Game Reviews6.7/10
Anima: Gate of Memories: A Pact, a Switch, and a 6.7 That Fits
Anima: Gate of Memories review: a 2016 action RPG with a pact, a mid-fight switch, an open world, and a 6.7/10 score that fits.
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Tag: action RPG
Game Reviews6.5/10
Warhammer: Chaosbane Review: Faithful to the Old World, Flat in the Fight
Warhammer: Chaosbane review: faithful Old World setting, six distinct classes, real split-screen co-op, but combat never finds its rhythm. 6.5/10.
Game Reviews6.6/10
Nights of Azure Buries a Good Idea Under Repetition
Nights of Azure review: Gust's 2015 action RPG with a strong blood-polluted premise, shallow combat and a 6.6/10 critic score.
Game Reviews7.1/10
Daemon X Machina Review: 7.1/10 — A Mech Game for Tinkerers
Daemon X Machina review: Marvelous' mech action game scores 7.1/10, with deep Arsenal customization and a campaign that never earns its war.
Game Reviews7.1/10
GreedFall’s colonial politics still hold up seven years later
GreedFall review: Spiders' colonial RPG sends De Sardet to Teer Fradee, where faction diplomacy and a race for the malichor cure outshine thin combat.
Game Reviews6.7/10
Dante’s Family Line Gets a Game of Its Own — But the Opening Hour Needs Work
A demon-hunting family battles Florence's corruption in this game of shifting blades and shadowed streets.
Game Reviews8.4/10
Mortal Shell II Review: Cold Symmetry Removes the Stamina Bar and Wins
Mortal Shell II review: Cold Symmetry drops the stamina bar, adds eight Shells and 60+ dungeons. Out August 20, 2026 on PS5, PC and Xbox. Score: 8.4/10.
Game Reviews7.7/10
Beast of Reincarnation asks a lot of an eighteen-year-old and her dog
Beast of Reincarnation review: Game Freak's post-apocalyptic action RPG sends Emma and her dog Koo through a ruined Japan with Sekiro-style combat.
Game Reviews6.5/10
Darksiders III arrived in November 2018 as the third entry in a series that had already killed off two Horsemen.
Darksiders III review: Fury hunts the Seven Deadly Sins in a meaner Metroidvania-Soulslike hybrid held back by bugs and shallow combat
Game Reviews6.8/10
Vampyr’s combat is clumsy enough that its choices barely get room to matter
Vampyr review: Dontnod's 1918 London vampire RPG nails the feeding-vs-mercy choice but stumbles on stiff combat. Score: 6.8/10.
Game Reviews7.9/10
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Review: Great Combat, a World That Outruns Its Story
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning review: the 2012 open-world action game from 38 Studios and EA, with combat that still holds up and a story that does not.
Game Reviews7.4/10
The Surge Review: A Great Idea Welded to a Dark Souls Skeleton
The Surge review: Deck13's 2017 sci-fi Soulslike welds an exoskeleton onto you awake, then makes dismemberment the loot system. Score: 7.4/10.