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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

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Out of Ore

A genuinely satisfying Klondike gold-rush mining tycoon sim from a studio whose previous Early Access title was abandoned and delisted — a history that shadows this one every time a years-old bug resurfaces or a new paid DLC lands on what a chunk of the audience still calls beta.

6.5 / 10

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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

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Palia

A free-to-play cozy MMO that survived its own studio nearly collapsing under it — Singularity 6 laid off around 40% of its staff across 2023 and 2024 before Daybreak Game Company bought the studio outright, and the game that emerged is still being patched roughly every three to four weeks in 2026. What it hasn't fixed is a monetisation model that increasingly charges real money to actually use rewards you already earned by playing.

6.5 / 10

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Party Animals

A genuinely fun physics-based brawler undermined by an offline/local-play promise the developer confirmed it never intended to keep, gacha-style loot mechanics in a paid game, and a regional split so sharp English reviews sit at 89% positive while Simplified Chinese sits at 67%.

6.5 / 10

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Planet Coaster 2

Frontier Developments' theme-park sequel launched into a genuinely well-documented content and feature regression from its predecessor — Steam Workshop removed, core PC1 content resold as DLC, a console-first UI — sitting Mostly Positive across more than 14,000 Steam reviews; this review can confirm, via a sustained year-and-a-half patch cadence through mid-2026, that Frontier did not abandon the game afterward, with a real, credited player-reported turnaround distinct from its rocky launch reputation.

6.5 / 10

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Ready or Not

A tense, tactically excellent SWAT shooter whose lifetime score is still recovering from a massive, well-documented 2025 review-bomb after the developer retroactively censored the PC version to match a new console release — recent sentiment suggests the wound is healing, but slowly.

6.5 / 10

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RIFTSTORM

A co-op PvE looter-shooter action RPG about squads of "Weavers" raiding hostile rifts for loot -- a Very Positive Early Access opener with a genuinely large review base, undercut for a vocal minority by an always-online requirement that costs solo players their progress on disconnect, and by a studio whose past Web3/NFT branding this review confirms is kept entirely separate from, and not required to play, the actual Steam game.

6.5 / 10

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Roadside Research

A gas-station management sim where you're secretly aliens gathering intel on humanity — a great hook for a group of friends on a Friday night, let down by how little the alien half actually changes about restocking shelves and running a till.

6.5 / 10

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Sea of Thieves

A beautiful, genuinely novel pirate sandbox whose reviews split almost entirely on one axis — whether you can tolerate its unrestricted PvP and the community built around it — plus a real, press-covered 2026 community-safety controversy worth knowing about before you buy.

6.5 / 10

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Shakes and Fidget

The idle RPG's grandparent, still running seventeen years on and still launching new worlds every few weeks — with a comic-fantasy charm that holds up and an economy built entirely around the moment a fresh leaderboard makes spending feel urgent.

6.5 / 10

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Soulmask

A survival game where you recruit tribespeople who keep working while you're logged out — a genuinely original idea, attached to a 1.0 launch so rough the developers published a public 90-day plan to fix it.

6.5 / 10

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SpellForce 3

A fantasy RTS/RPG hybrid that launched genuinely buggy and unbalanced in 2017, briefly carried a real, documented tracking-software controversy, and was rebuilt into a noticeably better game by a free 2020 overhaul most reviewers now treat as the definitive way to play it.

6.5 / 10

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StarSavior

A turn-based hero collector that grafts Uma Musume's training sim onto Honkai: Star Rail-style combat, with presentation to match — undercut by optimisation problems and a PvP ladder that leans harder on spending than its otherwise generous gacha deserves.

6.5 / 10

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StoneAge Idle Adventure

Netmarble folds its 25-year-old dinosaur-taming franchise into an idle deck-builder, and the 24-unit battles are genuinely more tactical than the "auto-play RPG" label suggests — right up until the real-time PvP mode starts pricing in who's willing to spend.

6.5 / 10

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Take That Hill

A digital adaptation of a real tabletop primer used by Fight Club International's professional military wargaming network — a 20-minute hex-and-counter hill assault built to teach the genre's core mechanics, shipped day one with zero user reviews and no achievement data to check its claims against.

6.5 / 10

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Techtonica

A factory-automation game that puts the camera underground and gives you a gun that deletes stone, so verticality and terrain destruction do real design work instead of being a setting. The idea is stronger than the execution — a convoluted tech tree, a frame rate that sags under a big base, and a developer that's gone quiet since the 1.0 launch hold it back.

6.5 / 10

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The Adventure Pals

Massive Monster's debut -- a Flash-game-turned-commercial platformer about a boy, his pet rock and a giraffe with a helicopter tongue -- is Very Positive on Steam, but the studio's own next game, Cult of the Lamb, became the actual hit; eight years of reviews explain the gap with one word repeated more than any other: repetitive.

6.5 / 10

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The Ascent

One of the most beautiful cyberpunk worlds ever built, wrapped around bugs that delete your save — reported in 2021, still reported in 2026, with an announcement feed containing five years of sales and no patch notes.

6.5 / 10

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The Lord of the Rings Return to Moria

A visually faithful Tolkien survival-crafting game whose negative sample is dominated by a genuine promise-versus-delivery gap — the store page promises resettling and restoring a thriving dwarven kingdom, but reviewers describe a mostly solitary escape through repetitive, procedurally generated tunnels that nobody ever comes to actually live in.

6.5 / 10

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