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246 games released in 2024 and reviewed here, best first.
246 reviews
A NZ$4.49 real-time castle-capture strategy game with 108 levels and three campaigns — competent on paper, but with almost no community signal to judge it by, just three total Steam reviews and zero recorded concurrent players.
5.5 / 10
A WWII squad-tactics game with a genuine XCOM pitch and combat that works in short bursts, undercut by a morale system many reviewers call broken, a difficulty curve that persisted through a real rebalance patch, and a Season Pass sold alongside the base game on day one.
5.5 / 10
An ambitious, magic-only Soulslike built almost entirely by one developer, drawing genuine Dark Souls and Elden Ring comparisons for its interconnected world and spellcrafting, undercut by missing hit feedback, unrebindable controls and a scarcity of post-launch fixes for problems its own fans have been asking about since release.
5.5 / 10
A cheap, genuinely charming fishing-and-aquarium idle game that a real audience finds relaxing, undercut by thin long-term progression and the same kind of concrete, repeated interface bugs this small studio's other release drew independently.
5.5 / 10
A viral 1990s-office social deduction game with a genuinely funny premise — Manager, Specialist, or Slacker — undercut by a documented, sustained harassment problem in its public lobbies that the developers themselves warn players about rather than moderate.
5.5 / 10
A NZ$7.39 merge-idler whose store page promises "keep earning money even when you're not playing" — a promise several of its Mixed-rated reviewers say doesn't hold, alongside a reset bug with no confirmation prompt and a 24-hour achievement some report as broken.
5.5 / 10
A gorgeous, comic-book-styled pirate tactical RPG whose dice-and-deckbuilding combat system splits opinion sharply along one measurable line — reviewers who bailed within the first hour call it an unexplained mess, while those who stuck it out and actually read the in-game instructions largely came around, on top of a genuinely short, linear campaign with no ship battles.
5.5 / 10
A retro-arcade roguelite built around a genuinely clever idea — rotating a shared shield to reposition a four-hero party mid-fight — undercut by a crash problem this review's full read of the review history finds so persistent the developer built a consolation message for it instead of fixing the source.
5.5 / 10
A hardcore open-world tactical extraction shooter with genuine "Ghost Recon meets Tarkov" ambition and a playerbase invested enough to log hundreds of hours each — reviewed here through a persistent, multiply-corroborated PvP cheating problem several reviewers say the developers actively suppress discussion of, alongside two years of genuinely frequent development.
5.5 / 10
A beautifully scored, well-drawn flooded-world adventure that a real share of players who loved this small studio's earlier games call a step down, mainly because of turn-based combat several reviewers, fans and critics alike, describe as slow and undemanding.
5.5 / 10
A cheap, colourful space-mining idler that launched thin and slow in mid-2024, drew serious unverified complaints from its own playtesters about how feedback was handled, then went quiet for over a year before a genuinely substantial 2025 content update.
5.5 / 10
A pixel-art village-builder that wants to be an idle game and a management sim at once, and spends its first year of updates finding out how hard it is to be both without either side suffering.
5.5 / 10
A gather-upgrade-fight resource loop with real short-term appeal that grows repetitive and punishing over a longer Early Access life, whose advertised co-op turns out to be shared-camera split-screen rather than independent multiplayer.
5.5 / 10
A charming wand-crafting survivors-like about magic chickens fighting an anti-magic toad army, whose developers patched intensely for its first month before support tapered off and eventually pivoted to announcing a sequel rather than fixing the bugs still reported years later.
5.5 / 10
A NZ$7.39 solo-developer auto-battler about placing mercenaries in a small arena and watching the fight resolve — a coherent, fairly priced take on a crowded subgenre that has spent nearly eight months on Steam without attracting a single user review.
5.5 / 10
A gorgeous Gaslamp Fantasy survival-crafting game with a passionately invested fanbase, currently caught between real studio turmoil — confirmed layoffs and a Tencent acquisition — and a content-direction reversal that alienated some of its most dedicated long-time players.
5.5 / 10
Ubisoft's long-delayed pirate action RPG launched to a Mixed reception it has never fully shaken — this review reads the full arc from launch-week server chaos through two and a half years of live-service seasons, and finds a genuinely enjoyed core loop that its own invested fans still won't recommend at full price.
5.5 / 10
A single-tower roguelite defense game with a genuinely neat central hook — build and upgrade one tower instead of placing many — undercut at launch by narrow build viability, a cramped view window and a price several of its own fans said was too high for what shipped.
5.5 / 10
A faithful, historically significant remake of the 1981 game that founded the dungeon-crawler RPG genre — undermined by character-corrupting bugs its developer stopped patching over two years ago.
5.5 / 10
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Talentless Person Games' pocket-sized clicker sends you smashing other planets apart to rebuild the home you lost, over a LoFi soundtrack and a run that's done in about an hour. It's a pleasant enough hour for the asking price, but "survival" in the title oversells a game with no hunger, health or threat system anywhere in it.
5.5 / 10
An ambitious three-person team's squad-based tactical RPG with real keep-building and army-management ideas, undercut by combat several detailed critics independently call shallow and repetitive, a thin story, and tactical bugs the developer's own "continuously improving" claim didn't hold up against a follow-up review.
5.5 / 10
A NZ$1.49 shared-world clicker from asxgames, checked against its Steamworks category flags, official screenshots and every English Steam review it has (all 10) to answer one question the registry asked directly — is the "co-op" in the title real or just a label.
5.4 / 10
A NZ$13.25 roguelite auto-battler whose own top-voted review calls it "extremely misleading" for shipping under an idle/clicker banner — its solo developer admitted within three days of launch that he "didn't realize" how different an idle game and an autobattler are to players, then stopped adding content two weeks later.
5 / 10
A genuinely fun DayZ-and-Rust-but-you're-a-duck survival shooter that veteran genre players praised for its fast, rewarding early loop, undone across two years by cheating that never went away, a controversial kernel-level anti-cheat rollout, and a development pace that Steam's own patch history confirms has gone quiet since mid-2025.
5 / 10
