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1610 Action games reviewed and scored, best first.
1610 reviews
Five Nights, A Livestream, And A Suspiciously Named AI JunkTok: Paranormal Investigators Challenge released on Steam on August 31, 2026 from small developer nordissimo, and its pit
5 / 10
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A first-person Backrooms-style horror game from UWEG about a hot-tempered Soviet soldier dragged through a portal to search for missing scientists, earning a genuinely Mixed launch reception for its atmosphere and interesting open ending, tempered by honest reviewer reports of a punishing lack of checkpoints, missing settings, and confusing anomaly rules.
5 / 10
A first/third-person action roguelike adapting Jeff Lew's cult-favourite Killer Bean animated short films, built and rapidly patched entirely solo, currently rough and buggy enough that a large share of reviewers explicitly recommend waiting despite real goodwill toward the beloved source material and an unusually responsive post-launch fix record.
5 / 10
A genuinely charming co-op action roguelite with cute character design and an addictive loot-and-defend loop, undermined at launch by severe, specific co-op-breaking bugs, a local co-op mode one reviewer says openly admits it isn't finished, and a short main campaign — softened considerably by a developer reviewers repeatedly praise as unusually fast and responsive at patching.
5 / 10
Last Man Sitting is a $9.99 office-themed roguelite arena shooter from developer DoubleMoose Games and publisher Raw Fury, and this review's large Mostly Positive sample praises an addictive, easy-to-learn core loop while repeatedly flagging real bugs, thin content, and balance problems that leave many weapon and chair combinations feeling pointless.
5 / 10
One of the earliest non-FromSoftware Souls-likes, following the hulking penitent warrior Harkyn through a demon-infested world, Mixed across 5,000 reviews for a promising art style and premise — undercut by an extraordinarily consistent, unresolved complaint about severe, undisableable camera shake causing nausea and headaches, alongside brutal, poorly balanced difficulty spikes and progress-destroying bugs.
5 / 10
A genuinely fun shark-RPG power fantasy, Very Positive across more than 21,000 reviews for its open-world predator loop — badly let down by a crash crisis that reviewers say dates back to launch in 2020 and remains, per reports as recent as mid-2026, largely unresolved six years later.
5 / 10
A retro survival horror game from solo developer DavMY Studios set in a cursed Japanese folklore village, drawing an extremely small, mixed-language review sample that credits its unsettling atmosphere and story while repeatedly flagging shallow, spam-friendly combat as a genuine weak point.
5 / 10
No Pain No Gain - Ragdoll Sandbox is a 2.49 dollar solo-developer physics sandbox from Rike Games where players build traps to hurt a ragdoll for coins, and this review's small, Mostly Positive sample enjoys the core idea while repeatedly and specifically describing the execution as unpolished and mobile-game-like.
5 / 10
An Early Access open-world zombie survival co-op game with real potential and an unusually praised, actively responsive developer, undercut by severe survival-balance complaints, broken hit detection, a data-loss-risk death loop, and an extraordinarily widespread — though disputed — accusation that it closely clones an existing game called Surroundead.
5 / 10
An asymmetrical multiplayer shooter that lets four soldiers complete objectives while a fifth player stalks them as the Predator — a genuinely fun premise reviewers say is let down by severe balance problems, thin map variety, and a playerbase reviewers describe as having quietly withered since the developer moved on.
5 / 10
A free four-day preview of Stones Games' inspection-sim-meets-zombie-shooter, released a week after the paid full game it advertises, and dogged by the same lag and AI-voiceover complaints — plus a Steam community that keeps naming the much bigger game it resembles.
5 / 10
Minds trapped in circuits, and in jank ReSetna sends you into a post-apocalyptic sci-fi world as the titular robotic warrior, hunting through seven hostile zones and boss encounter
5 / 10
The pirate-themed third entry in Piranha Bytes' Risen trilogy, Mixed across nearly 1,500 reviews for a beautifully realised open world — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint that its combat system is broken and unrewarding, and by a specific, well-corroborated game-breaking bug that reportedly halts progress entirely after a mid-late-game sea monster encounter.
5 / 10
A remade compilation of the SNES cult classic R-Type III from KRITZELKRATZ 3000, offering a rebuilt 3D presentation, a rearranged soundtrack, and expanded difficulty modes, drawing a genuinely Mixed review sample dominated by specific, heavily corroborated bug reports around hitboxes, sound, and control remapping.
5 / 10
A solo-developed Diablo/Legend-of-Mir-style loot ARPG with real nostalgic appeal and promising build variety, undermined by an extensively documented, extraordinarily low item drop rate that a large share of its own positive reviews describe working around only by using a memory-editing cheat tool, alongside reports of streamers selling carries with modified gear and a serious character-loss bug.
5 / 10
A top-down medieval parody of classic Grand Theft Auto games, Mostly Positive across its Steam reviews for its funny premise and soundtrack — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint about frustrating, clunky controls, harsh mission checkpointing that forces full restarts, and bugs that Steam's own achievement data confirms have kept completion rates extremely low.
5 / 10
A catastrophic November 2025 remaster launch — buggy, missing features veterans of the 2008 original say worked fine even in the community-patched Gold Edition — followed by a genuine, ongoing repair effort now six numbered patches deep, leaving recent reviewers split between "finally playable" and "still broken" depending on which specific issue they hit.
5 / 10
GameHunters' budget top-down samurai action game has a real premise and an even more real solo-developer effort behind it, but sluggish, unresponsive combat turns what should be its main strength into the review sample's single loudest complaint — even at less than the price of a coffee.
5 / 10
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A Title That's Also A Warning Label The full name of this Early Access sniper game runs to more than thirty words, and that joke sets the tone for everything that follows. Rele
5 / 10
A chaotic, "Chained Together meets Dark Souls" co-op action game from a solo developer, genuinely fun and memorable when played with friends at its budget price, undercut by a Mixed reception driven by real lag and stability complaints, a chain mechanic reviewers say barely interacts with level geometry, a missing proper final boss, and recurring, independently-raised suspicion about AI-generated voice acting and content.
5 / 10
A Vampire Survivors-style bullet heaven crossed with Backpack Battles-style inventory management and weapon forging, landing "Mixed" on a launch sample that loves the core loot loop but flags an overwhelming tutorial dump, thin monster variety, and a rough early-access-feeling launch state for a full release.
5 / 10
A contentious, decade-later sequel to a beloved multiplayer racing-platformer that a large and vocal share of longtime fans describe as a genuine downgrade in movement feel, visual clarity and content volume, sitting alongside a smaller but real core of players who find the new wall-jumping tech and updated presentation genuinely additive, with specific, well-corroborated complaints about netcode, matchmaking with friends, and one detailed reviewer's unverified suspicion that campaign text reads as AI-generated.
5 / 10
System Era Softworks' spinoff into the Astroneer universe trades open base-building for timed extraction missions with strangers, a genuine change of direction undercut by a thin early loop, an artificial 30-minute timer, and broken pre-launch promises about microtransactions and singleplayer support.
5 / 10
