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ISSUE0033 GOOD QUESTIONS

THIS WEEK’S THREAD

Three rules from the new review band

Deleted Wiki, Starlathe and Gear Puzzle. Each was picked from the newest Steam indie games that had 50 to 1,000 reviews on October 9.

WEEK OF Oct 5, 2026
A browser window titled Trash shows a grid of pixel-art item icons. The page says 10,324 entries were deleted by user Nullbane on 14 Mar 2007, 03:12 AM. Seven category folders sit in the sidebar, and the sorting aids are marked Locked.ON THE COVER / Deleted Wiki: Clean Up the Lost Files

FROM THE EDITOR

A note before
the rabbit hole.

GameMargin editors

These three are not a ranking. They are the games, in a walk of newest Steam releases tagged Indie, whose store pages stated a rule precise enough to write down. The walk kept a game when an all-language, all-purchase review total fell between 50 and 1,000 on October 9. Most of the other names stayed on the list.

Deleted Wiki puts 10,324 deleted items in a trash folder and sells you the scripts that eventually place them. Starlathe says its miners and haulers keep working in sectors you have left. Gear Puzzle returns one hint every three minutes and lets you reread an opened hint for free. The shared part is only the selection. Each decision is different, and none of the three was played for this issue.

Inside this issue03

SORTED BY STEAM REVIEW COUNT / HIGHEST FIRST