Best of the 2020s
This decade's best value, ranked by the score.
Steam's output went vertical this decade, and most of the games I score came out in 2020 or after. This cut keeps the ones released 2020 or later with a BANG of 85 or better. That is 217 games, out of the 501 BANGERS in the whole catalog. The 2020 line is a decade boundary and nothing more, so the score bar is what actually filters. Murders on the Yangtze River leads at 98.7 with 14.8 hours and 20,996 reviews. Balatro is 95.1 on a main story of 7.7 hours, and I have put several times that into it, which the score has no way to know. Hades sits at 94.9 across 23.4 hours and 308,383 reviews. Satisfactory holds 97.5 with 107.2 hours.
Recency is the problem. A 2025 release has had less time to gather reviews and less time to get a HowLongToBeat length filled in, so the newest entries are scored on thinner data than the 2020 ones. Nubby's Number Factory is here at 87.5 on 19,127 reviews, and I would treat that as less settled than OMORI's 94.2 on 88,652. The 85 bar is soft too. Moving it to 84 adds 21 games, so nothing special happens at 85.
