The Horror Occultist Review
A Cursed Monastery for the Price of a Sandwich The Horror Occultist drops you into a first-person psychological horror scenario straight out of the genre's back catalog: a curs
5.5 / 10
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1610 Action games reviewed and scored, best first.
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Torchlight III
The Torchlight series' return from a scrapped free-to-play MMO experiment landed as a slimmer, shallower action RPG than its beloved predecessor — and six years on, its Mixed Steam rating hasn't moved an inch, even as the studio that made it no longer exists.
5.5 / 10
Trek to Yomi
A striking black-and-white samurai action game built on Kurosawa-style cinematography -- and a rare case where even the game's own top-voted positive review opens by calling the combat "GOD AWFUL," in a corpus where that complaint appears in three out of every four negative reviews.
5.5 / 10
Tribes of Midgard
A Norse-mythology survival action RPG built for up to ten players racing giant seasonal invasions before Ragnarök, Mostly Positive across more than 17,000 reviews for a genuinely inventive structure — undercut by a specific, bizarre UI flaw that can permanently delete a character with one misclick, and a mandatory always-online requirement even for solo play.
5.5 / 10
UNHUMAN
An ambitious cyberpunk idle extraction-shooter with real depth for the players it hooks, built with generative AI the developer discloses openly on its own Steam page — and a UI messy enough that plenty of buyers never get past the tutorial to find out if it clicks.
5.5 / 10
Unpossess 2: Exorcism Simulator Review
A Priest's-Eye Take on the Ghost-Hunting Formula Unpossess 2: Exorcism Simulator, from small developer Chreseeba Games, entered Early Access on August 21, 2026, a follow-up to
5.5 / 10
Valkyrie Elysium
Square Enix trades the turn-based tactics of the Valkyrie Profile series for fast, stylish hack-and-slash combat, and wins over players who take it on its own terms while alienating the fanbase it's named after.
5.5 / 10
Vanishing Starlight
Vanishing Starlight is a Metroidvania that fuses ancient Chinese myth with cyberpunk, and its small, evenly split review sample praises real visual ambition and scope while repeatedly describing stiff, unbuffered combat and a game genuinely riddled with bugs, including a black-screen crash with no save backup to fall back on.
5.5 / 10
Vapor World: Over The Mind
A narrative-driven souls-like platformer about a memoryless boy descending through a shattered dream, whose promising deflection-based combat and painterly art direction were overshadowed at launch by a same-day AI-generated cutscene controversy that split its early review base right down the middle.
5.5 / 10
Vikings - Wolves of Midgard
An isometric Norse action RPG that split its own audience almost exactly down the middle at launch, and nine years later carries a second, separate complaint that has nothing to do with balance -- the developer stopped supporting it within months, and online co-op has been reported broken for years.
5.5 / 10
Wanted: Dead
A janky, PS2-throwback sword-and-gunplay action game that split opinion at launch and has just weathered a fresh, verified controversy of its own — a retroactive, initially undisclosed swap to AI-adjusted store page art that the developer has since publicly disclosed and clarified doesn't touch the actual game.
5.5 / 10
Watch Dogs: Legion
An open-world hacking game set in a beautifully realized near-future London whose headline "play as anyone" system draws real praise, undercut by a widely reported step backward from its own predecessor, single-player cosmetic microtransactions, and Ubisoft Connect DRM problems that dominate a meaningful share of its review sample.
5.5 / 10
WHERE the F$CK is my BITCOIN ⁉️
A co-op incremental dump-digging sim about hunting for a discarded Bitcoin fortune, whose absurd premise and chill dig-sell-upgrade loop land well with players looking for a short, silly co-op session, but whose lack of post-launch content, save-game bugs, and close resemblance to another recent trash-digging game leave a large share of reviewers unconvinced of its value.
5.5 / 10
Windward Horizon
A solo developer's ambitious sequel to the cult naval RPG Windward mixes Sid Meier's Pirates-style sailing and faction politics with ARPG combat and empire-building, earning real acclaim for its addictive early hours, but a heavily corroborated chorus argues its empire-management systems are fundamentally broken, its late game locks solo players out behind mandatory group raids, and its most upvoted negative review documents a serious, evidence-linked dispute over the developer's conduct toward a critical reviewer.
5.5 / 10
Yasuke Simulator
A joke game that showed up right on time Yasuke Simulator arrived in the exact middle of a very online argument about historical accuracy in a certain much larger, much more expens
5.5 / 10
Ys X: Proud Nordics Review
Falcom's definitive edition of Ys X adds a genuinely substantial new island, dungeons, and story threads, but a $70 price tag, a stingy owner discount, and a dropped co-op feature have turned this into one of the year's most contentious re-releases.
5.5 / 10
Zad Archery Review
An Archer, a Field of Targets, and a Sprawling Web of Upgrades Zad Archery is the latest incremental action RPG from Samharia Studios, a developer with a small back catalogue of si
5.5 / 10
Zenith: Nexus
A VR-only MMO that launched to real excitement and $35 million in funding, then had its developer cease content work in 2024 and fold what paying customers bought into a free mode -- verified against press coverage, not just the review corpus that says the same thing.
5.5 / 10
Ariana and the Elder Codex
A storybook-styled 2D action game from Idea Factory and Compile Heart that pairs charming spell-combo combat with a Metroidvania label reviewers say doesn't really fit, wrapped in a premium price many found hard to justify.
5.4 / 10
Daemon: The Wolf, The Witch, and the Labyrinth
Daemon is a $9.99 souls-like action RPG from solo-leaning developer Team iNtuition about a cursed wolf who shapeshifts into a werewolf to fight corrupted spirit guardians, and this review's single detailed review plus an unusually active seven-month patch history both point toward a small, attentive team still actively shaping the game around player feedback.
5.4 / 10
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Darwin's Paradox!
A charming, Pixar-flavoured cinematic platformer starring a memory-wiped octopus, held back from greatness by rough difficulty spikes and surprisingly poor performance for a game this visually modest.
5.4 / 10
Drop Dead: The Cabin
A CoD Zombies-flavoured VR-and-flatscreen co-op wave shooter with satisfying gunplay and an established Quest fanbase, held back at Steam launch by a missing tutorial, item-handling bugs, and thin content.
5.4 / 10
GAL VS VILLAGE
GAL VS VILLAGE is a $4.99 retro boomer shooter starring an anime monster-hunter storming a cursed village, and this review's overwhelmingly Positive sample (38 of 39 reviews) praises its tight, fast melee-and-gunplay loop and killer soundtrack as a worthy successor to the developer's prior game, with only minor complaints about a rougher English translation and one especially obnoxious boss.
5.4 / 10
John Carpenter's Toxic Commando
A four-player zombie horde shooter with tight gunplay and a legendary score, undercut by thin content and a post-launch battle pass controversy.
5.4 / 10