VENERA 31 Review
Two Hundred Days Since the Act of Oblivion VENERA 31 opens with a countdown that never quite explains itself: it's 2031, two hundred days since something called "the Act o
7.6 / 10
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Wavekin Review
A Small Studio's Debut: Singing Your Way Through a Dying Reef Wavekin casts you as a hatchling exploring a colorful, half-abstract coral reef, trying to uncover why the Spirit
7.5 / 10
We Are Gum Review
Cute Gum Blobs, Genuinely Mean Puzzles We Are Gum, released September 1, 2026 by developer and publisher Curious Nessie Club, is a $9.99 Sokoban-style puzzle game with a premise th
8 / 10
We Are Sisters Review
A Debut Horror Short From A Studio Nobody's Heard Of Yet We Are Sisters is a $3.99 first-person psychological horror game from BobaGames, a studio whose first release this appe
7 / 10
Wild City Review
Cards Are Animals, Animals Are Politics Wild City takes the deckbuilding roguelike template popularized by Slay the Spire and, more recently, Balatro, and swaps the usual fantasy t
7.2 / 10
Windrose Review
A Pirate Survival Game That Became an Instant Phenomenon Windrose dropped players into a cursed stretch of pirate-infested ocean on April 14, 2026, and within six days had sold ove
7.5 / 10
Wyrdwic: At the Heart of a New World Review
A Continent on the Edge of War Wyrdwic: At the Heart of a New World opens on a familiar kind of fantasy hinge point, a fragile peace shattered by a ruler's death and an heir
7.5 / 10
YesterSol Review
A Spear That Is Also a Platform, a Weapon, and a Seed YesterSol's entire identity is built around one tool: the SolSpear, a magical weapon that a young sun warrior named Corin
7 / 10
20 More, Somehow Even Smaller, Mazes Review
Twenty New Tiny Puzzles From a Beloved One-Person Studio 20 More, Somehow Even Smaller, Mazes is the direct sequel to solo developer FLEB's 20 Small Mazes, a free browser-flash
8.2 / 10
A Night at Moka Efti: A Babylon Berlin Story Review
A Free Detective Adventure Built From a Hit TV Series A Night at Moka Efti: A Babylon Berlin Story is a free-to-play narrative adventure from Paintbucket Games, the studio behind T
7.5 / 10
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Aqua Scrap: Deep Clean Review
Scrubbing the Seabed, One Timed Dive at a Time Aqua Scrap: Deep Clean is a cursor-driven incremental game built around a simple, repeatable loop: dive to the ocean floor for a stri
7.4 / 10
Brutal Ball Manager 2 Review
Orcs, Elves, and a Spreadsheet: Fantasy Football Without the Joystick Brutal Ball Manager 2 is a franchise management simulation built around 8-versus-8 American football, reimagin
7.3 / 10
Card Revolution Soccer Review
Forget the Joystick, You're Playing Football With a Deck of Cards Card Revolution Soccer strips the football simulation down to a single, unusual mechanic: instead of dribbling
7.1 / 10
Cattopia Review
A Grapple-Swing Platformer Built for a Specific, Devoted Audience Cattopia's entire identity rests on one piece of source material: Umihara Kawase, the cult Japanese fishing-li
7 / 10
CONCRETE BURIAL Review
A Blood-Fueled Descent Into a Brutalist Catacomb CONCRETE BURIAL is a short, first-person horror game from Games From The Abyss, published by DreadXP, built around a single, sharp
7.1 / 10
Craving Wisps Review
Sliding Through Walls, Possessing Enemies, and Chasing a Groove Craving Wisps is a short, tightly focused 3D platformer built around a movement kit that keeps expanding for as long
7.3 / 10
Cribbage! Review
A Free, Modern Take on a 400-Year-Old Card Game Cribbage! is exactly what its title promises: a digital adaptation of the classic peg-and-pegboard card game, playable solo against
8.1 / 10
Dawson Oaks Trailer Park Review
Crime, Snitching, and Proximity Chat in a Trailer Park Dawson Oaks Trailer Park is a proximity-voice-chat social deduction game that swaps the sci-fi spaceship trappings of the gen
7 / 10
Dragon Tiles Review
A Snake Wearing a Chess Set Into Battle Dragon Tiles is a lightweight top-down bullet-hell survival roguelite built around a single, distinctive visual idea: a dragon's head le
7.2 / 10
Driving Rogue Review
Balatro Meets Need for Speed Underground Driving Rogue is a card-driven roguelike arcade racer from developer Gravity Works, built around a loop that reviewers describe again and a
8.1 / 10
Flamecraft Review
A Beloved Tabletop Game About Cozy Dragons Comes to Steam Flamecraft is the official digital adaptation of Cardboard Alchemy's tabletop board game of the same name, developed b
7.1 / 10
Flood With Friends Review
Nail a Raft Together Before the Water Gets You Flood With Friends drops up to eight players on a shrinking island with a nail gun, a scattered pile of junk, and no instructions. Ch
7.6 / 10
House 2 Review
A Groundhog Day Horror Loop, Now With a New Face House 2 picks up the trial-and-error, time-loop horror formula of the original House, in which a girl is trapped reliving the same
7.2 / 10
lily's world XD Review
Finding a Stranger's Laptop From 2004 and Piecing Together What Happened to Her lily's world XD is a desktop-simulation psychological horror game from solo developer Sonder
7.5 / 10