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34 games released in 2015 and reviewed here, best first.
34 reviews
A philosophical sci-fi horror game about consciousness, identity and what survives an underwater apocalypse — nine years on, still Overwhelmingly Positive, and still honestly criticized by a consistent minority for gameplay that some feel gets in the story's way.
9 / 10
Eleven years and one free next-gen overhaul later, CD Projekt Red's open-world epic is still best understood through its side quests rather than its main story — and its combat, inventory and level-gating have aged in ways the writing never did.
9 / 10
A decade-old solo-developed RPG that redefined what a choice-driven combat system could mean, sitting at Overwhelmingly Positive across a third of a million reviews. The recurring negative review isn't a criticism of the game so much as a criticism of how impossible it is to live up to its own reputation.
9 / 10
Eleven years in Early Access, 97.6% positive across 223,161 English reviews, and a graphics overhaul eight days old that has upset a loud minority without moving the score at all.
8.5 / 10
A solo developer's hand-drawn bullet-hell shoot-em-up from the Epic Battle Fantasy universe, seven years before "bullet heaven" became a genre label for something else entirely — reviewed on its seventy stages, its scalable difficulty, and the Flash-era tech it still carries.
8 / 10
The game that brought the isometric party RPG back from the dead, and spent a decade being judged against a memory of Baldur's Gate rather than on its own terms. Fewer than half its buyers finish Act I — but the ones who push through average eighty hours.
8 / 10
The most austere game Zachtronics ever made, and the one whose store page promises least — which is exactly why it rates higher than the siblings that promised more.
8 / 10
The Larian CRPG that laid the groundwork for Divinity: Original Sin 2 — genuinely one of the better-executed "Enhanced Editions" this library has covered, held back mainly by a back half its own fans agree drags compared to the sequel it made possible.
7.5 / 10
Bethesda's sprawling open-world RPG has weathered two separate, nearly identical controversies seven years apart — Creation Club's paid mods in 2017, and a 2024 "next-gen update" that broke almost everything the modding community had built to fix it.
7.5 / 10
A widely acclaimed single-player crime saga bundled with an online mode whose 2017-2018 wrongful-ban epidemic became one of the most documented anti-cheat fairness disputes on Steam — improved since, but echoed by a related complaint that persists into 2024-2025.
7.5 / 10
Zachtronics in three dimensions, and the one its own siblings' reviewers keep calling fun — except it rates below them, costs the most, and its critics say it isn't the factory game the name implies.
7.5 / 10
A 2015 Kongregate clicker that grew into one of the incremental genre's most durable idle RPGs by making its faction choice actually change how you play, not just which number gets bigger.
7.5 / 10
Eleven years old, free now, and still the most tactically interesting shooter ever made — with a store page whose 82% badge is averaging a decade of paid-game reviews against a free-to-play relaunch its own players rate ten points lower.
7.5 / 10
A free browser incremental that has been running since 2015 — trap creatures, build a war economy out of them, and watch a soft-reset loop of zones, portals and heliums turn into one of the deepest progression systems the genre has ever built.
7.5 / 10
A deep, punishing isometric turn-based RPG built by a single developer for players who remember loving — and being punished by — their first playthrough of Fallout 1, complete with the same build-breaking traps and a genuine wiki dependency to match.
7.5 / 10
The clicker that turned clicking optional — ascension, Hero Souls and the Ancients tree came from here, and the idle RPG genre never really left. A retrospective look at whether the game that built the template still deserves a slot in 2026.
7 / 10
The trilogy's most-argued-over entry, remembered by its launch reviewers for a bug so specific it became legend — weapon durability accidentally tied to framerate — and for a ban policy that lumped graphics-mod users in with actual cheaters.
7 / 10
A decade-old space colony sim with a specific, detailed design complaint at the heart of its negative reviews — one terrain quirk that some players call a fatal flaw and others, including a 900-hour veteran, call simple mismanagement.
7 / 10
The cult-classic CRPG built on a genuinely radical idea — that ending up in combat means your character build or your dialogue choices already failed — and a decade later, still the purest expression of a philosophy most of its own genre never dared attempt.
7 / 10
The roguelike that Shattered Pixel Dungeon forked from, sold on Steam by the original creator himself — as a largely untouched 2015 mobile port with a decade-old bug its own store page still doesn't mention.
6.5 / 10
The third and final Harebrained Schemes Shadowrun tactical RPG, and the trilogy's most divisive entry — some players call it a masterpiece with a thousand-plus hours to back it up, others say the Matrix hacking minigame and murky pacing undo what Dragonfall got right.
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
The formation-puzzle idle game that quietly wrote the rulebook Codename Entertainment later reused for Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms — still free, still playable, and frozen in place since its last update in April 2022.
6 / 10
VaragtP's puppet-theatre clicker arrived on Steam three weeks after Clicker Heroes and never quite escaped its shadow, but a decade of quiet patching, an honest NZ$4.49 price and zero microtransactions still make it worth a look — provided you don't mind that several of its 50 achievements want you to leave it running for a hundred hours or more.
6 / 10
