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80 games released in 2018 and reviewed here, best first.
80 reviews
The paid sequel to one of idle gaming's founding games spent almost six years in Early Access, tore up its own design twice, and was quietly pulled from sale in 2024 without ever reaching version 1.0. A look at what it tried to build and why it never finished building it.
4 / 10
A Hexen/Heretic-inspired retro FPS sold as a full release but shipped with roughly a tenth of its promised content — this review found and verified the developer's own quoted promise of more maps and ten hours of playtime, broken since 2018 with no updates since.
3.6 / 10
Fury Games Production's 2018 budget clicker promises a tycoon and delivers a five-achievement tap loop that its own tiny review base says is finished, and forgotten, within an afternoon.
3.5 / 10
A NZ$3.69 mobile port that charges upfront and then layers in-app purchases on top anyway — the single complaint its small review corpus has repeated, unprompted, for eight straight years, alongside a progression wall around planet 40-60 and a broken "offline progress" promise that shows up twice, four years apart.
3.5 / 10
A one-developer gladiator hack-and-slash that launched in 2018 as a stripped-down single-player sliver of a much bigger multiplayer Roman-arena RPG its own official website still describes as "upcoming" and "in alpha" — three Steam reviews total, and the one detailed negative report says the settings menu doesn't work.
3.2 / 10
A casual mini-game collection with a genuinely decent underlying concept, undercut by a messy, buggy implementation reviewers say is at times dreadful, a specific level-73 bug that can block completion, and a widely repeated claim that it largely reuses assets from its own predecessor.
3.2 / 10
A genuinely novel premise — build a crypto-mining empire starting in 2014 — abandoned by its developer mid-development, left with a reported unwinnable debt bug that can end a run outright, and dogged by real performance and security concerns this review could not fully resolve.
3 / 10
An imaginative premise — a giant mobile castle fleeing monsters across an open world — sold at an extraordinary NZ$289.99, which this review's own check of Steam's public records shows spent roughly six years in Early Access before quietly "leaving" it in 2024 with a single achievement and, by ten of eleven reviewers' accounts, barely a tutorial's worth of content.
1.8 / 10
