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575 Open World games reviewed and scored, best first.
575 reviews
A deckbuilding RPG with forty advanced classes, a hand-built dark-fantasy world and one mechanic that dominates every conversation about it — Shadow Invasions that drop enemies with triple the health of anything else in the zone on top of you, unannounced, over and over.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed first-person open-world RPG that regenerates a 250 km² province every campaign and wraps combat, crafting, family upkeep, crime and slavery-and-abolition systems around one shared skill ladder — launched into Early Access with an 18-to-24-month roadmap to 1.0 and its main storyline not yet in the build.
6.5 / 10
MyRobot is a robot-building sandbox from tiny developer sgthale where players customize companion robots and talk to them through an optional AI chat system, and this review's sample finds a genuinely inventive, funny toybox undercut by real save-corruption bugs and a token-based AI monetization scheme that curious players should understand before buying.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely charming, Kickstarter-funded solo-developer adventure that channels Zelda and A Short Hike into a cozy island exploration story — nearly every reviewer loves what's here, and nearly every reviewer also says there isn't enough of it for the asking price.
6.5 / 10
A short, Yume Nikki-indebted liminal-space walking sim from solo developer lane, praised for its dreamlike, PS1-styled environments and unsettling ambience, but repeatedly marked down by its own reviewers for linear, dead-end level design and technical stutter that a promising demo didn't fully resolve.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely satisfying Klondike gold-rush mining tycoon sim from a studio whose previous Early Access title was abandoned and delisted — a history that shadows this one every time a years-old bug resurfaces or a new paid DLC lands on what a chunk of the audience still calls beta.
6.5 / 10
A satisfying first-island crafting loop that thins out badly afterwards — 93% positive lifetime, 80% across its last hundred reviews, and a free prologue that some players think is better designed than the paid game.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely uncompromising survival RPG that refuses to make its hero special — beloved by fans who click with that philosophy, and undercut for years by a specific, still-recurring bug that deletes players' backpacks along with everything inside them.
6.5 / 10
A memory-match card grid wrapped around a genuine dungeon-crawling RPG — flip pairs to fight monsters, loot treasure and trigger traps, then take what survives back to a Guild hub to level a deck capped at eleven cards.
6.5 / 10
Hyper Light Drifter developer Heart Machine, published by Devolver Digital, delivers a metroidvania about a college student and the demon sharing her body, earning near-unanimous, specific praise for its art direction, soundtrack and emotionally charged writing from a Mostly Positive review base, tempered by a genuinely divided and heavily repeated complaint that its combat, traversal and technical polish fall well short of the studio's earlier work.
6.5 / 10
Running With Scissors' notorious open-world satire follows the Postal Dude through a week of mundane errands that can escalate into extreme, cartoonish violence at the player's own choice — reviewers overwhelmingly embrace its dark, self-aware humor and the genuinely under-discussed fact that the entire game can be completed without killing anyone, while a smaller, fair-minded dissent argues the underlying gameplay is thin and repetitive.
6.5 / 10
id Software's gunplay is close to universally praised even by critical reviewers, but a launch-era complaint about mandatory Rage Coin virtual currency gating DLC purchases has since largely faded, leaving a more durable, unresolved complaint about a short campaign and an open world reviewers across every year describe as colourful but empty.
6.5 / 10
A large-scale ranching, farming and hunting sim that exited a long Early Access run in 2023, praised for its satisfying core loop and remarkable five-year development history — held back by long-standing vehicle handling jank (only very recently reworked), a persistent animal- health bug, and real reviewer frustration over paid content expansions.
6.5 / 10
A first-person psychological horror game that flips the Tamagotchi premise so the player is the pet, earning a small but unanimously positive launch reception for its striking concept and genuine scares, tempered by one reviewer's honest note that the localisation feels rough.
6.5 / 10
Reviewed the same day as its predecessor, this sequel trades Risen's dark, mystic fantasy world for a colonial pirate setting that a meaningful share of longtime fans describe as a worse, more streamlined direction — layered on top of a distinct, still-active crash bug tied to teleporting between towns, corroborated as recently as April 2026.
6.5 / 10
Team Ninja's first open-world game drops a customisable swordfighter into the political chaos of 1860s Japan with combat critics and players agree is excellent, wrapped in a formulaic open world and a faction story that loses its grip in the second half — and, a year later, arrived on PC in a state so badly optimised that its own Steam review base talks about little else.
6.5 / 10
A beautiful, genuinely novel pirate sandbox whose reviews split almost entirely on one axis — whether you can tolerate its unrestricted PvP and the community built around it — plus a real, press-covered 2026 community-safety controversy worth knowing about before you buy.
6.5 / 10
A surreal, first-person vandalism sim sequel to the cult-favourite SLUDGE LIFE, praised for preserving its predecessor's distinctive humor, music and slacker-utopia charm — but criticized by a substantial share of returning fans for falling well short of its own marketing promise to be "twice as dense," delivering a shorter, easier, less surprising experience instead.
6.5 / 10
A co-op sky-island survival game that trades hunger bars and monsters for solar panels and delivery drones — charming and genuinely clever in its energy systems, but its progression runs out of new ideas long before the credits.
6.5 / 10
A survival game where you recruit tribespeople who keep working while you're logged out — a genuinely original idea, attached to a 1.0 launch so rough the developers published a public 90-day plan to fix it.
6.5 / 10
A visually stunning, atmospheric return to the Zone whose biggest problem is the one thing longtime fans wanted most — its signature "A-Life" living-world simulation shipped broken or absent, according to a majority of this review's negative sample, and persistent performance problems have outlasted more than a year of patches.
6.5 / 10
The clearest case in this library of a Steam score that has become a historical document — a Mixed badge earned in 2023 sitting on top of a game that, three years and a flight update later, its current players mostly recommend.
6.5 / 10
A promising sixth entry in tri-Ace's long-running sci-fantasy JRPG series that opens strong and, by wide reviewer consensus, loses momentum in its second half -- while a PC-specific performance regression from a since-abandoned patch keeps showing up in reviews years later.
6.5 / 10
An Americana-infused space trucking sim that launched without control remapping — locking out at least one player with a physical disability entirely — before a fast fix and nearly two years of steady, ongoing support. This review reads the whole arc, not just the rocky opening week.
6.5 / 10
