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478 Action games reviewed and scored, best first.
478 reviews
A visually striking, content-packed Viking open-world RPG whose negative sample is dominated by a specific, well-documented complaint — a genuinely 15-20 hour story stretched with repetitive filler into 65-plus hours — compounded by a notorious two-year wait for Steam achievements and crash reports still arriving more than three years after release.
6.5 / 10
A Greek-and-Roman-mythology action RPG that plays like Immortals Fenyx Rising crossed with a lighter Dark Souls — strongest in its opening hours, and still missing basic quality-of-life features four years and nine patches later.
6.5 / 10
A 1950s British nuclear-disaster survival-mystery whose atmosphere and detective-driven structure draw real, specific praise even from its own harshest critics, who nonetheless argue the game never commits to being any one thing — and whose most-upvoted single complaint isn't about design at all, but an undisclosed always-online requirement on a single-player game.
6.5 / 10
A necromancer horde-survivor where raised minions do the fighting for you, sitting at Very Positive on Steam — but this review's 100-review negative sample finds the same complaint running through two years of updates, that the build variety never grew past flat percentage stat bumps, plus a June 2026 rebalance patch that needed five hotfixes after erasing players' accumulated progress.
6.5 / 10
A dark fantasy roguelite dungeon crawler with a distinctive old-school RuneScape look and a genuine risk-everything extraction structure — reviewed on its complete 15-review sample, which reads as a small solo-developer project fighting real launch-week bugs rather than a broken game.
6.5 / 10
A first-person co-op roguelite where up to four cats sneak past dogs to rescue kittens, spend break-in cash on crossbows and grenades between runs, and try to outlast an escalating house — priced at $2.99 and one day old, with a single user review and no achievement list yet to check its own claims against.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developer sword-and-sorcery survivors-like ARPG that gained a following through a demo, Asmongold's YouTube coverage, and now more than a year of Early Access -- Very Positive across 2,005 English reviews for a genuinely deep class-and-rune system that consistently earns Halls of Torment comparisons, undercut by a near-universal complaint that the first five hours outshine everything after, and a recent, serious progress-loss bug still unresolved as of August 2026.
6.5 / 10
A two-person team's 2D Metroidvania with Souls-like combat, launched into Early Access on 5 August 2026 with a full campaign already playable, an equipment-driven build system, and a planned 6-to-12-month road to 1.0.
6.5 / 10
A Souls-like dark fantasy action RPG whose stamina-based combat and boss design draw strong, specific praise, built around a punishing blessing-and-curse death penalty system that the same review base credits as harsh-but-fair and condemns as arbitrarily unfair almost in equal measure.
6.5 / 10
A short, stylish drift-racing game about a bomb-strapped monkey mail truck, loved by fans who call its unforgiving handling a fair skill curve and criticized just as forcefully by players who call the same physics broken — with a verified, punishing completion curve and three and a half months of developer silence underneath the debate.
6.5 / 10
White Rabbit's 2D souls-like metroidvania launched thin and unpolished in 2018, then got a genuinely massive free overhaul three years later -- and while Afterlife fixed a lot, its own recent reviews show real, specific problems (balance spikes, no fast travel until late, a six-year-old unfixed framerate bug) that never fully went away.
6.5 / 10
A two-day-old racing game that makes you both the bettor and the horse — buy a Trifecta ticket on a track girl, then run the race yourself to try to cash it in. Thirteen Steam reviews exist so far, all of them Japanese, all of them positive, and most of them call it Uma Musume at home.
6.5 / 10
A free, chaotic co-op dig-and-defend game where up to four friends mine for loot by day and fend off zombies by night — reviewed on its complete English review sample, which reads as a genuinely fun prototype whose launch-week bugs a solo developer has been patching almost daily.
6.5 / 10
A 3v3 auto-battle collector RPG about assembling a squad from 100 possible Dmon, each with a three-stat build, a four-part skill kit and its own leveled equipment — you draft the team, then watch it fight on its own across a hex-tile map.
6.5 / 10
BioWare builds its most mechanically confident combat in the series, then spends most of the RPG scaffolding around it — choice continuity, itemization, party structure — to do it, leaving a fun action game wearing a Dragon Age name plenty of longtime fans don't recognise.
6.5 / 10
A post-Soviet extraction horror shooter where a creature hunts you by your heartbeat — reviewed on its full English review sample, a dated patch that directly addressed the mechanic's loudest complaint, and a real mismatch between its co-op marketing history and its shipped build.
6.5 / 10
A co-op fantasy action-RPG that opened Early Access to a rare thing in this library — a completely unanimous English review sample. Every review so far is short, enthusiastic, and upfront that it's judging a promise more than a finished game.
6.5 / 10
A genuine early-2000s hack-and-slash classic whose Steam release is missing real, checkable content from the original 2002 game — multiplayer, the ending cutscene, and the Legends of Aranna expansion are all absent by default — a severe, well-corroborated product-completeness problem this review found reported consistently from 2015 through 2026.
6.5 / 10
A celebrated parkour-and-zombies open world whose negative sample carries two distinct complaints — a years-long "fake co-op" structural gripe where only the host keeps quest progress, and a brand-new controversy from June 2026, when a patch cut roughly two hours from the acclaimed opening prologue, confirmed against the game's own official patch notes.
6.5 / 10
A cheap, arcadey car-based survivors-like that mashes up Carmageddon-style vehicular carnage with Vampire Survivors progression, praised for a genuinely satisfying run-over hook and let down mainly by thin content and a single post-launch update before development went quiet.
6.5 / 10
A Sword Art Online action RPG that finally lets you build a hero of your own inside Aincrad, with tight Souls-inflected combat and a genuinely sharp partner-synergy system — undercut by a linear, quest-marker world and a $69.99 asking price that assumes you'll buy back in for the DLC.
6.5 / 10
A spellcrafting action-RPG roguelite from Borealys Games, spun off from their 2019 action-adventure Mages of Mystralia -- gorgeous, ambitious, and Very Positive on Steam, but carrying a large, detailed, high-vote-count minority of reviews describing brutal early balance that undercuts its own centrepiece spell-crafting system.
6.5 / 10
A charming, town-building prequel built to bridge Suikoden fans to the crowdfunded Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes -- loved for its characters and world, but honest with itself about being, structurally, a fetch-quest and material-farming loop dressed up as an action RPG.
6.5 / 10
A top-down sci-fi survival-crafting game built around two protagonists who trade places at dusk — one built for exploration and building, one built for the enemies that only come out at night — five months into an Early Access build that is still visibly finding its footing.
6.5 / 10
