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1610 Action games reviewed and scored, best first.
1610 reviews
Radical Entertainment's open-world superhuman action game lets Alex Mercer shapeshift, absorb enemies and rampage across a viral-outbreak Manhattan — reviewers still praise its raw, violent power fantasy as a genre landmark, but this Steam listing has become one of the most severe, extensively documented "won't run without third-party intervention" cases reviewed anywhere in this lane, requiring community-made fixes just to launch on modern hardware.
5.5 / 10
A derivative but genuinely expanded checkpoint-inspection zombie shooter with a story reviewers keep singling out, undercut by widely reported poor optimisation, distracting AI-generated NPC voices, and an infinite zombie-spawn exploit that breaks its own economy.
5.5 / 10
An old-school MMO-flavoured idle RPG about building a raid squad from twenty classic classes, undone by a progression curve both its fans and critics describe as breaking within the first hour, and a total playtime measured in single-digit hours that a May 2025 update didn't meaningfully fix.
5.5 / 10
A charming, Simpsons Hit and Run-flavoured open-world racoon romp with genuinely striking art and a lively world to explore, badly let down by inconsistent air controls, a reported save-breaking bug, and enough small jank that even fans of it describe the experience as "a fun mess."
5.5 / 10
A Nordic-folklore action roguelite that launched with a secretly always-online requirement for a single-player game, patched it out within months after backlash, then wound down development entirely by October 2023 — leaving real structural complaints about exploration and weapon variety permanently unaddressed.
5.5 / 10
A budget incremental action game from solo studio STAGE Games where the player's cursor doubles as a sword, drawing a Mixed-to-Mostly-Positive review sample that credits its satisfying build variety and rock-bottom price while raising a heavily corroborated complaint about misleading roguelike marketing and repetitive, grindy endgame scaling.
5.5 / 10
The 2D roguelike platformer that launched a franchise, still Very Positive across more than 20,000 reviews for its escalating item-stacking chaos — now facing a wave of very recent, heavily corroborated backlash after new owner Take-Two/2K/Gearbox updated the game's terms of service in 2025 with data-collection language and an anti-modding clause.
5.5 / 10
A genuinely inventive fusion of Mount & Blade-style army sandbox and anime-inflected action RPG combat, Very Positive across more than 21,000 reviews — undercut by a dominant, years-old complaint that a meaningful share of the game's text was never fully translated out of Chinese, corroborated by the developer's own promotional screenshots.
5.5 / 10
Grey Wolf Entertainment, previously known for 4X strategy titles like Pax Nova, swaps genres entirely for a Diablo-meets-Doom open-world looter shooter, and the review corpus splits genuinely down the middle between players charmed by its nostalgic, unpretentious fun and a large, specific share who found its procedural dungeons, enemy variety and RPG systems too thin to sustain a full playthrough.
5.5 / 10
A cheap Diablo-style loot ARPG with real fans who call it a casual-genre highlight, at the centre of an unusually heated, unresolved controversy over whether its assets and even its code were AI-generated, alongside independently verified evidence that its advertised "60 hours of campaign" can be fully cleared in roughly six.
5.5 / 10
Shovel Knight - Specter of Torment is a standalone prequel campaign starring the scythe-wielding Specter Knight, sold separately on Steam even though it comes bundled free with Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove. That purchasing trap is the single most-flagged issue in its review sample, ahead of real, specific complaints about automated, imprecise platforming controls.
5.5 / 10
A chibi-anime dungeon-crawler ARPG from Marvelous offering seven playable classes and a Torchlight-esque loot loop — undercut by combat reviewers consistently describe as shallow to the point of feeling mobile-first, a price nearly every reviewer calls too steep for the depth on offer, and keyboard-and-mouse controls widely reported as close to unplayable.
5.5 / 10
DenaZ and SillyWorks' cheap, furry-themed take on the survivors-like genre casts players as a flashlight-armed fox fending off silly ghosts, and a Very Positive review sample praises its charm, addictive short runs, and low price while raising real, recurring complaints about poor optimisation, thin content, and a broken meta-progression save.
5.5 / 10
A free-to-play, Early Access spiritual successor to the beloved Warcraft III custom map Battleships, Sirocco won over MOBA veterans with its chill pace and naval theming before its dedicated servers shut down indefinitely just three months after launch, and it is now clawing its way back to life on a peer-to-peer rewrite built and sustained largely on developer goodwill and Discord coordination.
5.5 / 10
Ubisoft's long-delayed pirate action RPG launched to a Mixed reception it has never fully shaken — this review reads the full arc from launch-week server chaos through two and a half years of live-service seasons, and finds a genuinely enjoyed core loop that its own invested fans still won't recommend at full price.
5.5 / 10
SkyLeap is a fluid, VR-only parkour climber with genuinely well-liked movement, but a detailed reviewer comparison calling it a "blatant Stride rip-off with worse everything and less content" hangs over a release with no achievements, no post-launch patch history, and no story beyond climbing higher.
5.5 / 10
A Beyblade-inspired spinning-top roguelite with genuinely well-loved physics and control feel, undercut by a widely criticised power-cube mechanic that lets skilled runs win almost instantly and a content pool most reviewers describe as barely exceeding the free pre-release demo.
5.5 / 10
A competent bullet-heaven survivor-like whose Mostly Positive reception sits alongside a genuinely well-documented story — a 13-month update silence the solo developer has since confirmed directly was caused by a pivot to a second project, on top of a separate, real complaint that its difficulty is punishing even on Easy.
5.5 / 10
The opening episode of a true-crime-inspired horror anthology, delivering a genuinely tense highway-killer premise and a clever optional microphone-detection stealth mechanic, undercut by a flat, predictable story and a punishing respawn flow that forces long cutscene replays.
5.5 / 10
A first-person Terminator RPG set during the "Future War" only glimpsed in the films, Very Positive across more than 16,000 reviews largely on the strength of licensed atmosphere — while a consistent, years-long thread argues the budget-tier production underneath that atmosphere is carrying the score more than the actual game design is.
5.5 / 10
A brutal, faction-driven zombie-apocalypse survival RPG set in a Texan civil war, built around body-part damage, wall-penetrating gunfire and dismemberment-heavy combat rather than dice-roll hit detection — a tiny but unanimously positive early Early Access review sample, backed by achievement data confirming all four questlines are genuinely completable.
5.5 / 10
The Artifactory is a $19.99 Overcooked-style couch co-op game about crafting magical loot in a chaotic, constantly-breaking factory, and this review's Mostly Positive sample (13 of 17 reviews) consistently praises its cute art and genuine co-op fun while just as consistently flagging persistent control jank and conveyor belts that break down too often, with one long-term player reporting the same core bugs remained six months after launch.
5.5 / 10
A visually stunning Dead Space spiritual successor that never fully recovered from a disastrous December 2022 performance launch — and whose save-corruption bugs, reported by reviewers three years apart, still haven't been fully resolved.
5.5 / 10
An Inspector's Job Nobody Should Want The Door Factory launched September 18, 2026 from developer David Gallardo and publisher HeadArrow, putting the player behind a strange fa
5.5 / 10
