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The Weekly
THIS WEEK’S THREAD
Ten rules from the same review band
Ten Steam listings from the October 9 review band. Each states a rule. None of these was played.
WEEK OF Oct 5, 2026
ON THE COVER / 高三最后300天 FROM THE EDITOR
A note before
the rabbit hole.
These ten are not a ranking. They are the next listings, after the three already drafted, whose store pages stated a rule precise enough to write down. The walk was newest Steam games tagged Indie, kept when an all-language, all-purchase review total fell between 50 and 1,000 on October 9. Most names stayed on the list. App Store and Play Store names stayed on theirs. A game page here needs a Steam app id, and those rating counts are not this review total.
ForgeTax spends a finished sword on a relic or on the dragon. It’s Fine spends an hour of the last day on sleep, and the project manager is a dog. Scapewatch says the character keeps the queue after the tab closes. Those three are about leaving a process running. They are not the same process.
Chomp Garden has three plants and one lamp. The Magus Circle says a crude sigil still casts, and offers to slow time while you draw. Doggy Don’t Care scores the mess. Cozy Farm lets different crops share one sorting streak and prints no deadline. Bloodspill keeps the fight to one hit and lets the mode change the score.
高三最后300天 puts the limit on the planner itself: writing the week does not finish it. 崇祯直聘 is in early access, with a county line and a border line, and with no morality score. The silver still has to come from a named place.
None of the ten was played. Each screenshot is the store’s, and each caption says what the frame does not show.
Inside this issue10
SORTED BY STEAM REVIEW COUNT / HIGHEST FIRST

552 Steam reviews · Checked Oct 9, 2026
It's Fine
It's Fine banks the last day of crunch as sleep.
The last 24 hours of a dev crunch. Sleep earns Sleephours. Joe the dog is project manager. A botfarm, a kraken and Peanut the squirrel are stations that change what they do.
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435 Steam reviews · Checked Oct 9, 2026
Scapewatch: Idle MMO
Scapewatch keeps working after you close the tab.
Queue a task and leave. The listing says the character keeps working offline, and that raids are a separate fight for up to five players. The page says the game is in playtest.
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380 Steam reviews · Checked Oct 9, 2026
The Magus Circle
The Magus Circle says a badly drawn sigil still casts.
Spells are drawn by hand. A crude sigil still works, across 20 spells and 600 upgrades. Time can slow or freeze while you draw, or a button can cast.
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343 Steam reviews · Checked Oct 9, 2026
ForgeTax
ForgeTax charges a fearless strike on the tenth forge.
A successful hammer blow raises a sword's value, and a bad one shatters it. Ten forges on the same blade open a window where the hammer need not fear the break.
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170 Steam reviews · Checked Oct 9, 2026
崇祯直聘:明末官场沉浮模拟器
崇祯直聘 keeps no morality score. The silver still has a source.
Early access ships a county line and a border line. There is no good-and-evil score. The county treasury can be empty on day one. Border pay often arrives at sixty percent.
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96 Steam reviews · Checked Oct 9, 2026
高三最后300天
高三最后300天 lets you write the week. It does not finish the week.
Three hundred days from the exam, a weekly plan changes which chances show up. Exams check more than the number, and the planner says the written direction still has to be lived.
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90 Steam reviews · Checked Oct 9, 2026
Cozy Farm: Tidy Up!
Cozy Farm keeps one sorting streak across different crops.
More than 2,500 crops go onto shelves in seven greenhouses. A combo survives a change of fruit, pays money, and the listing prints no deadline. You can also sleep through the day.
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83 Steam reviews · Checked Oct 9, 2026
Doggy Don't Care
Doggy Don't Care scores the mess.
Charlie is home alone. Mischievous badges are puzzles. The printed examples are a toilet-paper trail and oily paw prints, and the page also sends you into his dreams.
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79 Steam reviews · Checked Oct 9, 2026
Chomp Garden
Chomp Garden's plants answer one lamp three ways.
You play a lamp looking for a pup. Chomp Plants grow toward the light, Thief Plants move away, and Hidey Bushes can hide it.
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60 Steam reviews · Checked Oct 9, 2026
Bloodspill
Bloodspill keeps the hit to one and lets the mode keep the score.
A retro PvP shooter with one-hit combat. Deathmatch counts bodies, capture the flag counts captures, and conquest counts held ground.
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