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478 Action games reviewed and scored, best first.
478 reviews
Home to one of the most inventive systems in action RPGs — a system its publisher then patented, blocking every other studio from building anything like it, a decision reviewers are still angry about years after the studio that made it, Monolith Productions, was shut down.
7.5 / 10
Capcom's biggest Monster Hunter yet strips away almost everything that used to make the series hard to love — and a lot of what used to make it worth loving. A phenomenal hunt loop wrapped around a launch-year PC performance crisis and an endgame that shipped thinner than the marketing suggested.
7.5 / 10
Moonlighter splits itself between a dungeon-crawling roguelite and a shop-management sim, and the two halves are tied together by a genuinely clever idea — you set your own prices and read the customers to find out if you got it right. The question worth answering eight years on is whether that idea, and the combat around it, still hold up once the spreadsheet gets written.
7.5 / 10
A genuinely acclaimed medieval melee combat game whose combat system reviewers on both sides of the score still call the best in its genre — undercut by a worsening, well-corroborated problem as the game ages: a shrinking, veteran-dominated population creates a steep skill gap that new players increasingly describe as insurmountable, with negative reviews trending upward every year since 2021.
7.5 / 10
A solo Swedish developer's five-years-in-the-making remake of his own 2014 cult Flash game -- bullet-time gun-fu narrated by a sentient banana -- still Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam seven years on, with a strikingly consistent complaint: a first half nearly everyone loves, and a back half a real share of players say runs out of ideas.
7.5 / 10
Nomada Studio's follow-up to the beloved GRIS is gorgeous by near-universal agreement and just as consistently marked down by its own fans for one specific addition — combat — that a majority of its detailed critics say undercuts the emotional, puzzle-led magic that made its predecessor a modern classic.
7.5 / 10
A genuine revival of one of action gaming's most demanding franchises, co-developed by PlatinumGames and Team Ninja, launching to widespread praise for its combat within days of the death of series creator Tomonobu Itagaki — undercut by a real, consistently repeated identity debate among longtime fans over how much of the game feels like Platinum's own house style rather than classic Ninja Gaiden.
7.5 / 10
Level-5's sequel swaps Studio Ghibli's direct involvement for a hybrid of open-world action RPG and kingdom-building sim -- gorgeous and generous with content, but eight years on its combat, story and half-baked army battles are the recurring complaints even among fans who put hundreds of hours into it.
7.5 / 10
Team Ninja's samurai-era Souls-like pairs one of the deepest stance-based combat systems in the genre with a Diablo-style loot flood that a large, vocal share of its own fans say fights against everything the combat is trying to do -- a disagreement that hasn't moved in nine years of reviews.
7.5 / 10
Moon Studios spent over two years turning a thin, contentious Early Access launch into a nearly complete game — hand-painted world, precision souls-like combat, a real town to build up, and co-op that only actually arrived in January 2026 — with the full 1.0 release now dated for October 2026.
7.5 / 10
A sci-fi bullet-hell roguelike from a solo developer whose likeable social-media presence turned into a genuine viral moment — inflating the review count well beyond what gameplay alone usually drives, though players who stuck around for real playtime confirm there's a solid game underneath the goodwill.
7.5 / 10
A fairytale-hero action roguelite whose distinct, wildly different playable characters and tight combat earn it a lasting Very Positive score, dragged down by a permanent three-map ceiling its own developers have confirmed will not grow, even as the roster keeps expanding.
7.5 / 10
A gorgeous, exquisitely designed 2D platformer widely regarded as a genre high point — increasingly overshadowed on Steam by a mandatory Ubisoft Connect requirement that reviewers describe wiping progress, blocking launches, and making one achievement outright impossible after Ubisoft took down its servers.
7.5 / 10
A free bullet-hell MMO that's been asking the same brutal question for fourteen years — how far will you push a character you can never get back — and somehow still gets away with graphics that looked deliberately retro even in 2012.
7.5 / 10
A well-liked gunplay-and-souls hybrid whose negative sample carries a genuine, multi-year design complaint about mob-swarmed boss fights, a serious matchmaking flaw that let cheaters corrupt other players' saves, and one very high-vote but singular allegation of the developer banning a negative reviewer, which this review reports cautiously rather than as fact.
7.5 / 10
Widely regarded as Piranha Bytes' finest work and the true spiritual successor to their acclaimed Gothic series, Risen carries a remarkably stable, decade-spanning structural complaint — a genuinely strong first half giving way to a repetitive, fetch-quest-heavy final chapter that reviewers writing in 2016 and 2026 alike describe almost identically.
7.5 / 10
A fresh, simplified take on the farming-fantasy-action RPG series that plays well for newcomers and won an enormous, healthy Steam audience, but whose own review base — dominated by reviewers who've played every prior entry — argues repeatedly that the series' deeper systems were stripped out rather than modernised.
7.5 / 10
A faithful, HD-2D remake of the 1998 fan-favourite that reviewers rate Very Positive and trending upward two years on, built around genuinely praised character writing and a deep private-action system, dragged down by companion AI complaints, an always-online requirement and a handful of specific, documented localisation changes from the Japanese original.
7.5 / 10
A well-regarded continuation of Cal Kestis's story that launched as one of the most notoriously broken PC ports of 2023 — sentiment has genuinely recovered since (recent reviews run well ahead of the lifetime score), but performance and crashes remain the single most common complaint in this outlet's sample even three years later.
7.5 / 10
A shipwrecked hero levels up by winning minigames, not by clicking through menus. SoulGame Studio's sequel to its cult flash hit turns stat training into the whole game, and that idea is both the best and most exhausting thing about it.
7.5 / 10
A first-person open-world RPG built openly in the shape of Skyrim, but set in a bleaker, more literary Arthurian world where night itself turns hostile — ambitious, well-written and visibly under-budgeted in the faces of the people telling its story.
7.5 / 10
A Scottish-flavoured Dynasty Warriors crossed with Risk of Rain 2, with genuinely praised combat, art direction and co-op carrying a large, consistent Steam review sample past a stingy meta-progression economy and some rough Early Access edges.
7.5 / 10
A lovingly faithful throwback beat-'em-up from the Streets of Rage 4 team that nails its 90s arcade nostalgia almost unanimously, undercut by a short story campaign, cross-platform multiplayer several reviewers say doesn't actually work as advertised, and a save-corruption bug reported as unresolved years after launch.
7.5 / 10
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A genuinely excellent Soulslike with combat this library ranks among the best it's reviewed, one of the best-implemented easy modes in the genre, and a back half that a large share of its own fans say buckles into damage-sponge repetition — complicated further by a limited-time exclusive-content controversy, a Denuvo addition over a year after launch, and reports its own development team was restructured following disappointing sales.
7.5 / 10
