Castlevania Just Got Its Best Game in Years (And It's Not Even Trying to Be One)
Castlevania: Belmont's Curse landed on Steam this month from the Dead Cells team, and critics can't decide if it's a great Castlevania or just a great metroidvania wearing its clothes. Either way, people are playing it.
by Game of Review Team · 2026-10-23
Battlefield 6 Just Got Dead Space Zombies, a GOTY Edition, and a Typo Scandal
Battlefield 6 climbed back onto Steam's weekly top sellers this week, and not just because people are still shooting each other over flags. Season 5 dropped, necromorphs showed up, and a single spelling mistake on a skin turned into a whole AI-art debate.
by Game of Review Team · 2026-10-22
The Blood of Dawnwalker Sold a Million Copies, Then Steam Found the Stutter
A new vampire RPG from ex-Witcher devs just had the kind of launch most studios dream about, and the kind of launch week most PC players dread.
by Game of Review Team · 2026-10-21
Enshrouded Just Left Early Access, and Steam Still Loves It
After almost three years of early access patches, Keen Games' co-op survival RPG Enshrouded hit its 1.0 release on October 15. The reviews haven't budged from "Very Positive," which is rarer than it should be for a game leaving early access.
by Game of Review Team · 2026-10-20
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Is Already Live, and Critics Like Its Campaign
The next Modern Warfare kicked off its early access window last week, and the first wave of reviews is surprisingly kind to a series that's taken its share of criticism lately.
by Game of Review Team · 2026-10-19
This Tiny Idle RPG Living in Your Taskbar Just Cracked Steam's Top Charts
A pixel-art idle RPG that quite literally parks itself next to your clock has somehow out-drawn most of this year's big-budget launches. Meet TBH: Task Bar Hero.
by Game of Review Team · 2026-10-18
007 First Light's Switch 2 Version Just Got Delayed Again
IO Interactive's James Bond origin story is still hanging around Steam's top sellers chart five months after launch, but if you were waiting to play it on Switch 2, you're waiting a while longer.
by Game of Review Team · 2026-10-17
Gears of War: E-Day Is Out, and Steam Can't Agree on It
The Coalition's prequel finally shows us Emergence Day in full detail, and it's landed on Steam to strong sales but a genuinely split verdict from players.
by Game of Review Team · 2026-10-16
AION 2 Pulled In 400,000 Players, Then Started a Pay-to-Win Fight
AION 2 just had one of Steam's biggest MMO launches in ages, pulling in nearly 400,000 concurrent players this week. It also triggered a monetization controversy big enough to dent its publisher's stock price, all in the same seven days.
by Game of Review Team · 2026-10-15
Planet Zoo 2 Brought Sharks to Your Zoo, and Steam Reviewers Are Split
Frontier's zoo sim finally has a sequel, and this time you can stock aquariums and aviaries too. It was a pre-order bestseller before it even launched -- but the first wave of Steam reviews is a lot more mixed than that chart position suggested.
by Game of Review Team · 2026-10-14
A Free Cat Punching Your Taskbar Is One of the Biggest Games on Steam Right Now
Bongo Cat has no story, no real objective, and almost no gameplay beyond letting a cartoon cat slap your taskbar while you type. Right now it still has more people playing it than most of this year's big-budget releases.
by Game of Review Team · 2026-10-13
Mistfall Hunter Hit a Million Players, and the Reviews Are Still Mixed
Bellring Games' extraction RPG Mistfall Hunter has pulled in over a million players since its July launch, even though Steam's own reviews can't quite agree on it.
by Game of Review Team · 2026-10-11