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Featured Review
Your body is corporate property. Your mind is still yours — for now.

Citizen Sleeper

Narrative RPG Sci-Fi Tabletop Indie

A tabletop-inspired RPG aboard a derelict space station at the edge of corporate space. Intimate, melancholic, and quietly essential. One of the finest pieces of science fiction writing in any medium in recent years.

Disco Elysium
98
CRPG Narrative
Disco Elysium
A failed detective wakes up in a ruined world. The world is you.
Hades II
91
Roguelike Action
Hades II
Early access that already surpasses most finished games.
Balatro
96
Roguelike Card Game
Balatro
Poker as a drug. The synergies do not stop revealing themselves.
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Pentiment
Pentiment
Narrative · Historical · December 2025
88
Caves of Qud
Caves of Qud
Roguelike · RPG · November 2025
85
Norco
Norco
Point & Click · Sci-Fi · October 2025
90
Signalis
Signalis
Survival Horror · Sci-Fi · September 2025
87

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