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478 Action games reviewed and scored, best first.
478 reviews
A hand-drawn Slavic-folklore action RPG about a one-handed, cursed blacksmith, still Very Positive on Steam seven years on -- but critics and players have agreed, with striking consistency since launch week, that the art, story and Romanian folk soundtrack are carrying a combat and crafting system that never got fixed.
6.5 / 10
A gorgeous Edo-period fantasy action RPG with three distinct heroes and fluid combat, whose shallow run variation draws real roguelite complaints -- and whose launch was upended a week in when its publisher abandoned the project, not the small developer some angry reviews initially blamed.
6.5 / 10
A twin-stick shooter welded to an idle tycoon, told through a space-capitalism gag that outlasts most of the systems built to support it.
6.3 / 10
A free, solo-developed medieval action game with a genuinely creative post-apocalyptic twist and a small but enthusiastic fanbase, held back by two basic missing options — no mouse invert and no in-game sound volume control — that this tiny sample's negative reviews cite directly.
6.2 / 10
A 4-player co-op anime bullet heaven from Miki Games, built in Unreal Engine 5.5 and split across a roguelike Survival mode and a crystal-defending Defense mode — reviewed three days after launch against a store page with zero user reviews, no achievements defined and a character roster that doesn't quite match its own marketing copy.
6 / 10
A free-to-play incremental action RPG with zero monetisation and a genuinely likeable weapon-and-relic progression system, undercut by a fair, repeated complaint — this "idle" game leans so heavily on active clicking that its passive damage barely matters.
6 / 10
A mobile studio's first console-scale action RPG -- charming art, a satisfying weapon-combo system once it opens up, and a critical consensus that politely calls the whole thing forgettable.
6 / 10
An open-world action RPG about sand-surfing across a desert world with a sentient gauntlet, launched to "Forspoken 2.0" comparisons and a co-op bug so severe it became the single most-upvoted review the game has ever received — genuinely improved since by patches that recast a voice actor and reworked combat, though the co-op flaw was still being reported in 2025.
6 / 10
Game Freak's first new IP away from Pokémon is a striking-looking action RPG that launched two days ago to a Mixed score — and the negative reviews and the positive ones are, almost eerily, describing the same game.
6 / 10
An open-world "kung-fu fable" RPG about a mutant animal saving a post-apocalyptic world, announced in 2017 and delayed for years while its hype grew far ahead of what shipped -- Mixed on Steam, with a review pattern that's remarkably consistent about exactly where it falls apart.
6 / 10
A looter-shooter with genuinely well-regarded gunplay, undercut by severe, persistent PC performance problems and a real, extensively documented public-relations crisis in which Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford spent days publicly dismissing player complaints — telling PC gamers to "code your own engine" and that "premium games are made for premium gamers" — turning a technical problem into what press outlets have called "the great Pitchford Twitter crashout of 2025."
6 / 10
A solo-developer take on Breakout that swaps the usual flat 2D field for a first-person, zero-gravity paddle view across 32 fixed levels, backed by a sixteen-symbol power-up alphabet and a purely local high-score list. Released 5 August 2026 with no Steam achievements, no user reviews and no press coverage yet.
6 / 10
\"Anime Dark Souls\" with one of the genre's best character creators — and a co-op mode reviewers say quietly withholds story progression from the non-host player, a specific complaint distinct from the usual difficulty grumbling.
6 / 10
A Ukrainian studio's attempt to revive the 25-year-old Sea Dogs/Age of Pirates lineage is genuinely improving after two and a half years in Early Access — but its own achievement data shows most buyers still stop a few hours in.
6 / 10
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A Kickstarter-funded "ratoidvania" whose hand-drawn animation draws near-unanimous praise from the same reviewers who call its combat sluggish and unfair. Two years of free post-launch updates, including a new survival mode, show a developer that kept listening — the controls just never fully caught up to the art.
6 / 10
A pixel-art survivors-like that ends every boss fight at a poker table, from a first-time solo studio with no public track record and, a day after launch, no review corpus to check its 500-node unlock ladder against.
6 / 10
A genuinely fun, gory open-world zombie brawler whose Steam release — arriving a year after the game's original 2023 launch specifically to escape Epic Games Store exclusivity — forces Epic Online Services onto players anyway, producing some of the angriest, most-detailed technical reviews in this library's coverage.
6 / 10
A free-to-play action RPG that launched with a genuinely rare promise — no gacha for characters or weapons — and won real goodwill for it, before its own launcher distributed actual credential-stealing malware to players twice in the space of a month.
6 / 10
A charming, Zelda-inspired tower-defense dungeon crawler whose limited number of active turrets and shallow upgrade tree left the Kickstarter backers who waited years for it recommending it only reluctantly, if at all.
6 / 10
A licensed Dynasty Warriors mobile spin-off that quietly launched days ahead of its own announced date, bringing "one versus a thousand" musou combat to phones with a gacha hero system underneath. Early App Store reviews like the combat and distrust the monetisation's timing.
6 / 10
A 2002 dual-campaign medieval action RPG from Starbreeze that lets players fight through the same conflict from the Light and Dark sides, whose combat draws some of the most extreme, directly opposed reactions of any review sample this session found — "satisfying and skill-based" to some, "the worst combat I have ever seen in an RPG" to others.
6 / 10
A beloved 2004 action RPG trapped inside a decade-plus of consistent "lazy remaster" complaints — no PC mouse support, camera and performance issues still reported in 2026 — with reviewers steadily recommending the older, cheaper Fable: The Lost Chapters instead.
6 / 10
A cute, physics-driven toy-figure auto-battler with a genuinely fair, no-microtransaction take on blind-box collecting, undercut by thin content, real early bugs, a fading online population, and a specific asset-similarity allegation this review could not independently verify.
6 / 10
A cheesy, Resident Evil-and-Turok-inspired dinosaur survival horror shooter from a small studio that improved meaningfully on its predecessor, undercut at launch by a genuinely buggy save system and repetitive level design, with two years of ongoing patches since narrowing the gap.
6 / 10
