Draco and the Seven Scales Review
A Pirate, a Cutlass, a Cannon, and a Curse Draco and the Seven Scales casts players as a pirate captain chasing down a kraken's dark bargain, sailing a retro-styled overworld d
9 / 10
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The Dream Of A Cockspur review
roccay's surreal point-and-click psychological horror about a stranded research team on a mysterious island earns a near-perfect "Very Positive" score for its unforgettable art, dense cosmic-horror storytelling, and unsettling atmosphere, with only its occasionally obscure puzzle logic drawing real criticism.
9 / 10
CLAWSTRIKE
The overall winner of js13k 2025 — a black-cat revenge platformer with instant die-and- retry pacing, silhouette-and-shadow visuals ranked 1st in the competition for graphics, and a fully realised touch control scheme that this review confirmed works, once tested with an actual sustained touch rather than an instantaneous one.
9 / 10
DOOM (2016)
One of the most acclaimed shooters of its generation, still Overwhelmingly Positive a decade on with recent sentiment running even stronger than its already-elite lifetime score — its few substantive complaints are a matter of taste (some find the campaign repetitive) and a largely historical, patched save-wiping bug from launch week, not anything currently live.
9 / 10
Celeste
A precision platformer about climbing a mountain while depressed, built on one of the genre's most respected Assist Mode implementations — and still, honestly, brutally hard for a meaningful slice of the players who bounce off it.
9 / 10
Cuphead
A hand-drawn, 1930s-cartoon-style boss-rush platformer that's as punishingly hard as it is beautiful — and whose second most-upvoted negative review points at a real, still-unaddressed colourblind accessibility gap that echoes a pattern this library keeps finding.
9 / 10
DELTARUNE
98.1% positive across 127,913 reviews, and every future chapter is a free update — an RPG that is both one of the best-reviewed games on Steam and an argument about what a full-price purchase should buy you.
9 / 10
Fallout: New Vegas
Widely regarded as the best-written game in the Fallout series, and just as widely known for crashing constantly — a reputation so baked into its identity that even its own fans write songs about the bugs in five-star reviews, fifteen years on.
9 / 10
God of War
A near-universally acclaimed reinvention of the series into a slower, more personal Norse epic — praised almost unanimously, with an honest, considered minority of longtime original-series fans who miss the classic combat, and a real, recurring Steam Deck "Verified" labeling problem tied to a documented memory leak.
9 / 10
Half-Life: Alyx
Still the best case anyone has made for virtual reality, six years on — 98.3% positive, and the loudest criticism on its store page is a launch-day review that says "in its current state".
9 / 10
Hollow Knight
The 2017 original that the whole modern metroidvania wave points back to. Nine years on it still sells on reputation alone — and the reputation holds up, with one honest asterisk.
9 / 10
Hotline Miami
Fourteen years on, still one of the most influential action games ever made — and its most-upvoted negative review is really just a warning label its own fans agree with.
9 / 10
INSIDE
A haunting, wordless puzzle-platformer from the makers of Limbo, whose ending has divided players in exactly the same way for nearly a decade — not through controversy, but through a deliberate ambiguity some find profound and others find frustrating.
9 / 10
OMORI
A turn-based RPG that splits its time between a colourful dream world and a grounded, emotionally heavy reality, built around themes of grief and mental health with a level of care that's earned it one of the most devoted followings of any recent indie RPG.
9 / 10
Outer Wilds
A time-loop mystery about a tiny solar system that "everyone says" you need to experience knowing nothing about — Overwhelmingly Positive at 95.6%, and honest enough with itself that its own top negative review is a genuinely unresolved crowdfunding controversy, not a design flaw.
9 / 10
Papers, Please
A border-checkpoint bureaucracy simulator that turns document-checking into genuine drama, thirteen years on. Its creator says its themes have only become more relevant with time — a fact he finds less like vindication and more like a tragedy.
9 / 10
Portal 2
Fifteen years on, Portal 2 remains one of the most acclaimed puzzle games ever made — and its small, honest minority of dissent is worth hearing, from real motion-sickness reports to a considered argument that the sequel traded the original's focus for scale.
9.5 / 10
Return of the Obra Dinn
A deduction game that hands you a magic pocket watch, sixty deaths, and no other tools — and asks you to work out exactly who died how, in what order, and at whose hand, using nothing but observation and logic.
9 / 10
SOMA
A philosophical sci-fi horror game about consciousness, identity and what survives an underwater apocalypse — nine years on, still Overwhelmingly Positive, and still honestly criticized by a consistent minority for gameplay that some feel gets in the story's way.
9 / 10
ULTRAKILL
97.4% positive across 239,293 reviews, still in Early Access after nearly six years — and it set its all-time player record in February 2026, more than five years after launch.
9 / 10
Undertale
A decade-old solo-developed RPG that redefined what a choice-driven combat system could mean, sitting at Overwhelmingly Positive across a third of a million reviews. The recurring negative review isn't a criticism of the game so much as a criticism of how impossible it is to live up to its own reputation.
9 / 10
Cyberpunk 2077
The most famous broken launch in modern gaming is now, five years and one total rebuild later, one of the best open-world RPGs you can buy. Ninety-six of its hundred most recent reviews are positive. The thing to check before buying isn't the game any more — it's the licence.
9 / 10
Disco Elysium
A detective RPG with no combat, twenty-four skills that argue with you inside your own head, and writing that has no real rival in the medium. Its negative reviews are almost entirely from people who call it a masterpiece and ask you not to buy it.
9.5 / 10
Hi-Fi RUSH
Tango Gameworks' rhythm-action surprise remains Overwhelmingly Positive across nearly 36,000 Steam reviews, widely regarded as one of the finest games Xbox has published in a decade — a reputation shadowed by a genuinely poignant, fully documented history this review can confirm in
9 / 10