Top-Down
31 games reviewed, ranked by score.

Baba Is You
The Rulebook Is the Puzzle, and It's Brilliant

Order of the Sinking Star
Your reward for solving a perfect puzzle: another one.

Emberward
Its tetromino maze-building is a stroke of genius.

FTL: Faster Than Light
Twelve years of rerouted shields and panicked airlocks

XCOM 2
Concealment and turn timers punish every cautious instinct

FINAL FANTASY RESONANCE
A pixel-perfect revival held back by its PC port.

Heat Signature
Spaceship heists where every mistake becomes a story

Mina the Hollower
Game Boy Color looks, Bloodborne's bite.

Mini Motorways
Simple rules, traffic-induced rage, and one more city

Sephiria
Grid-tablet build-crafting that soars solo, drops the run in co-op

Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional
A flawless Y2K theme, running on a single map.

BALL x PIT
Breakout Fused With Vampire Survivors, And It Sticks

Heroes' Vow: Three Kingdoms
Live your own Three Kingdoms epic. Endure its clumsy wars.

Rubinite
Boss rush that shines, then hides its ending behind no-hit runs

Welcome to Elderfield
A town of charming dread, buried under endless chores.

Big Ambitions
Building the empire beats running it

33 Immortals
A 33-player boss rush worth joining, if the servers hold

Arms of God
Fusing five weapons feels great, the circle-running maps don't

Romestead
Co-op rebuilding clicks with friends, grinds alone

Yet Another Zombie Survivors
Squad synergies lift the survivors loop before the builds converge

Cursemark
Rune-breaking synergies worth chasing, if the bugs and thin content don't stop you

Apocalypse Express
Frantic train defence that sings in co-op, strains solo

Funguys Swarm
A charming swarm that crashes before it burns out

Hell Maiden
Gorgeous descent into Hell, tripped by run-ending crashes

Prison Architect
The prison sim that built its own genre, then got abandoned

Solasta II
Faithful 5E combat trapped in a level-4 Early Access shell

Asgard's Fall — Viking Survivors
A sharp build-web, snagged by crashes and lag

Ostranauts
Salvaging derelicts thrills, until a bug eats your save

Unrailed 2: Back on Track
Glorious with three friends, hollow with bots and stutter

Sir, We Have an Orc Problem
Fluid orc hordes shine, then the upgrade tree runs on empty

Wanderburg
Its mobile fortress is a joy to build, a pain to run.