a small, dev
7.5 / 10
A Flute, A Dark Place, And No Hand-Holding Fugaz, released July 7, 2026 by solo developer and publisher Spheanix, is a $5.99 knowledge-gated puzzle-adventure about a wanderer trapp
8 / 10
A Cuddlier Take On The Survivors Formula FuwaFuwa Survivors is a $5.99 3D survivors-like action roguelite from Japanese indie developer 開墾魂, released on Steam on March 5, 2026 foll
7 / 10
A Cozy Crafting Sandbox With a Surprising Bite Gathera left its Steam Next Fest demo behind and entered Early Access on August 31, 2026, from solo-flavored developer Catris Games.
7.5 / 10
Sushi Go Round Meets a Roguelike Deckbuilder Goblin Sushi entered Early Access on February 9, 2026 from the two-person studio Old Cake Factory, taking the fast-food time-management
7.5 / 10
A Fallen God Returns to a World That Outlawed His Name God of Chaos is the latest entry in Choice of Games' long-running catalogue of text-based interactive novels, and it hand
7 / 10
A Compass-Rose Automation Roguelike, Not Quite Like Anything Else Golemworks bolts a factory-automation puzzle onto a wave-defense roguelike, and the hinge between the two is a sin
7 / 10
A Solo Developer's Love Letter to Blasphemous and Bloodborne Gravethorn wears its influences openly, and almost every review says so before saying anything else. "This a 2
7.5 / 10
A Grid, Some Items, And A Slowly Unfolding Puzzle Gridbound, released September 5, 2026 by solo developer SkidaddleDev, is a $2.99 grid-based puzzle and resource strategy game buil
7.5 / 10
A Night Shift Gone Wrong, Ohio 1999 [HERROR] Gas Station Case launched August 11, 2026 as the debut episode of a planned horror anthology from the small studio simply called [HERRO
7 / 10