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575 Open World games reviewed and scored, best first.
575 reviews
A genuinely fresh sci-fi off-road rally sim across alien terrain, undercut for a meaningful slice of players by punishing physics, a difficulty spike on the game's own moon stage, and real performance/localisation bugs.
6.5 / 10
A hand-drawn metroidvania about umbrella combat, talent-show boss fights and an in-game social network, reviewed on launch day — six years after it was first announced as a very different game on a very different platform.
6.5 / 10
The gather-craft-expand loop that launched a hundred imitators, and one of the most effective opening hours in any game of its type. It's also been abandoned since 2020 with a promised multiplayer mode that never arrived — and it still sells at full price.
6.5 / 10
A narrative survival-adventure RPG from solo-rooted studio KineticFox about exploring a mysterious valley, communicating with tribes, and unraveling its mysteries, Positive across a small sample of English reviews for its addictive exploration and RPG-ish grinding, with a fair complaint that some interactions feel like they still need more polish.
6.5 / 10
Solo developer Jack Breen of Studio Hybrid, working under publisher Akupara Games, delivers a five-years-in-the-making action-puzzle metroidvania built around carrying and grounding an oversized sword, earning genuine praise for its weighty central mechanic, pixel art and music from a Mostly Positive review base, tempered by a detailed, specific and recurring thread of criticism over backtracking, combat depth, progression pacing and quality-of-life gaps.
6.5 / 10
A Horror Game That Knows Exactly Which Village It's From Gospodar's Tales launched on Steam on July 31, 2026, for $5.99 from Street Art Studios and Gospodar Games, and it w
6.5 / 10
G-Police's Spiritual Successor Arrives in Early Access G-Rebels entered Early Access on July 20, 2026, from developer Reakktor Studios and publisher Senatis, and reviewers reac
6.5 / 10
A first-person gardening job gone strange, where trimming grass and watering flowers gradually gives way to a knowledge-gated mystery about a missing owner and an unsettling town, earning constant Outer Wilds comparisons that a large, thoughtful minority of players argues don't actually hold up once the loop's failure states and repeated chores set in.
6.5 / 10
A wordless alpine adventure from the creators of the FAR series, guiding a herd of loveable Calicorns up a mountain to an adaptive orchestral score reviewers call breathtaking — beautiful enough to move at least one player through a genuinely difficult personal moment, but short and mechanically simple enough that a real, detailed share of that same audience argues its NZ$37.49 price outpaces the roughly three hours of content on offer.
6.5 / 10
The third entry in Milestone's Hot Wheels racing series trades the track-based format of Unleashed 1 and 2 for four open-world islands, earning a Mostly Positive launch reception for its arcade handling, nostalgic Acceleracers and Highway 35 car roster and soundtrack, tempered by honest reviewer complaints about a heavier post-engine-switch feel, aggressive DLC monetisation, and real launch-week technical bugs.
6.5 / 10
Twenty Minutes You Won't Forget on the Way Down Incident Archives - Flight 882, a free release from Astronix Games (the studio previously behind The Fallow City), launched on A
6.5 / 10
A cozy first-person junkyard simulator from GameFactory and Kai about digging through scrap, rescuing stray dogs and slowly rebuilding a dream car, earning a Positive launch reception for its charm and relaxing crane-and-forklift loop, tempered by honest reviewer reports of repair-state bugs and a movement glitch.
6.5 / 10
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A genuinely beautiful open-world dress-up game whose Steam score is a permanent record of the worst month in its life — and whose players describe it, accurately, as both a work of art and a predatory gacha.
6.5 / 10
Raise bees on floating islands, crossbreed them for traits, and rebuild a supply of honey for a dying Earth. A lovely, meditative idea shipped without an Early Access label straight into a week of blocking bugs — and patched fast enough that its Steam rating has been climbing ever since.
6.5 / 10
Avalanche Studios' explosion-driven open-world sandbox remains a genre landmark for its enormous map, physics-based grappling hook and parachute traversal, and sheer chaotic freedom — but this Steam release has drifted into functional abandonware, with widespread, well-documented crashes on modern systems requiring specific manual fixes that most reviewers now treat as mandatory rather than optional.
6.5 / 10
Developer Tlön Industries, published by indienova and V Publishing, delivers a metroidvania fused with survival-crafting and factory-style automation, earning specific praise for its genre blend, art direction and writing from a Mostly Positive review base, tempered by a repeated complaint that manual plant-watering, shallow base management and inconsistent combat undercut an otherwise ambitious automation loop.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely well-regarded action RPG from a studio whose real-world collapse is as notable as anything in the game itself — reviewed here through a "remaster" its own longtime fans call barely more than a resolution bump on top of years-old, still-unfixed bugs.
6.5 / 10
A charming, low-stakes open-world game about being a mischievous cat exploring a small Japanese-style town, whose art style, animations, and cat-simulator charm win over nearly everyone who plays it, tempered by a remarkably consistent complaint that its two-to-five-hour runtime is thin relative to its full asking price, plus a range of specific, reproducible bugs including softlocking wall-clipping glitches.
6.5 / 10
A NZ$7.39 first-person forest-chopping incremental from Inner Realm Studios and Dumb Duck Games — 680 Steam reviews at 82.5% positive, checked against a full pull of every English negative review and the game's own achievement-completion curve, both of which land on the same structural complaint: a strong first two hours, then a wall.
6.5 / 10
A full, ground-up remake of the 2002 classic that looks and sounds like the best version of Lost Heaven ever built — undercut by a 2K launcher its own players had to route around, a divisive Terms of Service controversy, and a specific, heavily corroborated argument from longtime fans that the "faithful remake" marketing oversold what got cut.
6.5 / 10
A Rare 3D Metroidvania With Movement That Actually Delivers Maseylia: Echoes of the Past, developed and published by two-person studio Sol Brothers, released on Steam on June 19, 2
6.5 / 10
A megastructure worth wandering through Metal Garden drops a lone nomad into a vast, ancient, overgrown megastructure, tasking them with fighting through and exploring a brutalist
6.5 / 10
A genuine technical marvel that recreates the entire Earth in staggering, mesmerizing detail — sold on Steam behind a mandatory external-launcher download that reviewers have documented, consistently and specifically, running out Steam's refund window since launch day in 2020.
6.5 / 10
A medieval-fantasy blend of Stardew Valley farming and open-world RPG adventuring, built by a two-person team, whose beautiful art and genuine ambition were badly let down by a "1.0" launch that its own most-upvoted reviews say played like early access — since substantially redeemed by almost two years of continuous free updates.
6.5 / 10
