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575 Open World games reviewed and scored, best first.
575 reviews
A "rough gem" medieval blacksmithing simulator — the phrase recurs across its own reviews almost verbatim — whose genuinely satisfying forge-and-supply loop launched riddled with physics jank and softlocks, then saw one of the most extraordinarily dense single-developer patch cycles this lane has documented, before going quiet in early 2024.
6.5 / 10
A mobile-to-PC creature collector that deliberately stripped out its predecessor's ads, energy timers and microtransactions, earning real goodwill for the conversion even as reviewers say the underlying grind — especially past level 20 — followed it over anyway.
6.5 / 10
Double Fine's heavy-metal fever dream casts Jack Black as roadie-turned-warrior Eddie Riggs across a world built from classic album art, voiced by an astonishing roster of real metal legends — reviewers adore its soundtrack, humor and setting almost unconditionally, while a near-universal, well-documented complaint targets the game's mid-campaign shift into RTS-style stage battles that many feel was never properly set up or well executed.
6.5 / 10
A penguin, a mountain, and a chicken named Wilson But Why? drops a small group of players into the role of penguins trekking across an arctic landscape toward a distant, indifferen
6.5 / 10
Cattails lets you live out the exact fantasy its title promises — join a wild cat colony, hunt, fight, fall in love, raise kittens — and its Overwhelmingly Positive reception is powered substantially by how rare and specific that fantasy is, especially for anyone who grew up on the Warrior Cats books. Its own detailed critics describe a specific, repeated problem underneath the premise: the actual moment-to-moment hunting and navigation often get in the way of the fantasy rather than supporting it.
6.5 / 10
Fired From Furnox Corp, So Now You Chop Everything Yourself Chop Chop Inc., from developer NullRef Entertainment, launched on Steam on August 7, 2026 at $12.99. After getting uncer
6.5 / 10
A gorgeous voxel-built cyberpunk delivery-driver story that most of its own fans agree is close to a walking (or rather, flying) simulator — Very Positive at 86.2% across 8,209 reviews, propped up almost entirely by atmosphere and writing, with an unusually large and specific negative corpus arguing the actual moment-to-moment gameplay barely exists.
6.5 / 10
A brutal, deeply detailed survival sandbox set in Robert E. Howard's Hyboria that's held a genuinely devoted following since 2018, now carrying real, current frustrations over monetisation additions and mandatory online requirements introduced since Funcom's acquisition by Tencent.
6.5 / 10
A lovingly crafted N64-style 3D collectathon platformer soaked in early-2000s emo nostalgia, praised for its distinctive art, animation and humor — and just as consistently criticized for faithfully reviving the genre's worst period-accurate flaws, from imprecise platforming and inconsistent hit registration to a punishing save system with no fixes in sight.
6.5 / 10
A two-person team's 2D Metroidvania with Souls-like combat, launched into Early Access on 5 August 2026 with a full campaign already playable, an equipment-driven build system, and a planned 6-to-12-month road to 1.0.
6.5 / 10
A dice-based roguelike exploration game sending Victorian-era adventurers across dangerous islands, Very Positive across nearly 600 reviews for its ambitious expanded systems — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint from fans of the original Curious Expedition that this sequel is a downgrade in charm, pacing, and combat depth, compounded by overcomplicated systems and unbalanced difficulty.
6.5 / 10
The game that arguably invented the modern survival genre from an ARMA 2 mod is still running, still brutal, and still dividing its own reviews between people who lived through its infamous five-year alpha and people just discovering how unforgiving it remains today.
6.5 / 10
A six-years-in-the-making solo-developer Metroidvania built around a genuinely unique gun-jump mechanic, landing "Very Positive" overall while splitting its long-following devlog fanbase between charmed newcomers and disappointed veterans pointing at real launch-week rough edges.
6.5 / 10
A co-op mining and exploration adventure from Soda Game Studio about digging beneath a crashed alien ship for loot alongside friends, earning a Positive launch reception dominated by Simplified Chinese reviewers who praise its art, map density and comedic alien NPCs, tempered by honest reports of terrain-snagging movement and multiplayer connection problems.
6.5 / 10
A first-person puzzle adventure from the makers of Quern, praised for its atmosphere and early-game puzzle design but criticized by many reviewers for funneling an island that looks vast and explorable into a single linear manor, with puzzle quality and pacing declining sharply toward a short, abrupt ending.
6.5 / 10
A 3v3 auto-battle collector RPG about assembling a squad from 100 possible Dmon, each with a three-stat build, a four-part skill kit and its own leveled equipment — you draft the team, then watch it fight on its own across a hex-tile map.
6.5 / 10
A gorgeously painted, nostalgic coming-of-age story whose watercolour art draws near-universal praise, undercut by a consistent and specific complaint — echoed even by its fans — that the interactivity underneath is shallow, clunky and short enough that many players never see it through.
6.5 / 10
A celebrated parkour-and-zombies open world whose negative sample carries two distinct complaints — a years-long "fake co-op" structural gripe where only the host keeps quest progress, and a brand-new controversy from June 2026, when a patch cut roughly two hours from the acclaimed opening prologue, confirmed against the game's own official patch notes.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely inspired Victorian-fantasy metroidvania recasting Ebenezer Scrooge as an action hero fighting alongside ghosts, praised for its hand-drawn art and clever Dickens adaptation — hit at launch by real, widely-documented movement, level-design and control complaints that a major patch nearly two years later addressed almost point for point.
6.5 / 10
A Truck, A Trash Bag, And A Reason To Slow Down Eco Volunteer, released September 7, 2026 for $11.99 from developer and publisher Scope Creepers, drops players into a familiar whol
6.5 / 10
Developer Egobounds, published by Alibi Games and IndieArk, delivers a brutally difficult physics platformer starring a single fragile egg climbing out of a hen-house toward freedom, earning enthusiastic, specific praise for its sound design, art direction and satisfying wobble- physics mastery from a Mostly Positive review base, tempered by a detailed minority raising pointed complaints about optimisation, punishing checkpoint design and uneven late-game pacing.
6.5 / 10
A no-combat, knowledge-based "metroidbrainia" from solo developer borbware, published by Coyote Time Publishing, built entirely inside the tiny TIC-80 fantasy console and casting players as a creature-scanning explorer of a dying world, Very Positive across 257 English reviews for its deep, secret-laden design in the vein of Animal Well and Outer Wilds — with a widely repeated complaint that janky, punishing platforming makes exploring its world genuinely exhausting rather than delightful.
6.5 / 10
Rebuilding Civilization, One Crystal Lantern at a Time EverDark is a $9.99 2D dark steampunk action RPG that fuses top-down exploration and combat with base building and wave defen
6.5 / 10
Snowpiercer, But You Drive It Yourself EverRail entered Early Access on July 20, 2026, from solo developer Aesir Interactive, and almost every review in its sample reaches for the
6.5 / 10
