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575 Open World games reviewed and scored, best first.
575 reviews
A gorgeous, atmospheric short exploration piece about a robot searching an alien planet for its missing friend — touch movement confirmed working across a long play session, but this reviewer, like the one public comment on the game's own page, never found a clear conclusion.
6.3 / 10
A cozy job simulator about flipping fallen penguins back onto their feet that quietly turns into a tense, atmospheric little thriller — short, cheap, and better for it.
6.3 / 10
A Long-Awaited Return to NATEM Eight years after the original Broken Reality carved out a small but devoted cult following with its vaporwave-soaked tour through a decaying digital
6.2 / 10
A short, hand-drawn nature documentary of a game where you wander peaceful sanctuaries cataloguing real moth species, egg to wing.
6.2 / 10
A goblin with nowhere to go Styx has always been a small, foul-mouthed monster with an outsized personality, and the biggest compliment "Blades of Greed" earns is that th
6.2 / 10
Pirates, Paddling, and a Resort That Runs Itself Resort Island Simulator throws an enormous amount at the wall and, somewhat to its credit, most of it sticks well enough to be enjo
6.1 / 10
A Wild West-themed survival worldbuilder letting players craft and place the map's own biome tiles, praised for a genuinely fresh core concept — held back by a repetitive mid-to-late loop, a weak story that clashes with its own open-ended premise, and a severe base-building performance problem the developer attempted to fix once but reviewers say never fully resolved.
6 / 10
An open-world action RPG about sand-surfing across a desert world with a sentient gauntlet, launched to "Forspoken 2.0" comparisons and a co-op bug so severe it became the single most-upvoted review the game has ever received — genuinely improved since by patches that recast a voice actor and reworked combat, though the co-op flaw was still being reported in 2025.
6 / 10
A hand-drawn 2D Metroidvania from Dormidin Studio built around animal-morphing abilities and a sprawling exploration-heavy map, earning a broadly positive but small launch reception for its art and movement, tempered by honest reviewer complaints about contact-damage hitboxes, obtuse early navigation, and missing windowed-mode and control-remapping options.
6 / 10
An open-world "kung-fu fable" RPG about a mutant animal saving a post-apocalyptic world, announced in 2017 and delayed for years while its hype grew far ahead of what shipped -- Mixed on Steam, with a review pattern that's remarkably consistent about exactly where it falls apart.
6 / 10
A viral solo-developer horror hit about upgrading a train to fight a monstrous spider train -- genuinely well-liked, and just as consistently criticised, on both sides of its score, for being over in about the time it takes to watch a movie.
6 / 10
A cheap, story-driven block-mining game that found its 223-review audience largely through YouTube and Twitch coverage rather than storefront discovery — genuinely liked for its darker RPG-flavoured take on the digging genre, with reviewers just as consistently honest that it's still a rough, unfinished Early Access build.
6 / 10
A Ukrainian studio's attempt to revive the 25-year-old Sea Dogs/Age of Pirates lineage is genuinely improving after two and a half years in Early Access — but its own achievement data shows most buyers still stop a few hours in.
6 / 10
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A hand-drawn life-sim about a ghost scout helping bear spirits move on from a cursed island, Very Positive across nearly 3,800 reviews for its charming art and atmosphere — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint about a real-time daily play-limit mechanic that deliberately stretches a short amount of content across many months, alongside a well-corroborated complaint about repetitive fetch quests and tiny inventory capacity.
6 / 10
A non-violent creature-collector action-adventure about befriending and rescuing the beautiful, doomed inhabitants of a dying planet, whose genuine emotional warmth and gorgeous creature designs earn heartfelt praise, undercut by a widely reported shallow gameplay loop and one specific, concrete design flaw that can quietly lock players out of full completion.
6 / 10
A genuinely fun, gory open-world zombie brawler whose Steam release — arriving a year after the game's original 2023 launch specifically to escape Epic Games Store exclusivity — forces Epic Online Services onto players anyway, producing some of the angriest, most-detailed technical reviews in this library's coverage.
6 / 10
Access Games' surreal, Twin Peaks-inspired open-world detective mystery is one of the most extreme "great game, terrible port" cases this lane has reviewed — a beloved cult classic for its writing, characters and atmosphere, almost universally paired with an extensively documented PC port so broken that unofficial community fixes are treated as mandatory rather than optional.
6 / 10
A VR-Only Wasteland From a Studio That Knows the Genre D.E.C.A.Y. is a VR-exclusive survival shooter that casts you as the operator of a remote bunker in a scorched, post-apocalypt
6 / 10
A free-to-play action RPG that launched with a genuinely rare promise — no gacha for characters or weapons — and won real goodwill for it, before its own launcher distributed actual credential-stealing malware to players twice in the space of a month.
6 / 10
A card-based dungeon-crawler roguelike that graduated from itch.io to a full Steam release, earning a Mostly Positive reception for its relaxed pace, character variety and atmosphere, while a vocal minority reports a thin tutorial, shallow combat depth and balance issues that tip from challenging into frustrating.
6 / 10
KONAMI's action-RPG adaptation of Hiro Mashima's manga trades budget and polish for genuine affection for its source material, delivering a combat system that starts stiff but blossoms, a story that ends before it should, and one of the deepest costume systems in anime gaming.
6 / 10
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A small, warmly received portal-exploration idle game built around gear, class choice, and a reincarnation system, praised across its short review sample as a relaxing, addictive background companion despite an unclear interface and a self-aware lack of complexity.
6 / 10
Everwind is a voxel survival-crafting adventure built around a flyable airship base, and this review's sample confirms an appealing exploration-and-loot loop and a fast, tracked post-launch patch cadence, set against real, developer-acknowledged performance and Steam Deck stability problems and an underpowered itemization system.
6 / 10
Gaming's most famous redemption arc went into reverse — negative reviews fell to five in 2023, then spiked to thirty-one in 2025, and the players writing them have two thousand hours each and one complaint: the subscription.
6 / 10
