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1603 Action games reviewed and scored, best first.
1603 reviews
A colorful, Greek-mythology open-world action-RPG reviewers repeatedly describe as "Zelda and Assassin's Creed had a baby" and one of Ubisoft's most creative recent games, almost entirely overshadowed in its own review sample by an overwhelming wave of complaints about the mandatory Ubisoft Connect launcher.
6 / 10
Five Colonists, One Sword, A Whole Lot Of Number-Go-Up Incremedieval, released September 3, 2026 from solo-flavored developer and publisher Jestercraft, opens with a premise that&#
6 / 10
A three-day-old solo-style release that grafts a genuine tech-tree-and-prestige incremental onto a real-time bug-catching shooter — aim a frog's tongue with the mouse, clear timed waves of insects, then spend the gold on a large branching upgrade grid — for NZ$6.29 with exactly one Steam review on record.
6 / 10
A genuinely novel time-rewind combat mechanic — freely wind time back mid-battle to try a different move — carries a debut studio's fantasy tactics game a long way, but a marketed "RPG" with no items, equipment or character building, and a story that thins out at the midpoint, means fewer than one in thirteen players ever finishes it.
6 / 10
A childhood browser game, resurrected on Steam Jacksmith: Weapons and Warriors is Flipline Studios' Steam revival of their own 2011 Flash browser game, in which players run a d
6 / 10
A free Vampire Survivors-style bullet heaven starring a shrine-maiden mascot, landing Mostly Positive on genuinely fun core combat — undercut by a rough Early Access start, a divisive late-2024 overhaul, and a wave of reviews confused by store tags that don't match what actually ships through Steam.
6 / 10
A short, inexpensive Castlevania-homage metroidvania whose "meat and potatoes" simplicity reviewers find genuinely charming, undercut by a punishing no-healing-outside-save-points loop and control remapping options reviewers say are missing entirely.
6 / 10
A chaotic party fighter from Mubaraza LLC starring ten Middle Eastern characters across Arab-inspired stages, Mostly Positive across 10 English reviews for a distinctive, well-realised setting and satisfying neutral game, with a fair, repeated complaint that a post-launch patch introduced serious new bugs.
6 / 10
A cathartic, comedic first-person spider hunt that lets you burn down your own house to be rid of one arachnid — genuinely funny for the four-to-six hours it lasts, before a large share of its own fans say the joke runs out well before the game does.
6 / 10
An 80s-horror action-RPG that nails its Stranger Things-meets-Diablo atmosphere and pulpy small-town writing, undercut by combat that a wide, detailed share of its own audience describes as too simple and unresponsive to carry a 15-hour campaign.
6 / 10
A short, handsomely hand-drawn Zelda-and-metroidvania hybrid about restoring a plague-ruined kingdom — genuinely liked for its price and puzzle-gated exploration, but held back by combat almost every reviewer dislikes and bugs the developer stopped patching after its first few months.
6 / 10
A remake collection bundling two beloved late-90s and early-2000s PlayStation platformers, whose Very Positive score is driven less by the quality of the remake work itself and more by devoted fans recommending it anyway, out of gratitude that the series was resurrected at all after two decades of silence.
6 / 10
A first-person rolling platformer from solo studio Megame LLC that reimagines the Russian folk tale of Kolobok as an Only Up-style climbing challenge, praised in a thin English review sample for its unique core mechanic and quirky charm, tempered by a fair complaint about a punishingly unforgiving hard mode.
6 / 10
A Sword-And-Sorcery Souls-Like That Asks You To Die, A Lot Kromlech, from Czech studio Perun Creative, entered Steam Early Access on March 5, 2026, at $29.99. It's a hand-craft
6 / 10
A stylish, ninja-robot metroidvania whose grappling-hook movement earns genuine, specific praise for feeling great in the hand, undercut by a rigidly linear map design and a near-total absence of fast travel that reviewers say turns backtracking into the game's most common complaint.
6 / 10
Nihon Falcom's Persona-meets-Metroidvania spiritual successor to Tokyo Xanadu has a genuinely interesting hybrid structure and a strong opening stretch, but repetitive combat, thin enemy variety, and a story that sets up a sequel instead of finishing its own are compounded by one glaring, self-inflicted problem: it launched with no official English localization at all.
6 / 10
Laid-Back Camp: Camping Cook-off! is a $29.99 Overcooked-style co-op party game built around the Laid-Back Camp anime, and its Positive review sample splits sharply by region, with an enthusiastic Chinese-language fanbase set against a notably harsher Japanese-language sample calling it a thin, recycled-asset cash-in that a substantial April 2026 patch has only partly fixed.
6 / 10
A cheap, genuinely ambitious idle RPG that grafts a Path of Exile-style sprawling skill tree onto auto-battling incremental progression — undercut by translation quality bad enough that even native Chinese-speaking players describe needing to "translate Chinese into Chinese," erratic balance, and a build-nerfing pattern that frustrates players in a game with no PvP to justify it.
6 / 10
A genuinely successful fusion of Arkham-style combat and open-world Gotham with LEGO charm, widely praised for its story and combat, undermined by the removal of classic LEGO game structure, cosmetics locked behind HBO Max subscriptions and physical toy purchases, a shorter advertised character roster than promised, and real performance problems in its open world.
6 / 10
A NZ$7.39 solo-built idle hack-and-slash whose loot ladder hollows out around the mythical and divine tiers — verified by the developer's own promotional screenshot of a veteran save file — and whose lead developer announced in January 2026 that the game will never be updated again.
6 / 10
A genuinely chaotic, generous co-op roguelite drawing frequent favourable comparisons to Risk of Rain 2, undermined by a specific, widely corroborated complaint that the game barely functions solo or in small groups, an itemisation system multiple reviewers call boring, and a documented balance patch that removed a mechanic reviewers say was one of the game's strongest points.
6 / 10
An Early Access survival crafting game about leading a small tribe from mud huts to a Mesopotamian civilization complete with a great Ziggurat, drawing a Mostly Positive early reception for its distinctive Bronze Age setting and genuine sense of progression, tempered by broken co-op, laggy performance and content that a determined player can already exhaust in a single day.
6 / 10
A genuinely strong lineup of 1990s Marvel arcade and console classics, headlined by an excellent official X-Men Arcade release, undercut by a rocky online launch and several games that haven't aged nearly as well as the highlights.
6 / 10
Infamous for one of gaming's most viral bad launches — the animation bugs — Andromeda's own reviewers agree the real, lasting problem was never the glitches but a story they call the weakest in the series, now sold for NZ$9.99.
6 / 10
