Any good Zelda-style games on Steam?

Energy: Er...turrets were 100% worthless, treasure doors were a mixed bag (generally worthless). The only true difference between now and then is crafting and revives. You used to be able to craft some cheap stuff by wasting your mist, that's no longer possible, but in its place you actually can find the items you need naturally to craft so you won't have to spend energy, this all depends on your luck of course, but better than 100% relying on CE. Sparks of life the new revival might as well be discussed in the next section.

Revive system: Sparks of life replace the old touch revive system with a side of CE purchasing. A set of 10 costs 200 CE. At time of writing (I logged on just to check), you can buy 100 CE for 8530 cr or if you are desperate, a single one from the market at 1997cr. So ignoring buying a single one since that's generally unwise, a set of 10 costs 19000 cr. A true new player is going to earn a good amount of those through the beginning missions, and unless they are very unwise, they shouldn't be running through all of those along with their given emergency revives. I could point out the similarity to Warframe with its 50 starting plat that someone could also foolishly spend on revives, but I'll move past that. The game isn't supposed to be rewarding people for dying unnecessarily, at least you get a free full revive. The touch thing also only mattered if you had someone else to play with, even though this IS a multiplayer game, you know the lower levels are generally less populated so a new player is going to be soloing a good portion of that until/unless they make friends. And don't forget, the similar comparision in the old days is that the price increased by doubling every time you died.

So to put this into comparison from a higher level (not new player nor pro player perspective), say you die 5 times on Vanaduke because you and your party aren't great at it. Your first death the only way would cost half of somebody else's health, that could cause them to get one shotted. The new way allows you to not inconvenience them. Really I just compare it to my very old Shadow Lair Snarbolax run I did the first time. Way back then (and tbh I never went back), it was bad for everyone involved, revives went up to like 320CE for the next one. Because the old system was multiplicative and punishing for it. Even reviving one another wasn't enough. 10+20+40+80+160+320 CE for a revive?That meant I died 6 times even with touching in a full party. If I had repeated that run today, that would've only cost me 200 CE with 4 revives to spare. The new system actually allows you to play worse relatively.

Crafting: Same as before. Replace the orbs which you MAY find with the CE costs, it's the same exact thing. 3 Eternal orbs of alchemy cost 800 CE. 800 CE is the exact same price it was in the old days. Historical link the difference between now and then is you have a CHANCE of not paying 800 CE, the old way you had to pay 800 CE (700 if you saved your mist). There is no difference with this from before to now except CE is higher and that was always going to go up, we all knew that. Key thing is, even if it was the old system, it would STILL be 800 CE with the current prices because the game is unpopular and funded by the people paying for it.

Item binding is irrelevant to a new player, and even as an old player it can be irrelevant, that's only if you want to sell weapons. If you're trying to do that, then you're in it for profit off of a good UV which is something that really has no place in a discussion with a new player. They need to get base weapons well before worrying about stuff like that.

Community: I had a friend who got her account stolen last year, she made a new one got the old one banned, and now has spent more time in the game than I ever did. You don't spend 2,097 hours in a game like that if you hate the community because she definitely doesn't spend all that time playing, and remember, this is her new account. Her situation is unique to her, just like mine is unique to me, and yours is your own unique experience with the game, but neither of those things are a representation of the game. It's like me telling you the league of legends community is toxic, it is, but not everyone, and not every match, it varies greatly depending on mode, elo, and time of day, the important thing is whether you find the game fun or not.

Back on topic, I have my own issues with the SK development team but it honestly isn't relevant to suggesting it to a new player. If I were saying something like "I ran out of things to do/lack of updates" is silly when a new player has a lot of existing content to go through to reach that point.

Anyway OP never responded to any of these replies, not saying he never read them, but honestly not really worth going too deep into it if they'll never play anyway. My recommendation was based only on the style, it was truly based on The Legend of Zelda and Phantasy Star Online (according to the developers way back). I figured OP can get a few hours out of it because upon checking How Long To Beat, none of the games he mentioned go on longer than 10 hours. Anodyne holds the record at 10 hours for completionist obviously this is based on personal reports and sure players can spend more or less time on them, but the key thing is, I'm preeeeetty sure you can spend at least 10 hours in Spiral Knights without running into half of these issues. And even if you do, the price is free for trying it. That's why I said to OP, your mileage may vary as it is a f2p.