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481 games released in 2026 and reviewed here, best first.
481 reviews
Netmarble folds its 25-year-old dinosaur-taming franchise into an idle deck-builder, and the 24-unit battles are genuinely more tactical than the "auto-play RPG" label suggests — right up until the real-time PvP mode starts pricing in who's willing to spend.
6.5 / 10
A solo developer's entry into the Vampire Survivors mould gives its weapons a personality of their own, and arrives with a genuinely large unlock list for a two-day-old free release — the question this first look can't yet answer is how it plays at hour twenty.
6.5 / 10
A digital adaptation of a real tabletop primer used by Fight Club International's professional military wargaming network — a 20-minute hex-and-counter hill assault built to teach the genre's core mechanics, shipped day one with zero user reviews and no achievement data to check its claims against.
6.5 / 10
A free-to-play idle RPG that literally lives in your Windows taskbar, auto-battling and hatching monster eggs while you work -- notable for a genuinely non-predatory monetisation model (fixed-content passes, no real-money gacha) but launched 11 August 2026 to a Mixed reception, with a disclosed use of generative AI art drawing some of the pushback.
6.5 / 10
A solo Finnish developer's family-friendly storybook RPG released on Steam yesterday — gentle turn-based dice combat, gnomes and fire foxes to free, a garden to tend, and a documented ascension from folk tale to playable systems — reviewed on launch-day evidence, with an achievement spread that resolves to roughly three reporting accounts.
6.5 / 10
A genre mashup its own fans call an "uncut diamond" — Fallout-flavoured post-apocalyptic exploration, Darkest Dungeon-style combat and a real card-battler deckbuilding layer — whose lifetime review score is dragged down mostly by complaints from over a year before its actual 1.0 release.
6.5 / 10
A choice-driven interactive fiction RPG told entirely through the pages of a turning book, following Karl von Aiden across five chapters, three routes and six ways to die — from a Chinese solo-scale studio, with AI-assisted CG art and full dual-language narration, and so far a launch nobody has reviewed.
6.5 / 10
A football sim that puts you on the whistle instead of the ball — full 3D matches where every foul, dive, card, penalty and VAR review is your call, marked out of ten afterward, with a four-league career and 1-4 player online co-op where friends run the lines. Launched into Early Access 6 August 2026 from a solo Swedish developer.
6.5 / 10
A turn-based roguelite that reviewers keep describing the same way — "Octopath Traveler meets Slay the Spire" — with a genuinely distinctive height-based combat system underneath. Two days into Early Access it's fighting real launch bugs, but few Early Access debuts respond to their players this fast or this openly.
6.5 / 10
A short, atmospheric first-person horror sim from a solo developer with an established following, whose genuinely effective scares and Night of the Living Dead homage were nearly undercut by real launch bugs — since addressed by nine patches in the game's first week alone.
6.5 / 10
A budget first-person stealth horror game that drops a lone archaeologist into a Mayan tomb full of patrolling "Guardians," built on a demo that spent over a year gathering feedback before the ten-level full release launched with no user reviews yet to check it against.
6.5 / 10
A turn-based mercenary tactics game that launched to genuine XCOM-starved enthusiasm and a rough, bug-heavy 1.0 — plus a specific, repeated allegation from multiple reviewers that it's a rebrand of an earlier, since-delisted game, which independent research on Steam's own listings substantially corroborates.
6.5 / 10
A three-hour clicker RPG that is better designed than it needs to be, including the rare courtesy of building the autoclicker into the game instead of expecting you to install one. The problem isn't the length or the price — it's that the skill tree eventually out-damages every weapon you spent the game collecting.
6.5 / 10
A dark fantasy strategy RPG that flips Darkest Dungeon's premise — you're the cult building up to destroy the hamlet, not the party defending it — wrapped in some of the most striking art in the genre and undercut by a tutorial that still can't explain its own systems more than a year after launch.
6.5 / 10
An open-world witch adventure that swaps the usual survival toolbox for spellwork — spirit jumps instead of ladders, conjured forests instead of chopped trees, familiars instead of tames. Seven weeks into Early Access, the magic system is the best reason to be here; the world around it hasn't caught up yet.
6.5 / 10
A satirical survivors-like about incompetent superheroes causing more damage than the threats they're fighting, backed by an unusually rapid Early Access update cadence — reviewed from a small, currently spotless but geographically narrow sample, with the caveats that honestly deserves.
6.5 / 10
A first-person, no-combat stealth slasher where a masked killer hunts by noise, light and movement rather than a script — built for one intense sitting, released day one with a single verified user review and a demo that had already been public for five and a half months.
6.5 / 10
A dad taught himself to code so his 8-year-old son could have a game where he "finds cool swords and fights monsters forever" — a genuinely sweet origin story wrapped around a standard-issue idle RPG that its own early players are split on once the swords run out.
6.5 / 10
A calm, procedurally generated Finnish-mythology city-builder about goblins, water and the turning of the seasons — recently out of two years of Early Access, and still short on the reasons to keep watching after your first winter.
6.4 / 10
A solo-developed hybrid that welds grand-strategy nation management onto clicker mechanics — genuinely novel in concept, but a divisive combat rework, opaque economy and buggy pathfinding have left its Early Access reception stuck at Mixed.
6 / 10
A survivors-style auto-harvester where you point a magic weapon at crops instead of monsters, built around a skill tree and prestige loop that a majority of players clear in a single sitting — and whose own achievement data backs up the negative reviews' loudest complaint, that one starting crop breaks the balance for everyone else.
6 / 10
LINE Games' cartoon-animal idle RPG nails the cute, low-friction auto-battle loop the genre runs on, but a currency pile-up and IAP tiers stretching past a hundred dollars keep it from standing out in a market this crowded.
6 / 10
A solo-developer party idle RPG that opened Early Access three days ago with exactly three heroes, one boss, one roguelike dungeon mode called the Rift, and a developer who says outright that the price will keep climbing as content is added — reviewed against a build with zero Steam user reviews and a live player count in the single digits.
6 / 10
A 4-player co-op anime bullet heaven from Miki Games, built in Unreal Engine 5.5 and split across a roguelike Survival mode and a crystal-defending Defense mode — reviewed three days after launch against a store page with zero user reviews, no achievements defined and a character roster that doesn't quite match its own marketing copy.
6 / 10
