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191 games released in 2022 and reviewed here, best first.
191 reviews
You brew potions by physically dragging a pestle across a map of alchemical effects, and it's one of the best crafting mechanics anyone has invented. The argument isn't whether it's good — it's whether a brilliant idea that stopped being developed is worth twenty-nine dollars.
7.5 / 10
A witch-run potion shop, a card-based haggling minigame that critics singled out as genuinely clever, and a debt-clock structure so demanding that fewer than one in five players who own it have ever actually paid it off -- an IGF audience-award winner whose charm and its exhausting pace turn out to be the same design decision.
7.5 / 10
A genuinely therapeutic cleaning simulator that reviewers describe helping with anxiety and bad days alike — undercut for a real, growing share of players by achievements locked behind a fast-multiplying string of paid DLC packs.
7.5 / 10
Series creator Ron Gilbert's genuine return to the franchise thirty years on -- warmly received by a wide margin, and reopening the exact argument his own Monkey Island 2 ending started in 1991, with the same specific complaint dominating this game's negative reviews.
7.5 / 10
A village builder where everything — villagers, berries, houses, monsters — is a card on a table, and you craft by dragging one onto another. Twelve dollars, 96% positive, genuinely inventive. Then your table fills up and there is no way to automate anything.
7.5 / 10
An RPG Maker-built spiritual successor to Ogre Battle and Fire Emblem with genuinely excellent squad-tactics combat -- undercut, by its own fans' repeated admission, by a story its own community tags call "Story Rich" and its own review corpus calls the weakest part of the game.
7.5 / 10
Square Enix's remaster of a genre-defining 1995 tactical RPG splits its own most invested fans down the middle — the presentation, voice work and orchestration draw near-unanimous praise, while the specific gameplay changes to levelling, permadeath and the class system have produced some of the most detailed, dug-in disagreement this library has read on any remaster.
7.5 / 10
A lovingly faithful throwback beat-'em-up from the Streets of Rage 4 team that nails its 90s arcade nostalgia almost unanimously, undercut by a short story campaign, cross-platform multiplayer several reviewers say doesn't actually work as advertised, and a save-corruption bug reported as unresolved years after launch.
7.5 / 10
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A charming, gorgeously realised 3D exploration game about being shrunk down inside an ordinary suburban house, whose near-unanimous acclaim sits on top of a small but consistent minority report that the collecting loop underneath the charm doesn't have much depth once the novelty wears off.
7.5 / 10
A fantasy bullet-hell roguelite with a loop players return to for hundreds and even thousands of hours, running in the same Early Access state for nearly four years -- Steam's own achievement data and the solo developer's own dev-blog admissions both back up the loudest recent complaint, that its major content update keeps slipping.
7.5 / 10
A well-regarded XCOM-style tactics game reviewers repeatedly compare favourably to the genre's best, undercut by punishing difficulty spikes around its wound-recovery system, a recurring Denuvo DRM complaint present since a 2022 launch, and a turn-ending freeze bug one 2026 reviewer describes as still unresolved years later.
7.5 / 10
Four-player co-op combat reviewers on both sides call some of the best in the genre, weighed down by a genuinely notorious launch — a fully functional cosmetic cash shop shipped alongside missing promised systems — and an ongoing pattern of unfulfilled roadmap promises, even as recent sentiment has recovered dramatically since 2022.
7.5 / 10
A free, mouse-only danmaku dodging game where the only input is your cursor — reviewed on every single review it has ever received, all 32 of them, because the sample is small enough to read in full rather than trust a percentage.
7.4 / 10
A voxel-art city builder that trades money and disasters for a strict web of building adjacency rules, turning city planning into a genuine spatial puzzle — Very Positive on Steam, with a persistent, well-documented complaint that its achievement-gated progression can trap players on the first map for good.
7.2 / 10
A Slay the Spire and Into the Breach hybrid deckbuilder whose satisfying core loop has kept some players logging hundreds of hours, held back by real balance complaints about build diversity and a specific, concrete motion-sickness accessibility issue.
7 / 10
A gorgeously written and animated tale of 18th-century card-cheating whose own fans repeatedly describe the actual moment-to-moment gameplay as a punishing quick-time-event exercise rather than the strategic con-artistry the premise promises.
7 / 10
A free Android incremental with more content than most paid ones, wrapped in a chest-and-rewarded-video economy that sells you relief from its own busywork. The genre's most argued-about game, and both sides have a point.
7 / 10
Some of the best large-scale medieval melee combat available, played by fans who describe hundreds of hours of genuine joy — undercut by a cheating problem serious enough that reviewers report a YouTuber known for helping the studio fight it was permanently banned instead.
7 / 10
A widely acclaimed sci-fi dice-and-narrative RPG about an escaped synthetic worker eking out survival on a lawless space station, whose exceptional writing and worldbuilding are matched by an unusually consistent, detailed complaint across its own huge review sample — that the choices at its core don't actually matter once the dice mechanic is "solved."
7 / 10
A Scottish Highlands colony sim that deliberately swaps RimWorld's raids and pirate attacks for winters, in-laws and beekeeping — four years into Early Access, with monthly patches still landing and the same comparison still following it everywhere.
7 / 10
A polished, deliberately old-school monster-taming RPG built for players who wish Pokémon still played like Black and White — undercut for a meaningful share of buyers by a specific, genuinely serious accessibility problem with its sound design.
7 / 10
An Australian-outback survival life-sim that earned four years of goodwill in Early Access, then spent most of it in six weeks when its solo developer sold publishing rights to KRAFTON and the resulting EULA sparked one of Steam's more pointed 2025 backlashes.
7 / 10
A charming, deeply likeable Disney life-sim whose 2022 Early Access promise of an eventual free-to-play release was formally scrapped in 2023 — a well-documented reversal that still shapes how existing players talk about the game more than two years later.
7 / 10
A cheap, IAP-free idle-meets-gacha garden decorator that four years of Steam reviews agree on in an unusual way -- the exact randomised-drop system that makes it distinctive is also the thing that eventually wears players down.
7 / 10
