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1610 Action games reviewed and scored, best first.
1610 reviews
Sixteen years on, Vindictus still has the best melee combat any free-to-play MMO has ever shipped — and a progression system that now fast-forwards you past almost every reason to use it. Nexon is still updating it monthly in 2026, which makes the state of the middle game harder to explain, not easier.
6 / 10
A rural psychological horror visual novel from Reanim Games, praised across a small English review sample for its oppressive atmosphere and branching narrative, tempered by an honest look at its openly AI-generated artwork and its divisive effect on reviewers.
6 / 10
A 2D top-down action roguelite from Vortical Studios, published by Caketown Interactive, casting players as a loadout-customizing defender of a solar system overrun by hostile aliens across both a structured Adventure campaign and a Roguelike mode, Very Positive across 75 English reviews for its synthwave soundtrack and weapon variety — with a specific, credible complaint that some players hit game-breaking crashes and softlocks that erased many hours of progress.
6 / 10
Developer and publisher Alawar returns to its mining roguelite with Wall World 2, a bigger, mission-structured sequel to 2023's Wall World, earning praise for its expanded city hub, meta progression and new enemies from a Mostly Positive review base sharply divided by a dominant complaint that its mission-based structure and per-run upgrade resets betray what made the original's open-ended climb so appealing.
6 / 10
A Fourteenth Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review Wardenmark released on Steam on 20 August 2026 and currently has zero Steam user reviews, extending an unbroken run of unrev
6 / 10
A grimdark Diablo-like that launched always-online and unfinished in 2017, was widely credited by its own players with turning itself around after a specific 2019 overhaul patch, and didn't drop the always-online requirement that dogged its reputation until a dedicated offline mode arrived nearly seven years later.
6 / 10
A solo-developed RTS that lets you drop out of the top-down view and fight alongside your army as a third-person hero unit — a genuinely distinctive hook undercut by a campaign that arrived late in development and a handful of real, independently reported bugs.
6 / 10
A free PSX-style survival horror game set in a deep-sea prison where cutting off a monster's limb makes it multiply — reviewed on its complete 16-review sample, which splits cleanly between reviewers charmed by its atmosphere and reviewers who call it an unfinished alpha.
6 / 10
Motion Twin's lightning-fast co-op roguelite from the creators of Dead Cells, nearly two years into an Early Access run that has seen the developer visibly respond to community backlash (removing a widely hated "sudden death" co-op mechanic), while solo players, value-for-money and content depth remain real, recurring points of contention.
6 / 10
A CryEngine action RPG that scrapped fixed classes for a rotating passive wheel anyone can bend around any weapon — undone at launch by a server collapse that ate people's characters, and undone for good in September 2024 when the studio switched the multiplayer off forever.
6 / 10
A technically polished remake of a beloved Yakuza entry, bundled with a well-regarded new prequel chapter, whose Mixed reception is driven by two distinct and separately documented problems — substantial cuts to the original's beloved side content, and a genuine, well-sourced controversy over the studio's decision to recast a character using an actor who has admitted to sexual misconduct, despite a sustained fan campaign asking them not to.
6 / 10
WayForward turns Atari's 1982 classic Yar's Revenge into a metroidvania starring hacker Emi Kimura, pairing genuinely inventive shoot-em-up hacking minigames with vibrant art and voice acting — undercut, by near-unanimous agreement among both critics and players, by dialogue widely described as painfully unfunny, and a metroidvania structure with much of its exploration and secret-finding stripped out.
6 / 10
Climbing a Black Tower With an Anime Battle-Girl Roster YGGDRA: SURVIVOR launched June 24, 2026 from the small studio BD, spinning off the character roster of the studio's earl
6 / 10
A love letter to NES Metroid, for better and worse Zexion wears its influences openly, leaning hard into the aesthetic and structural DNA of the original NES Metroid while building
6 / 10
Soldak Entertainment's zombie-apocalypse ARPG combines the "living world" monster-agenda simulation from Din's Curse and Depths of Peril with a permanent, traveling clan — beloved by longtime series fans for its systemic depth, but met with an exceptionally detailed, credible fairness critique from an equally devoted veteran fan.
6 / 10
A genuinely fun premise, running a legitimate meat shop by day while stealth-butchering victims by night as a zombie, undercut by clunky mini-game execution, a thin mid-game content loop, and multiple independent reviewer reports of AI-generated art and text.
6 / 10
This solo-developed retro FPS pairs chunky old-school combat with a genuinely lovable robot companion, and a small but detailed review base backs up both its real charm and its real, still-being-patched rough edges.
5.9 / 10
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Impossible Pizza Delivery is a $4.99 solo-developed physics rage-platformer from Blackjard Games that tasks players with driving and jumping a pizza-delivery vehicle across three obstacle-strewn, sheep-infested locations, and this review's small, mostly Positive sample praises its voice acting and addictive, forgiving-yet-brutal difficulty range while flagging real checkpoint frustration.
5.9 / 10
A budget-priced mining-and-horde-survival hybrid earns real praise for its addictive early hours, but a recurring chorus of reviewers says the game's content runs dry well before its prestige and roguelike systems have anything meaningful to offer.
5.9 / 10
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A Time-Travel Bullet Heaven With Real Personality BARD'S FAULT slots into the crowded Vampire Survivors-style genre with a co-op-first twist: friends fight back-to-back against
5.8 / 10
Dungeon Breaker is a $7.99 procedurally generated roguelike survival game from solo developer J.Berner where players switch between bow and sword combat to fight through endless dungeons, and this review's tiny, unanimous 2-review sample praises its build variety and combat feel, backed by unusually active post-launch support.
5.8 / 10
An elemental Metroidvania with real ideas underneath the bugs Emberbane casts players as a fire-and-earth-and-wind-and-water fighter working through an elemental world, built aroun
5.8 / 10
A solo-developed, honey-themed action-adventure that charms reviewers with its art, music, and cast almost unanimously, while facing the familiar Early Access growing pains of a repetitive core loop and thin current content.
5.8 / 10
A long-delayed, crowdfunded beat-'em-up finally arrives with gorgeous hand-drawn art and genuine View Askewniverse charm, undercut by janky hitboxes, softlocking bugs, and a rough Steam Deck port.
5.8 / 10
