Grime&Gold
A short, strikingly atmospheric card-stacking crafting game that reviewers consistently praise for its art, sound and satisfying discovery loop, held back mainly by a brief runtime that leaves many wanting significantly more.
7.5 / 10
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Game Reviews
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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Grim Trials
A Hades-inspired isometric action roguelite set at an academy for trainee Grim Reapers, pairing fluid scythe-and-crossbow combat and a genuinely fresh QTE gear-crafting system with warmly received relationship and dialogue systems, held back for some players by a shallow, quickly-exhausted pool of run-to-run upgrades.
6.5 / 10
Guild Encounters Review
Gyudon Games' minimalist arcade JRPG distills turn-based combat and Guild Point progression into fast, story-light runs, drawing a small but strongly Positive review sample that praises its addictive battle-shop loop while flagging AI-generated art, thin onboarding, and missing keyboard/cloud-save conveniences.
4 / 10
Guilds of Mountgate
A UI-based Early Access idle MMORPG built around a persistent, weather-and-economy-driven world that a genuinely enthusiastic early player base credits with real depth — sitting alongside sharp complaints about AI-generated art, cookie tracking and an entry queue.
5.5 / 10
Gunfire Reborn
A "Risk of Rain, Dead Cells and Borderlands had a baby" FPS roguelite RPG that reviewers overwhelmingly praise for its gunplay and build variety, held back years after launch by stagnant level variety, an unpopular EULA change, and a server relocation that badly hurt latency for large parts of its audience.
7.5 / 10
Gunman Contracts - Stand Alone
A solo-developed John Wick-style VR and flatscreen shooter that grew out of two beloved Half-Life Alyx mods, entering Early Access to a Mostly Positive but genuinely divided reception — reviewers love the gunplay but report widespread performance and VR-control problems alongside honest complaints about thin launch content.
6.5 / 10
Gun Shop Manager
An Early Access shop-management sim about running a gun store on the edge of the law, cleaning and customising weapons for shady customers while dodging mafia pressure and police attention, with a genuinely appealing premise undercut at launch by a striking number of specific, game-breaking bugs.
4 / 10
halfmoon
A short, atmospheric point-and-click visual novel from solo artist-developer lvl374, casting players as a new employee at an information center that processes souls before they move on, Very Positive across 84 English reviews for its striking 1-bit art and contemplative writing about life and death — with a widely repeated complaint that its roughly 30-to-60-minute runtime leaves the story feeling like a brief exhibition rather than a full experience.
6.5 / 10
Halmgaard MMORPG
A solo developer's free-to-play, Tibia-inspired 2D MMORPG that leans hard on old-school nostalgia, undercut by a near-total absence of sound, unfinished key rebinding, and a population so thin that several players report never meeting another soul.
4 / 10
HAMSTERMIND
A cute hamster hiding a genuinely deep puzzle box "HAMSTERMIND" sends the player-controlled Hamster Jones through the rotating rooms of the Pyramid of Charaon, pivoting c
7.6 / 10
Happy's Humble Burger Cult
Scythe Dev Team's co-op reinvention of its cult-favourite Happy's Humble Burger Farm turns solo fast-food horror into 1-4 player chaos, landing strongly with the friend groups it's built for while its own achievement data confirms a real solo-mode and early-balance rough patch.
7.5 / 10
Hardware Tycoon
A business-management sim casting players as a CPU engineer and chip-fab tycoon from 1986 to 2026, Mixed across 28 reviews for a genuinely detailed engineering simulation enthusiasts praise as the most advanced of its kind — undercut by a well-corroborated, game-breaking pricing mechanic and, confirmed directly against the developer's own update history, an apparent abandonment with no update since mid-June 2026.
4 / 10
Hariti
A short, first-person psychological horror game from Ghostcase (Dread Flats, Dread Neighbor) about a mother searching a crisis-ridden, Chinese-folklore-inspired hospital for her missing daughter — praised for fair chase sequences, strong creature design and sound, and a surprisingly emotional story, but held back by an under-an-hour runtime and some unpolished scripted sequences.
6.5 / 10
Haunted Lands
Haunted Lands is a cheap, DOS-retro-inspired action platformer built by a very small team, and this review's sample shows a game whose atmosphere and old-school challenge win over its fans while a real, repeated complaint about stiff controls and unfair insta-kills — one the developer has directly acknowledged and partly answered with a checkpoint system — keeps other players from finishing it.
6 / 10
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
A NZ$49.95 psychological action-adventure from Ninja Theory that holds Very Positive across roughly 34,000 Steam reviews since August 2017 -- a genuinely landmark portrayal of psychosis built on binaural audio and researched with clinicians and people with lived experience, wrapped around combat and rune-hunting puzzles a large share of its own reviewers, including many who still recommend it, describe as the weakest part of the game.
7.5 / 10
Hell Clock review
Rogue Snail's dark-fantasy roguelite ARPG reimagines Diablo-style loot-and-build combat through the lens of Brazil's War of Canudos, earning a "Very Positive" reception for its satisfying build variety and combat feel, tempered by static level layouts and a divisive, still-evolving endgame.
7 / 10
Hello Duck
A tiny, solo-developed desktop-pet idle game about a duck that eats grass, lays eggs, and earns coins on a floating island — Positive across 26 reviews for its charm and background-companion appeal, with quick post-launch support but a couple of nagging quality-of-life bugs.
6.5 / 10
Hell Throne
A cartoonish demon-slaying roguelite that earns genuinely enthusiastic praise from the small handful of players who found it, undercut by a Steam news feed that shows exactly two patches — both in launch week — in the nearly three years since, for a game still asking full Early Access price.
6 / 10
Hermes Library
A relaxed, Papers Please-inspired book-lending simulator set in a steampunk Victorian university, following new librarian Rainn Echo across six weeks of checking books in and out while an unfolding mystery slowly reveals itself in hidden notes and morning news snippets, held back by a genuinely rough set of interface and stability complaints.
6.5 / 10
Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 3
The closing chapter of a beloved cozy point-and-click RPG prequel trilogy, adored by series veterans for its no-fail, no-pressure resource-gathering formula — and criticised by many of those same veterans for feeling like the thinnest, grindiest entry yet.
6.5 / 10
Hexateria Review
A stop-motion-animated turn-based tactics game about sacrificing squads of 'Veterans' against overwhelming enemy numbers, whose two earliest reviewers split sharply on the exact same feature -- one calling the voice acting 'spot on,' the other finding it grating within the first room.
3 / 10
Hidden Raccoons
Hidden Raccoons is a tiny, no-pressure pixel-art hidden object game from Pixel Hidden Raccoons about finding cute, camouflaged raccoons across four levels, and this review's sample finds a charming but genuinely thin $1.99 experience most players complete in well under half an hour, part of a developer's growing family of nearly identical seasonal releases.
5.5 / 10
HITMAN 3
The concluding chapter of the World of Assassination stealth-sandbox trilogy, Very Positive across nearly 31,000 reviews for gameplay reviewers consistently call the best in the series — undercut by an extremely consistent, top-voted complaint about a genuinely confusing and predatory bundle-and-DLC purchasing structure, and a well-corroborated complaint that a fully single-player game enforces an always-online requirement.
6.5 / 10
Hole Your Horses: Champion Edition
Dressage, but you are the one being thrown Hole Your Horses: Champion Edition is a comedy arcade game from Intrusive Thoughts Creative Collective built around a single, absurd prem
7.5 / 10