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Fifty games released on Steam this week cleared the review threshold to chart. These are the ones worth your attention, ranked by how they actually performed.
The number one release
Big Ambitions — $20.79, 92% from 13,840 reviews
A business sim where you start with an apartment from your uncle and a first job, then build whatever you want across New York. No prescribed path, which is why runs diverge so sharply. It topped the weekly chart by a wide margin on review volume.
Cheap and highly rated
Click the Button — $3.39, 94% from 2,558 reviews
An incremental where the title is the entire tutorial. Click, receive chests, collect items, unlock skills. The depth is in resource management, not the click.
Little Chef: Cozy Cooking — $7.19, 95%
A physics kitchen sandbox with 300+ recipes ranging from gourmet to deliberately gross. Everything has weight and can be thrown. About three hours, and the developers say so openly.
Fell & Sell — $8.99
A shop management game where you cannot buy stock. Every item on your shelves was taken out of a dungeon by hand in first-person hack-and-slash combat. Fail a run and your shelves stay empty.
Action
Garden of Witches — $13.29, 92% from 1,674 reviews
An action roguelike where you fight with giant scissors. You are the Thread Witch, gathering every witch for the annual tea party ritual, and none of them want to come.
STAR WARS Zero Company — $49.99, 79% from 10,947 reviews
Turn-based tactics from Bit Reactor, founded by veterans of the modern XCOM series. Set in the twilight of the Clone Wars. The 79% score is notably lower than the indie releases around it.
What the chart shows
Worth noting: the highest-rated games this week are also the cheapest. Click the Button at $3.39 holds 94%. Little Chef at $7.19 holds 95%. The $49.99 release sits at 79%.
That is not a coincidence. A cheap, short, focused game makes a promise it can keep. See our list of indie games under $10 for more.
Recently added this week
Allumeria — $9.59, 94%
A voxel sandbox where you can reshape any block on the fly — glass stairs, dirt fences, whatever you need — layered with dungeon crawling and boss fights for real progression.
Too Many Toys! — $5.09, 94%
5,517 toys, counted exactly, in a wrecked toy shop. No timers, no customers, and completed rows unlock speed upgrades.
Tough Love Arena — $11.99, 98%
An indie fighting game with six food characters, rollback netcode and browser crossplay. Send someone a link and be playing seconds later with no install.
Race Jam — $15.99, 98%
A 90s arcade racer where boosting costs health, so speed is a real risk. Ram rivals to zero and they drop out of the race entirely.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best new game on Steam this week?
Big Ambitions leads the Steam 250 weekly chart with 13,840 reviews at 92% positive. For cheaper options, Click the Button holds 94% at $3.39 and Little Chef: Cozy Cooking holds 95% at $7.19.
Where can I see new Steam releases ranked?
Steam 250 publishes weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly charts ranked by review score weighted against review volume, which surfaces games the Steam front page does not.
