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250 games released in 2025 and reviewed here, best first.
250 reviews
Heart Machine's 3D open-world spin on Hyper Light Drifter had a genuinely promising Early Access launch built on fluid combat and Breath of the Wild-style exploration -- then, nine months later, the studio laid off its team and confirmed development had ended, leaving a paid, unfinished game permanently stuck without a final boss.
4 / 10
A NZ$12.49 seven-currency idle economy game whose own most-invested reviewers — median 23.7 hours played, well above its positive reviewers' 5.7 — describe a triple prestige system that resets everything for nothing, a save that "bricked itself" at 135 hours, and an achievement curve that halves at every difficulty gate.
4 / 10
A Cookie Clicker-shaped duck-collecting idler with no Steam achievements, reportedly slow-to-frustrating progression, and a free identical Android release — both of its two Steam reviews are negative.
3.8 / 10
A solo developer's big swing at a character-action game — combo routes, a fury-meter super mode and 10-15 hours of heavy-metal cinematics — sold alongside 34 separate paid DLC listings, including a premium currency duplicated across five near-identical SKUs per tier.
3.7 / 10
A solo-developed idle dungeon crawler that Steam reviewers say had a genuinely promising loop -- undone by save-corrupting bugs and a developer who publicly gave up on fixing the Steam build three days after launch.
3.5 / 10
A free, charmingly drawn idle RPG whose developer publicly acknowledged a save-corrupting bug two days after launch and then, on the evidence of its own update feed, never actually fixed it — with players still reporting lost progress from the same issue nearly a year later.
3.5 / 10
A free Early Access idle RPG that promised a dozen interlocking skills in the mould of Melvor Idle, shipped one substantial content patch, and has since vanished from Steam entirely.
3.5 / 10
A genuinely likeable spin on the House-Flipper renovation genre, with a real ghost-catching hook reviewers enjoyed for months — undercut by severe, persistent bugs and a rights transfer to a new studio that this review independently confirmed via a year of Steam silence, exactly matching multiple reviewers' abandonment claims.
3.2 / 10
A budget dungeon crawler whose store page promises "endless procedurally generated dungeons," while every reviewer who has actually bought it describes roughly four fixed rooms, a death bug, and no way to quit the game without closing it through Windows.
3 / 10
A bare, aggressively monetised mobile-tapper port whose own paid "Farmer's Pack" is independently reported by multiple reviewers to break the game's economy outright, on top of an idle game that several reviewers say isn't actually idle at all.
2.5 / 10
