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1892 games we have reviewed that run on Windows PC, best first.
1892 reviews
A Hades-and-Dead-Cells-flavoured roguelite metroidvania whose art, combat feel and hub writing draw strong praise for its opening hours, with a consistent, specific counter-argument that its meta-progression grows passive rather than build-defining once the difficulty ramps up.
7.5 / 10
A beloved co-op space-building sandbox with three distinct eras in its review history — an adored Early Access, a 1.0 launch derailed by an EULA backlash that had nothing to do with the game, and a 2025 wave of long-term fans warning newcomers about DLC and premium currency arriving after a "strategic acquisition."
7.5 / 10
A colony sim that turns its whole progression system into a programming lesson — you don't unlock better robots, you unlock better scripts, and the game lives or dies on whether that scripting language can keep up with the colony you build with it.
7.5 / 10
Obsidian trades the open world it once pitched for four dense, handcrafted regions of Eora, and the trade mostly pays off — sharp first-person combat and companions with real opinions, wrapped around a plague mystery that resolves faster than it deserves to.
7.5 / 10
Backpack Hero turns the inventory screen itself into the entire combat system — item shape, orientation and neighbouring slots decide what a fight looks like, not a separate stats page. A look at whether that idea, and the game built around it, survived the jump from a free browser prototype to a finished commercial release the developer has since gone quiet on.
7.5 / 10
A submarine survival-horror sim where the alien monsters outside are rarely the reason a run ends badly — its own review corpus is unusually consistent that the biggest threat is the crew, whether through griefing, incompetence, or seven years of accumulated engine jank.
7.5 / 10
A gorgeously illustrated storybook mystery whose "charm" branching mechanic promises narrative agency that a large, detailed share of its own reviewers say never really arrives, funnelling every path toward one true ending while the story runs noticeably long after its central mystery resolves.
7.5 / 10
A genuinely bizarre, endlessly quotable first-person incremental game about growing berries and sacrificing them to a sentient hole — Overwhelmingly Positive across more than 8,000 reviews and driven to virality by a streamer discovery, with an honest, consistent minority complaint that its horror-tinged mystery and mid-game unlock tree don't live up to the strength of its opening hook.
7.5 / 10
A charming, wildly inventive indie 3D platformer from a small team, its tongue-swinging, free-climbing movement earning direct, specific comparisons to Super Mario Odyssey and A Hat in Time — undercut by real, honestly documented technical rough edges, including soft-locks and physics inconsistencies, that an exceptionally responsive developer has spent months patching at a near-daily cadence since launch.
7.5 / 10
A co-op game about walking and talking with friends, from the Untitled Goose Game studio — shipped two days ago without a separate voice volume slider, so half its reviews are the same polite request written 1,400 different ways.
7.5 / 10
A desktop-postcard idle game about attracting and photographing over 130 real bird species, charming enough to convert players who weren't birdwatchers or idle-game fans going in — held back at launch by a genuinely rough technical start that the developer has spent the months since steadily patching away.
7.5 / 10
An action-combat MMO where the fighting is closer to a character-action game than a tab-target RPG, the real long-term game is an offline worker economy running nodes and trade routes while you're logged out, and gear upgrades can fail hard enough to destroy the item you spent months building. Ten years old, still getting weekly content, and still the most mechanically dense MMO most players will ever half-understand.
7.5 / 10
A Seville studio's Kickstarter-funded Metroidvania built from Spanish Holy Week processions and Goya paintings -- still Very Positive on Steam seven years and three free expansions later, with the exact same critic-and-player split that greeted it at launch: some of the best pixel art and atmosphere in the genre, wrapped around movement and combat feel a real share of players never warm to.
7.5 / 10
A horde-survival roguelite that makes you actually fight, forcing constant swaps between melee and ranged weapons against enemies built to resist whichever one you're not holding — a deliberate answer to the genre's reputation for playing itself.
7.5 / 10
Koji Igarashi's Kickstarter-funded spiritual successor to Symphony of the Night is still a deep, generously-supported Metroidvania seven years on -- but a December 2025 switch to requiring Epic Online Services has visibly dragged its recent review score down from Very Positive to Mostly Positive.
7.5 / 10
A free cat that drums your taskbar every time you press a key — 107,572 reviews at 96.6%, 5.8 million downloads in year one by the developer's own count, and an achievement ladder that climbed to 25 million bongos and broke its own completionists.
7.5 / 10
A Nordic dark-fairytale adventure whose art, music and folklore draw close to unanimous praise — repeated inside its own top positive review, which admits to hand cramps from "tedious" trial-and-error platforming — while Steam's own data shows nearly half of buyers still see it through to the end.
7.5 / 10
A factory-automation colony sim where the terrain itself is a resource — you mine the ground you build on, dump waste that physically piles up, and the island's shape becomes a side effect of every production decision. Four years into Early Access, with two to four more to go by the developer's own estimate.
7.5 / 10
Digital Sun's brick-by-brick fortress-defense strategy game turns "height equals strength" into a genuinely inventive building puzzle wrapped in striking dark fantasy art -- loved by most for exactly that, while a real minority call its systems shallower than the building toy suggests once the campaign's difficulty and pacing settle in.
7.5 / 10
A genuinely brilliant film-noir comedy adventure with writing and voice work reviewers compare favourably to Chicken Police and Blacksad, held back only by real, specific complaints that there's barely a game underneath the dialogue.
7.5 / 10
A cheap, brutal, four-player climbing game that turned into one of 2024's biggest Twitch phenomena almost overnight -- rage-comedy physical comedy where the whole point is watching your friends drag you off a ledge, not a game built to survive a second playthrough.
7.5 / 10
A Kickstarter-funded cozy bunny-baker life sim that earned an Overwhelmingly Positive Steam badge and a genuinely tiny, fully-readable negative sample — one whose most substantive complaints, thin post-recipe content and an awkward split-screen co-op mode, echo patterns this outlet has flagged elsewhere without dominating the game's reception the way they have for bigger releases.
7.5 / 10
A sci-fi tabletop RPG that expands its predecessor's dice-and-clocks storytelling into a ship-hopping journey across a whole star belt, earning two BAFTA nominations and a Best Narrative award along the way — while a large majority of its own harshest Steam reviewers are the first game's biggest fans, measuring it against a beloved original and finding its punishing new dice system the hardest part to forgive.
7.5 / 10
A NZ$7.39 first-person clicker that spends most of its three-to-six-hour runtime pretending to be a joke about number-go-down before revealing a real escape-room puzzle structure — checked against a 442-review corpus and achievement data showing only about one buyer in nine ever reaches the end.
7.5 / 10
