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Planet of Lana

A visually stunning sci-fi puzzle-platformer that draws the same LIMBO and INSIDE comparisons its critics use against it, praised almost unanimously for its art and music while a large, specific share of its own reviewers argue the puzzles never move past their opening ideas.

7.5 / 10

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PlateUp!

A one-person-built, Overcooked-inspired restaurant roguelite that sold over 1.5 million copies on the strength of its co-op chaos and permanent between-run progression -- Very Positive at Steam scale, with a consistent, well-documented complaint that its randomised upgrade rolls and multiplayer netcode haven't kept pace with everything else it does well.

7.5 / 10

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Portalborn

A fully text-based, single-player MUD revival with Steam Workshop mod support — reviewed against its complete English sample plus a translated look at its small Chinese-language negative sample, whose UI complaints this review found the developer had already fixed by name.

7.5 / 10

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Potionomics

A witch-run potion shop, a card-based haggling minigame that critics singled out as genuinely clever, and a debt-clock structure so demanding that fewer than one in five players who own it have ever actually paid it off -- an IGF audience-award winner whose charm and its exhausting pace turn out to be the same design decision.

7.5 / 10

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PowerWash Simulator

A genuinely therapeutic cleaning simulator that reviewers describe helping with anxiety and bad days alike — undercut for a real, growing share of players by achievements locked behind a fast-multiplying string of paid DLC packs.

7.5 / 10

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Prelude Dark Pain

A Seville studio's debut tactical RPG that looks like Darkest Dungeon and plays like Final Fantasy Tactics — two battle points a turn, a board that fights back, and one act of a campaign that has another year of building to do.

7.5 / 10

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Pyre

Supergiant Games followed Bastion and Transistor with a fantasy exile story told through a three-on-three magical sport, and split its own fanbase in half doing it -- one of its own most quoted reviews calls it "Supergiant's worst game, but their best piece of art."

7.5 / 10

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Ravenswatch

A fairytale-hero action roguelite whose distinct, wildly different playable characters and tight combat earn it a lasting Very Positive score, dragged down by a permanent three-map ceiling its own developers have confirmed will not grow, even as the roster keeps expanding.

7.5 / 10

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Rayman Legends

A gorgeous, exquisitely designed 2D platformer widely regarded as a genre high point — increasingly overshadowed on Steam by a mandatory Ubisoft Connect requirement that reviewers describe wiping progress, blocking launches, and making one achievement outright impossible after Ubisoft took down its servers.

7.5 / 10

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Readerpet

A free reading-habit companion that turns finished books into a growing pixel-art garden, tended by a Siamese cat named Grimalkin — released yesterday, built by a working novelist, and refreshingly upfront about having no ads, no energy bars and no dark patterns.

7.5 / 10

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Remnant From the Ashes

A well-liked gunplay-and-souls hybrid whose negative sample carries a genuine, multi-year design complaint about mob-swarmed boss fights, a serious matchmaking flaw that let cheaters corrupt other players' saves, and one very high-vote but singular allegation of the developer banning a negative reviewer, which this review reports cautiously rather than as fact.

7.5 / 10

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Re:Night

A Kickstarter-funded tactics/deckbuilding roguelike that launched to a small, entirely non-English review sample — this review translated and read all fourteen of them in full to find a genuinely praised elemental-tactics system with one sharp, specific complaint about shop RNG.

7.5 / 10

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R.E.P.O.

A physics-driven co-op extraction horror that wears its Lethal Company debt openly and still carved out its own identity — helped, oddly, by a store banner so deliberately ugly that half its own reviews open by apologising for it.

7.5 / 10

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Rift of the NecroDancer

Brace Yourself Games turns Crypt of the NecroDancer's rhythm-roguelike DNA into a dedicated rhythm game where monsters are the notes -- a genuinely inventive idea that a clear majority love, held back for a real minority by readability problems at high difficulty and a DLC catalogue that now costs several times the base game.

7.5 / 10

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Risen

Widely regarded as Piranha Bytes' finest work and the true spiritual successor to their acclaimed Gothic series, Risen carries a remarkably stable, decade-spanning structural complaint — a genuinely strong first half giving way to a repetitive, fetch-quest-heavy final chapter that reviewers writing in 2016 and 2026 alike describe almost identically.

7.5 / 10

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Rogue Legacy

The game that invented the thing every roguelite now does — you die, your heir inherits, and the upgrades stay. Thirteen years later its founding criticism is still the genre's central argument, and its own sequel does it better.

7.5 / 10

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Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma

A fresh, simplified take on the farming-fantasy-action RPG series that plays well for newcomers and won an enormous, healthy Steam audience, but whose own review base — dominated by reviewers who've played every prior entry — argues repeatedly that the series' deeper systems were stripped out rather than modernised.

7.5 / 10

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