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187 Adventure games reviewed and scored, best first.
187 reviews
A pixel-art love letter to 1980s and 1990s slasher movies that nails its genre homage and gore-soaked presentation while offering barely more interactivity than a walking simulator, best understood as a horror movie for gamers rather than a horror game.
6 / 10
A genuinely unique premise — a disgraced writer who literally dives into books to steal fictional items — undercut by combat reviewers call unnecessary filler and dialogue choices that a striking number say don't meaningfully change anything.
6 / 10
Harebrained Schemes' pulpy 1930s take on XCOM-style tactics landed Mostly Positive with players, and cost publisher Paradox Interactive a confirmed $22.8 million write-down within a week of release -- a commercial disaster that split the studio from its publisher, ended patch support, and left global achievement data showing only 8.8% of owners ever finish it.
6 / 10
A Team17-published fantasy alchemy-adventure about a masked Warden brewing potions and taming creatures to stop a spreading corruption -- genuinely atmospheric and well-loved by a devoted minority, but let down by threadbare tutorials, a locked camera and a developer who shipped two patches in its first two weeks and then largely went quiet.
6 / 10
A Lovecraftian open-world detective game that spent nearly four years yanked off Steam entirely by a publisher lawsuit, then came back in 2024 as a self-published "Remastered" rebuild that swapped out the version some owners specifically wanted to keep -- Mostly Positive today, praised for atmosphere and mythos, criticized for repetitive investigation, weak combat, and a rocky relaunch.
6 / 10
An emotionally resonant underwater narrative adventure about grief and isolation, sold to many buyers expecting a Subnautica-style survival game and undercut for keyboard-and-mouse players by controls the game itself warns you to avoid.
6 / 10
A deliberately combat-free, chore-and-exploration adventure that sold itself as a Zelda meets Stardew Valley hybrid -- reviewers who took that pitch literally have spent nine years saying the same thing, that the surface is genuinely lovely and almost every system underneath it is thinner than the comparison implies.
6 / 10
A polished, charming solo-developer "unlosable tower defense" incremental — enemies march toward your walls and fall into a river of lava every single time — that's genuinely delightful for its first island before veteran idle players report every later island is a reskin of the first, and undercut by the single most-upvoted complaint in its review corpus: unremovable pop-up ads for other games inside the settings menu of a paid release.
6 / 10
A US$2.99 solo-dev idle collectathon — Pokemon's capture loop grafted onto a Forager-style island economy — that Steam's own review corpus calls "Mixed" for reasons that are mostly about launch-week polish, not the underlying design, from a developer who patched hard for five months and then quietly moved on to other projects.
5.8 / 10
A gorgeous, comic-book-styled pirate tactical RPG whose dice-and-deckbuilding combat system splits opinion sharply along one measurable line — reviewers who bailed within the first hour call it an unexplained mess, while those who stuck it out and actually read the in-game instructions largely came around, on top of a genuinely short, linear campaign with no ship battles.
5.5 / 10
A beautifully scored, well-drawn flooded-world adventure that a real share of players who loved this small studio's earlier games call a step down, mainly because of turn-based combat several reviewers, fans and critics alike, describe as slow and undemanding.
5.5 / 10
A gather-upgrade-fight resource loop with real short-term appeal that grows repetitive and punishing over a longer Early Access life, whose advertised co-op turns out to be shared-camera split-screen rather than independent multiplayer.
5.5 / 10
A solo-developer dungeon crawler where a small green-hooded adventurer works through expanding stone chambers on stamina, hearts and a growing key ring, with almost nobody outside the developer having weighed in on it yet.
5.5 / 10
A one-mechanic dragon-hunting action RPG — hold a direction, auto-fight, buy four stats — that most players clear in well under an hour, with an eleven-year-old windowed-mode bug still being reported the week before this review was written.
5.5 / 10
A 3-6 player multiplayer parkour game that pairs precision platforming with a build-your-loadout ability deck and a level-based unlock ladder, launched with a single Russian-language user review and zero people playing it at the moment this was checked.
5.5 / 10
A solo-developer escape-room-style puzzle adventure through a mysterious woodland — logically satisfying puzzles wrapped in almost no story, a missing settings menu and a runtime most reviewers clock at under an hour.
5.5 / 10
A striking black-and-white samurai action game built on Kurosawa-style cinematography -- and a rare case where even the game's own top-voted positive review opens by calling the combat "GOD AWFUL," in a corpus where that complaint appears in three out of every four negative reviews.
5.5 / 10
A cheap, chapter-based choose-your-own-adventure through an alternate 1888 British Empire from a developer better known for jigsaw puzzles — genuinely witty in places, undercut by a missing save system and a colonial-frontier premise played disappointingly straight.
5.5 / 10
A gorgeous, Breath of the Wild-indebted survival roguelite about a shipwrecked warrior sailing between procedural islands — praised for its art and boat-building, undercut by a identity crisis between story, survival and permadeath that most players never resolve, since fewer than one in eleven ever finishes it.
5.5 / 10
A genuinely beautiful atmospheric horror walking sim, undercut by an over-reliance on cheap jump scares that reviewers say breaks the very atmosphere it built, plus persistent crash reports spanning years and a store page that openly lists unresolved compatibility issues.
5.4 / 10
A beloved, nostalgic third entry in a genuinely well-regarded hidden-object adventure series, undercut by a severe, independently corroborated bug that makes the mouse cursor disappear for a meaningful share of players — described by more than one reviewer as making the game nearly unplayable.
5.3 / 10
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An old Viking's only goal is to find a death glorious enough to earn Valhalla, and the tall-tale premise is genuinely funny when the pop-culture gags land. What undercuts it is how much of its 2017 Steam port still behaves like the touchscreen game it started life as, down to the mid-playthrough prompt to rate it five stars on an app marketplace.
5.3 / 10
A charming season-manipulation fantasy adventure with a genuinely smart central mechanic and a well-told story, sunk at launch by a level of bugs, screen-tearing and broken abilities that both critics and players describe as feeling closer to a beta than a finished game.
5 / 10
A budget co-op horror extraction game about looting a haunted graveyard from a flying pirate ship, filed under "Massively Multiplayer" on Steam despite capping every session at six friends with no public lobby browser — a genre tag its own launch-day reviewers are already pointing out doesn't hold up.
5 / 10
