BloomKeeper Review
A World in Ashes, and a Colony That Needs Herding BloomKeeper opens on a familiar cozy-game premise dressed up in something more melancholy than most: the island of Hedera has burn
6.1 / 10
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Bloomon Review
A Reluctant Farmer at a School for Monster Trainers Bloomon's pitch is genuinely charming: you've enrolled at Blooomon Battle Academy, a school where every other student dr
4.6 / 10
Boardlike Review
A Tabletop Roll Wrapped Around a Card-Battle Roguelike Boardlike is a solo project from developer Bozz that spends almost a year in public development before landing at 1.0 on Sept
6 / 10
bonitāka's aquarium of medusae Review
A Birthday Gift, Shared With Everyone Some games are built to fill a market gap. bonitāka's aquarium of medusae was built as a gift the developer gave themselves for turning 22
7.5 / 10
Boundless AI Fantasy Review
A Dungeon Master Made Of Language Models Boundless AI Fantasy released on Steam on September 11, 2026 from solo Brazilian developer João Vitor Andrioli de Souza, and its pitch is u
6.5 / 10
BOYKISSER IS COMING Review
A Meme Made Into A Tower Defense Game BOYKISSER IS COMING, released September 3, 2026 by solo developer akhsotoen, takes an internet meme character and builds an entire, if small,
6.5 / 10
Breathedge 2 Review
A Cracked Train, a Chicken, and a Corporation That Never Stops Selling You Things Breathedge 2 left Early Access limbo and launched into it properly on August 31, 2026 from RedRuin
7 / 10
Brimir: Pilgrimage to the Heart Review
A Punishing Pilgrimage, Mostly Discovered by Korean Players So Far Brimir: Pilgrimage to the Heart launched August 5, 2026, from the small studio MIMIR, and its store page is blunt
6 / 10
Burrows of Cairntir Review
Six Mythologies, One Very Old-School Format Burrows of Cairntir wears its inspiration openly: a first-person, turn-based dungeon crawler built, in the solo developer's own word
6.5 / 10
Category 6 Review
A Hurricane Survival Story With Real Ambition Category 6 asks a question survival games rarely bother with: what happens after the storm, not during a zombie outbreak or a nuclear
5.4 / 10
Chill Drive Together Review
A Drive With No Destination, No Timer, No Score Chill Drive Together commits fully to a premise most driving games treat as a side mode at best: one road, no finish line, nothing t
7 / 10
Chronos Trap in Time Review
Zeus Needs A Mech Pilot, And Only You Will Do Chronos Trap in Time is a $12.99 vertical shoot-em-up roguelite from Swedish studio SCS Ogonvard AB, released clean on Steam on March
8 / 10
Clawed Review
A Dinosaur Theme Park With a Rough Grand Opening Clawed launched August 13, 2026 from developer and publisher Flatrock Games, dropping the player into the abandoned dinosaur theme
5.5 / 10
Cloudgazer: A Game About Watching Clouds Review
A Game About Doing Almost Nothing Cloudgazer's pitch is right there in the title, and the game doesn't pretend to be anything more than it says it is. You lie back, watch a
5.9 / 10
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Code: Terraform Review
Write Real Python, Terraform a Planet Code: Terraform strips away the pretense that separates most "programming games" from actual programming. There's no visual node
6.5 / 10
CompaDesk Review
A Pet That Lives In The Corner Of Your Screen CompaDesk, released September 1, 2026 by solo developer and publisher tekler, is a $4.99 desktop companion that sits quietly in the co
7.5 / 10
Console Kingdom Review
A Kingdom Rendered in Text and Console Characters Console Kingdom commits hard to a single visual conceit: everything in its kingdom-management sim — the throne room, the petitione
6 / 10
Cooking Crusade Review
Pottage, Ale, and a Queue That Won't Wait Cooking Crusade is a small, medieval-flavored order-service sim built around a premise that's instantly legible even if you've
6.5 / 10
Cook with Card Review
A Kitchen Made of Cards Cook with Card takes the increasingly popular "everything is a physical card" genre, the one that Stacklands helped popularize, and points it squa
7 / 10
Corner King: Boxing Tycoon Review
Filling a Genre Gap Nobody Else Is Touching Corner King: Boxing Tycoon, released into Early Access on August 18, 2026 by solo-ish developer Temporal Lure, is a sports management si
6.5 / 10
Corsair Fleet: Tides of Plunder Review
One Ship, an Idle Loop, and a Deck of Pirates Corsair Fleet: Tides of Plunder pitches itself as a cozy pixel-art idle RPG about building a pirate empire from a single humble sloop.
5 / 10
Cosmo Tales Review
A Talking Space Car Fighting Glitchbots, From The Studio Behind ARMA Cosmo Tales entered Early Access on September 3, 2026 from developer and publisher Bohemia Interactive, a name
6.5 / 10
Cozy Country Review
Paint a Landscape, Then Walk Around Inside It Cozy Country's pitch is disarmingly simple: paint forests, place rivers, build a village, scatter some animals, then step out of t
7 / 10
CPU Invaders - Aim Hero Review
Your Desktop Is The Arena Now CPU Invaders - Aim Hero, released January 30, 2026 by Microblast Games as a spiritual sequel to the studio's earlier Steam Awards-nominated overla
7.5 / 10