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246 games released in 2024 and reviewed here, best first.
246 reviews
A likeable single-character autobattler roguelike with a genuine "minmax and watch the number go up" dopamine loop, whose solo developer stopped patching within a month of release and, according to multiple reviewers, said outright that they no longer enjoyed working on the game.
5 / 10
A budget co-op survivors-like whose real appeal is playing alongside friends, undercut by a specific, independently verified bug where percentage stat bonuses don't actually apply the percentages they advertise.
5 / 10
A monster-farming action RPG featuring Fairy Tail creator Hiro Mashima's character designs, whose menu-driven, visual-novel-adjacent structure badly mismatched the Rune Factory and Harvest Moon comparisons its marketing invited, with reviewers on both sides of the split agreeing its premium price outran the content on offer.
5 / 10
A NZ$5.99 xianxia-styled idle action-RPG almost nobody reviews in English — 95 of its 98 Steam reviews are Chinese, several from players with 200-plus hours reporting the game losing their entire save, on a title whose developer has spent the last two years promoting a newer game through this one's own news feed instead of patching it.
5 / 10
A NZ$5.99 idle cultivation RPG sequel that dropped nine of its predecessor's ten interface languages — English included — while adding a stock-speculation minigame and a gacha "prayer bead" pull; Mixed across 68 reviews, against the original's Very Positive 84%.
5 / 10
A free solo-developer idle sim about running a weapon shop, prestiging into a town, and sending adventurers out to die for profit — a genuinely distinctive premise undercut by a near-total absence of tutorial explanation and two separate multi-month stretches where updates simply stopped.
5 / 10
A pixel-art post-apocalyptic survival action RPG with genuine crafting and base-building depth, undermined at launch by game-breaking bugs including inventory resets on zone transitions, though the developers have kept working on it for nearly two years, including a full public reboot.
5 / 10
A turn-based roguelite RPG that quietly relaunched after the original 2020 Sin Slayers was pulled from Steam, offering free replacement keys to affected owners, but running into the same grindy pacing and shallow combat complaints that dogged the original, alongside new balance and UI issues from the rebuild itself.
5 / 10
A cheap dragon-collecting clicker RPG with genuine "one more turn" appeal for some players, undercut by disclosed AI-generated art several reviewers actively dislike, punishing inflation-based economy balance, and a development cycle the solo developer has since confirmed, in the developer's own words quoted by a reviewer, is finished for good.
5 / 10
A free-to-play "idle fishing arcade" whose own promotional screenshots sell chest loot for real money on the Steam Community Market — Mixed across 1,612 reviews, with the community's own vote-weighted tags ranking "Casual" and "Trading" well above "Idler."
4.8 / 10
A genuinely fun free-to-play Diner Dash-style time-management game, undercut by a real, specific difficulty spike after level 50-60 that reviewers on both sides say pushes hard toward paid boosters, plus a persistent tutorial mode some reviewers say never stops interrupting play.
4.6 / 10
A solo-developer campus-management sim with an unusually specific pitch — schedule real courses and sections, build dorms, hire professors, chase reputation — undercut by a launch-week save bug, support that appears to have stopped within days of release, and Steam's own achievement data showing almost nobody gets past the opening hour.
4.6 / 10
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A very cheap sci-fi idle clicker whose ten planets and resources turn out to be copy-pasted variations on the same system, according to a strongly corroborated group of reviewers who each independently report seeing everything the game offers within minutes.
4.5 / 10
A NZ$14.80 clicker whose real product is tradeable Steam Marketplace drops, with a Mixed 61% score, an official "English" language listing contradicted by its own screenshots, and an achievement curve where even the easiest of 80 trophies clears for barely a quarter of owners.
4.5 / 10
A free space-conquest idle clicker whose 1.0 release tried to fix its most notorious complaint — AI-generated art — with a full visual overhaul, only for a meaningful slice of players to say the replacement still looks and feels AI-made; layered on top of a monetisation structure multiple long-time players call genuinely predatory, this is Mostly Positive at 71.5% for reasons its own detailed critics dispute in detail.
4.5 / 10
A genuinely inventive bullet-hell crossed with party-based mercenary management, backed by an enthusiastic Early Access community, whose developer went quiet after a July 2024 update and left recent reviewers describing a stale, sometimes broken game with no meta-progression to soften its brutal difficulty spikes.
4.5 / 10
A party-based steampunk-versus-magic RPG that launched into Early Access with real Arcanum and Baldur's Gate 3 comparisons in its favor — and then, by this review's full read of its negative sample and its own public patch history, went almost a year without a real content update, turning early "great potential" reviews into a wave of "the game is dead."
4.5 / 10
A budget horde-survivor wearing Pathfinder's licensed skin over a thin, repetitive core that even its own most-upvoted positive review calls "meh out of 10" — and updates stopped seven weeks after launch.
4.5 / 10
A cheap turn-based tactical RPG built on the SCP Foundation universe that reviewers say barely delivers the SCP content its name promises, hampered by disclosed AI art and thin, three-hour content, with a development history that appears to have gone quiet well over a year ago.
4.5 / 10
An open-world skeleton-adventure RPG with genuine visual ambition and a charming premise, whose solo developer announced its "last major update" the same month it exited Early Access — leaving repetitive quests, unfinished UI text and AI-sounding narration exactly as they were at launch.
4.5 / 10
A NZ$10.49 idle-summon-and-defend game from solo Chinese developer CMY that has spent eight months on sale with almost no trace of a community — one lifetime Steam review, zero concurrent players at time of writing, and a store page whose own data (an identical icon on all seven achievements, a machine-translated description, mismatched tags) argues for caution more clearly than any review score could.
4.3 / 10
A free mobile-style idle roguelike with a genuinely playable core loop, sixteen separate paid DLC packs, and a cluster of high-vote negative reviews alleging the developer paid a third-party site for fake positive reviews — an allegation this review couldn't independently confirm, but couldn't ignore either.
4.3 / 10
A free active-idle asteroid miner with genuine breadth on paper — over 170 research items, drones, turrets, prestige — undone by no offline progress, a widely reported UI problem, and a documented case of a mining nerf landing beside a new pay-to-win purchase.
4.2 / 10
A genuinely appealing top-down bunker-survival concept undercut by severe ammo scarcity that can become permanently unrecoverable, real progression-breaking bugs, and a tutorial barely half of buyers ever finish — despite one documented rebalance patch that didn't fully resolve the complaints that followed it.
4.1 / 10
