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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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Megabonk

One person made a NZ$14.75 survivors-like that sold a million copies in a fortnight and sits at 94% across 104,643 reviews — and whose most invested players have been asking for the same balance pass since October 2025.

8 / 10

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Microsoft Flight Simulator

A genuine technical marvel that recreates the entire Earth in staggering, mesmerizing detail — sold on Steam behind a mandatory external-launcher download that reviewers have documented, consistently and specifically, running out Steam's refund window since launch day in 2020.

6.5 / 10

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MIO: Memories in Orbit

A visually stunning metroidvania whose reviews split sharply on one specific mechanic — permanent health loss tied to the story — that several players call the moment the game turns from a favorite into a frustration, and others say isn't nearly as punishing as it's made out to be.

7.5 / 10

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Mistfall Hunter

A dark-fantasy extraction ARPG with genuinely good third-person combat, undercut at launch by a "solo or trio" pitch that turns out to mean trio, missing regional servers, and a cash shop players keep calling scummy in the same reviews that praise the fighting.

6 / 10

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My Time at Portia

A charming, Ghibli-inspired post-apocalyptic crafting and farming life-sim that's built a genuinely devoted, cross-generational fanbase over six years — while a long, consistent thread of its own reviews keeps arguing the developers never quite finished fixing it.

7 / 10

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Nazi Zombies

A free, PS1-textured love letter to World at War and Black Ops 1's original Zombies mode, built by a small team that shipped ten hotfixes in its first five days — including one that directly fixed the exact balance complaint players were posting about at the same time.

8 / 10

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NieR:Automata

A genuine landmark action RPG whose Steam version spent four years as a warning label of its own — a beloved, philosophically ambitious game shipped in a technically broken PC port that Square Enix quietly fixed on a different storefront first.

8.5 / 10

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No Man's Sky

The most complete redemption story in gaming, a decade on. The 2016 launch reviews and the 2026 ones are describing almost different games — and the newest wave of criticism has nothing to do with the old one.

8 / 10

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NORSE: Oath of Blood

An XCOM-style Viking tactics RPG with genuinely praised writing that launched in a technical state its own reviewers compared to Early Access — and has spent the months since visibly recovering as negative-review volume collapsed following a string of patches.

6.5 / 10

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OMORI

A turn-based RPG that splits its time between a colourful dream world and a grounded, emotionally heavy reality, built around themes of grief and mental health with a level of care that's earned it one of the most devoted followings of any recent indie RPG.

9 / 10

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Once Human

A genuinely strange free survival MMO whose defining flaw — seasonal servers that wiped everything you built — has quietly been fixed, while its veterans have moved on to a different argument entirely.

7 / 10

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OneShot

A short, genuinely inventive puzzle adventure that reaches outside the game window to talk to you — 98.3% positive, and if you're on Linux or Steam Deck you should buy a different version of it.

8.5 / 10

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Ooblets

A deeply weird, deeply charming farming and creature-collector hybrid that resolves disputes with dance battles instead of combat — arriving on Steam years late and still trailing a genuinely ugly 2019 controversy that has little to do with the game itself.

7.5 / 10

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