Railbound
A beautifully designed train-track puzzle game with one of the strongest, most sustained support records this lane has covered, let down only by marketing that undersells how genuinely demanding its back half becomes.
8 / 10
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Idle RPGs, MMOs, browser games and mobile RPGs, taken apart properly. Every review carries a score out of 10, what the game does well, what it does badly, and the kind of player it is actually for.
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Rain World
A notoriously unforgiving survival-platformer casting the player as a small, vulnerable slugcat navigating a fully simulated predator-prey ecosystem, Very Positive across more than 30,000 reviews for a genuinely singular, uncompromising design vision — undercut by a near-universal pattern of reviewers, even admirers, describing its difficulty and opacity as crossing from earned challenge into disorienting frustration for a large share of players.
7.5 / 10
Red Rocket Defencism
A short, stylish and genuinely funny satirical tower-defense game set in the fictional autocracy of Varnakia, unanimously praised in its early sample for witty writing, charming characters and a striking visual identity, held back by an easy difficulty some find lacking in strategic depth, visually chaotic battles, and a runtime several reviewers wish stretched further.
7 / 10
Ring of Pain
A rhyming, creeping-horror roguelike that swaps deckbuilding for spatial positioning around a literal ring of rooms — genuinely original, still receiving content updates five years on, and shadowed the whole way by a randomness problem its own community nicknamed "the RNG of Pain."
7 / 10
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Crystal Dynamics' 2015 sequel to the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot widens the scope into more open-world exploration and expands crafting and stealth, drawing consistently strong praise for its visuals and platforming — tempered by a recurring reviewer complaint that the story and focus of the original got traded for busywork, plus two specific, checkable marketing gripes around VR and a since-added Epic Games Services login requirement.
7.5 / 10
Rocket League
Psyonix's car-soccer hybrid remains one of the most mechanically satisfying competitive multiplayer games ever made, with reviewers consistently praising its deep, physics-driven skill ceiling — but a large, sustained, multi-year wave of reviewer anger over Epic Games' stewardship since its 2019 acquisition, including a lasting removal of Linux and Mac support, is real and worth understanding before diving in.
7.5 / 10
Roots of Pacha
A prehistoric farming life-sim set at the dawn of agriculture, praised as a genuine contender alongside Stardew Valley for its quality-of-life innovations, beautiful pixel art and co-op support — held back by tedious crafting interactions and control complaints from keyboard-and-mouse players.
7.5 / 10
Saint Slayer: Spear of Sacrilege
A lovingly crafted NES-style Castlevania throwback with genuinely excellent pixel art, music and boss design, whose deliberately stiff, old-school movement and combat is embraced by the large majority of reviewers as authentic to the genre it's honouring, while a smaller, detailed minority argues the same stiffness simply isn't fun regardless of intent.
7 / 10
Saints Row: The Third
Volition's absurdist open-world crime comedy, widely considered the series' tonal and commercial peak, still draws genuine affection more than a decade later — tempered by a specific, dated-server-related stuttering bug, a region-locked censored version for some countries, and a recurring reviewer recommendation to buy this original rather than its pricier, Epic-exclusive remaster.
7.5 / 10
Sapo 3D
A small frog, a big collect-a-thon Sapo 3D asks a simple question and answers it well: what if a cheap, cheerful 3D platformer starred a frog collecting golden flies across increas
7 / 10
Save Room - Organization Puzzle
A tight, cheap puzzle game that turns Resident Evil 4's beloved inventory-Tetris system into the whole point, executed with real polish across 40 escalating levels, let down only by its short length and a colour-only health indicator that shuts out colourblind players.
7.5 / 10
Screen Cat
A small cat, living on your screen Screen Cat is exactly what its name promises: a small, animated virtual cat that lives on your desktop, wandering the screen, napping, hunting yo
7 / 10
SEASON: A letter to the future
A meditative, combat-free exploration game about cycling through a doomed world to record its final memories before a mysterious cataclysm erases it — praised almost universally as deeply moving and beautifully realized, held back at launch by real bugs and a short length several reviewers feel undercuts its own ambitions.
8 / 10
Sfinx
A 1997 Polish comedy adventure and spiritual successor to Soltys, freely distributed by its developer and now running on a self-hosted ScummVM/WebAssembly engine - confirmed genuinely working with live, correct contextual object labels across a colourful teenage bedroom scene.
7.4 / 10
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
A supernatural pirate real-time stealth-tactics game from Mimimi Games, the studio behind Shadow Tactics and Desperados III, praised for its polished craft and inventive cursed-crew abilities — released to a Very Positive reception that sits alongside real complaints about padding, and a launch-period review-bombing campaign unrelated to the game's actual design.
8 / 10
Shadow Man Remastered
A faithful, technically excellent remaster of the 1999 voodoo-horror action-adventure cult classic by Nightdive Studios, Very Positive across 804 reviews for its craftsmanship and dark atmosphere — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint that the underlying game design has aged very poorly, with confusing, maze-like levels and heavy backtracking that no amount of remastering fully resolves.
7 / 10
Shadow Warrior
Flying Wild Hog's reboot of the 1997 3D Realms shooter trades the original's crude, now-uncomfortable parody for a genuinely funny buddy-comedy story and some of the most consistently praised melee combat in first-person shooter history — undercut by a specific, well-corroborated critique that the ranged weapons and enemy variety don't hold up nearly as well as the katana does.
7 / 10
Shining Force II
A legendary 1993 Sega Genesis tactical RPG from Camelot, the studio that would later become synonymous with Sonic, still praised as one of the finest console RPGs of its era — sold here as an emulated Steam classic with real, specific technical rough edges worth knowing about before diving in.
7.5 / 10
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
A landmark, NES-inspired retro platformer bundle following a shovel-wielding knight across four connected campaigns, Overwhelmingly Positive across more than 10,100 reviews for genuine craftsmanship and charm — undercut by a consistent, well-corroborated complaint that its instant-death spikes and pits and momentum-based controls feel more punishing than genuinely fair, and by one bundled sub-game several reviewers say drags the overall package down.
7.5 / 10
Signs of the Sojourner
A quiet, deeply loved narrative deckbuilder about keeping a family shop and a caravan route alive while conversations themselves become the game's core mechanic — and, for a vocal minority, its central frustration once card types compound faster than most players can keep up with.
7 / 10
Siralim 2
An extraordinarily deep monster-collecting RPG that fans compare favorably to Dragon Quest Monsters and Pokemon, built around genuinely endless dungeon progression — tempered by a detailed, specific critique from a devoted predecessor's fan arguing this sequel took real steps backward in its breeding, currency and creature-balance systems.
7.5 / 10
Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
United Front Games' Hong Kong-set undercover-cop crime thriller is widely praised as the genre-alternative to GTA that actually earned the comparison, with reviewers repeatedly wishing for a sequel that never arrived — undercut by a serious, specific save-data flaw with no Steam Cloud support that has already cost at least one reviewer their progress permanently.
7.5 / 10
Small Saga
A short, gorgeously illustrated turn-based RPG starring a cast of mice on a hero's journey against a god, praised for its art, music and heartfelt writing — held back by low difficulty (since patched with an optional hard mode), an unevenly tonal script, and a length that some reviewers feel doesn't match its price.
7.5 / 10
SmashCore
A genuinely satisfying, solo-developed physics incremental about smashing asteroids into ore with a gravity cursor, unanimously praised in its early sample for addictive feel and retro MS-DOS-styled presentation, tempered by a specific, recurring comparison to the similarly structured Space Rock Breaker and a short, highly linear runtime.
7 / 10