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481 games released in 2026 and reviewed here, best first.
481 reviews
A tactical tower defense from solo developer Tearevo built around one flying fortress under siege from every direction — a hex-grid network of turrets, resource collectors and support modules, split between grounded sieges and scrolling air battles, with a roguelite boost draw and a between-mission tech tree layered on top.
7 / 10
hololive's first official mobile game pairs a genuinely solid rhythm engine and a surprisingly deep theme-park builder with a fair, transparent gacha economy — then ships a Steam port with kernel-level anti-cheat and keyboard controls that never should have left the touchscreen.
7 / 10
A free browser and Steam idler that swaps cookie-clicker simplicity for Path of Exile-style affix hunting, guild-like Syndicates and a marketplace — then leaves its own community to sell the experience as much as the systems do.
7 / 10
A paid idle RPG that piles five separate game modes, 125+ powers and a full forging-and-prestige stack onto a post-apocalyptic hero — genuinely deep for the genre, but still working out UI bugs and an overwhelming opening hour a month after launch.
7 / 10
A NZ$14.99 monster-staffed factory idler from Eragone, the solo French studio behind Idle Together — checked against a review base of exactly 15 write-ups, every one of them positive, and all but one written months before the game's actual 1.0 release.
7 / 10
A Chinese-developed roguelike bullet-hell shooter about a hero possessed by an escaped demon king, wrapping a huge auto-attack build-crafting system and a class-change progression ladder in an RPG genre tag it only half earns.
7 / 10
A five-day-old fantasy idle RPG that has yet to receive a single negative Steam review. This review reads all fourteen of them, alongside a queue system and companion mechanics several reviewers rate above Melvor Idle, the genre's most-cited reference point.
7 / 10
The Fox Knocks follows up their mining incremental Kin and Quarry with a tighter, faster hybrid — Vampire Survivors-style bullet-heaven combat wrapped around a genuine incremental gear economy — and lands it well enough on day one that the loudest complaint is simply wanting more of it.
7 / 10
A physics-based cooking roguelike where ingredients tumble and collide inside a cosmic cauldron instead of cards sitting in a hand — genuinely inventive, well liked across hundreds of early reviews, and repeatedly accused by its own players of leaning on luck more than it should.
7 / 10
A plant shop sim so pleasant that almost nobody has a bad word for it — and so short that the people praising it keep mentioning they finished everything in four hours. Lovely, cheap, and about three systems away from being something you'd still be playing next month.
7 / 10
An incremental heist game that flips the loot-RPG premise on its head — heroes clear the dungeons and find the treasure, and you play the goblin who steals it back from them while they're still inside.
7 / 10
A free-to-play sci-fi idle RPG built around a genuine, developer-stated no-pay-to-win promise, an active in-game chat community, and an engaged solo developer — praised by a striking number of very-high-playtime reviewers, with real friction over gear durability and one serious, unverified allegation about how the launch event tracked activity.
7 / 10
Paint your own body to match the wall you're standing against, then hold still while the seeker walks past. A solo developer's ten-dollar hide-and-seek game has collected 79,000 reviews in eight weeks — and a genuine security story that anyone installing it should read first.
7 / 10
A one-day-old Japanese horror walking sim whose entire hook is a gaze-driven fog of war — the neighbourhood only exists where you're actually looking, and looking is also how the thing hunting you finds you. Reviewed on launch day, against zero Steam reviews and the developer's own two-title track record.
7 / 10
A factory-automation puzzle game where you cut, stamp, and paint your own voxel building parts, then squeeze the whole production line onto a sky island with a real, paid ceiling on space. Polished and distinctive, but priced like the genre giants it can't yet match in scale.
7 / 10
A three-day-old Early Access idle RPG that runs thirteen separate skill trackers off one RuneScape-flavoured template, lets you train two of them at once, and caps its offline catch-up at a clearly documented 24 hours — for a one-time NZ$4.31 with no reviews, no achievements curve worth reading, and a developer FAQ that admits the balance still needs work.
7 / 10
A genuinely well-written, beautifully presented monster-taming JRPG that sits at Mostly Positive on Steam — noticeably lower than the other entries in Capcom's extraordinary 2025-2026 run — because of two real, well-documented problems even its fans agree on: severe launch-window crashing that Capcom itself has confirmed and investigated, and a genuine feature regression from its predecessor, stripping out multiplayer and meaningful endgame content.
7 / 10
A vampire farming sim with the best time-pressure idea the cosy genre has had in years, and almost no progression ladder to spend that pressure on.
7 / 10
A solo-developed idle RPG that slipped onto Steam with no demo, no marketing push and no fanfare, and quietly built a small but devoted following comparing it directly to Increlution. Its tiny review sample carries genuinely enormous playtimes on one side and a blunt "this isn't a game" dismissal on the other.
7 / 10
Hotta Studio's follow-up to Tower of Fantasy trades sci-fi towers for a neon-lit supernatural city, and the open world it built to fill that city is a genuinely bigger achievement than the parry-and-dash combat sitting inside it.
7 / 10
A Balatro-flavoured poker roguelike where every card fights on two fronts at once — attack from the top face, defence from the bottom. Its entire review record so far is written in Korean, and reading it directly turns up a genuinely coherent, specific picture the game's English-language silence has been hiding.
7 / 10
The indie life sim that spent seven years being the great Sims alternative, now 91% positive and a million copies sold — with a build mode people adore and a live mode its own supporters say isn't finished.
7 / 10
A bold, deliberately alienating reinvention of Ice-Pick Lodge's cult plague-town saga — swapping the survival-sim hunger and infection management longtime fans loved for a time-looping detective mystery — that landed Very Positive on Steam even as a genuine, detailed split opened up among the series' own most devoted players.
7 / 10
A darkly satirical colony sim crossed with a first-person roguelite shooter, where you build a totalitarian regime and personally lead mechanised assaults against alien threats — a strong Early Access launch overshadowed for some players by the game's previous life as an NFT-funded project called Earth From Another Sun.
7 / 10
