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1892 games we have reviewed that run on Windows PC, best first.
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A technically polished remake of a beloved Yakuza entry, bundled with a well-regarded new prequel chapter, whose Mixed reception is driven by two distinct and separately documented problems — substantial cuts to the original's beloved side content, and a genuine, well-sourced controversy over the studio's decision to recast a character using an actor who has admitted to sexual misconduct, despite a sustained fan campaign asking them not to.
6 / 10
An idle game about writing software that picks the smartest possible theme for the genre — and then hits a scaling wall a few tiers in, while its design is still being rewritten in public.
6 / 10
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A deliberately combat-free, chore-and-exploration adventure that sold itself as a Zelda meets Stardew Valley hybrid -- reviewers who took that pitch literally have spent nine years saying the same thing, that the surface is genuinely lovely and almost every system underneath it is thinner than the comparison implies.
6 / 10
A polished, charming solo-developer "unlosable tower defense" incremental — enemies march toward your walls and fall into a river of lava every single time — that's genuinely delightful for its first island before veteran idle players report every later island is a reskin of the first, and undercut by the single most-upvoted complaint in its review corpus: unremovable pop-up ads for other games inside the settings menu of a paid release.
6 / 10
A genuinely striking noir art style and story wrapped around two half-realized game systems — a business sim too simple to satisfy and a detective clue-connecting mechanic several reviewers call arbitrary enough to feel like a coin flip.
5.9 / 10
A solo-developer survival RPG that stacks base building, faction reputation, dungeon crawling and an 11-category weapon system onto an escalating chain of islands — an enormous feature list for the price, but one that remains almost entirely unreviewed nearly two years after launch.
5.8 / 10
A genuinely deep double-prestige incremental wearing a crypto-mining skin, undone by a UI that assumes you'll join the Discord to understand it and a leaderboard economy built on premium currency that decays before you can spend it.
5.8 / 10
A three-person studio's ambitious mash-up of Total War sieges, Stronghold-style town building and a Crusader Kings-flavoured campaign map — held back by a jittery frame rate, a threadbare interface and a developer now selling the same idea for the fourth time.
5.8 / 10
A busier, more mechanically ambitious sibling to Holyday City Reloaded, wrapped around a King Midas fantasy — but its optional events lean harder into gambling than its stablemate ever did, and its last patch predates that game's too.
5.8 / 10
A US$2.99 solo-dev idle collectathon — Pokemon's capture loop grafted onto a Forager-style island economy — that Steam's own review corpus calls "Mixed" for reasons that are mostly about launch-week polish, not the underlying design, from a developer who patched hard for five months and then quietly moved on to other projects.
5.8 / 10
A short, simple, family-friendly hidden-object mystery that most reviewers on both sides of the aggregate agree is enjoyable while it lasts — but too brief and too generic in its story for many to call it worth the full asking price.
5.8 / 10
A NZ$4.49 pond-tycoon idler from Inner Realm Studios — the same solo developer's first game, made a year before Lumberjacked — checked against a thin but fully-read corpus of 77 Steam reviews, its achievement-completion curve, and the studio's own later fishing game, which one reviewer names directly as the better version of this idea.
5.8 / 10
A NZ$2.49 comedy RPG about a duck-obsessed space captain fighting an evil wizard with dice instead of combat — a genuinely tiny, self-aware indie project with zero written Steam reviews in either direction, but real achievement data confirming people do finish it.
5.8 / 10
A solo-developed found-footage horror game that drops a lost teenager into the Backrooms, hunted by a sound-sensitive entity — scary for its first twenty minutes, then a jumpscare-heavy fetch quest for the rest.
5.8 / 10
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A NZ$4.49 Cookie Clicker-style incremental from EagleEye Games, checked against every single English Steam review it has — all 53, positive and negative — plus its own achievement-completion curve and vote-weighted community tags, which rank it an Idler and an Incremental well ahead of the official "Simulation" genre label.
5.7 / 10
The first legal English release of a genuine 1995 horror pioneer, widely described by reviewers as an emulated ROM with a launcher rather than a true remaster — a specific, obtrusive cutscene-unlock popup and missing audio settings draw the sharpest complaints, though this review confirmed the developer rapidly patched several launch-crash issues within weeks.
5.7 / 10
A genuinely engaging shop-management horror hybrid with a story reviewers say is worth seeing through to the end, undercut by real repetition once the novelty wears off, a save system that can lose hours of progress to crashes, and one serious complaint about its handling of mental illness themes.
5.6 / 10
A NZ$3.19 minimalist block-breaking puzzle that dresses each stage up as a psychological phenomenon — anxiety, ADHD, perfectionism, obsession. The idea is more interesting than the evidence that it actually pays off; the entire public record on this three-month-old release is two Steam reviews, split exactly down the middle.
5.6 / 10
A VR-supported open-world survival game whose entire, small early review sample dates from its first three days — a window that turns out to mostly predate two patches directly fixing nearly every specific bug those reviews describe.
5.5 / 10
A visually striking underwater city-builder whose post-apocalyptic survival premise promises real struggle, but whose actual build-research-wait loop draws consistent, specific comparisons to a much easier Anno — pretty to look at, reviewers say, with too little game underneath.
5.5 / 10
One of survival gaming's defining sandbox games, whose Mostly Positive 80% across 332,096 reviews now sits under a live, furious controversy — official servers sunset in 2023 to push players toward a paid Unreal Engine 5 remaster after reviewers cite an archived tweet promising that exact upgrade would be free, and a 2025 update reviewers say broke years of mods, maps and communities on the way out.
5.5 / 10
A post-apocalyptic 3D colony sim from the team behind RimWorld's Combat Extended mod that launched into Early Access far rougher than its years of hype promised — genuine game-breaking bugs and missing basics, offset by real community goodwill toward developers open about the production troubles that forced an early, underfunded launch.
5.5 / 10
A dark fantasy idle ARPG about gearing up a build and sending it off on automated looting runs -- a real if thin Mixed reception built on specific complaints about bland passives and unfinished translation, overshadowed since launch by a genuine, press-covered controversy over the solo developer's Steam AI disclosure, which argued AI use was a financial necessity and drew public pushback from other independent developers.
5.5 / 10
A medieval settlement-builder with a genuinely strong building system wrapped around combat many call broken and a grind several find exhausting, complicated further by community anxiety about the developer's history — anxiety this review's own check finds only partly holds up against Bellwright's own active patch record.
5.5 / 10
