Coridden
Overview Coridden is a top-down, old-school hack-and-slash action RPG built around one central hook: seamlessly shapeshifting between a human form and any of several monstrous beas
7.4 / 10
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Count Down
A short, free precision tunnel-runner starring a fully voice-acted Count Dracula accelerating endlessly downward through an obstacle-filled tube, praised by its small review pool as a surprisingly polished, funny aim-trainer disguised as a novelty game.
7.5 / 10
Cricket Captain 2026
The latest yearly entry in the long-running cricket management sim, adding 45 new domestic teams and deeper customisation that longtime fans call the series' best release yet, though a vocal minority still find its opaque mechanics and licensing restrictions frustrating.
7 / 10
Crime Simulator
A quota-driven heist-and-burglary sim in the spirit of Thief Simulator, earning strong praise from a large review base for its satisfying location-learning loop and co-op replayability, while drawing real, corroborated criticism for multiplayer bugs, punishing detection mechanics, and post-launch monetization friction.
7 / 10
Cropdeck Review: A Charming Farming Deckbuilder With Balance Growing Pains
Cropdeck is a $12.99 farming roguelite deckbuilder that blends Slay the Spire-style runs with Balatro-inspired card synergies, and while its charming presentation and addictive early hours have won it a large, enthusiastic audience, a consistent thread of criticism targets its card balance, repetitive runs, and thin meta-progression.
7.1 / 10
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Crown Gambit
A gorgeously drawn tactical card-battler wrapped around a morally grey succession-war narrative, whose Very Positive reception is well earned by its art and branching choices even as widely corroborated crashes, especially on Mac, and a narrative that buckles under too large a cast weigh it down.
7.5 / 10
Crucible of the Forgotten
Overview Crucible of the Forgotten is an Early Access horde-survival roguelite from solo developer Dominic Bolin, entering Steam in January 2026 with a pitch built entirely around
7 / 10
Cult Nation
A cheap, short incremental game about sacrificing cult followers and collecting blood to summon the devil, genuinely fun for its two-to-four-hour runtime and multiple rebirth twists, but held back by real crashes and rough interface edges.
7 / 10
Cupiclaw
Cupiclaw is a $9.99 claw machine roguelike deckbuilder from developer and publisher Typin, and this review's large Very Positive sample praises its addictive, water-physics-driven core loop while repeatedly flagging real discomfort with a romance storyline several reviewers found genuinely uncomfortable rather than endearing.
7.5 / 10
Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't Review: Balatro for People Who Love Boggle
Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't is a $14.99 word-search roguelike that starts as Boggle and quickly spirals into chess pieces, numbers, and Unicode chaos, and while most players call it the best Balatro-inspired game since Balatro itself, a real portion of reviewers say the word-forming hook erodes once builds take over.
7.6 / 10
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Curse of the Ethereal Dragon
Overview Curse of the Ethereal Dragon is a small, hand-drawn JRPG from solo-flavored studio Crow with Gun, built around a mystery in the snowy mountain town of Cliffside and told t
7.3 / 10
Damn Exam
A free, cutely-presented short observation game about catching cheating students during exam supervision, unanimously well-received for its charming style and creative cheating mechanics, but limited by a brief five-day campaign and a handful of specific detection and camera issues reviewers found frustrating.
7 / 10
Deadly Obsession
A free yandere psychological horror visual novel about escaping (or embracing) an obsessive captor, praised near-unanimously for a surprisingly well-written antagonist and a genuinely wide spread of distinct endings, held back only by rough grammar and a stretch of same-feeling midgame content.
8 / 10
Dealer's Doom Review: Blackjack Meets Roguelike Escalation
Dealer's Doom is a single-player blackjack roguelike where escalating boss rules rewrite the table beneath you each floor, and its review sample is largely enthusiastic about its rule-stacking depth, tempered by one detailed critique of weak early-game agency and rough UI polish.
7.1 / 10
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Decks of Dexterity
A roguelike that fuses bullet-hell dodging with Slay the Spire-style deckbuilding, released after years of public betas on GX Games with a devoted community, praised almost unanimously for its unique genre blend and replayability despite thin story content and a few progression-breaking quest bugs.
8 / 10
Deluge
A short, atmospheric horror-tinged turn-based JRPG in which you play a resurrected skeleton named Hudson deciding whether to terrorize or redeem a haunted town, praised almost unanimously for its worldbuilding, choice-driven story, and RPG Maker polish, if a touch slight in its combat and engine ambitions.
8 / 10
Demon Castle Story
Overview Demon Castle Story is Kairosoft's latest pixel-art management sim, and it distinguishes itself within the studio's sprawling catalogue by flipping one of the genre
7.3 / 10
Derelict Star
A momentum-based precision platformer set aboard an abandoned freighter, built around a deep and unusual movement system that reviewers overwhelmingly call among the best in the genre, at the cost of a difficulty curve that can turn away all but the most patient players.
8.4 / 10
Desk Paws
A Tamagotchi-inspired desktop pet collector with genuinely charming creature design and deep breeding systems, whose Very Positive reception sits alongside a specific, well-corroborated complaint that it demands far more manual attention than the "idle game" framing promises.
7.5 / 10
Dice Goblin's Den
The heroes are the villains this time Dice Goblin's Den flips the usual fantasy power fantasy on its head: instead of playing a party of adventurers raiding a monster's lai
7.2 / 10
Dice Have No Eyes
A push-your-luck dice roguelike from developer Franek, an Early Access release whose entry date matches its listing exactly, drawing a strongly positive review sample that credits its charming art, sound, and skill-rewarding risk management, while flagging fair complaints about a balance-shifting patch, occasional crashes, and dice-selection friction.
7 / 10
Doctor Pigeon Simulator
A cheap, deliberately absurd ER management game where meme-referencing "troll" patients turn every shift into chaos, genuinely funny and well-priced for the handful of hours it offers, let down by a corroborated achievement-tracking bug and a small but vocal minority who found the chaos more tedious than funny.
7 / 10
Don't Lose Aggro
A solo-developed action roguelite that turns MMO raid tanking into the entire game, delivering a genuinely fresh hook that's held back, for now, by early-access thinness.
7.4 / 10
Don't Play This Review: Five Found-Footage Nightmares in Under Two Hours
Don't Play This is an $8.99 first-person horror walking sim built from five self-contained found-footage vignettes, and its variety of settings and mechanics has made it a favourite for streamers and jump-scare fans, even as some reviewers say the scares lean too loud and too constant.
7.5 / 10
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