Code Vein
\"Anime Dark Souls\" with one of the genre's best character creators — and a co-op mode reviewers say quietly withholds story progression from the non-host player, a specific complaint distinct from the usual difficulty grumbling.
6 / 10
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Game Reviews
Idle RPGs, MMOs, browser games and mobile RPGs, taken apart properly. Every review carries a score out of 10, what the game does well, what it does badly, and the kind of player it is actually for.
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Coffee Noir - Business Detective Game
A genuinely striking noir art style and story wrapped around two half-realized game systems — a business sim too simple to satisfy and a detective clue-connecting mechanic several reviewers call arbitrary enough to feel like a coin flip.
5.9 / 10
Corner Shop: NightShift
A genuinely engaging shop-management horror hybrid with a story reviewers say is worth seeing through to the end, undercut by real repetition once the novelty wears off, a save system that can lose hours of progress to crashes, and one serious complaint about its handling of mental illness themes.
5.6 / 10
Corsairs Legacy - Pirate Action RPG & Sea Battles
A Ukrainian studio's attempt to revive the 25-year-old Sea Dogs/Age of Pirates lineage is genuinely improving after two and a half years in Early Access — but its own achievement data shows most buyers still stop a few hours in.
6 / 10
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Cow Life Sim RPG
A NZ$4.99 sandbox life-sim RPG about being a cow — juice anything, weave anything into a basket, burn everything, and grind 13-odd skills across a warm, sincerely queer world. Small review sample, but a startlingly consistent one.
7.8 / 10
CryptoClickers: Crypto Idle Game
A genuinely deep double-prestige incremental wearing a crypto-mining skin, undone by a UI that assumes you'll join the Discord to understand it and a leaderboard economy built on premium currency that decays before you can spend it.
5.8 / 10
Crypto Mining Simulator
A one-person Steam sim about physically building a mining rig and speculating on a simulated coin market — a genuinely different idea to the genre's usual click-and-wait idlers, left to rot by a developer who stopped updating it within a year of launch.
4.5 / 10
Cube Life: Island Survival
A block-building survival game that genuinely beat Minecraft onto the Wii U in 2015, now sitting on Steam as a cheap, single-player, hand-crafted-island clone that its own developer has left untouched since 2021.
5.5 / 10
CyberGrid: Tower defense
A free, solo-developed cyberpunk tower defense game with an unusually small, almost entirely negative review sample — and a specific, independently-verifiable claim that it began life as a Unity tutorial course project.
2.8 / 10
Dark Souls II - Scholar of the First Sin
The trilogy's most-argued-over entry, remembered by its launch reviewers for a bug so specific it became legend — weapon durability accidentally tied to framerate — and for a ban policy that lumped graphics-mod users in with actual cheaters.
7 / 10
DARK SOULS: REMASTERED
One of the most genre-defining action RPGs ever made, sold through a remaster its own launch-week reviewers called a $25 patch for known bugs that are, in several cases, still in the game — with the cheaper original delisted from Steam entirely.
7.5 / 10
Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG
A turn-based zombie survival RPG that splits its time between running a camp and sending a squad out to fight — genuinely deep for the first stretch, but Steam's own review text and achievement curve agree it wears thin well before the credits.
6.5 / 10
Dead Pets: A Punk Rock Slice of Life Sim
A management-lite slice-of-life game about a thirtysomething punk band that will probably never make it, told through diner shifts, rhythm-game gigs and three meters that never stop draining.
7.3 / 10
Death Trading Card Game
A $9.99 fantasy trading card game promising decks, PvP and a growing card pool — that has sat on Steam since 2022 without a single user review or a live opponent to play against.
2.3 / 10
Delivery Driver Massacre - Definitive Edition
A short, cheap, genuinely atmospheric PS1-VHS horror game that launched with real killer-AI and logic bugs — and a developer who shipped six patches in three weeks that visibly won back reviewers who'd initially soured on it.
6.7 / 10
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Desktop Cat Cafe
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
DESORDRE : A Puzzle Game Adventure
A solo-developed, Portal-inspired puzzle game built to show off path-traced lighting, adding a genuinely clever dual-dimension twist — undercut for a consistent share of players by floaty movement physics and a portal gun that lacks Portal's own funnelling.
6.4 / 10
Die With Glory
An old Viking's only goal is to find a death glorious enough to earn Valhalla, and the tall-tale premise is genuinely funny when the pop-culture gags land. What undercuts it is how much of its 2017 Steam port still behaves like the touchscreen game it started life as, down to the mid-playthrough prompt to rate it five stars on an app marketplace.
5.3 / 10
Dinosaur Park – Primeval Zoo
A free dinosaur-zoo tycoon with genuine charm for young dino fans, undercut by aggressive, repeatedly reported cash-shop pressure, real technical instability spanning years of reviews, and a specific age-verification bug several adult players report locks them out entirely.
3.6 / 10
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
Widely regarded as one of the best-written RPGs ever made — reviewed against the backdrop of a well-documented ownership dispute in which the game's original creators were pushed out of ZA/UM, a fact a large share of this game's own reviewers raise before they say anything else.
8.5 / 10
Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition
The Larian CRPG that laid the groundwork for Divinity: Original Sin 2 — genuinely one of the better-executed "Enhanced Editions" this library has covered, held back mainly by a back half its own fans agree drags compared to the sequel it made possible.
7.5 / 10
Dragon Age: Inquisition
A celebrated, GOTY-winning BioWare fantasy epic whose Steam review page has spent six straight years dominated by one complaint that has nothing to do with the game — the mandatory EA launcher, which reviewers are still calling out for breaking the game as recently as this year.
7.5 / 10
DreamWorks Dragons: Dawn of New Riders
A charming, faithful How to Train Your Dragon spin-off with genuinely well-liked art and music, undercut by a near-universal complaint from both sides of its review sample — a 3-to-8-hour runtime that reviewers say doesn't match its original full price — plus real accessibility gaps like no control remapping.
5 / 10
Ducky Clicker Idle Game
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