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82 games released in 2020 and reviewed here, best first.

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Assassin's Creed Valhalla

A visually striking, content-packed Viking open-world RPG whose negative sample is dominated by a specific, well-documented complaint — a genuinely 15-20 hour story stretched with repetitive filler into 65-plus hours — compounded by a notorious two-year wait for Steam achievements and crash reports still arriving more than three years after release.

6.5 / 10

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A Way Out

Hazelight Studios' prison-break co-op predecessor to It Takes Two and Split Fiction remains Very Positive across more than 102,000 Steam reviews for its inventive, purely two-player design — but this review can confirm a real, still-current complaint It Takes Two eventually resolved: A Way Out's mandatory EA App launcher continues to cause connection failures, crashes and Steam-invite friction in reviews dated as recently as August 2025, with no fix announcement found anywhere in the developer's own Steam communications.

6.5 / 10

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Cloudpunk

A gorgeous voxel-built cyberpunk delivery-driver story that most of its own fans agree is close to a walking (or rather, flying) simulator — Very Positive at 86.2% across 8,209 reviews, propped up almost entirely by atmosphere and writing, with an unusually large and specific negative corpus arguing the actual moment-to-moment gameplay barely exists.

6.5 / 10

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Gears Tactics

A visually striking turn-based spin-off of the Gears of War franchise whose negative sample is dominated by one specific, repeated comparison — reviewers naming XCOM in nearly a third of negative reviews to argue Gears Tactics lacks a strategic layer, meaningful gear progression and mission variety, turning a strong opening into what several call a grindy slog.

6.5 / 10

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Idle Dice

A dice-rolling incremental from solo developer Lutsgames that sells itself on genuine randomness, then spends its entire upgrade tree quietly smoothing that randomness away — and the game is more interesting for admitting it can't have both.

6.5 / 10

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Incremental Adventures

A free idle RPG where automated heroes grind an endless dungeon and three stacked prestige layers turn the numbers exponential — sharp and generous early on, then quietly hollowed out by the same "just maximise damage" problem that hits most of the genre.

6.5 / 10

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Microsoft Flight Simulator

A genuine technical marvel that recreates the entire Earth in staggering, mesmerizing detail — sold on Steam behind a mandatory external-launcher download that reviewers have documented, consistently and specifically, running out Steam's refund window since launch day in 2020.

6.5 / 10

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Mr.Mine

A free idle mining game about drilling straight down instead of resetting to start over — Playsaurus's other idle series trades Clicker Heroes' ascension loop for one continuous 2,500km descent. What that costs the game, and what its ticket economy actually sells.

6.5 / 10

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Angel Legion

A free 3D hero-collector idle RPG that has quietly run six years and 160-plus servers on Steam, better known among its own reviewers for a Steam tag list — Nudity, Sexual Content, Hentai — that the actual client does not deliver on than for anything it does in combat.

6 / 10

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A Total War Saga: TROY

The strategy series' Bronze-Age take on the Iliad drew a record-breaking 7.5 million free claims on its Epic Games Store launch day, then met a very different reception a year later on Steam, where a stack of character DLC, a fantasy expansion and even a paid gore pack turned "half the roster is locked behind paywalls" into the review corpus's central complaint.

6 / 10

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Fall Guys

The 2020 party-royale phenomenon remains Very Positive lifetime, but its Steam page tells a genuinely unusual and still-unresolved story — pulled from sale after Epic Games' acquisition, converted to free-to-play, and still drawing sustained, specific anger from paying original owners four years later.

6 / 10

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Fallout 76

Gaming's most famous redemption arc went into reverse — negative reviews fell to five in 2023, then spiked to thirty-one in 2025, and the players writing them have two thousand hours each and one complaint: the subscription.

6 / 10

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Iron Danger

A genuinely novel time-rewind combat mechanic — freely wind time back mid-battle to try a different move — carries a debut studio's fantasy tactics game a long way, but a marketed "RPG" with no items, equipment or character building, and a story that thins out at the midpoint, means fewer than one in thirteen players ever finishes it.

6 / 10

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Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem

A CryEngine action RPG that scrapped fixed classes for a rotating passive wheel anyone can bend around any weapon — undone at launch by a server collapse that ate people's characters, and undone for good in September 2024 when the studio switched the multiplayer off forever.

6 / 10

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XCOM: Chimera Squad

A cheap, streamlined tactics spinoff that's held up reasonably well on its own mechanical terms for six years — until a company-wide Take-Two/2K Terms of Service change in 2025 dragged its recent review sentiment down over data collection and modding restrictions that have nothing to do with the game itself.

6 / 10

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Torchlight III

The Torchlight series' return from a scrapped free-to-play MMO experiment landed as a slimmer, shallower action RPG than its beloved predecessor — and six years on, its Mixed Steam rating hasn't moved an inch, even as the studio that made it no longer exists.

5.5 / 10

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Windbound

A gorgeous, Breath of the Wild-indebted survival roguelite about a shipwrecked warrior sailing between procedural islands — praised for its art and boat-building, undercut by a identity crisis between story, survival and permadeath that most players never resolve, since fewer than one in eleven ever finishes it.

5.5 / 10

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Idle Warrior

A NZ$1.49 clicker-idler that strips the genre down to a single warrior fighting an endless line of enemies, with just enough achievement structure to hold completionists — and just little enough content to leave everyone else asking what happened after 2021.

5.2 / 10

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