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191 games released in 2022 and reviewed here, best first.
191 reviews
An ambitious, Banished-inspired survival city-builder with genuinely deep production chains, weighed down by persistent balance problems, a currently game-breaking macOS bug, and rumours of developer abandonment the studio has publicly and directly denied.
6 / 10
A Team17-published fantasy alchemy-adventure about a masked Warden brewing potions and taming creatures to stop a spreading corruption -- genuinely atmospheric and well-loved by a devoted minority, but let down by threadbare tutorials, a locked camera and a developer who shipped two patches in its first two weeks and then largely went quiet.
6 / 10
A solo-developer factory-automation game that ships complete rather than in Early Access, with a genuinely responsive dev and procedurally generated worlds, but that its own review corpus repeatedly measures against Factorio, Satisfactory and Dyson Sphere Program — and finds wanting on the tutorial, controls and combat that stand between you and the automation.
6 / 10
Kolibri Games takes the miner-elevator-warehouse template it invented in 2016 and reskins it as a bank, with Marketing, Service Windows, Vault and Main Hall standing in for the usual dig-lift-sell chain. The loop still works; the shop around it leans harder on ads and loot boxes than the studio's older, better-loved games.
5.5 / 10
A Cookie Clicker structure rebuilt around stock-photo burgers -- competent, cheap, and 100%-able in under a day, with reviewers consistently landing on the same verdict -- fine at first, boring well before the achievement list runs out.
5.5 / 10
An idol-management sim whose own title and store copy promise true idle progression, but whose review corpus — in English and Japanese alike, from critics and fans — agrees on one thing first: it isn't actually an idle game, it's a tight 15-to-20-minute time-management score-attack with no carryover between runs.
5.5 / 10
A small, chill background idle RPG about managing a tropical colony of mercenary creatures, genuinely enjoyed by a niche audience for low-pressure passive play, held back by real, consistently reported bugs and a UI several reviewers call unfinished.
5.5 / 10
A long-running idle RPG about a monster-forest slime clan grinding gear and dungeons, still pulling ten million-plus downloads years after launch — undercut lately by an ad frequency its own players say has quietly gotten much worse.
5.5 / 10
A NZ$6.95 Vampire Survivors-style bullet-heaven from Amrita, Very Positive across 470 lifetime reviews but carrying a consistent, dated accusation from its own players — 19 of the 52 most-helpful English negatives name Vampire Survivors directly, several call it a near-identical asset-flip, and the developer's own patch history shows active Early Access support stopping the moment 1.0 shipped in February 2023, replaced since by two entirely new games from the same studio.
5.5 / 10
A refreshingly honest pitch for the genre — five stats, a stated finish line, no infinite treadmill — undercut since launch week by an interest-rate stat that several reviewers say breaks the game's own math and lets you finish in under two hours.
5.5 / 10
A visually stunning Dead Space spiritual successor that never fully recovered from a disastrous December 2022 performance launch — and whose save-corruption bugs, reported by reviewers three years apart, still haven't been fully resolved.
5.5 / 10
Square Enix promised a genuinely new fusion of real-time strategy and tactical RPG -- its own review corpus, positive and negative alike, spent the game's release week explaining that the pitch outran the execution, and that a workable build trivialises the "strategy" fast.
5.5 / 10
A striking black-and-white samurai action game built on Kurosawa-style cinematography -- and a rare case where even the game's own top-voted positive review opens by calling the combat "GOD AWFUL," in a corpus where that complaint appears in three out of every four negative reviews.
5.5 / 10
A genuinely beautiful nature-themed idle game -- biologist-verified species cards, lush stylised regions -- ported from mobile with its premium-currency shop apparently removed days after launch, though reviewers as recent as 2026 still describe running into one.
5.5 / 10
A VR-only MMO that launched to real excitement and $35 million in funding, then had its developer cease content work in 2024 and fold what paying customers bought into a free mode -- verified against press coverage, not just the review corpus that says the same thing.
5.5 / 10
A cel-shaded, kingdom-building idle RPG that looks better than most of the genre and runs a genuinely competent hero-collection loop underneath — until its 0.2% top-tier gacha rate turns "collect dozens of heroes" into the game's actual monetisation engine.
5 / 10
A charming incremental city-building RPG that launched into Early Access with real promise and genuine early support, then went quiet after one substantial update -- reviewed here from a small but complete sample that shifts, year by year, from excited to abandoned.
5 / 10
A genuinely novel business-sim sequel -- build and run an internet cafe complete with a working in-game browser -- undone by a single, specific, four-years-unfixed bug that keeps showing up in reviews: save files randomly corrupting or wiping hours of progress, in a game its own last content update predates by over four years.
5 / 10
A WWII-flavoured, zero-gravity spin on Escape from Tarkov that launched with real promise in 2022, then spent four years wearing down that goodwill through persistent cheating, contested bans, and — as of an April 2026 developer post apologising for "the silence" — a 20-month content drought.
5 / 10
A cute, cheap goblin-blacksmith crafting and resource-management game with a small, genuinely fond following -- and an equally consistent complaint that there simply isn't much of it, with most players finishing in well under an hour.
5 / 10
An open-world sci-fi gacha ARPG with real exploration and character-design appeal, whose review score is being shaped less by its combat or its shop than by an account-migration process that a large, consistent share of returning players say permanently deleted hundreds of hours and real money without adequate warning.
5 / 10
A small Norse-mythology platformer with a striking art style and a review base too thin and scattered to support a confident verdict either way -- read in full and reported honestly rather than padded into something more authoritative than the evidence allows.
4.5 / 10
A free-to-play idle tower defense from Swell Games that most of its own review base describes as a reskin of the developer's earlier Idle Monster TD, wrapped around one of the more aggressively itemised in-app purchase menus this library has documented.
4.5 / 10
A budget clicker from a developer who has shipped over a dozen near-identical low-poly idle games, where the Nordic theming turns out to be skin-deep -- the actual enemies inside the box are zombies, and the small but pointed Mixed review sample says the prestige loop underneath is the real problem.
4.5 / 10
