Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter Review
Picking Up Right Where the Cliffhanger Left Off Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter opens exactly where last year's remake of the First Chapter left players stranded: on one of the m
7.6 / 10
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Under The Island Review
A confident, Link's Awakening-flavoured 2D action-adventure that leans fully into gentle exploration over challenge, delivering a warm, generous-feeling world at the cost of real difficulty or narrative weight.
7 / 10
Unrailed 2: Back on Track Review
A chaotic co-op sequel that widens the original's frantic track-laying formula with biomes, bosses, and a deep upgrade system, held back by rough multiplayer stability at launch.
7 / 10
Warlord: Awaji Review
A Solo Samurai General, an Entire Island, and an Emperor's Orders Warlord: Awaji is the second entry in developer Darkmatter Games' "immersive strategy" series, f
7 / 10
Witch Dance
A tiny, mouse-driven arcade high-score chaser about dodging waves of enemies and lining up multi-hit teleport strikes, built on a surprisingly deep risk-reward loop that belies its price and its size.
7.2 / 10
Woodo Review
A Coloring Book You Can Hold in Your Hands Woodo describes itself as feeling like a 3D coloring book you can touch, and that turns out to be an unusually precise pitch. Each level
8.8 / 10
A Bumpy Ride
A charming, DS-era-styled cozy train game built around the beloved passenger runs of Zelda's Spirit Tracks earns rapturous nostalgia-fuelled praise, though poor Steam Deck performance and rigid passenger mechanics frustrate a meaningful slice of its audience.
7.5 / 10
Beyond Citadel Review: The Most Realistic Gunplay in Any Boomer Shooter
Solo developer doekuramori's retro shooter sequel pairs genuinely unmatched manual-reload gunplay with extremely graphic, sexualised horror-gore content that will define who this game is for before the first level ends.
7.6 / 10
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BOMBANANA!
A three-player co-op party game casts one blind, one deaf, and one mute monkey as a bomb-disposal team, earning strong praise for its chaotic communication puzzles even as its own review sample raises real accessibility concerns for deaf players.
7.5 / 10
Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD Remaster Review
A beloved 3DS job-system JRPG finally lands on PC in HD, with real quality-of-life gains and the same brilliant combat — but also the same infamous late-game slog that defined it a decade ago.
7.5 / 10
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Chaos Warrior
A solo developer's first commercial release, a five-dollar NES-style JRPG openly modelled on early Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy, earns a unanimous Positive review sample for pairing that nostalgia with genuinely useful modern quality-of-life fixes, even as reviewers agree it plays its influences completely straight.
7.5 / 10
Chronicles of the Wolf Review
Migami Games channels its Castlevania fangame roots into an original, richly atmospheric metroidvania built around the legend of the Beast of Gevaudan, undercut only by stiff controls and a punishing instant-death checkpoint system.
7 / 10
Cirno! Lifts a Boulder
A solo-developed, Touhou-inspired 3D collectathon platformer earns an Overwhelmingly Positive reception for its chill atmosphere, charming presentation, and satisfying ability progression, though its own review sample repeatedly flags a short runtime and limited horizontal movement as the price of that relaxed pace.
7 / 10
Colony 19 Review: A Free VR Climb Worth Every Cent It Doesn't Cost
A student-made VR horror climbing game built around a genuinely huge dystopian megastructure, Colony 19 delivers atmosphere and scale that punch well above its free price tag, even with rough edges around its movement and a few missing conveniences.
7.2 / 10
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Creature Kitchen
A creepy-cozy cooking simulator about feeding cryptids in a haunted forest cabin, met with an overwhelmingly positive but consistently repeated set of caveats about its short length, a repetitive core cooking mechanic, and a price some reviewers feel outpaces the two to four hours most players report it lasting.
7 / 10
DeadCore Redux
A remaster of the 2014 first-person speedrun-platformer cult favourite wins over most of its returning fanbase with rebuilt visuals, sound, and a new final level, but a Very Positive Steam sample is candid about real technical rough edges and split on whether the upgrade justifies its price over the cheaper original.
7 / 10
Demon Lord: Just a Block
A hybrid turn-based-and-real-time action roguelite about a demon lord reduced to a cursed block earns a Very Positive reception for its novel movement system and addictive build variety, though its own review sample raises real concerns about accessibility, balance, and a disputed claim of undisclosed AI-generated art.
7 / 10
Demons' Timeline
A cyber-detective visual novel that turns a fake social media feed into the entire crime scene earns a Very Positive reception for its genuinely novel deduction mechanic, its cast, and a well-regarded ending, though its own review sample flags mid-game repetition, a divisive protagonist, and one specific, unverified content concern worth reading about before buying.
7.5 / 10
Dread Fields
A short, richly atmospheric slow-burn folk horror game about tending an isolated farm while its former owner's secrets surface, built on genuinely striking Ukrainian folk-horror visuals and a beloved farm cat, let down by a widely disliked maze chase and an ending several players found anticlimactic.
7 / 10
Escape from Ever After
A Paper Mario-inspired satirical RPG about fairytale characters unionizing against a megacorp earns an Overwhelmingly Positive reception for its writing, combat variety, and heart, though its own review sample is split hard on whether the demanding, pixel-tight timing system belongs in a game this narrative-driven.
7.5 / 10
FATAL FRAME II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKE Review
A gorgeous, genuinely unsettling remake of one of horror's most beloved ghost stories, held back from greatness by divisive combat rework and persistent controller and visibility bugs.
7.5 / 10
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Fear The Timeloop
A scrappy but ambitious Resident Evil 2 and Silent Hill 2 homage lands a Very Positive Steam debut on the strength of its atmosphere, level design, and an actively patching developer, even as its own review sample is unusually blunt that the "timeloop" the game is named after barely functions as a mechanic, and that voice acting and technical polish lag behind everything else.
7 / 10
Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000 (Classic) Review
A 1997 epic-scale Warhammer 40,000 tactics game gets a faithful, low-friction Steam re-release, and its rock-paper-scissors unit design and gloriously cheesy FMV cutscenes hold up far better than its 29-year-old visuals suggest.
7 / 10
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HER TREES : PUZZLE DREAM
A minimalist, black-and-white point-and-click puzzler built around a single elegant visual trick earns near-universal praise for its calm, "aha moment" design, though almost everyone who finishes it agrees it's over far too soon.
7.5 / 10