Cradle of the Dark Brood Review
A Dark Fantasy Idler About Breeding Your Own Army Cradle of the Dark Brood drops you in a "hostile corpse-world" with two starter critters and asks you to build an empire
6.5 / 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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Crimson Engines Review
A Gothic Vampire Idle RPG With A Real Controversy Attached Crimson Engines, released August 31, 2026 by solo developer and publisher Alphasin, is a free-to-play gothic idle RPG tha
5 / 10
Crown Siege Review
Grow an Army, Defend a Crown, Repeat Crown Siege bills itself as a "short incremental siege game," and that's a fair description of the core loop: spawn troops, defen
6 / 10
Cube Crusaders Review
A Halo Fan's Big-Headed Answer to Metroidvania Combat Cube Crusaders is the solo project of a developer working under the studio name Frentwick Indie, who has been building the
6.5 / 10
Cyberscape Review
A Love Letter to Zero Tolerance Cyberscape entered Early Access March 23, 2026 from AtomicTorch Studio, the small team previously known for the survival-crafting game Cyrofall, bef
7.5 / 10
DAMON and BABY Review
A Fighting-Game Studio's Detour Into Isometric Action-Adventure DAMON and BABY, from Arc System Works, the studio best known for Guilty Gear and BlazBlue, released on Steam on
7 / 10
DarkStone Restoration Review
The Original Creator Comes Back for His Own Game DarkStone Restoration entered Early Access on June 24, 2026, and its premise is almost unheard of in the remaster business: it isn&
7 / 10
Deadzoned Review
A Nanite Plague, A Turn-Based Roguelike, And A Developer With A Track Record Deadzoned entered Early Access on September 7, 2026 for $4.99, a sci-fi turn-based roguelike from caiys
7.5 / 10
D.E.C.A.Y. Review
A VR-Only Wasteland From a Studio That Knows the Genre D.E.C.A.Y. is a VR-exclusive survival shooter that casts you as the operator of a remote bunker in a scorched, post-apocalypt
6 / 10
Decide Your Fate Review
Locked In With Something That Can't See You Decide Your Fate drops its premise in a single sentence: you're trapped in a house with a killer who's blind but hears every
6 / 10
Deep Crafter Review
An Underwater Factory Sim Chasing A Very Specific Comparison Deep Crafter entered Steam Early Access on June 4, 2026 from Deep Crafter Studio, published by Samar Studio, and it dro
6 / 10
Depths' Tale Review
A Fifteen-Minute Cosmic Horror Story, Built From a Game Jam Depths' Tale didn't start life as a commercial release. Developer Ardora Collective built the original prototype
6.2 / 10
Detective INNA DUKE Review
A Missing Hamster, a Rainy City, and a Lot of Jokes Detective INNA DUKE launched June 10, 2026 from HmarkaTeam, a small studio putting its own comedic spin on the noir detective vi
7.5 / 10
Dicement Review
A Cheap, Small Sokoban Variant Built Around Pushing Dice Instead Of Boxes Dicement, developed and published by solo studio Voidtick, released on Steam on March 10, 2026, at $2.99.
7 / 10
Dig & Deal Review
A Metal Detector and a Storefront: Two Genres, One Loop Dig & Deal entered Early Access on April 19, 2026 from ToYa Games, a small studio pitching a hybrid that turns out to be a s
6.5 / 10
DIMENGUARD Review
Pac-Man Never Had A Curse-And-Blessing System DIMENGUARD is a $4.99 solo project from developer RayMag that takes an unusually direct approach to genre-blending: it's a rogueli
7.5 / 10
Divider Dave Review
Why Be Alone When You Can Be By Yourself Divider Dave opens on its title character waking up in a pod with exactly one skill and no memory of how he got it: he can copy himself. Th
7 / 10
Dominion Of The Forgotten Review
A PvE MOBA That Doesn't Quite Know What It Wants to Be Yet Dominion Of The Forgotten launched July 19, 2026, from the small studio FoolishNova Games, pitching itself as a "
6 / 10
Don't Fall Review
A Summit, A Physics Body, And Eleven Reasons To Believe The Title Don't Fall is a physics-based 3D platformer from solo studio Shine 3D, released May 21, 2026 for $6.99, in whi
7.5 / 10
Donutal Review
Papers, Please, But The Papers Talk Back Donutal, released September 3, 2026 from developer and publisher Arc System Works, drops you into the year 2206 as a debt-saddled Chief Ext
7 / 10
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
Dravo's Twisted Show Review
Welcome to the Show, Contestant Dravo's Twisted Show entered Early Access on September 18, 2026 from developers Titan Games and Altergard, dropping up to four players into a tw
6 / 10
Dread Neighbor Review
A Second Haunting from the Dread Flats Team Dread Neighbor launched May 7, 2026 from Ghostcase, the small studio behind the earlier hit Dread Flats, published under the Erabit labe
7 / 10
Dreamcards Review
A Roguelike Deckbuilder About Dreams, Memories, And The Nightmare That Wants Your Deck Dreamcards, developed by Soneka Games and published by Vsoo Games and Soneka Games, released
8.5 / 10