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1610 Action games reviewed and scored, best first.
1610 reviews
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
A co-op survival horror from Absam Studios where players push a rickety cart through a monster-filled maze, Very Positive across a large English review sample for its creepy atmosphere and varied monster designs, with a fair, repeated complaint that shallow combat and a frustrating cart-based inventory undercut the fun.
6 / 10
Amazing Seasun Games' free-to-play mech shooter nails fast, weighty Striker combat, but a controversial anti-cheat, bot-stuffed ranked matches, and aggressive monetization drag down the experience.
6 / 10
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A Seventeenth Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review Medieval - Embers of War 2 released on Steam on 3 September 2026 and currently has zero Steam user reviews, extending an un
6 / 10
A spin-off side-scroller set in the widely-mocked Garten of Banban franchise, Missing Banban stuns much of its review sample by actually being good, earning genuine praise for its 3D pixel presentation, music, and Cuphead-inspired difficulty, but held back by real, corroborated complaints about clunky controls, a short runtime, and a genuinely buggy launch state.
6 / 10
Missing Texture is a free-to-play, chapter-based psychological horror game from developer GaspachoWork where the house itself can't be trusted, and this review's full 19-review sample is genuinely Mixed, split between reviewers charmed by its fragmented, interlinked story structure and others reporting rendering glitches severe enough to draw accusations of AI-slop production.
6 / 10
A real-time Mystery Dungeon-style ARPG whose signature "Living Dungeon" gimmick — walls and floor tiles that shift and spawn as you explore — is criticized by a wide range of reviewers as an annoyance rather than the dynamic challenge it was designed to be, while a separately-added endless endgame mode gives dedicated players real, if narrow, depth.
6 / 10
A heavy-metal-soaked "eat, evolve, obliterate" action RPG that reviewers describe as Hades crossed with Pokemon, if the cute creatures were replaced by demonic monstrosities inspired by metal bands — a genuinely loved concept that launched as a buggy, thin-content mess its own developers have kept actively patching, including a major structural rework since.
6 / 10
SUPERLINK's free idle RPG lives in a tiny transparent window pinned to a corner of your desktop, where five heroes fight through 200 stages while you work. The premise is genuinely clever and the crafting systems run deep, but the game is barely a month old, its written review count is still too small to read as a verdict, and its own achievement data hints at a difficulty wall most players never get past.
6 / 10
A four-years-in-the-making solo-dev fantasy action RPG that channels early-2000s PS2 adventure games — praised for its striking, painterly art style and old-school lack of hand-holding, but held back in Early Access by janky combat, weak enemy AI, and a punishing platforming-heavy level design.
6 / 10
A tight, parry-focused anime boss-rush game pitting a trapped test subject and her sentient nanomachine companion against a gauntlet of gigantic monstrosities, whose responsive combat and surprisingly poignant story earn passionate praise, tempered by a near-universal complaint that six bosses and roughly five hours of content don't comfortably justify its full price.
6 / 10
A retro synthwave-styled action-platformer set inside a digital "Digital Kingdom," Mostly Positive across more than 600 reviews for its astonishing pixel art and soundtrack — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint that the actual gameplay is hollow relative to its presentation, with floaty controls, unsatisfying combat, and a misleadingly linear level structure for a game marketed alongside metroidvanias.
6 / 10
A gorgeously art-directed Warhammer 40,000 underhive shooter whose environments draw consistent praise even from critical reviewers, held back by the single most-mentioned complaint this outlet has found in any game reviewed this session — enemy AI reviewers describe as janky and frustrating — spread consistently across every year since a 2021 launch that never fully resolved it.
6 / 10
A third-person sci-fi horde shooter that pairs Vampire Survivors-scale enemy counts with build-your-own ARPG crafting, launched into Early Access with a specific roadmap, an honest price and zero independent track record to check any of it against.
6 / 10
A crossover that put two very different action-anime franchises on the same box art and then, by its own review corpus's overwhelming consensus, built the combat, tone and mechanics around only one of them -- leaving fans of the other feeling like they bought the wrong game.
6 / 10
A Pocketpair-published metroidvania-roguelite hybrid about a cursed witch's hat that can possess fallen enemies earns a Mostly Positive Steam debut for its charm and combat feel, while a large share of its review sample argues it never fully commits to either half of its genre mashup.
6 / 10
A free-to-play Dungeons & Dragons action MMORPG that has survived thirteen years, two publisher rebrands and a 2025 management buyout on the strength of genuinely fun combat — and is now fighting its own cash shop for the loyalty of the veterans keeping it alive.
6 / 10
Amazon's classless action MMORPG still has the best weapon-swap combat and the most convincing large-scale siege war it has ever shipped. None of that is why this review exists — New World: Aeternum was delisted from every storefront on 15 January 2026 and the servers go dark for good on 31 January 2027. Reviewed with the extended Nighthaven season live.
6 / 10
A NZ$24.79 co-op wizard-apprentice action-RPG from Trine developer Frozenbyte that holds Mostly Positive across roughly 4,100 Steam reviews since December 2017 — beautiful and genuinely fun with a friend, but sitting under a "confirmed no longer supported" developer statement and a specific, years-spanning bug where private co-op sessions randomly turn public and let strangers into your game.
6 / 10
A short, RPG Maker-built Japanese folklore action RPG starring a shapeshifting nine- tailed fox spirit, beloved by a small, devoted fanbase for its character writing and art — undercut by real technical rough edges, easily-missed key story beats, and a specific softlock design flaw that this review's research confirms was never patched.
6 / 10
A rock-band-versus-EDM-empire boss-rush adventure whose art direction, music and writing draw broad, sincere praise, undercut by combat and platforming reviewers describe in strikingly consistent terms as loose, unresponsive and unfinished-feeling even in its post-launch Encore re-release.
6 / 10
