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System Shock

Nightdive Studios' remake of the genre-defining 1994 original remains Very Positive across nearly 13,000 Steam reviews, widely credited as a remarkably faithful, lovingly crafted recreation — a fidelity that cuts both ways, as the review sample consistently describes the remake preserving the original's genuinely cryptic, maze-like navigation right alongside its atmosphere, and this review can confirm the remake's own development nearly collapsed entirely when the project ran out of money partway through.

7.5 / 10

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Tactics Ogre: Reborn

Square Enix's remaster of a genre-defining 1995 tactical RPG splits its own most invested fans down the middle — the presentation, voice work and orchestration draw near-unanimous praise, while the specific gameplay changes to levelling, permadeath and the class system have produced some of the most detailed, dug-in disagreement this library has read on any remaster.

7.5 / 10

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Tears of Metal

A Scottish-flavoured Dynasty Warriors crossed with Risk of Rain 2, with genuinely praised combat, art direction and co-op carrying a large, consistent Steam review sample past a stingy meta-progression economy and some rough Early Access edges.

7.5 / 10

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge

A lovingly faithful throwback beat-'em-up from the Streets of Rage 4 team that nails its 90s arcade nostalgia almost unanimously, undercut by a short story campaign, cross-platform multiplayer several reviewers say doesn't actually work as advertised, and a save-corruption bug reported as unresolved years after launch.

7.5 / 10

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The Banner Saga

A gorgeously art-directed Viking tactical RPG whose story and presentation draw near-universal praise even from critical reviewers — undercut by a specific, mechanically precise complaint that recurs across a full decade: the combat's action-economy design makes injuring and sparing enemies the optimal strategy, so killing them is often actively punished.

7.5 / 10

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The Elder Scrolls Online

Twelve years and eight chapters after launch, The Elder Scrolls Online still lets you start anywhere and stay relevant everywhere. Level scaling bought that freedom; the trade-off is a levelling arc with no real stakes and a monetisation model dense enough to need a spreadsheet. Reviewed with Season One: Return of the Thieves Guild live.

7.5 / 10

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The First Berserker: Khazan

A genuinely excellent Soulslike with combat this library ranks among the best it's reviewed, one of the best-implemented easy modes in the genre, and a back half that a large share of its own fans say buckles into damage-sponge repetition — complicated further by a limited-time exclusive-content controversy, a Denuvo addition over a year after launch, and reports its own development team was restructured following disappointing sales.

7.5 / 10

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The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak

A soft-reboot entry point into Nihon Falcom's long-running Trails series, praised by newcomers and veterans alike for its new protagonist and combat, with a genuine, well-documented localisation dispute — multiple independent reviewers report English subtitles diverging from the original Japanese dialogue — that this review reports factually rather than adjudicates.

7.5 / 10

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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante

A narrative RPG that plays out across a lifetime, from birth to death, built around a genuinely subversive idea — your choices are gated by the stats your earlier choices built, whether or not that matches how you actually want to roleplay — that reviewers alternately praise as a brilliant deconstruction of choice-based storytelling and criticise as breaking the promise of meaningful choice altogether.

7.5 / 10

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The Messenger

Sabotage Studio's debut turns from an 8-bit Ninja Gaiden throwback into a 16-bit metroidvania halfway through, and that structural gamble is exactly what still divides its Steam reviews eight years later -- critics loved the twist in 2018, but a large share of players now say the backtracking-heavy second half undoes what the first half built.

7.5 / 10

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The Riftbreaker

A base-building, Factorio-flavoured action RPG that launched in October 2021 to strong acclaim, then spent nearly four years failing to deliver a promised co-op mode -- and finally did, in August 2025, bundled with a loot rework substantial enough to spark a fresh wave of complaints from the veterans who'd waited for it.

7.5 / 10

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The Talos Principle 2

A gorgeous, ambitious philosophical puzzle sequel that expands everything the original did, which a large and vocal share of veteran fans argue is exactly the problem — bigger worlds, more dialogue and easier puzzles than the tight, focused original they loved.

7.5 / 10

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The Wild at Heart

A charming, Pikmin-inspired storybook fantasy adventure about two runaway children commanding a herd of forest spirits -- Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam for its art and atmosphere, with a consistent, specific complaint that its combat and controls never match the genre giant it invites comparison to.

7.5 / 10

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Tinykin

A charming, gorgeously realised 3D exploration game about being shrunk down inside an ordinary suburban house, whose near-unanimous acclaim sits on top of a small but consistent minority report that the collecting loop underneath the charm doesn't have much depth once the novelty wears off.

7.5 / 10

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Tiny Rogues

A fantasy bullet-hell roguelite with a loop players return to for hundreds and even thousands of hours, running in the same Early Access state for nearly four years -- Steam's own achievement data and the solo developer's own dev-blog admissions both back up the loudest recent complaint, that its major content update keeps slipping.

7.5 / 10

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Tokyo Xtreme Racer

A deliberately old-school highway battle racer from series creator Genki, returning after 18 years with an honest, monetisation-free business model its fans celebrate almost as much as the driving itself — sitting alongside a real, persistent complaint about rubberbanding AI and repetitive race structure that spans the whole year from Early Access into full release.

7.5 / 10

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Total War SHOGUN 2

Widely regarded as the best-received entry in the Total War series (Metacritic 90) and still Very Positive on Steam — but a May 2023 update that stripped multiplayer chat, broke the Mod Manager and invalidated saves on a beloved 12-year-old game triggered a wave of protest reviews that, unlike similar incidents elsewhere in this outlet's library, remains unresolved through 2026.

7.5 / 10

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