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1603 Action games reviewed and scored, best first.
1603 reviews
Tribute Games and Dotemu, the team behind the acclaimed TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, bring their signature pixel-art beat-'em-up style to fifteen Marvel heroes fighting the Annihilation Wave — top-tier production values wrapped around a campaign one 100%-completionist clocks at 2.3 hours, short enough that a large share of the game's own admirers explicitly warn against buying at full price.
6.5 / 10
Arc System Works built a 4v4 Marvel tag-team fighter that reviewers who can actually run it are calling one of the best fighting games in years. Sony built the PC release around it, and that release blocks Linux and Steam Deck outright, requires a PSN account, and runs multiple redundant background services that are still eating performance a week after launch.
6.5 / 10
A first-person psychological horror escape game from solo developer Megame LLC, set in a maze of an old Soviet apartment building stalked by a nesting-doll monster, rated Mostly Positive across a thin English review sample for its tense atmosphere and unique monster design, tempered by fair, corroborated complaints about unclear direction and a frustrating death loop.
6.5 / 10
Build A Goofy Robot, Then Bonk Your Friends With It MechaCap Arena is a $7.99 whimsical robot-building brawler from small studio Paraflux Games, released clean on Steam on March 19
6.5 / 10
A megastructure worth wandering through Metal Garden drops a lone nomad into a vast, ancient, overgrown megastructure, tasking them with fighting through and exploring a brutalist
6.5 / 10
A co-op sci-fi bullet-hell roguelite wearing its Enter the Gungeon and Risk of Rain 2 influences openly, launched days before this review with striking pixel art and a genuinely addictive "one more run" loop for a lot of early players — undercut by real, specific launch-week problems including slow pacing, unclear item descriptions, and a co-op experience-sharing bug players describe as making solo-focused group runs "unplayable" until fixed.
6.5 / 10
A charming, hand-painted, dirt-cheap two-player air hockey novelty that turns an undocked Steam Deck's trackpads into a physical table, unanimously fun in short bursts with family and friends but held back by a lack of sensitivity options and a nagging puck-vanishing bug.
6.5 / 10
DICE's first-person parkour game sends runner Faith across a stylized, sun-bleached city, built around momentum-based free-running rather than gunplay — reviewers still praise its striking, un-imitated visual identity and the genuine thrill of a clean traversal run, while a large, specific cluster of complaints targets inconsistent climbing/grab mechanics, a rough melee-combat system, and a real 2023 delisting scare that EA has since walked back.
6.5 / 10
A gorgeously drawn roguelite about a mouse who transforms into rotating creature-forms to fight back against a cat-ruled world, whose art and music win over almost everyone even as a vocal, specific complaint about unclear systems and a thin creature roster splits the room.
6.5 / 10
A parkour-driven action-adventure from Regular Studio set inside a vast, decaying megastructure, praised in a large, Very Positive English review sample for its scale, boss design, and atmosphere, tempered by fair, heavily corroborated complaints about clunky movement controls and marketing that oversells its combat.
6.5 / 10
Blowing up neon Lego bosses in space Nebulock is a short, focused twin-stick bullet-hell built around destroying block-based bosses, collecting resources, and upgrading a spaceship
6.5 / 10
A solo-developer, first-person co-op survival horror shooter built as an open love letter to Resident Evil Outbreak earns a Very Positive Steam launch, with reviewers consistently praising its content-per-dollar value and an unusually responsive developer even as a smaller but vocal minority reports rough combat, confusing UI, bugs, and lighting that leaves the game nearly unplayable without adjustment.
6.5 / 10
A NZ$4.49 action-incremental "shapes game" about an AI learning what makes a human human, praised for a genuinely affecting late-game story delivered through text logs and an easily-missed epilogue, but flagged by one detailed reviewer for a specific piece of in-game archive text they argue trivializes real-world war by comparing it to a technical error.
6.5 / 10
A refined, widely praised evolution of Team Ninja's demanding samurai action RPG combat system, undercut by a severe and still-unresolved PC performance crisis — VRAM leaks, poor frame rates even on top-tier hardware, and stuttering that a genuine, sustained patch effort has not fully fixed as of five months after launch — that a large share of the negative review sample cites as the sole reason for an otherwise-loved game earning a thumbs down.
6.5 / 10
An auto-attacking bullet-heaven roguelite that launched the same month Vampire Survivors hit 1.0 -- a genuinely well-built entry in a genre that exploded around it, still Very Positive years later, but reviewers increasingly frame it against sharper rivals that didn't exist when it came out.
6.5 / 10
Kopla Games' minimalist auto-run dungeon crawler grew a sequel's worth of heroes, guilds and elemental gear over seven years of live support, and the one thing that didn't survive the expansion is the thing its name promised.
6.5 / 10
A well-liked swarm-vs-dragon incremental whose loudest launch complaint — no reason to replay once you've beaten it — is already being answered by a publicly announced three-part roadmap, one part of which has already shipped.
6.5 / 10
A free atmospheric horror-adventure student game from DigiPen Europe-Bilbao, Numbra follows a young girl sneaking through a desolate, monster-stalked city, earning strong praise for its striking Little Nightmares-inspired art direction and creature design, but persistent performance stutters, janky climbing and chase mechanics, and an extremely short runtime leave a real share of its review sample disappointed.
6.5 / 10
A cheap, charming bubble-popping roguelike Orb Tower takes the Puzzle Bobble formula — clear a field of colour-matched bubbles with a limited number of shots before they reach the
6.5 / 10
Our Metal Bowl is a tiny, self-published metroidbrainia about a four-eyed creature and a shivering robot companion restoring a dead ecosystem, and its near-unanimous, mostly-positive review sample praises genuinely clever meta-puzzles while flagging real jank in a combat system that pairs one-hit-kill stakes with inconsistent hitboxes.
6.5 / 10
A sci-fi looter-shooter RPG that launched in April 2021 to a genuinely disastrous technical rollout, kept a real fanbase playing anyway on the strength of its gunplay, drew fresh backlash over a paid 2022 expansion, and ended with its own sequel cancelled after Square Enix and developer People Can Fly's relationship broke down entirely.
6.5 / 10
An Early Access post-apocalyptic co-op raiding game about joining a mutant-hunting detective agency in a world with a distinctly post-Soviet flavour, praised in its earliest, tiny review base for a genuinely addictive "one more raid" loop and a setting that actually shapes the mood rather than sitting in the background.
6.5 / 10
A nostalgic pixel-art action RPG that repeatedly earns comparisons to genre classics like Secret of Mana and Secrets of Grindea, undercut by widely and specifically criticised translation quality and a sharply divisive difficulty spike in its final dungeon.
6.5 / 10
A Sequel Buried Under Its Own Internet Legend Pih 2 arrived on Steam on August 4, 2026, two years after its predecessor Pih (also known as Big Pig) turned into a minor internet phe
6.5 / 10
