吾皇万岁 (Long Live the Emperor)
A cheap Chinese dynasty-management sim about ruling as a young monarch, undercut by widely reported AI-generated voice acting and art, thin content, and persistent bugs.
3.5 / 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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第一次挂机
A free-to-play idle RPG, openly described by its developer as a first attempt after learning to program, whose review sample consistently reports boss challenges that can't actually be idled, a manual-save bug that can erase progress, and a grind severe enough that one detailed reviewer resorted to speedhack software to finish it.
3 / 10
蜀仙传·挂至飞升
A deep, actively-updated Chinese idle RPG with genuinely rich buildcrafting and pet fusion, badly undercut by a controversial anti-piracy gate that forces even paying customers through a playtime-and-screenshot verification process to unlock DLC content.
6.5 / 10
4Spicchi
4Spicchi is a free-to-play first-person horror shooter from GoldenShrimpsGames in which delivery girl Margherita defends her family pizzeria from food-alien invaders using a weapon that fires pizza ingredients, and this review's sample finds a scrappy, genuinely funny lean FPS undercut by thin ammo economy and a few rough technical edges the developer has been actively patching.
6.5 / 10
16 Cyber-Personalities: Survivors
A cute, Brotato-inspired survivor shooter that reskins its whole progression system around the 16 Personalities (MBTI) framework, with a huge item pool and an enthusiastic, mostly Chinese-language fanbase behind it.
7 / 10
8089: The Next Action RPG
The fourth entry in solo developer Phr00t's long-running procedurally-generated, VR-native action RPG series is a real evolution of the formula, but its own longtime fanbase is split on whether the evolution is actually more fun to play than 2016's 5089.
5.5 / 10
Abandoned Archive
A solo-developer spell-casting roguelike, years in the making before its creator became known for an entirely different project, whose deep loadout-building and reroll-driven decisions win over the vast majority of players even as a detailed, specific minority flags steep difficulty spikes and thin feedback on hits.
7 / 10
Abandoned Stories: Inherited Silence
Abandoned Stories: Inherited Silence is a short, PS1-inspired psychological horror adventure from solo developer _atfs about a girl named Maria trapped in a house that hunts her, and this review's sample — though small — finds a tense, well-received chase-and-puzzle horror game whose developer has spent months actively tuning difficulty and adding free content in direct response to player feedback.
7 / 10
A Better World
Developer Ludogram, published by ARTE France, delivers a satirical time-travel narrative game about altering historical events from inside a shadowy corporation's control room, earning specific praise for its premise and writing from a genuinely divided Mixed review base, tempered by a heavily repeated complaint about a superficial grasp of the history it rewrites, a lack of branching depth between missions, and reports of post-launch abandonment.
5.5 / 10
Absolver
A NZ$43.59 online martial-arts RPG whose deck-built, learn-by-fighting combat system drew sustained praise across roughly 11,500 Steam reviews since August 2017 — the same review page that, especially from 2021 onward, keeps repeating one specific complaint: the developer moved on to make Sifu and left Absolver's short story and PvP-dependent structure to run on a population that's mostly gone.
6 / 10
Aerial_Knight's DropShot
Skydiving, finger-guns, and a lot of style "Aerial_Knight's DropShot" drops players from the sky as Smoke Wallace, a mercenary who fires bullets from his fingertips w
6.7 / 10
Aeterna Noctis
A gorgeously hand-painted metroidvania with a genuinely demanding secondary difficulty mode, undercut by combat its own players call brainless, visual clutter that hides incoming attacks, and crashes some report wiping out map progress entirely.
6.5 / 10
Aevalore
A manually-aimed bullet-heaven survivors-like whose growing cast of distinct heroes and cheap price point are complicated by a thin build-variety complaint, a disclosed use of AI in development, and confirmed gamepad UI problems on handheld PCs.
6.3 / 10
Age of Memology
Meme tactics, taken at face value Age of Memology is a budget turn-based tactics game from Piece Of Voxel that asks players to build a squad out of recognizable internet memes — Gi
6 / 10
Agreeee
A cheap, deliberately infuriating "rage game" that turns clicking Agree on 12 terms of service into a gauntlet of over 100 trick minigames, earning a loyal, self-aware fanbase for its creativity and streamer appeal while a real, recurring share of players call out genuinely broken input handling and unfairly RNG-gated puzzles.
6.5 / 10
Agro Simulator: Season 26
A budget farming simulator promising a small plot of land grown into an agricultural empire, met with a small but strikingly consistent multi-language chorus of early reviewers describing a repetitive, content-thin loop of ploughing, sowing and selling with no economy, vehicle variety or upgrades to speak of.
3 / 10
Airport Baggage Simulator
An automation-focused job sim from Three River Games about sorting and screening luggage at a growing airport, Very Positive across 99 reviews for its addictive progression loop — though a specific, detailed complaint accuses it of copying Parcel Simulator and Airport X-Ray Simulator directly.
6.5 / 10
Airport Security Sucks!
A chaotic multiplayer party game about power-tripping TSA agents hunting smugglers through an airport, at its best in a full lobby of friends leaning into the absurdity, and considerably weaker in public matchmaking where the intended chaos curdles into disorganized noise.
6.5 / 10
AI.VI
AI.VI is an FPS/tower-defense hybrid from debut studio Out of Time about a retired mining robot forced back into "incredible violence" against a planet-conquering corporation, and this review's sample finds a genuinely novel, deep hybrid combat loop backed by an unusually responsive developer working through real launch-week bugs and a steep difficulty curve.
7.5 / 10
Albatroz
A backpacking adventure RPG about hiking after a lost brother through gorgeous, hand-crafted landscapes — undercut badly enough by bugs and janky controls that even many of its own fans hedge their recommendation.
5.5 / 10
Alien Apocalypse
An open-world alien-invasion survival sandbox that wears its Project Zomboid influence openly, entering Early Access with a genuinely promising crafting-and-scavenging premise undercut by widespread bugs, punishing AI, and a level of polish reviewers repeatedly say isn't there yet.
4.5 / 10
Alien Morgue
Papers, Please, but you're cutting open the aliens "Alien Morgue" borrows its central structural idea directly from Lucas Pope's "Papers, Please" — a cr
7.4 / 10
Alone in the Dark
A reimagining of the 1992 survival-horror pioneer, returning to Derceto Manor with Resident Evil-inspired third-person combat and a Lovecraftian mystery voiced by David Harbour and Jodie Comer, whose strong atmosphere and setting win real defenders even as a large, consistent complaint argues its linear structure, clunky combat, and technical rough edges fall well short of both the genre's modern standard-bearers and the classic it's remaking.
5.5 / 10
Ambrosia Sky
Toronto studio Soft Rains, working with Hardspace Shipbreaker's Blackbird Interactive, pairs Powerwash Simulator's satisfying cleaning loop with a System Shock-inspired exploration of a fungus-ravaged asteroid colony, earning genuine praise for its art and atmosphere while a substantial minority argues the immersive-sim systems and episodic structure don't yet match the strength of its writing.
6.5 / 10