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191 games released in 2022 and reviewed here, best first.
191 reviews
A well-crafted co-op escape-room game whose puzzles draw genuine praise, held back by a mandatory timer players have been asking to disable since launch week, a roughly four-hour campaign against a DLC catalogue that doubles the price, and a cross-platform promise several reviewers say still doesn't work years later.
6.5 / 10
A solo developer's brutal survival-horror JRPG sequel with a devoted, near-unanimous cult following -- undercut consistently, across its own review corpus, by a save system reviewers say punishes patience as harshly as it punishes mistakes.
6.5 / 10
Tango Gameworks' supernatural open-world action game remains Very Positive across more than 20,000 Steam reviews for its genuinely striking, densely realised recreation of Tokyo — undercut by a real, remarkably consistent "beautiful but repetitive" complaint about its combat and side content, and by a specific, unusual, dateable controversy this review can confirm directly: Bethesda added Denuvo DRM to the game roughly a year after launch, bundled inside what its own update was billed as free content.
6.5 / 10
A charming GBA-inspired grappling-hook platformer whose confident, flow-rewarding early worlds give way, by wide and consistent account, to a stiffer, more punishing back half that reverses its own design philosophy — compounded by a single looping music track per world that wears out its welcome for many players.
6.5 / 10
Square Enix marketed this as a life-sim farming game and its own review corpus -- praise and criticism alike -- spent four years correcting the record. It's a JRPG with farming on the side, and knowing that before buying changes almost everything about how the game lands.
6.5 / 10
A dark-fantasy dungeon crawler that spent 2022 as an underappreciated curiosity and 2025 as a giveaway ahead of its sequel — and the two waves of reviews it produced tell almost opposite stories about the same game.
6.5 / 10
A one-developer homage to Heroes of Might and Magic 3 that swaps turn-based combat for a real-time twist -- genuinely beloved by a dedicated fanbase with playtimes in the thousands of hours, but dogged for years by specific, well-documented complaints about AI difficulty and a multiplayer mode that reviewers say was never properly finished.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developer idle roguelite that stacks tactical auto-battles, city building, a no-cash-required gacha and a marriage system into one RPG Maker package. The systems draw genuine praise from a small but devoted audience, undercut throughout by a rough English translation that dominates almost every negative review the game has.
6.5 / 10
A NZ$10.49 stationary-defense aim trainer from solo developer Cosmos, 100% positive across a tiny 14-review corpus and backed by well over a year of frequent, numbered patches through to a deliberate "Final Update" in October 2023 — a well-crafted niche game undersold by a store description that claims movement-based combat its own reviewers say doesn't exist.
6.5 / 10
A stylish, microtransaction-free idle game about building an alien empire and clicking asteroids -- genuinely loved for its writing and its refusal to nickel-and-dime, and just as consistently criticised for running out of new things to do long before players run out of interest.
6.5 / 10
A cute, cheap, well-optimised roguelite platformer from Cygames that almost everyone finishes quickly and almost everyone enjoys while it lasts -- its own fans and critics agree on a lack of build variety and replay value more than they disagree on anything else.
6.5 / 10
A Souls-like roguelike built around genuinely innovative dungeon-sliding puzzle mechanics, let down at launch by combat its own fans called clunky and unreadable, followed by a rapid post-launch patch cycle that a meaningful share of reviewers credit with turning the game around.
6.5 / 10
A Fire Emblem, Three Houses-shaped tactical RPG with solid turn-based combat and a genuinely warm camp/social system -- undercut by writing its own review corpus calls its weakest element by a wide margin, and one narrative mechanic that produced its single most-upvoted complaint.
6.5 / 10
An auto-attacking bullet-heaven roguelite that launched the same month Vampire Survivors hit 1.0 -- a genuinely well-built entry in a genre that exploded around it, still Very Positive years later, but reviewers increasingly frame it against sharper rivals that didn't exist when it came out.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely satisfying Klondike gold-rush mining tycoon sim from a studio whose previous Early Access title was abandoned and delisted — a history that shadows this one every time a years-old bug resurfaces or a new paid DLC lands on what a chunk of the audience still calls beta.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely uncompromising survival RPG that refuses to make its hero special — beloved by fans who click with that philosophy, and undercut for years by a specific, still-recurring bug that deletes players' backpacks along with everything inside them.
6.5 / 10
A solo developer's charming Anno-flavoured idle colony builder with a small but genuinely devoted Steam following -- reviewed here from every available English review rather than a sample, given how small that following is.
6.5 / 10
The farming-RPG series' first fully 3D entry, loved by a devoted fanbase logging hundreds of hours -- while a wide, well-documented share of reviewers, including many of its own biggest fans, argue the jump to 3D cost the series more than it gained.
6.5 / 10
A visually breathtaking sci-fi puzzle-platformer from ex-Playdead developers whose gorgeous atmosphere and sound design are undercut by controls and collision detection a large share of its own reviewers call janky, measured constantly against the Inside and Limbo pedigree its creators can't escape.
6.5 / 10
A gorgeous pixel-art metroidvania whose launch-week balance and bugs split its own playerbase into "before the patch" and "after the patch" camps, with a major June 2022 rework drawing as much detailed criticism from players who liked the original difficulty as the original release drew for being unbalanced.
6.5 / 10
A NZ$7.39 pixel-art sci-fi platformer whose energy-sword combat and moody planet-hopping presentation earn genuine, specific praise across its small but positive Steam corpus, undercut by a purchase-gated weapon ladder several reviewers call grindy and linear, five worlds that read as more similar than different, and a name that at least two players say oversells how much of a roguelike it actually is.
6.5 / 10
A promising sixth entry in tri-Ace's long-running sci-fantasy JRPG series that opens strong and, by wide reviewer consensus, loses momentum in its second half -- while a PC-specific performance regression from a since-abandoned patch keeps showing up in reviews years later.
6.5 / 10
A star-studded branching horror anthology from the Until Dawn team that splits its own reviewers on story quality and delivers far less mechanical agency than its "your choices matter" framing implies, launched alongside a broken multiplayer promise and now caught up in the same 2K Terms of Service controversy documented independently on the publisher's other 2022 release.
6.5 / 10
A joke taken to its logical extreme — an idle game with no clicking, no numbers, no currency, nothing to buy, and nothing to do except leave it running and watch a leaderboard rank you against everyone else doing the same thing.
6.5 / 10
