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1603 Action games reviewed and scored, best first.
1603 reviews
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
A genuinely well-made roguelite FPS, reviewed alongside its own developer's reputation Deadzone: Rogue asks players to blast through swarms of hostile machines in space, forgin
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 moveset-driven 3D platformer with genuinely praised, deeply customizable movement and Wind Waker-style open-ocean traversal, undercut for a vocal minority of reviewers — including fans of its predecessor Demon Turf — by camera and wall-run jank, widely criticized cringe-inducing dialogue, and a specific reported bug that wipes progress in one challenge room.
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
Developer and publisher Rogueside delivers a Hades-and-Vampire-Survivors-inspired bullet-heaven roguelite starring a rock band that sold its soul to the Devil, earning enthusiastic, specific praise for its art direction, voice acting and metal-infused presentation from a Mostly Positive review base, tempered by a repeated complaint about thin content, an under-explained build system, and a specific music-dependent bug that can leave characters unable to attack.
6.5 / 10
A six-years-in-the-making solo-developer Metroidvania built around a genuinely unique gun-jump mechanic, landing "Very Positive" overall while splitting its long-following devlog fanbase between charmed newcomers and disappointed veterans pointing at real launch-week rough edges.
6.5 / 10
A bullet-hell action roguelite built in RPG Maker, praised as a genuinely surprising technical and design achievement for that engine — held back by real, specific bugs, a thin story, and missing audio cues, many of which the solo developer has worked on steadily across a years-long, still-ongoing patch history.
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 co-op mining and exploration adventure from Soda Game Studio about digging beneath a crashed alien ship for loot alongside friends, earning a Positive launch reception dominated by Simplified Chinese reviewers who praise its art, map density and comedic alien NPCs, tempered by honest reports of terrain-snagging movement and multiplayer connection problems.
6.5 / 10
A charming, genre-blending survival roguelike from Void Pointer, Dino Path Trail imagines a Wild West where dinosaurs never went extinct, combining satisfying crafting, farming, and top-down combat that many reviewers found unexpectedly addictive, but a lack of any mid-run save feature has cost players hours of lost progress, and a thin roster of just two bosses leaves the late game feeling repetitive for a real share of its audience.
6.5 / 10
An Evil Goddess, a World That Doesn't Wait, and a Sword in Your Hand Din's Champion casts players against a goddess who "seeks to devour and remake the world," in
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed action-adventure with genuinely exceptional, Sekiro-and-Hollow-Knight-adjacent combat that reviewers widely praise as its clear standout achievement, badly undercut by a four-to-seven-hour runtime that ends abruptly right after the second weapon unlocks, thin metroidvania structure despite marketing that implies otherwise, and a story that largely vanishes after the opening levels.
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 solo-developed "Path of Exile-lite" roguelite ARPG that draws genuine, detailed praise from veteran PoE players for capturing real build-crafting depth without the genre's usual time investment, undercut by rough English translation, visual-clutter performance issues, a restrictive two-skill-slot limit and thin endgame content.
6.5 / 10
A 4-player co-op action roguelike from Underground Cat that fuses Warcraft III defense-map DNA with survivors-style horde combat, earning a Very Positive launch reception for its build variety and co-op synergy, tempered by honest reviewer complaints about a stationary combat stance, heavy build-RNG, and AI-generated art and UI.
6.5 / 10
A beloved 2011 tower-defense action RPG, Very Positive across more than 12,000 reviews for its class-building depth — now in the middle of a genuinely unusual, developer-confirmed 2025-2026 revival, funded by a sudden wave of paid cosmetic DLC that a share of its original community says feels jarring against the game's original goodwill.
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 grotesque, wonderfully strange PS1-horror-flavoured roguelike dungeon crawler with one of the most original mechanics in the genre this year — undercut hard by a long list of crashes, save corruption and frame-rate collapses that its solo developer left largely unaddressed for a year and a half.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed, hand-painted action RPG whose art and heart earned it Overwhelmingly Positive status across more than 14,000 reviews — while a remarkably consistent decade-plus of criticism argues its combat never grows past its opening hours and its dialogue keeps interrupting the action it's supposed to be delivering.
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
