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DOOM (2016)

One of the most acclaimed shooters of its generation, still Overwhelmingly Positive a decade on with recent sentiment running even stronger than its already-elite lifetime score — its few substantive complaints are a matter of taste (some find the campaign repetitive) and a largely historical, patched save-wiping bug from launch week, not anything currently live.

9 / 10

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ULTRAKILL

97.4% positive across 239,293 reviews, still in Early Access after nearly six years — and it set its all-time player record in February 2026, more than five years after launch.

9 / 10

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Undertale

A decade-old solo-developed RPG that redefined what a choice-driven combat system could mean, sitting at Overwhelmingly Positive across a third of a million reviews. The recurring negative review isn't a criticism of the game so much as a criticism of how impossible it is to live up to its own reputation.

9 / 10

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Crab Champions

A roguelite shooter about a crab with a gun, 98% positive across 26,943 English reviews — and the only people complaining have sixty to two hundred hours in it and think the balance patches ruined their favourite build.

8.5 / 10

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DOOM Eternal

A visually spectacular, mechanically excellent shooter that reshaped its predecessor's combat into a more demanding resource-management loop some veterans call a chore rather than an improvement — and whose negative sample still carries two well-documented controversies years later: a 2020 kernel-level anti-cheat scandal (since removed) and an ongoing protest over id Software's treatment of composer Mick Gordon.

8.5 / 10

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Enter the Gungeon

A genre-defining bullet-hell roguelike about diving through a fortress of guns to find the one weapon that can kill the past — nearly a decade old and still Overwhelmingly Positive across almost 80,000 reviews, with fans logging thousands of hours apiece, undercut by a steep, RNG-heavy difficulty curve and a still-raw 2025 controversy over online co-op arriving on mobile years before it ever reached PC or console.

8.5 / 10

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Neon White

A first-person speedrunning platformer built around discarding cards for guns or traversal tricks, whose movement design earns some of the most enthusiastic praise this library has documented, attached to a visual-novel dating-sim story its own fanbase mocks almost unanimously while still recommending the game without hesitation.

8.5 / 10

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NieR:Automata

A genuine landmark action RPG whose Steam version spent four years as a warning label of its own — a beloved, philosophically ambitious game shipped in a technically broken PC port that Square Enix quietly fixed on a different storefront first.

8.5 / 10

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Pathogenic

A hundred thousand copies in its first week, and deservedly — you play a single parasite tearing organelles out of immune cells and grafting them onto your own body. The best twin-stick roguelite of the year so far, with one genuinely misleading line on its store page.

8.5 / 10

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Rabbit and Steel

MMO raid mechanics compressed into a 40-minute co-op roguelike, 97.9% positive with a perfect recent record — and a colour-clarity problem that kills players through no fault of their own.

8.5 / 10

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Truxton Extreme

A modern 3D reimagining of Toaplan's 1988 arcade shmup Truxton, made by the original studio with the original director returning — and received with a depth of emotion this genre rarely gets from reviewers who never expected to see this series again.

8.5 / 10

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Doloc Town

A side-scrolling farming sim that spent roughly fifteen months in Early Access before its 5 August 2026 graduation to 1.0, pairing Stardew-style crop and relationship systems with vertical platform building, gene-splicing crops, and bullet-hell drone combat against the ruins of a collapsed world.

8.2 / 10

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Brotato

Blobfish's one-person arena shooter hands a potato six weapon slots and lets stat stacking do the rest — a review of how far chips-in-the-shop decision-making carries a twenty-wave run, and where the plain presentation and a few solved builds hold it back.

8 / 10

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Bullet Heaven 2

A solo developer's hand-drawn bullet-hell shoot-em-up from the Epic Battle Fantasy universe, seven years before "bullet heaven" became a genre label for something else entirely — reviewed on its seventy stages, its scalable difficulty, and the Flash-era tech it still carries.

8 / 10

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HEARTDUST

A solo developer's early-2000s-styled horror PvP and co-op shooter, framed as a cursed childhood game whose servers mysteriously reopened — reviewed on a complete, entirely positive 25-review sample spanning English and a notably large Spanish-speaking fanbase.

8 / 10

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It Consumes

A one-day-old arena shooter played almost entirely in the dark, where a pulsing heartbeat is your only light source — reviewed on a genuinely complete sample of its first sixteen reviews, every single one of them positive.

8 / 10

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Left 4 Dead 2

A co-op zombie classic still Overwhelmingly Positive 17 years on, beloved for exactly what it doesn't have — no loot boxes, no unlocks, no grind — held back for the entire span of its Steam review history by one specific, remarkably persistent complaint about its Versus community.

8 / 10

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