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250 games released in 2025 and reviewed here, best first.
250 reviews
A NZ$4.49 solo-developer idle tycoon about melting ice into water into acorns, with a prestige loop its one detailed Steam reviewer put over 200 hours into — and a review corpus so thin there's almost nothing else to weigh that against.
5.5 / 10
A hamster-cage colony sim where you build both across and up through a planet's crust, then cap every map off with a physics-based rocket launch — a genuinely novel structure let down by AI-generated portraits, math bugs in its own production formulas, and a patch history that goes almost silent the week after full release.
5.5 / 10
A solo-developed cozy idle farm sim that most short-session players find genuinely relaxing -- while its handful of longer, more critical reviews describe its headline "8 worlds" feature as cosmetic and the whole thing as thin once the initial charm wears off.
5.5 / 10
A genuinely deep, satisfying custom weapon-forging simulator wrapped in a dark, divisive narrative — undercut by a specific, severe structural flaw where wrong dialogue choices can permanently end a save with no warning, and unverified reviewer allegations of AI-generated content.
5.3 / 10
A genuinely charming little desktop-widget cafe sim undercut by widespread, still-present bugs in its core customer AI and placement systems — though this review's own check of the developer's patch history contradicts one reviewer's claim that the game has been abandoned.
5.2 / 10
A multiplayer-only elemental wizard battler with a genuinely liked spell-mixing system and no meaningful single-player content, Mixed on Steam because the population needed to sustain it never materialised -- the developer's own Steam page confirms a new, unrelated project launched five months after Cast & Spell exited Early Access, with no updates to this game since.
5 / 10
A real-time station-management sim, not the clicker some trackers file it under, whose own vote-weighted Steam tags confirm it — but whose changelog stopped eleven days after launch, and whose reviewers, positive and negative alike, all clock out in under an hour.
5 / 10
A creature-collecting idle RPG in the mould of Dragon Cliff, with genuine long-term fans and steady ongoing support, undercut by extensive, still-unfixed English localization gaps and a progression curve several reviewers describe as balanced around leaving the game running for entire days at a time.
5 / 10
A NZ$8.99 solo-developed idle cultivation RPG that reviewers repeatedly call "a cut-price Melvor Idle in xianxia clothing" — Mixed across 87 reviews, with a strong 2025 run undone by a dead-quiet Early Access: no update since 11 June 2025, and its own Steam interface page marks English support as "Not supported," which is why not one of those 87 reviews is in English.
5 / 10
A genuinely novel Early Access experiment in which every NPC's behaviour is driven by a language model the player supplies themselves, reviewed here on the strength of its complete 21-review Steam record and the solo developer's own unusually candid admission that this is one of three AI-driven projects competing for his attention, and currently not the one winning.
5 / 10
A villain-perspective dark-fantasy tactical RPG whose battle system draws real praise at launch, undercut by genuine game-breaking bugs, a scaling system reviewers call badly tuned, and — most damaging of all — a developer whose Steam news feed shows exactly one hotfix in the nine months since release, leaving launch-week problems unresolved.
5 / 10
A free clicker-RPG hybrid with real equipment-crafting depth behind the big damage numbers, whose own developer has now documented, in public and in unusually plain language, why it launched rocky, never recovered, and was abandoned nine months later.
5 / 10
A genuinely distinctive four-panel idle RPG about commanding up to eight heroes at once, with real fans logging four-digit hour counts, undercut by a free-to-play model a large share of reviewers call predatory for specifically monetising the ability to idle at all, plus unexplained account bans and an unusual pattern of frequent server connections a smaller cluster finds alarming.
5 / 10
A catastrophic November 2025 remaster launch — buggy, missing features veterans of the 2008 original say worked fine even in the community-patched Gold Edition — followed by a genuine, ongoing repair effort now six numbered patches deep, leaving recent reviewers split between "finally playable" and "still broken" depending on which specific issue they hit.
5 / 10
A gorgeous pixel-art stealth metroidvania with a wonderful narrator and a genuinely distinctive Prince of Persia-meets-Mark-of-the-Ninja premise, undone by softlocking bugs that dominate its review corpus and, per an official patch history showing exactly one fix in fifteen months, appear to have gone largely unaddressed.
5 / 10
A NZ$4.49 desktop dino-breeder whose own vote-weighted tags rank it Creature Collector ahead of Idler, whose achievement data shows breeding and battling almost nobody finishes, and whose changelog stops three days after launch and never resumes.
5 / 10
Nine years, a fired writer, a dropped studio and one troubled development later, Bloodlines 2 shipped as an action-adventure closer to Dishonored than an RPG — and its own most-upvoted review, at over 10,000 votes, says the original team "deserved better than this."
5 / 10
An isekai visual novel that drops a factory worker into a stranger, gentler version of his own workplace — 18 months into Early Access with the same three days of story it launched with, and its own developer now flagged by Steam as gone quiet.
5 / 10
A shadow-dropped mobile spin-off that swaps Fire Emblem Heroes' gacha for a genuinely fairer season-pass model and grafts on an Among Us-style hidden-traitor mechanic, an experiment critics almost universally say fails on its own tactical terms — Metacritic's second-worst reviewed game of 2025 — even as its App Store audience rates it considerably more kindly.
4.5 / 10
A free, charmingly drawn pixel-art idle clicker that most players finish in under four hours and largely enjoy for what it is, undercut by resource usage several reviewers describe as alarming for such a simple game and a DLC presentation several find pushed harder than the content underneath deserves.
4.5 / 10
A cheap pixel-art idle item-stacker whose Early Access launch was marked by a level-scaling bug that independent reviewers in four different languages describe breaking their save, and a developer who reportedly responded to critics with a public video rather than a patch.
4.5 / 10
An OSRS-flavoured idle RPG with co-op and PvP that borrows Melvor Idle's whole formula and genuinely improves on its art, undone by a save system that has been erasing players' progress since launch day and, months later, still isn't reliably fixed.
4.5 / 10
A three-person GDevelop sequel about executing villagers and farming their souls, honest and unpretentious about what it is — but every one of its handful of Steam reviews so far is negative, and they converge on the same two complaints, an achievement curve that backs both up.
4.5 / 10
An aggregator filed this NZ$1.49 release as a Clicker; it is a 50-question Russian internet-meme trivia quiz with AI-recreated images, no sound, a fixed question order that guts its own replay value, and a review corpus that is 86% Russian-language.
4.3 / 10
