Incremental Games Are Taking Over Steam (And They Are Getting Strange)
Three of this week top ten new Steam releases were incremental games. From a 99% rated turtle business to feeding rubber ducks into a corporate abyss.
Every Recent Steam Game Rated Over 90% (And How to Read the Score)
From a 100% rated cooking sim across 9,508 reviews to a 94% bullet-heaven with 105,908. Every recent Steam release above 90%, and how to read the scores properly.
The Best New Steam Releases This Week (Ranked by Actual Reviews)
Big Ambitions tops the weekly chart at 92% from 13,840 reviews. Plus a $3.39 incremental at 94% and a shop sim where you have to kill for your stock.
Shop Keeper Games Are Getting Weird (One Makes You Fight for Your Stock)
From the 94% rated TCG Card Shop Simulator to a game where every item on your shelves was pulled out of a dungeon by hand. The best shop management games on Steam.
Steam Workshop Malware: What Actually Happened, and How to Stay Safe
Two MECCHA CHAMELEON Workshop maps carried a trojan, and a BlockBlasters update stole $32,000 from a charity streamer. What happened, what is safe, and how to protect yourself.
The 12TB Steam Leak Explained: What Is Actually Inside, and Why It Was Not a Hack
12TB of Valve development files from 2003 to 2013 leaked because a legacy server had no password. Portal 2 builds, cancelled F-Stop, and the Episode 3 Weaponizer. No Half-Life 3.
The Best Games That Run on Almost Any PC (Including a Metacritic 92)
The best-reviewed indie games that run on modest hardware, from a Metacritic 92 puzzle game to a 99% rated deckbuilder. Plus what the Steam Hardware Survey says.
How to Actually Find Good Games on Steam (The Front Page Is Not It)
Why the Steam front page hides the best games, how to read review-weighted rankings and player counts properly, and the tools that surface what the store will not.
Games Like Vampire Survivors: Every Worthwhile Successor (Including a Pachinko One)
From Megabonk to a pachinko roguelite and a game about resisting evolution into a crab, the best games that took the Vampire Survivors formula somewhere new.
Every Indie Game Releasing Soon (With Confirmed Dates)
Confirmed indie release dates including Scavland on September 4 and Dumb Ways to Build on September 10, plus the most anticipated games still without dates.