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575 Open World games reviewed and scored, best first.
575 reviews
A tiny-scale survival-crafting game about insect-sized humans fending off giant bugs, frequently compared to Grounded — with a persistent, three-year-long complaint that even its official 1.0 release still plays like unfinished Early Access.
6 / 10
A match-3 board dressed up as a mine shaft, where clearing gems drags the camera deeper underground. The exploration hook is genuinely clever; the grind wrapped around it is not.
6 / 10
A stamina-combat action RPG whose opening third earns real praise for weapon variety, environmental art and a genuinely rewarding weapon-mastery skill system, undercut by a back two-thirds that reviewers say recycles enemies and thins out content, corroborated by Steam's own data showing barely one in eight buyers ever finishes it.
6 / 10
A Waterworld-flavoured survival crafting game still in Early Access, whose real fun core loop is undercut by genuine base-corrupting bugs and security concerns — and whose "abandoned by the developer" complaints, common in 2025 reviews, are directly contradicted by an active, multiple-updates-per-week patch history running right up to this review.
6 / 10
One of the best-received remasters this library has covered at launch, and one of the most soured a year later — recent English sentiment has fallen to 54% positive, sixteen months after 9 million players jumped in, because the performance problems that greeted launch day were never fixed.
6 / 10
A solo developer's beautiful, steampunk-tinged open-world war-bird combat game, weighed down at launch by floaty controls and a repetitive fly-fight-fly-back mission loop that a genuine, years-long remaster effort has since worked to address.
6 / 10
A gorgeous, sprawling sci-fi metroidvania with genuinely creative traversal abilities, held back by a review sample that repeatedly and specifically argues its map, backtracking, and combat variety don't earn the length the game demands of them.
6 / 10
A mythic archer-and-eagle adventure from the makers of ABZÛ, praised for a genuinely fluid flow-based movement system and gorgeous presentation, undercut by puzzle content reviewers repeatedly describe as repetitive and disconnected from that same movement system it was supposed to showcase.
6 / 10
A Team17-published fantasy alchemy-adventure about a masked Warden brewing potions and taming creatures to stop a spreading corruption -- genuinely atmospheric and well-loved by a devoted minority, but let down by threadbare tutorials, a locked camera and a developer who shipped two patches in its first two weeks and then largely went quiet.
6 / 10
A Two-Dollar Love Letter to a Sequel Capcom Never Made The Windzen Legend opens with a flying airship-turned-jazz-lounge called Afloat getting knocked out of the sky, stranding its
6 / 10
A one-hit-kill boss-rush action-adventure where both player and titan die in a single hit, Mostly Positive across nearly 2,800 reviews for genuinely inventive, puzzle-like boss design and a striking soundtrack — undercut by an extraordinarily consistent complaint that the long walk back to each boss after every death wastes far more time than the fights themselves, alongside a well-corroborated lack of mouse support or key rebinding.
6 / 10
A deliberately combat-free, chore-and-exploration adventure that sold itself as a Zelda meets Stardew Valley hybrid -- reviewers who took that pitch literally have spent nine years saying the same thing, that the surface is genuinely lovely and almost every system underneath it is thinner than the comparison implies.
6 / 10
Photographing Color Back Into a Black-and-White World, One Cat at a Time Cat Me If You Can builds its entire premise around a simple, charming hook: explore handcrafted, black-and-
5.9 / 10
A tiny wall-climbing gecko explores a sun-baked archipelago of ancient puzzles in this chill, occasionally jank-riddled adventure.
5.9 / 10
A farming-and-restaurant sim that blends Stardew Valley-style crop growing with a cook-and-serve business layer, drawing warm praise for its opening hours and cruelty-free animal husbandry, while one detailed critical review argues the content and polish drop off sharply once the tutorial ends.
5.9 / 10
A solo first-person survival horror game about a lighthouse keeper stranded on a fog-shrouded island, chasing fuel cans and fuses to keep the light burning while something unseen watches from the dark.
5.9 / 10
A solo-developer survival RPG that stacks base building, faction reputation, dungeon crawling and an 11-category weapon system onto an escalating chain of islands — an enormous feature list for the price, but one that remains almost entirely unreviewed nearly two years after launch.
5.8 / 10
A cozy-crossed-with-roguelite survival RPG from Grey November Games that lands to a genuinely Mixed reception — reviewers who love its Zelda-like exploration sit against others who found its roguelite, town-building, and progression systems shallow or confusing at launch.
5.8 / 10
A Storm, a Missing Uncle, and a Seaplane Full of Nostalgia A storm has torn through a tropical archipelago, and Uncle Lou — the local delivery pilot — has flown off to investigate
5.6 / 10
A cozy farming sim that swaps dirt roads for cloudscapes, sending players to inherit a neglected floating island and rebuild it with jetpacks, crops, and fishing, undercut in Early Access by slow core mechanics, progression-blocking bugs, and a handful of pointed AI-art allegations.
5.6 / 10
The fourth entry in solo developer Phr00t's long-running procedurally-generated, VR-native action RPG series is a real evolution of the formula, but its own longtime fanbase is split on whether the evolution is actually more fun to play than 2016's 5089.
5.5 / 10
A VR-supported open-world survival game whose entire, small early review sample dates from its first three days — a window that turns out to mostly predate two patches directly fixing nearly every specific bug those reviews describe.
5.5 / 10
A backpacking adventure RPG about hiking after a lost brother through gorgeous, hand-crafted landscapes — undercut badly enough by bugs and janky controls that even many of its own fans hedge their recommendation.
5.5 / 10
One of survival gaming's defining sandbox games, whose Mostly Positive 80% across 332,096 reviews now sits under a live, furious controversy — official servers sunset in 2023 to push players toward a paid Unreal Engine 5 remaster after reviewers cite an archived tweet promising that exact upgrade would be free, and a 2025 update reviewers say broke years of mods, maps and communities on the way out.
5.5 / 10
