Hero of Aethric
Orna's class-and-gear rulebook, unplugged from GPS and pinned to a handcrafted continent instead. The systems survive the transplant; the thing that made its sibling famous doesn't.
7 / 10
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Games released in 2022
191 games released in 2022 and reviewed here, best first.
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HYPER DEMON
A score-attack FPS from the solo creator of cult classic Devil Daggers that a professional game designer called one of the decade's most significant releases — and that the developer's own store page warns can trigger photosensitive seizures.
7 / 10
HyperLeague Heroes
A comic-book superhero idle dungeon crawler from solo studio Siphon Shock, built around a hero-fusion system and full Steam Workshop team customisation, backed by nearly three years of near-constant free updates before wrapping up in 2025.
7 / 10
Kiwi Clicker - Juiced Up
A funny, genuinely inventive clicker about feeding kiwis to kiwis — with a hover-click that spares your wrist, and a save-loss bug patched in 2022 that players were still reporting three months ago.
7 / 10
Marvel's Midnight Suns
A genuinely excellent tactical card-battler from the XCOM team, buried at launch under a season pass and paid cosmetics stacked on top of a full-price single-player game, forced launcher software that broke performance, and — years later — a Terms of Service change reviewers describe in the harshest possible terms.
7 / 10
Nobody Saves the World
A shapeshifting action RPG from the makers of Guacamelee whose nineteen unlockable forms draw genuine, specific praise for build variety, undercut by a keyboard-and-mouse experience its own players were still calling broken more than four years after launch, and a co-op mode widely described as an afterthought.
7 / 10
OlliOlli World
A gorgeous, warmly-written 2.5D skateboarding platformer that earned its Very Positive score on the strength of the game itself -- and has spent the years since fighting a genuinely documented publisher controversy that has nothing to do with skating.
7 / 10
Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
A bite-sized empire-building strategy game built to finish in under an hour, whose time-conscious pitch genuinely wins over busy players even as a large share of its own audience argues it isn't really the 4X game it's marketed as.
7 / 10
Prodeus
A pixel-and-polygon retro boomer shooter with weapons, movement and gore its own review base calls some of the best in the genre, undercut for years by a single, near-unanimously criticised design decision — dying carries no real penalty — that the developer only partially addressed roughly a year after its full release.
7 / 10
Sniper Elite 5
A well-loved return to WWII stealth-sniping that launched into the single most-upvoted negative review this library has recorded -- over a forced PvP mechanic penalizing single-player progress -- and has spent the years since accumulating a second, ongoing complaint about DLC pricing that now spans 16 separate add-ons.
7 / 10
Sonic Frontiers
Sonic's first open-world entry, warmly received for boss fights and writing that reviewers say the series hasn't matched in years -- while a growing, high-vote complaint about Denuvo's always-online requirement has nothing to do with hedgehogs at all.
7 / 10
Tap Ninja - Idle game
A free incremental with one reviewer clocking 31,732 hours and a persistent complaint from the rest — that a game with "idle" in its title keeps asking you to click.
7 / 10
Telepath Tactics Liberated
A Fire Emblem-inspired SRPG built around shoving enemies off cliffs and into lava rather than around RNG-driven misses, backed by a genuinely powerful campaign editor and a developer reviewers repeatedly praise for responding to years-old posts — wrapped in a UI multiple high-playtime fans call the worst they've ever used.
7 / 10
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
A gorgeously atmospheric Victorian folk horror point-and-click whose exceptional opening hours and voice acting draw near-unanimous praise, undercut by an ending a large and vocal share of players say betrays the protagonist and the story's own logic — though a meaningful minority argues it's exactly the cosmic-horror payoff the genre demands.
7 / 10
Two Point Campus
A charming university-management sim that both its harshest critics and its single most-played fan (over 700 hours) describe using the same word -- a reskin of Two Point Hospital -- disagreeing only on whether that's a compliment.
7 / 10
Weird West
An isometric immersive sim from Dishonored and Prey veterans that delivers on emergent, reactive storytelling almost every reviewer singles out for praise, wrapped around combat, companion AI and interface decisions that a large and articulate share of its own players call the weakest part of the experience.
7 / 10
Across the Obelisk
A four-player co-op deckbuilder that solves the genre's most obvious gap — playing Slay the Spire-style card combat as an actual shared party instead of a shared seed — and then spends the years after its Paradox acquisition undermining that achievement with DLC pricing its own community calls predatory.
6.5 / 10
Asterigos: Curse of the Stars
A Greek-and-Roman-mythology action RPG that plays like Immortals Fenyx Rising crossed with a lighter Dark Souls — strongest in its opening hours, and still missing basic quality-of-life features four years and nine patches later.
6.5 / 10
Autonauts vs Piratebots
The same demonstrate-it-once robot scripting that made Autonauts click, now defending a base against raiders with automated squads — a genuinely fun idea that never quite justifies asking for a second full-price purchase.
6.5 / 10
Bear and Breakfast
A charming, well-written bed-and-breakfast management game about a bear renovating forest cabins for human guests, whose extremely consistent negative-review complaint — genuine charm wrapped around slow, repetitive, empty gameplay — recurs so often that it reads as the honest consensus rather than a minority view.
6.5 / 10
Cursed to Golf
A genuinely inventive golf-precision-platformer whose own most enthusiastic players keep arriving at the same specific verdict — the game is excellent, and the roguelite structure wrapped around it is a mismatch that makes hours-long runs punishing rather than replayable.
6.5 / 10
Digimon Survive
A long-delayed, darker Digimon story that both its fans and its critics agree is a visual novel first and a tactical RPG a distant second -- and whose own trailers, by wide reviewer account, misled buyers about exactly that ratio.
6.5 / 10
Dying Light 2 Stay Human
A celebrated parkour-and-zombies open world whose negative sample carries two distinct complaints — a years-long "fake co-op" structural gripe where only the host keeps quest progress, and a brand-new controversy from June 2026, when a patch cut roughly two hours from the acclaimed opening prologue, confirmed against the game's own official patch notes.
6.5 / 10
Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising
A charming, town-building prequel built to bridge Suikoden fans to the crowdfunded Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes -- loved for its characters and world, but honest with itself about being, structurally, a fetch-quest and material-farming loop dressed up as an action RPG.
6.5 / 10