Out of Water Review
A Germanic Village, a Long Winter, and Something Wrong in the Woods Out of Water opens gently: Watarholt, a northern Germanic village, is finishing its harvest and settling in for
7.8 / 10
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Papabile Review
Rome, 1492: The Holy Father Is Dead, and So Is Your Chance at Mercy Papabile drops you into the papal conclave of 1492 as one of five papabili — candidates for the papacy — locked
7.3 / 10
PartyScape Chronicles Review
An Idle RuneScape, Except Everyone Else Is Logged In Too PartyScape Chronicles wears its inspiration on its sleeve. It's a free idle RPG that borrows its skill names, its numbe
7.3 / 10
Pegs X Stickers Review
Balatro Meets Peggle, And Everyone Noticed Pegs X Stickers, released August 14, 2026 from Mister Morris Games and Tyler Ray Games, wears its influences on its sleeve: launch a ball
7.5 / 10
Plum Road Tea Dream Review
An Autobiography Built Out of Seven Sanctuaries Plum Road Tea Dream is a semi-autobiographical walking sim from Samuel Baidoo, following S., a young queer game designer of color, a
7.5 / 10
Pumpkin Woods Review
A Witch, A Wagon, And A Forest That Doesn't Explain Itself Pumpkin Woods left Early Access development and launched into Steam's Early Access program proper on September 7,
7 / 10
Puppergeist Review
A Witch, a Lost Dog, and the Underworld Between Them Puppergeist casts the player as Claire, a witch descending into the Doggie Underworld in search of her own lost pet, meeting a
8.1 / 10
Rail Estate Review
Ticket To Ride Meets Power Grid, Live And Cutthroat Rail Estate is a $7.99 real-time multiplayer strategy game from solo developer Holonautic, released on Steam on July 16, 2026 af
7.5 / 10
REINCARNAGE Review
A Free Boomer Shooter With Teeth REINCARNAGE, released August 31, 2026 by solo developer and publisher CUPPAKILL, is a hand-drawn first-person arena shooter set in the same "X
7.5 / 10
Repterra Review
Base-Building Survival, Now With Teeth Repterra takes the wave-survival base-building formula popularized by They Are Billions and asks a simple question: what if the endless horde
7.5 / 10
Risen Blade Review
"Smash the Dudes," a Very Cheap Promise That Mostly Delivers Risen Blade launched July 20, 2026, from small studio Satk under publisher Karus, and its Steam page pitches
7 / 10
Rita Review
A Chicken, A Crossword, And A Grandmother Rita, a cozy puzzle-platformer from solo studio SporkTank, released in full on Steam on July 30, 2026 after nearly a year of demos, festiv
8.5 / 10
RUBATO Review
A Kickstarter-Backed Collect-A-Thon Four Years In The Making RUBATO, a mostly-solo project from developer dconn built with a small team of contributing artists, released on Steam o
8 / 10
Runner Gunner Review
Choose a Runner, Chase a Number Runner Gunner strips the endless-runner-shooter formula down to its most compulsive core loop: pick a character's appearance, pick a weapon colo
7 / 10
Samurai Conqueror Review
The Battlefield Is a Timeline, Not a Map Samurai Conqueror's pitch sounds like a joke until you actually see it running: instead of a map of Japan, the entire playing field is
7.5 / 10
Save My Scrap Review
An Android Repair Job That Turns Into Something Else Save My Scrap, released April 21, 2026 by developer Unio Anou and published by AMATA Games and Digital-Touch Co., Ltd., is a $1
8 / 10
Secrets of Temple Isle Review
A One-Man Love Letter to the N64 Era Secrets of Temple Isle is the kind of game that could only come from someone who grew up on a very specific diet of late-90s action-adventure t
7.5 / 10
Seven Suns of Orion Review
Vampire Survivors Meets Star Control, in Seven-Minute Bursts Seven Suns of Orion takes the now-familiar bullet-heaven formula, survive, harvest, upgrade, repeat, and bolts on a gen
7.5 / 10
Shake it Co! Review
One Tree, Up To Four Friends, And Absolutely No Ambition Beyond That Shake it Co!, released August 19, 2026 from solo developer Zero Task, is exactly what its short description pro
7 / 10
Shoe it All! Review
A Swing, A Pile Of Shoes, And A World That Deserves It Shoe it All!, released September 3, 2026 from developer Amberbite and publisher Bright Gambit, opens with a premise so simple
8 / 10
Slash-Out: Fantasy Dueling Review
A Punch-Out Skeleton Built by One Person Slash-Out: Fantasy Dueling takes the bones of a very specific classic, Punch-Out!!'s pattern-reading, one-on-one boss gauntlet, and res
7.5 / 10
Sniper Dan Review
Where's Waldo, But You're Holding a Rifle Sniper Dan launched September 17, 2026 from Denki, the veteran UK studio behind Quarrel and a long back catalogue of licensed puzz
8 / 10
Sokogram Review
Two Puzzle Genres That Have No Business Working This Well Together Sokogram is a $9.99 puzzle game from solo developer PressGtoGeorge that fuses two genres, nonogram logic grids an
8 / 10
Solateria Review
A Hand-Drawn Metroidvania Built Almost Entirely Around One Mechanic Solateria, from Korean studio Studio Doodal and published by SHINSEGAE INFORMATION and COMMUNICATION, released o
7.5 / 10