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1610 Action games reviewed and scored, best first.
1610 reviews
A gorgeous, mournful dark-fantasy metroidvania that entered Early Access in January 2021 and left it that June to Very Positive reviews -- undercut, across five years of feedback, by a remarkably consistent complaint from genre fans that its combat never matches its atmosphere.
7.5 / 10
A short, gorgeously animated swashbuckler action game starring a Three Musketeers-esque heroine, praised almost universally for its environmental combat and personality-filled presentation — held back by a divisive late-game mechanic, enemy repetition, and a short runtime some reviewers feel doesn't match its price.
7.5 / 10
A voxel survival game that welds on a real RPG skill tree and dares you to dig, sculpt and build inside a world that is actively trying to kill you on a clock. Two and a half years into Early Access, with a 1.0 date finally on the calendar, the question is whether the fog and the talent tree were ever really talking to each other.
7.5 / 10
A single-player RPG built to feel like a classic MMORPG raid night, populated entirely by NPC "SimPlayers" who level, group up and loot alongside you — a genuinely novel hook wrapped around an Early Access game still finding its footing on UI, quest clarity and combat feedback.
7.5 / 10
A Gladiator Club Wearing an Autobattler's Clothes Eslabong, from solo developer shirowita, entered Early Access on August 24, 2026, and describes itself simply as "arena c
7.5 / 10
A debut game from a studio built by BioWare and Ubisoft veterans that pitches itself as "Monster Hunter meets Shadow of the Colossus" and, for most of its 1,764-review Steam audience, actually earns the comparison — while a substantial minority documents real unpolish, from a fiercely disliked inventory system to physics bugs that launch players into the air.
7.5 / 10
A Robot-Cowboy Co-Op Shooter That Became an Overnight Phenomenon Far Far West entered Early Access on April 28, 2026 from eight-person Spanish studio Evil Raptor, and within days i
7.5 / 10
A 2005 action-RPG cult classic and direct genre precursor to Torchlight, whose Steam re-release draws overwhelming nostalgic affection alongside specific, credible reviewer complaints that this particular port runs and plays worse than the original CD version many buyers remember.
7.5 / 10
A three-person team's follow-up to The Deadseat turns cult-horror hunting into a tense card-and-map puzzle, though Act 1 is only a third of the promised story.
7.5 / 10
A physics-driven incremental collectathon where players grow a black hole by devouring themed dioramas — bowling alleys, underwater casinos, hibachi restaurants — praised unanimously by an early review sample for its quick, satisfying arcade loop and built-in level editor.
7.5 / 10
Square Enix rebuilt Final Fantasy as a single-character action game with a Devil May Cry pedigree and the most ambitious set pieces the genre has ever staged, then paid for it with the party control, gear depth and build variety that used to define the series.
7.5 / 10
Battleship, Reimagined as a Race Against the Clock Fleet Hunters takes the pen-and-paper hidden-fleet formula nearly everyone grew up with and asks a simple question: what if nobod
7.5 / 10
A cozy, one-developer hybrid of gardening and light action combat, where the plants you grow become the spells you fight robotic deforesters with, earning warm, near-unanimous praise and heartfelt frustration from its own fans that so few people have discovered it.
7.5 / 10
A fly who wants to be a knight, and mostly earns it FlyKnight's premise is exactly as delightfully strange as its title suggests: you play a fly attempting to earn knighthood,
7.5 / 10
Kyoto-based Skeleton Crew Studio, the team behind 2021's Olija, follows up with a martial arts roguelite built around rehearsing every fight infinitely in your head before executing it for real, a mechanic reviewers consistently praise as a genuinely fresh solution to action-game difficulty even as a specific minority finds its slow death-to-retry loop and lack of run-to-run reward undercut the roguelite structure wrapped around it.
7.5 / 10
Fruits Vs Veggies is a $6.99 online party brawler pitting sentient produce against each other across dozens of chaotic game modes, and this review's unanimously Positive sample (14 of 14 reviews) makes an unusually strong case for a one-person studio's surprisingly full package of solo campaign and multiplayer content.
7.5 / 10
A warm, genuinely funny, lovingly hand-crafted open-world satirical adventure from established art-game studio Molleindustria, following a bitter, dying old man's last day in a Pittsburgh reimagined as an ecosocialist utopia, unanimously praised in its small early sample for exceptional writing and voice acting, tempered by a few dull gameplay stretches, a short runtime relative to price, and one reported dialogue-sequencing bug.
7.5 / 10
Galactic Vault is a movement-shooter roguelike from solo-turned-full-time studio MeepMeep Games that pairs fast, fluid traversal with a deep weapon-building system, and this review's sample finds a game with an exceptional post-launch support record and a fanbase that overwhelmingly prefers its movement to genre touchstone Deadzone Rogue, held back only slightly by UI clarity and content-variety gripes even among its biggest fans.
7.5 / 10
A Cozy Crafting Sandbox With a Surprising Bite Gathera left its Steam Next Fest demo behind and entered Early Access on August 31, 2026, from solo-flavored developer Catris Games.
7.5 / 10
A two-person team's Diablo II-and-Titan-Quest-inspired ARPG set in Southeast Asian folklore, built around a Path of Exile-style skill-linking grid reviewers call some of the most genuinely inventive build-crafting in the genre — running on movement and inventory systems a similarly large share call clunky enough to fight the fun.
7.5 / 10
Sushi Go Round Meets a Roguelike Deckbuilder Goblin Sushi entered Early Access on February 9, 2026 from the two-person studio Old Cake Factory, taking the fast-food time-management
7.5 / 10
A dark fantasy deckbuilder that fuses card strategy with real-time dodging, earning a Very Positive launch reception for its distinctive art, voice acting and semi-real-time combat, tempered by reports of a misfire input bug, uneven card balance, and a story some reviewers find hard to follow.
7.5 / 10
Cygames' stand-alone action RPG wraps a four-player hunting-game loop inside a JRPG's full production budget, and the combat mostly earns the spectacle around it. This is not the mobile gacha that shares its name — it's a single upfront purchase with no pulls and no premium currency — but its sigil-driven, Proud Quest endgame asks more patience than it repays.
7.5 / 10
A widely acclaimed single-player crime saga bundled with an online mode whose 2017-2018 wrongful-ban epidemic became one of the most documented anti-cheat fairness disputes on Steam — improved since, but echoed by a related complaint that persists into 2024-2025.
7.5 / 10
