
Star Renegades
Massive Damage, Inc.
A gorgeous, brutally tactical RPG whose enemies actually remember you — Star Renegades pairs one of the smartest combat systems in the genre with a gr...

Ball x Pit
Kenny Sun and Friends
Kenny Sun took Breakout, Vampire Survivors, and a city-builder, threw them in a blender, and somehow poured out one of the most compulsively replayabl...

The Rogue Prince of Persia
Evil Empire
Evil Empire took the DNA that made Dead Cells sing and grafted it onto a Persian myth, and the result is one of the most kinetic roguelites on the mar...

Slime Rancher 2
Monomi Park
Monomi Park doubled down on the wobbly, dopamine-drip charm that made the original a cult hit, and Rainbow Island is the most gorgeous playground the ...

Highwater
Demagog Studio
Highwater is a gorgeous, sharp-witted narrative adventure that wears its low-poly heart on its sleeve—but its turn-based combat is a rowboat with one ...

Ghost Song
Old Moon
Ghost Song is a gorgeous, melancholy Metroidvania that nails atmosphere and combat feel but rarely surprises you with an idea you haven't seen before ...

Afterimage
Aurogon Shanghai
Afterimage is one of the most beautiful Metroidvanias ever drawn and one of the most confusing ones ever written. Aurogon Shanghai built a sprawling, ...

Fortnite
Epic Games, Inc
Fortnite stopped being a game years ago and became a platform—a chaotic, generous, occasionally exhausting entertainment machine that gives away the w...

Schedule I
TVGS
A near-solo-developed Early Access sleeper that turns the grind of building a drug empire into one of the most compulsive management loops on Steam — ...

Sephonie
Melos Han-Tani, Marina Kittaka
Sephonie is a gorgeous, emotionally ambitious platformer that trusts you to feel your way through both its caves and its characters — but its slippery...

Bopl Battle
Johan Grönvall
Bopl Battle is the rare party brawler where the joke and the mechanics are the same thing — a physics sandbox disguised as a fighter, held back only b...

Rift of the NecroDancer
Brace Yourself Games, Tic Toc Studios Inc.
Brace Yourself Games traded the roguelike dungeon for three vertical lanes and, against the odds, landed a rhythm game that rewards reading over rote....

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Warhorse Studios
Warhorse Studios took a cult-classic RPG with brilliant ideas and rough edges, sanded the edges, and kept the brilliance. This is one of the most conf...

R.E.P.O.
semiwork
R.E.P.O. takes the co-op horror formula that Lethal Company perfected and bolts on a physics engine that turns every valuable vase into a heart-attack...

Eastward
Pixpil
Pixpil's debut is a gorgeous, big-hearted love letter to 16-bit adventure games that occasionally forgets when to end a sentence — but the sentence is...

Skin Deep
Blendo Games
Blendo Games spent the better part of a decade building the most tactile stealth sandbox since *Thief*, then wrapped it in a cat-obsessed slapstick co...

One Step From Eden
Thomas Moon Kang
A brilliant, merciless collision of Slay the Spire and Mega Man Battle Network that asks you to build a deck and dodge a bullet hell at the same time ...

Airships: Conquer the Skies
David Stark
One developer spent seven years building the most tactile ship-design sandbox in strategy gaming, and it shows in every splintered gondola and screami...

Nobody Saves the World
Drinkbox Studios
DrinkBox took the one mechanic every action RPG treats as a gimmick — shapeshifting — and made it the entire load-bearing wall. The result is a dungeo...

Weird West
WolfEye Studios
WolfEye's occult western is the most reactive RPG sandbox in years, built by people who understand that consequence is a mechanic, not a cutscene. It'...