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219 games released in 2023 and reviewed here, best first.
219 reviews
Three years and eight patches after launch, Larian's D&D epic is still the reference point for what "your choices matter" is supposed to mean — and its two real weaknesses, a lopsided third act and a ruleset that rewards system mastery over roleplay, haven't gone anywhere either.
9.5 / 10
Tango Gameworks' rhythm-action surprise remains Overwhelmingly Positive across nearly 36,000 Steam reviews, widely regarded as one of the finest games Xbox has published in a decade — a reputation shadowed by a genuinely poignant, fully documented history this review can confirm in
9 / 10
A city builder that refuses to let any settlement become permanent, banking what you learn into a roguelite meta-progression layer instead. It is one of the only games in its genre to treat the endgame as a design problem worth solving rather than a state to reach and stop.
8.5 / 10
A roguelite shooter about a crab with a gun, 98% positive across 26,943 English reviews — and the only people complaining have sixty to two hundred hours in it and think the balance patches ruined their favourite build.
8.5 / 10
A turn-based pixel-art RPG about a party trapped in a time loop, from solo-ish developer insertdisc5 -- Overwhelmingly Positive at 97% and beloved for its writing and characters, but a small, consistent and often self-aware minority of players say the game's central design idea, deliberately repetitive loops, genuinely fails to work as a game even when it succeeds as art.
8.5 / 10
The sequel that actually lets its eight travelers meet each other, wrapped around the same Break and Boost combat that made the original worth playing and a day/night toggle that changes what every town has to offer.
8.5 / 10
A masterfully modernized remake of one of gaming's most influential horror games — briefly and seriously undermined in early 2026 by a new anti-piracy DRM that tanked performance on an already three-year-old game, until Capcom reversed it within a month.
8.5 / 10
Sabotage Studio's turn-based RPG borrows Chrono Trigger's parts openly and reassembles them well — timed hits, a lock-breaking combat layer and a day/night mechanic that actually changes puzzles — but the writing never catches up to the systems around it.
8.5 / 10
An Overwhelmingly Positive branching-narrative horror visual novel with a cult following rare even by the genre's standards, whose thoughtful minority of critics raise a real, specific argument — that its time-loop structure grows repetitive and its choices funnel into fewer meaningfully distinct outcomes than the premise implies.
8.5 / 10
A surreal, Love-de-Lic-inspired adventure about a cursed intelligence bound to a corpse, helping a desert island's misfits across a game explicitly built around 24 replays -- one of the most positively received games this lane has covered (98.75%), with the tiny negative sample converging on a specific, real complaint about late-game grind and unclear puzzle guidance.
8 / 10
Frictional Games' boldest genre pivot yet — a tense, resource-scarce, Alien: Isolation-style stalker horror game that thrilled a large majority of reviewers, while a real and consistent minority of longtime series fans miss the puzzle-driven, story-rich horror the studio built its reputation on.
8 / 10
An Overwhelmingly Positive Indonesian-set coming-of-age adventure whose pixel art and emotionally resonant story draw near-universal praise, dragged down by a specific, widely repeated complaint that fetch quests and backtracking bloat what could be a much tighter experience.
8 / 10
A cozy, sincerely heart-warming miniature adventure where every problem is solved by peeling and placing the right sticker — beloved almost universally, with its one real thorn being an achievement list that forces a second playthrough to fully complete.
8 / 10
A gorgeous, funky Jet Set Radio successor that 97.8% of players love — and whose critics land the same blow every time: it understood that the original was cool without understanding why.
8 / 10
A gothic, minion-summoning take on the Vampire Survivors-style bullet-heaven, built and continuously expanded by a solo developer whose dedication reviewers single out almost as often as the game itself — with one consistent, legitimate complaint about visual clarity in busy fights.
8 / 10
Blobfish's one-person arena shooter hands a potato six weapon slots and lets stat stacking do the rest — a review of how far chips-in-the-shop decision-making carries a twenty-wave run, and where the plain presentation and a few solved builds hold it back.
8 / 10
An open-world monster-taming RPG whose fusion system — combining any two monster forms into a unique creature with its own hand-drawn sprite — has become its signature achievement, built by a two-person team and beloved for exactly that kind of ambition.
8 / 10
A genuinely inventive language-deciphering puzzle game, Overwhelmingly Positive and stable, whose beloved core hook is consistently diluted by stealth sections players compare unfavourably to the calm puzzle-solving around them — plus a real EULA controversy that Focus Entertainment has since publicly clarified and amended.
8 / 10
A wordless puzzle-adventure from LIMBO and INSIDE's lead designer, built around a genuinely inventive world-within-world mechanic that Steam's own reviewers rate Very Positive and trending upward, with a real minority arguing the puzzles are too heavily guided and the boss fights undercut everything the rest of the game does well.
8 / 10
A spearfishing roguelite and a sushi restaurant manager share one save file, and the join is the best thing about it — what you catch by day is what you sell by night. The game just won't stop adding new systems on top of that, long after the core two have proven they didn't need the help.
8 / 10
A fishing-and-exploration horror hybrid that reviewers rate Overwhelmingly Positive and keep recommending anyway, even while its single loudest, most consistent critique — a spectacular opening that the game never quite develops — shows up inside a striking share of its own five-star reviews.
8 / 10
A turn-based tactical RPG where you crew a living tank with a village of orphaned animal children, and where losing a boss fight can mean feeding one of them into a cannon — a war-is-hell premise this review's negative sample barely challenges, since only 5 of the game's 384 reviews are negative at all.
8 / 10
A free incremental RPG that hides a genuinely deep skill web behind a calm Pacific Northwest setting — and then puts a price on the one resource an idle game trades in, time away.
8 / 10
A Belle Époque retelling of Pinocchio that wears its Bloodborne influence on its sleeve, then earns the comparison with a weapon-assembly system and a guard-timing mechanic good enough to stand on their own.
8 / 10
