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219 games released in 2023 and reviewed here, best first.
219 reviews
A catastrophically incomplete 2023 launch that devastated long-time Blood Bowl 2 fans has genuinely improved on the technical side according to more recent reviews, but a persistent, heavily-corroborated complaint about teams being locked behind premium currency, a battle pass and seasonal releases — rather than available at launch — kept the negative sample nearly as high in 2025 as it was at launch.
5 / 10
A free-to-play idle RPG about farming, fishing and fighting for scrap, released by solo developer blevsoft in December 2023 and left without a content update since January 2024.
5 / 10
A free-to-play sci-fi idler in ongoing Early Access since October 2023, built as an authorised spiritual successor to Idle Space Raider and Transport Defender, undercut by a prestige loop that pays out less on every reset and a store-page offline-progress promise several reviewers say doesn't hold up.
5 / 10
A beautifully produced samurai-fantasy deckbuilder whose own fans keep filing the same game-hardlocking bug report years apart — the developer's last news post dates to January 2024, and reviewers are still describing identical crashes into 2026.
5 / 10
A roguelike deckbuilder with a genuinely clever hook — you choose which enemy attack hits you — trapped inside a game that left Early Access unfinished in February 2023 and hasn't been updated since.
5 / 10
A NZ$2.99 click-to-build island tycoon with no ads and no in-app purchases, whose entire Steam review history — five reviews, four positive — was written inside five weeks of its November 2023 launch and hasn't gained a single new one since.
5 / 10
A well-liked sci-fi gacha shooter with unusually generous pull rates is in the middle of a live revolt after a content-moderation pass altered or removed material a large number of players had already paid for, with no compensation offered.
5 / 10
A Japanese doujin-scene idle game about looping rail carts around a base to gather materials and craft your way through dungeons, built on genuine long-term content but undermined by having no offline progression at all.
5 / 10
A genuinely underused setting — WWI trench horror — with real atmosphere and sound design, undercut by a short, thin "collect the items while a monster hunts you" loop and a cluster of real performance bugs, despite years of continued developer support.
5 / 10
A Secret of Mana homage so direct that both its critics and its fans reach for the same comparison unprompted — undercut by a self-inflicted design choice that locks its headline co-op feature behind three hours of solo play, well past Steam's own refund window.
5 / 10
A free-to-play survival MMORPG whose zombie-apocalypse crafting loop has a genuine, deeply invested fanbase, undercut by a barely-adapted mobile interface and a monetisation structure reviewers document in granular, specific detail — including a viral account of a single player spending over $2,000.
5 / 10
A cheap, no-frills automated-combat idle RPG from a developer who has released more than a dozen very similar games — genuinely relaxing for players who just want numbers to climb, undercut by a total lack of offline progress and a review base too thin and too non-English to lean on with confidence.
4.8 / 10
A US$5.99 Chinese cultivation-themed idle RPG whose own official English screenshot shows equipment names left as untranslated pinyin, whose single biggest review-corpus complaint is that the developer vanished for 17 months, and whose store description of the companion system turns out to be a garbled machine translation of a real, unsettling mechanic.
4.6 / 10
A janky, confusing Chinese indie horror game that's become a genuine cult favourite for co-op streaming with friends, undercut by real translation and puzzle-design problems reviewers say make it genuinely difficult to finish without outside guides.
4.6 / 10
A physics-based burger-flipping game built entirely around one mouse-controlled hand, with no way to rebind, retune, or replace that control scheme — which is also the single thing its own Steam reviews argue about most.
4.5 / 10
Afil Games' budget arena survivor puts a gladiator through waves of beasts and rivals with seven selectable weapons and stack-your-own-build upgrades. It's cheap and the hook works for a while, but a defense-stacking exploit, a stuck small window and a three-year-old broken achievement drag it down.
4.5 / 10
A notorious launch disaster from Arkane Austin — broken performance, an empty open world and weak AI drove a lifetime score that never recovered — but a genuine, well-documented arc followed: Microsoft closed the studio in May 2024, shipped a "parting gift" final patch as it did, and recent sentiment has risen meaningfully as the price dropped and expectations reset, even as a new complaint emerges that the game is now effectively unsupported.
4.5 / 10
A small puzzle-crafting shop-management game that has received zero Steam reviews, zero configured achievements, and no public update in over three and a half years — this review is built honestly from the store's own description and screenshots, since there is no player testimony to draw from at all.
4 / 10
A free solo-dev world-domination idle game patched seven times in its first two weeks, then left untouched for the three years since — long enough for its own achievement list to become the entire game, clearable in a single sitting.
4 / 10
A solo-developed survival game promising a journey from taming dinosaurs to building a Dyson sphere, undercut by detailed, independently corroborated reports that several of its levels are unmodified Unreal Marketplace demo scenes — and by a sequel announced five months after launch while the original sat unfixed.
4 / 10
A free-to-play mobile idle tavern-and-hero-management game ported to Steam in June 2023, whose ad-watch buttons routinely fail to load on PC and whose only post-launch fix, by the reviews' own account, arrived within its first two weeks.
4 / 10
A dark-comedy business simulator about running an online drug empire, launched into Early Access in January 2023 by solo developer PiCorp and left there, seemingly untouched, ever since.
4 / 10
An Early Access satirical city-building incremental with a genuinely interesting hook — buildings you can see and place, not just an abstract number going up — abandoned by its developer within months of an August 2023 launch, with the same game-breaking bugs still unpatched three years later.
3.5 / 10
A NZ$7.39 open-world survival crafting game with a tiny, split review sample — two of five reviewers report the game becoming unplayable within minutes, and no update or news post has landed since a week after launch in September 2023.
3.2 / 10
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