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80 games released in 2018 and reviewed here, best first.
80 reviews
White Rabbit's 2D souls-like metroidvania launched thin and unpolished in 2018, then got a genuinely massive free overhaul three years later -- and while Afterlife fixed a lot, its own recent reviews show real, specific problems (balance spikes, no fast travel until late, a six-year-old unfixed framerate bug) that never fully went away.
6.5 / 10
A medieval cemetery sim with a tech tree the size of a small factory game and a sense of humour about corpse disposal. Also the only game I've reviewed where a player says they finished it out of hatred — and where the community's fix is a mod list that removes the walking.
6.5 / 10
A polished AdVenture Capitalist-style idle tycoon that still earns steady thumbs-ups eight years on, even though its developer stopped visibly supporting it in 2019.
6.5 / 10
The comfort-game renovation sim that made cleaning and decorating genuinely satisfying — weighed down by a progress-erasing bug reviewers have reported for years and a sprawling paid DLC ecosystem that locks most of the game's achievements behind it.
6.5 / 10
Grumpy Rhino Games' 2018 cult-tycoon idler turns its tower into an actual production chain instead of an upgrade list, and its Idol-summoning prestige loop still holds up — but the studio has settled into bug-fix-only maintenance, and there's little new to chase for anyone who cleared the tower years ago.
6.5 / 10
A tense, punishing tactical shooter with genuinely excellent gunplay, now navigating the real aftermath of its developer's confirmed 2023 layoffs and subsequent ownership changes — a corporate instability story its own players have watched unfold in real time.
6.5 / 10
The most-mocked mobile game on the internet turns out to be running one of the deeper gear-optimisation systems in the genre underneath its meme reputation — the honest problem isn't that Raid is shallow, it's how much of your week the energy bar and the shard economy are willing to take.
6.5 / 10
A beautiful, genuinely novel pirate sandbox whose reviews split almost entirely on one axis — whether you can tolerate its unrestricted PvP and the community built around it — plus a real, press-covered 2026 community-safety controversy worth knowing about before you buy.
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
Lunar Ray Games' Kickstarter-funded, Castlevania-inspired metroidvania is Very Positive on Steam, but its negative review sample splits into two genuinely different arguments -- one about real, specific shortcomings in combat, length and writing craft, and a separate, unusually large one objecting not to mechanics but to the game's prominent queer and trans representation.
6.5 / 10
DONTNOD's narrative vampire-RPG draws real praise for its moral choice system and atmospheric London setting, undercut by a genuinely clunky combat system that's the single most common complaint in this outlet's sample, and a deliberate "commit to your choices" single-save design that several reviewers describe compounding real bugs into permanent, un-fixable stuck states.
6.5 / 10
A 2018 Korean idle RPG that's still pulling a 4.3-star average from 153,000 Google Play reviews eight years on, built around a twelve-unit auto-battle roster and a genuinely layered guild-and-arena social game — undercut by a permanent roster cap, a bolted-on NFT feature, and a client that hasn't been updated since the studio's attention moved to its own sequel.
6 / 10
The trilogy's finale scores meaningfully lower than either predecessor — a severe, still-live crash and freeze problem compounded by the absence of a manual save option can cost players 30-40 minutes of progress at a time, and reviewers who loved the first two games widely call the conclusion rushed and unsatisfying.
6 / 10
A grimdark Diablo-like that launched always-online and unfinished in 2017, was widely credited by its own players with turning itself around after a specific 2019 overhaul patch, and didn't drop the always-online requirement that dogged its reputation until a dedicated offline mode arrived nearly seven years later.
6 / 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 block-building survival game that genuinely beat Minecraft onto the Wii U in 2015, now sitting on Steam as a cheap, single-player, hand-crafted-island clone that its own developer has left untouched since 2021.
5.5 / 10
Nexon's eight-year-old mobile MapleStory arrived on Steam in March 2026 with crossplay, a new job and a Mostly Negative rating. Underneath the port complaints is a more interesting game than its reviews suggest — an idle MMO whose central resource, auto-battle time, is metered at two free hours a day and sold for premium currency after that.
5.5 / 10
Veslo Games' web-of-relays base defence owes an open debt to the Kongregate flash classic The Space Game, and for a handful of missions that inheritance is a genuine strength. Fifty-two achievements and a leaderboard have sat broken since the developer went quiet in 2018, and the sixteen-mission campaign runs out of new ideas well before it runs out of missions.
5.5 / 10
A free 2018 AdVenture Capitalist-style clicker dressed up in cowboy hats, with a genuinely playable free loop, a reset curve that stretches from minutes to days, and an achievement list that expects you to recruit 80-plus strangers to friend you.
5.5 / 10
A genuinely detailed, historically respectful dive into the Titanic wreck that even its critics praise for content and atmosphere — let down by control and interface problems severe and consistent enough to make it feel unfinished for non-VR and gamepad players.
5.3 / 10
A prettily illustrated but extremely short visual novel mystery, undercut by an obvious, spoon-fed whodunnit, repetitive dialogue-loop gameplay, and text riddled with editing errors that a decade of silence has never fixed.
4.5 / 10
Albireo Games' cheap, no-frills tile-matching solitaire does exactly what its title promises and nothing else — pleasant enough for a short sitting, but its own players report a shuffle algorithm that regularly hands out unsolvable boards.
4.5 / 10
A free 2018 city-building idler, and the earliest of solo developer Aleksandr Golovkin's three Steam idle games — genuine strategic depth in its building trees and "Assimilation" prestige system, undercut by save-corrupting crashes that go back to launch week and a game the developer stopped touching for content in August 2018.
4.5 / 10
A Prohibition-era mafia grand strategy game with a genuinely rare premise and almost none of the depth needed to carry it past the first few hours.
4.2 / 10
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