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478 Action games reviewed and scored, best first.
478 reviews
Sabotage Studio's debut turns from an 8-bit Ninja Gaiden throwback into a 16-bit metroidvania halfway through, and that structural gamble is exactly what still divides its Steam reviews eight years later -- critics loved the twist in 2018, but a large share of players now say the backtracking-heavy second half undoes what the first half built.
7.5 / 10
A base-building, Factorio-flavoured action RPG that launched in October 2021 to strong acclaim, then spent nearly four years failing to deliver a promised co-op mode -- and finally did, in August 2025, bundled with a loot rework substantial enough to spark a fresh wave of complaints from the veterans who'd waited for it.
7.5 / 10
The 2006 Diablo alternative that swapped gothic horror for Greek, Egyptian and Asian mythology, revisited twenty years on through the Anniversary Edition that's now the only way to buy it.
7.5 / 10
A gleefully anti-capitalist heist roguelike starring gaming's most beloved sentient vegetable, trading the original Turnip Boy's adventure-game pacing for run-based combat that most of the fanbase has made peace with -- and a small, vocal minority hasn't.
7.5 / 10
Four-player co-op combat reviewers on both sides call some of the best in the genre, weighed down by a genuinely notorious launch — a fully functional cosmetic cash shop shipped alongside missing promised systems — and an ongoing pattern of unfulfilled roadmap promises, even as recent sentiment has recovered dramatically since 2022.
7.5 / 10
A genuinely brutal, spectacular power-fantasy action game that nails the Warhammer 40K Space Marine fantasy — layered with real complaints about DLC pricing, always-online requirements, and a background installer that alarmed players even after the likelier explanation turned out to be more mundane than "malware."
7.5 / 10
A gorgeous, enormous free wuxia open world with some of the most charming systems design in any live-service RPG — welded to an energy meter, five battle passes and a cosmetic gacha that its own store page describes as cosmetics-only.
7.5 / 10
A handsome late-Ming soulslike carrying a Mixed badge that English-speaking players didn't give it — and a post-launch patch that changed the story out from under the people who'd finished it.
7.5 / 10
Kuro Games' answer to Genshin Impact swaps careful elemental chemistry for a faster, parry-driven combo system and a stamina-free traversal kit — and two years of patches have turned a rocky, heavily-criticised launch into one of Steam's best-reviewed live-service action RPGs. The question this review actually answers is what that trade costs you.
7.5 / 10
A shipwreck-survival action RPG that turns rescuing NPCs into a settlement-building system and backs it with some of the fastest, most readable real-time combat Nihon Falcom has ever shipped. The PC version carries genuine baggage from a rough 2018 launch and a since-rewritten English script, but the game underneath both has aged well.
7.5 / 10
HoYoverse's third live-service RPG throws out the open world entirely and bets everything on combat — parries, dodge counters and three-character chain attacks that reward real execution rather than a stat sheet. The review is about whether that trade is worth what the mission structure and the story pacing cost you.
7.5 / 10
A 2D pixel-art roguelite that pairs jianghu-flavoured build crafting with creature collecting, and five months of steady free patches since its February launch.
7.3 / 10
A solo-developed dive-jump-and-shoot roguelite that names its own scope in the title. Five stages, a Downwell-style dual-purpose control scheme and a genuinely tiny review base make this a case study in whether "quick session" games actually deliver the quick session.
7.2 / 10
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An anime open-world action RPG that was built as a mobile gacha game, lost its publisher, won a legal fight to come back as a single-purchase Steam release, and still carries every scar of where it came from — for better and for worse.
7.2 / 10
Meteor Forge's solo-developed launch grafts a Slay the Spire-style build ladder onto a physics pinball table — 50+ balls, 60+ artifacts and an ascension climb that early players clearly love, held back by an interface that won't explain itself and only three tables to play it on.
7.2 / 10
A gorgeous, confident Bond origin story from the Hitman studio — that abandoned the sandbox design the Hitman studio is famous for, and asks NZ$99.99 for about fifteen hours you won't replay.
7 / 10
A staff-wielding metroidvania that took six years to reach Steam, changing developer partway through — smooth movement and near-unanimous praise for its pixel-and-3D art sit alongside a shallow combat loop and a reward economy that gives exploration almost nothing to find.
7 / 10
Campaign for votes by day, fight the incumbent's gangs by night, and steal each boss's supernatural power when you beat them. A genuinely novel roguelike from the Anomaly Agent studio — one day old, visibly unfinished, and carrying a 97% score that needs reading carefully.
7 / 10
A small co-op action roguelike that grew out of a public alpha and beta into a full release its handful of long-term testers say has transformed since those early builds. Ten reviews, all positive, and a developer shipping patches at a pace that matches the enthusiasm.
7 / 10
A smaller-scoped "return to form" for the series whose Steam launch was marred by a severe Ubisoft Connect authentication error, but whose more durable complaint is that the game itself feels generic and forgettable relative to the franchise's high points — sentiment has since recovered meaningfully as launch-specific issues faded.
7 / 10
A solo developer's N64-throwback action RPG built around an unusually deep character creator, sitting at Overwhelmingly Positive across 18,400 reviews — but a full read of its negative sample and its own achievement data shows a game whose content pace has not kept up with nearly two years in Early Access.
7 / 10
A "Soviet BioShock" action RPG whose art direction and alternate-history setting draw close to universal praise, wrapped around combat and pacing reviewers describe as repetitive, a divisive talking-glove companion, and a real, documented controversy over its Russian developer's funding ties that this review reports rather than adjudicates.
7 / 10
A story-driven action RPG from DON'T NOD where an emotionally rich central relationship and genuinely difficult moral choices are widely praised, while the open world built to hold them draws a remarkably consistent complaint from its own most invested players — it's simply too big for the game inside it.
7 / 10
A team-based aerial PvP game about birds stealing each other's eggs, built around always-on proximity voice chat — genuinely loved by a fast-growing fanbase who call it the real version of a beloved internet meme, while a real, well-corroborated matchmaking and toxicity problem threatens to shrink the population it depends on.
7 / 10
