Fantasy Network
A hand-drawn metroidvania about umbrella combat, talent-show boss fights and an in-game social network, reviewed on launch day — six years after it was first announced as a very different game on a very different platform.
6.5 / 10
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Fate/Samurai Remnant
A handsome Edo-era Holy Grail War from Koei Tecmo and Type-Moon whose biggest problem is its own marketing — buyers expecting a full musou battler from "the king of musou games" instead found a visual-novel-heavy story with occasional single-arena fights, playable as only one protagonist throughout.
6.5 / 10
For Honor
A melee combat system reviewers on both sides agree is genuinely one of a kind, still drawing thousand-plus-hour veterans back nine years after launch — but weighed down by a brutal learning curve, a community many reviewers call toxic, whiplash balance every time a new hero arrives, and real-money hero purchases on top of a full box price.
6.5 / 10
GeneLoot
A dress-up idle auto-battler about running six simultaneous parties through dungeons for loot -- a competent, RNG-heavy hack-and-slash idle RPG whose most detailed reviewers, having actually pushed into the endgame, list a specific and credible set of design limits underneath its solid core loop, alongside disclosed AI-generated character art.
6.5 / 10
Ghostwire: Tokyo
Tango Gameworks' supernatural open-world action game remains Very Positive across more than 20,000 Steam reviews for its genuinely striking, densely realised recreation of Tokyo — undercut by a real, remarkably consistent "beautiful but repetitive" complaint about its combat and side content, and by a specific, unusual, dateable controversy this review can confirm directly: Bethesda added Denuvo DRM to the game roughly a year after launch, bundled inside what its own update was billed as free content.
6.5 / 10
Grapple Dog
A charming GBA-inspired grappling-hook platformer whose confident, flow-rewarding early worlds give way, by wide and consistent account, to a stiffer, more punishing back half that reverses its own design philosophy — compounded by a single looping music track per world that wears out its welcome for many players.
6.5 / 10
GreedFall
An ambitious colonial-fantasy RPG from a small studio that reviewers consistently describe as two different games — a genuinely great opening act, and a back half of repetitive fetch quests that several fans only got through with the help of community mods.
6.5 / 10
Hand of Fate: Hordes
The Dealer returns, and this time he's dealing cards over a bullet heaven. The card layer is the most interesting thing in the genre right now; the horde layer underneath it hasn't worked out how to make you feel powerful yet — and the deckbuilding in its own tagline is still on the roadmap.
6.5 / 10
HARVESTELLA
Square Enix marketed this as a life-sim farming game and its own review corpus -- praise and criticism alike -- spent four years correcting the record. It's a JRPG with farming on the side, and knowing that before buying changes almost everything about how the game lands.
6.5 / 10
Heroes Of Loot: Gauntlet Of Power
A fast, pick-up-and-play dungeon-crawling take on the survivors-like formula from the long-running Heroes of Loot series, whose omnidirectional weapon-evolution twist earns real praise while its harshest critics argue the underlying assets and simplicity haven't moved on much since the original 2015 entry.
6.5 / 10
Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel
A gorgeous Norse-mythology horde-survivor that almost every one of its 3,141 English reviewers agrees has the best graphics in its genre — and just as many agree the systems underneath don't go anywhere near as deep.
6.5 / 10
Keyboard Warrior: Dreamstate
A NZ$10.49 stationary-defense aim trainer from solo developer Cosmos, 100% positive across a tiny 14-review corpus and backed by well over a year of frequent, numbered patches through to a deliberate "Final Update" in October 2023 — a well-crafted niche game undersold by a store description that claims movement-based combat its own reviewers say doesn't exist.
6.5 / 10
Kingdom Hearts III
Square Enix's decade-in-the-making finale to the Xehanort saga launched to genuinely favorable critic scores in January 2019 -- but the audience that has actually reviewed it on Steam, mostly longtime fans who waited years for a PC release, rates the story and combat noticeably harder than critics did at launch, with Kingdom Hearts II held up constantly as the bar it didn't clear.
6.5 / 10
Kingdoms of Amalur - Re-Reckoning
A genuinely well-regarded action RPG from a studio whose real-world collapse is as notable as anything in the game itself — reviewed here through a "remaster" its own longtime fans call barely more than a resolution bump on top of years-old, still-unfixed bugs.
6.5 / 10
Little Noah: Scion of Paradise
A cute, cheap, well-optimised roguelite platformer from Cygames that almost everyone finishes quickly and almost everyone enjoys while it lasts -- its own fans and critics agree on a lack of build variety and replay value more than they disagree on anything else.
6.5 / 10
Loot River
A Souls-like roguelike built around genuinely innovative dungeon-sliding puzzle mechanics, let down at launch by combat its own fans called clunky and unreadable, followed by a rapid post-launch patch cycle that a meaningful share of reviewers credit with turning the game around.
6.5 / 10
Lords of the Fallen
A souls-like that launched broken and clawed its way to "Mostly Positive" through two years of relentless post-launch support — only to reopen the wound in 2026 by bolting on kernel-level anti-cheat that a fresh wave of reviewers say they can no longer trust.
6.5 / 10
Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree
A gorgeous Castlevania-meets-Dark-Souls action RPG whose strong opening hours give way, by a large share of its own reviewers' account, to boss reuse and repetitive combat -- and whose launch was briefly derailed by a real, since-resolved controversy over an overreaching EULA.
6.5 / 10
MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls
Arc System Works built a 4v4 Marvel tag-team fighter that reviewers who can actually run it are calling one of the best fighting games in years. Sony built the PC release around it, and that release blocks Linux and Steam Deck outright, requires a PSN account, and runs multiple redundant background services that are still eating performance a week after launch.
6.5 / 10
MineGeon: Renegades
A co-op sci-fi bullet-hell roguelite wearing its Enter the Gungeon and Risk of Rain 2 influences openly, launched days before this review with striking pixel art and a genuinely addictive "one more run" loop for a lot of early players — undercut by real, specific launch-week problems including slow pacing, unclear item descriptions, and a co-op experience-sharing bug players describe as making solo-focused group runs "unplayable" until fixed.
6.5 / 10
Nioh 3
A refined, widely praised evolution of Team Ninja's demanding samurai action RPG combat system, undercut by a severe and still-unresolved PC performance crisis — VRAM leaks, poor frame rates even on top-tier hardware, and stuttering that a genuine, sustained patch effort has not fully fixed as of five months after launch — that a large share of the negative review sample cites as the sole reason for an otherwise-loved game earning a thumbs down.
6.5 / 10
Nomad Survival
An auto-attacking bullet-heaven roguelite that launched the same month Vampire Survivors hit 1.0 -- a genuinely well-built entry in a genre that exploded around it, still Very Positive years later, but reviewers increasingly frame it against sharper rivals that didn't exist when it came out.
6.5 / 10
Nonstop Knight 2
Kopla Games' minimalist auto-run dungeon crawler grew a sequel's worth of heroes, guilds and elemental gear over seven years of live support, and the one thing that didn't survive the expansion is the thing its name promised.
6.5 / 10
OUTRIDERS
A sci-fi looter-shooter RPG that launched in April 2021 to a genuinely disastrous technical rollout, kept a real fanbase playing anyway on the strength of its gunplay, drew fresh backlash over a paid 2022 expansion, and ended with its own sequel cancelled after Square Enix and developer People Can Fly's relationship broke down entirely.
6.5 / 10