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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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GRAIN ROT Review

A Wooden Puppet's Guide to Surviving a Scorched Wasteland GRAIN ROT casts you as a small wooden puppet trying to survive a sun-scorched, monster-infested desert, descending int

6.5 / 10

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Gravethorn Review

A Solo Developer's Love Letter to Blasphemous and Bloodborne Gravethorn wears its influences openly, and almost every review says so before saying anything else. "This a 2

7.5 / 10

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Gridbound Review

A Grid, Some Items, And A Slowly Unfolding Puzzle Gridbound, released September 5, 2026 by solo developer SkidaddleDev, is a $2.99 grid-based puzzle and resource strategy game buil

7.5 / 10

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Hexalith Review

A Sci-Fi Colony Built One Hex at a Time Hexalith launched July 13, 2026 from solo-feeling developer and publisher Artemi Studios, tasking players with dropping hexagonal tiles to g

7.5 / 10

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HOPE 01 Review

Waking Up in the Hab Cluster HOPE 01 opens with its unnamed protagonist waking inside a decaying underground facility, sent in on a vague request to find something called HAB 01. F

7.5 / 10

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Huglings Review

A Cozy Village, Disturbed Gently Rather Than Threatened Huglings puts players in the role of one of the titular Huglings, small storybook villagers whose home has been "gently

5 / 10

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Incremedieval Review

Five Colonists, One Sword, A Whole Lot Of Number-Go-Up Incremedieval, released September 3, 2026 from solo-flavored developer and publisher Jestercraft, opens with a premise that&#

6 / 10

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Increvaders Review

An Hour-Long Power Fantasy for Three Dollars Increvaders launched September 9, 2026 from solo developer Oblomoverie, riffing on Space Invaders with an incremental twist: waves of t

6.5 / 10

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JESTER TRUMP Review

A Very Focused Take On A 36-Card Classic JESTER TRUMP is a $9.99 single-player adaptation of Throw-in Durak, the Eastern European trick-taking card game, wrapped in a deliberately

6.5 / 10

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