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575 Open World games reviewed and scored, best first.
575 reviews
A gorgeous, atmospheric souls-like about a wanderer rebuilding a town of allies, whose stunning art, exploration and community-building ideas are consistently undercut by shallow, repetitive combat and a co-op system reviewers describe as actively broken.
5.5 / 10
A Pyramid on the Moon, Filtered Through a CRT Astrophobia, the latest short horror release from solo-leaning studio CosmicArcade (previously behind Poolscape and Gore), launched on
5.5 / 10
A Blue Planet II-inspired underwater exploration experience, gorgeous and genuinely informative enough to earn praise from real marine biologists, but marketed closely enough to Subnautica and Endless Ocean that a large share of buyers arrived expecting a much bigger, more open game than the small, linear one they got.
5.5 / 10
A fantasy survival MMO built around the pitch of "everyone is a wizard" that hooked players for hundreds and even thousands of hours -- and whose own longest-invested fans now write reviews describing years of stalled development, dead servers and a game they keep hoping will come back to life.
5.5 / 10
An ambitious, magic-only Soulslike built almost entirely by one developer, drawing genuine Dark Souls and Elden Ring comparisons for its interconnected world and spellcrafting, undercut by missing hit feedback, unrebindable controls and a scarcity of post-launch fixes for problems its own fans have been asking about since release.
5.5 / 10
A block-building survival game that genuinely beat Minecraft onto the Wii U in 2015, now sitting on Steam as a cheap, single-player, hand-crafted-island clone that its own developer has left untouched since 2021.
5.5 / 10
A voxel space adventure with real ambition Cubic Odyssey sends players on a galactic journey across vibrant, blocky planets, crafting tools, building vehicles, and fighting back a
5.5 / 10
A cheap third-person action game built as an explicit fan tribute to the hip-hop collective TeamSesh — reviewed on its complete 35-review English sample, most of which turned out to be one-word fandom slogans, with the real, substantive verdict hiding underneath them.
5.5 / 10
A genuinely inventive genre mashup disguised behind a joke title, blending dungeon exploration, base-building automation, and creeping dread as a prisoner forced to wash dishes in a dystopian facility, whose real atmosphere and mystery are near-unanimously undercut by an almost farcically consistent complaint — a punishing, poorly-controlled parkour section at the very end that appears to frustrate nearly every reviewer regardless of how much they otherwise enjoyed the game.
5.5 / 10
A post-apocalyptic follow-up to Far Cry 5 with a colorful new coat of paint, undercut by a widely-repeated complaint that its map, weapons and structure are recycled from its predecessor and repriced as a full standalone game, plus a tiered enemy/weapon level system many reviewers say feels imported from a mobile microtransaction game.
5.5 / 10
A Lovecraftian cave-diving roguelike from Fruit Ninja co-creator Luke Muscat, whose atmosphere and premise draw real praise, undercut by a large, consistent negative-review theme describing a repetitive backtracking loop with no permanent meta-progression, alongside specific, seemingly unaddressed control and technical complaints from a developer who moved to bug fixes for only a few weeks before starting a new project.
5.5 / 10
A first-person survival shooter that mashes Far Cry, Turok, and Jurassic Park into one island of mercenaries and dinosaurs, praised for its ambitious scope and atmosphere but hobbled at launch by rough AI, technical bugs, and optimisation problems.
5.5 / 10
A visually striking open-world action RPG whose parkour-and-magic traversal genuinely splits opinion between reviewers who call it a highlight and those who find it repetitive, but whose dominant, heavily-corroborated complaints — quippy, widely mocked dialogue and poor launch performance — proved severe enough that Square Enix dissolved developer Luminous Productions into itself barely three months after release.
5.5 / 10
A genuinely atmospheric open-world survival shooter against robotic invaders in 1980s Sweden, weighed down by a mandatory data-collection privacy policy its own publisher's website confirms in writing, and now formally at the end of its support lifespan.
5.5 / 10
A hardcore open-world tactical extraction shooter with genuine "Ghost Recon meets Tarkov" ambition and a playerbase invested enough to log hundreds of hours each — reviewed here through a persistent, multiply-corroborated PvP cheating problem several reviewers say the developers actively suppress discussion of, alongside two years of genuinely frequent development.
5.5 / 10
A Third Swing at the Same Blade GwenBlade Witcheresque is the third entry in solo developer ArcWillow's small GwenBlade series, following the original GwenBlade and GwenBlade H
5.5 / 10
Worked to Death, Reincarnated to Keep Working Hatarake! opens with a premise sharp enough to carry a review on its own: an overworked office employee collapses from exhaustion, die
5.5 / 10
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A Free Scrap of Working-Class Crime Fantasy Hooligan Town wants to be a pocket-sized slice of gritty British street life: hustle for cash in a dynamic open city, build a home base
5.5 / 10
A physics-based sandbox chaos game casting players as elderly retirees causing mayhem across an open world, Very Positive across its Steam reviews for its initial concept and atmosphere — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint that its novelty wears off within an hour or two, janky and unsatisfying physics interactions, and persistent multiplayer connectivity bugs.
5.5 / 10
A gather-upgrade-fight resource loop with real short-term appeal that grows repetitive and punishing over a longer Early Access life, whose advertised co-op turns out to be shared-camera split-screen rather than independent multiplayer.
5.5 / 10
Pirates, Stretchy Arms, and a Genre That's Suddenly Very Crowded Last Pirates: Die Together entered Early Access on August 18, 2026, from RetroStyle Games (published alongside
5.5 / 10
A co-op sky-sailing survival sandbox from Bossa Studios -- spiritual successor to their abandoned MMO Worlds Adrift -- that pairs a genuinely loved grapple-and-shipbuilding core with a rushed five-month Early Access run, a save-corrupting bug streak that outlived the 1.0 launch, and a development pace that stalled for the better part of a year before recent fixes started landing.
5.5 / 10
Two Developers, One Big Map, And A Demo That Grew Up (A Little) Luminary, a co-op fantasy ARPG-lite from two-person studio Refractive Entertainment, entered Steam Early Access on A
5.5 / 10
A survival-RPG built around one of anime's most punishing premises -- descend into a bottomless pit, and the climb back up gets progressively more gruesome -- undercut by clunky combat and a full-price tag that its own fans, almost unanimously, tell each other to wait out.
5.5 / 10
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