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1892 games we have reviewed that run on Windows PC, best first.
1892 reviews
A NZ$7.39 pixel-art sci-fi platformer whose energy-sword combat and moody planet-hopping presentation earn genuine, specific praise across its small but positive Steam corpus, undercut by a purchase-gated weapon ladder several reviewers call grindy and linear, five worlds that read as more similar than different, and a name that at least two players say oversells how much of a roguelike it actually is.
6.5 / 10
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
A visually stunning, atmospheric return to the Zone whose biggest problem is the one thing longtime fans wanted most — its signature "A-Life" living-world simulation shipped broken or absent, according to a majority of this review's negative sample, and persistent performance problems have outlasted more than a year of patches.
6.5 / 10
A psychological-horror bureaucracy sim that asks you to cross-check contradictory paperwork against a company terminal and stamp APPROVED or REJECTED — Papers, Please's mechanic wearing a haunted-office coat, from a developer who shipped two other small horror games the same fortnight.
6.5 / 10
The clearest case in this library of a Steam score that has become a historical document — a Mixed badge earned in 2023 sitting on top of a game that, three years and a flight update later, its current players mostly recommend.
6.5 / 10
A promising sixth entry in tri-Ace's long-running sci-fantasy JRPG series that opens strong and, by wide reviewer consensus, loses momentum in its second half -- while a PC-specific performance regression from a since-abandoned patch keeps showing up in reviews years later.
6.5 / 10
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
An Americana-infused space trucking sim that launched without control remapping — locking out at least one player with a physical disability entirely — before a fast fix and nearly two years of steady, ongoing support. This review reads the whole arc, not just the rocky opening week.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed space factory incremental with a five-hour campaign and a clean ending instead of an endless ladder. The idea is refreshing; the execution runs out of steam exactly when the prestige system should be taking over.
6.5 / 10
A 2014 browser incremental where larvae become drones, drones become queens and queens build nests — one of the earliest games to make a production chain the entire point, later rebuilt in 3D as the free-to-play Swarm Simulator: Evolution on Steam and Android.
6.5 / 10
A solo developer's entry into the Vampire Survivors mould gives its weapons a personality of their own, and arrives with a genuinely large unlock list for a two-day-old free release — the question this first look can't yet answer is how it plays at hour twenty.
6.5 / 10
A free browser incremental built by two developers since 2019, stacking Prestige into Transcension into Reincarnation into Ascension into Singularity — more reset layers than almost anything in the genre, though not every one of them changes what the layer below it means.
6.5 / 10
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
A free 3D Clicker Heroes clone from 2015 that its own inspiration's developer publicly defended — still getting a slow trickle of players in 2026, still frozen at the last patch it ever received.
6.5 / 10
A free-to-play hybrid of idle progression and top-down action RPG shooting whose distinctive "active idle" design — punishing players for leaving it running unattended — earns it a genuinely loyal, extremely high-hour fanbase while alienating anyone who came looking for a conventional idler.
6.5 / 10
A taskbar-dwelling pixel-pet companion app from solo developer Ascalon Games, released free in May 2023, later moved to a one-time NZ$4.49 purchase with Steam Workshop support for custom pets added in January 2025.
6.5 / 10
A free-to-play idle RPG that literally lives in your Windows taskbar, auto-battling and hatching monster eggs while you work -- notable for a genuinely non-predatory monetisation model (fixed-content passes, no real-money gacha) but launched 11 August 2026 to a Mixed reception, with a disclosed use of generative AI art drawing some of the pushback.
6.5 / 10
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
HeroCraft's open-world pirate action RPG sets you loose across three continents of real-time sailing, ship-to-ship broadsides and kraken hunts. Nearly a decade after launch it's still a genuinely good naval combat sandbox wrapped around a shallow melee layer, patched through some real bugs, and increasingly interrupted by promotional pop-ups for HeroCraft's other games.
6.5 / 10
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
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
A solo Finnish developer's family-friendly storybook RPG released on Steam yesterday — gentle turn-based dice combat, gnomes and fire foxes to free, a garden to tend, and a documented ascension from folk tale to playable systems — reviewed on launch-day evidence, with an achievement spread that resolves to roughly three reporting accounts.
6.5 / 10
A genre mashup its own fans call an "uncut diamond" — Fallout-flavoured post-apocalyptic exploration, Darkest Dungeon-style combat and a real card-battler deckbuilding layer — whose lifetime review score is dragged down mostly by complaints from over a year before its actual 1.0 release.
6.5 / 10
A choice-driven interactive fiction RPG told entirely through the pages of a turning book, following Karl von Aiden across five chapters, three routes and six ways to die — from a Chinese solo-scale studio, with AI-assisted CG art and full dual-language narration, and so far a launch nobody has reviewed.
6.5 / 10
