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478 Action games reviewed and scored, best first.
478 reviews
An open-world skeleton-adventure RPG with genuine visual ambition and a charming premise, whose solo developer announced its "last major update" the same month it exited Early Access — leaving repetitive quests, unfinished UI text and AI-sounding narration exactly as they were at launch.
4.5 / 10
A Korean-myth action RPG built around a genuinely interesting idea — no levels, just relics, unique weapons and eighty tragic bosses — arrives with no PC graphics options, weak Metacritic scores on both platforms, and a pre-launch AI-art controversy the director says is fixed and plenty of players say they can still see.
4.5 / 10
A genuinely ambitious 2011 open-world fantasy RPG wrapped around one of PC gaming's most notorious publisher track records — phone-activation DRM demanding personal information, retroactively injected microtransactions, and an account requirement reviewers report is still being newly enforced on decade-old purchases in 2026.
4.5 / 10
A genuinely appealing top-down bunker-survival concept undercut by severe ammo scarcity that can become permanently unrecoverable, real progression-breaking bugs, and a tutorial barely half of buyers ever finish — despite one documented rebalance patch that didn't fully resolve the complaints that followed it.
4.1 / 10
A solo-developed first-person military shooter built in Unreal Engine 5 around a six-environment campaign and an AI-supported squad, launched 5 August 2026 with two Turkish- language user reviews, zero Steam achievements and a documented mission that its own first buyer could not finish.
4 / 10
The paid sequel to one of idle gaming's founding games spent almost six years in Early Access, tore up its own design twice, and was quietly pulled from sale in 2024 without ever reaching version 1.0. A look at what it tried to build and why it never finished building it.
4 / 10
A 3D incremental Action RPG that opened Early Access with real presentation and a genuine spark of promise in 2021, then stopped receiving updates entirely a few months later — a cautionary tale about buying into Early Access on faith rather than track record.
4 / 10
A mobile idle-grind game ported to Steam with its microtransactions stripped but its free-to-play repetition intact — genuinely fun in short, cheap-sale bursts, but widely described as overpriced for what's essentially a phone game with crash bugs and missing sound effects.
4 / 10
Heart Machine's 3D open-world spin on Hyper Light Drifter had a genuinely promising Early Access launch built on fluid combat and Breath of the Wild-style exploration -- then, nine months later, the studio laid off its team and confirmed development had ended, leaving a paid, unfinished game permanently stuck without a final boss.
4 / 10
A NZ$1.59 zombie-themed idle clicker with a defined 50-level endpoint, a prestige system added by later patches, and a review corpus that's split between genuine affection for its low-poly charm and recognition that it's one of at least four near-identical releases from the same developer in 2022.
4 / 10
A straight re-release of a 1996 DOS submarine shoot 'em up, brought to Steam thirty years later by Piko Interactive and Bleem.net with no achievements, no controller support and no documented changes beyond running on modern Windows. The original earned mediocre reviews on release; nothing here suggests that verdict needs revisiting.
4 / 10
A procedurally generated VR orc-slaying co-op crawler with real fans and a fun weapon feel when it works — undermined by locomotion and hit-detection complaints that recur, unchanged, across seven years of reviews, and a controller-support gap that's never been patched for hardware that became mainstream after the developer stopped updating it.
4 / 10
A solo developer's big swing at a character-action game — combo routes, a fury-meter super mode and 10-15 hours of heavy-metal cinematics — sold alongside 34 separate paid DLC listings, including a premium currency duplicated across five near-identical SKUs per tier.
3.7 / 10
A Hexen/Heretic-inspired retro FPS sold as a full release but shipped with roughly a tenth of its promised content — this review found and verified the developer's own quoted promise of more maps and ten hours of playtime, broken since 2018 with no updates since.
3.6 / 10
A free, charmingly drawn idle RPG whose developer publicly acknowledged a save-corrupting bug two days after launch and then, on the evidence of its own update feed, never actually fixed it — with players still reporting lost progress from the same issue nearly a year later.
3.5 / 10
A one-developer gladiator hack-and-slash that launched in 2018 as a stripped-down single-player sliver of a much bigger multiplayer Roman-arena RPG its own official website still describes as "upcoming" and "in alpha" — three Steam reviews total, and the one detailed negative report says the settings menu doesn't work.
3.2 / 10
A free pixel-art clicker from developer E-Crew, built on the same chest-and-card "idle collectible" template as Adventure Communist and Cell to Singularity, abandoned six weeks after its March 2023 launch.
3 / 10
Booming Tech's own developer FAQ promised this would not be a standalone game and would build on existing Conqueror's Blade characters. It shipped a week ago as a separate free Steam app with its own client, a gacha wall in front of core unit progression, and no siege matchmaking at launch — and 15% of roughly 1,950 Steam reviews are positive.
3 / 10
A budget dungeon crawler whose store page promises "endless procedurally generated dungeons," while every reviewer who has actually bought it describes roughly four fixed rooms, a death bug, and no way to quit the game without closing it through Windows.
3 / 10
A full-price stealth-platformer built around Middle-earth's most compelling supporting character that arrived so technically broken it became a byword for launch disasters — its Steam player count hit zero within five months, and the studio that made it closed its development arm weeks after release.
3 / 10
A two-day-old NZ$7.89 Steam release whose name promises a multiplayer battle royale but whose own store page describes a single-player wave shooter against AI soldiers, with zero user reviews, zero recorded concurrent players and a disclosed AI-generated-asset credit.
3 / 10
An imaginative premise — a giant mobile castle fleeing monsters across an open world — sold at an extraordinary NZ$289.99, which this review's own check of Steam's public records shows spent roughly six years in Early Access before quietly "leaving" it in 2024 with a single achievement and, by ten of eleven reviewers' accounts, barely a tutorial's worth of content.
1.8 / 10
