Best Action games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our action game recommendations are based on a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews. We believe that player feedback is the most reliable indicator of a game's true quality and enjoyment. Our algorithm evaluates user reviews to identify action games that consistently deliver exceptional experiences. This means you can be confident that our lists feature only the best action games on Steam, validated by the community itself.

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State of Anarchy

Simplistic top-down shooter that will put a smile on your face. Fulfill your inner sociopath as you mow down enemies with guns and cars alike, in a bid to pull off the world's largest heist!

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 27 Apr 2016

HoloBall

HoloBall plunges players into an action-sports arcade arena inspired by one of the most iconic games of all time. Use your paddles to hit, smash and curve the HoloBall past your opponent to score. Learn and master skillshots to outmatch your increasingly difficult opponents.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 25 Apr 2016

8-Bit Armies

8-Bit Armies is a retro Real-Time Strategy game. With a colorful, blocky voxel art style, 8-Bit Armies is Petroglyph's most fast-paced, friendly, and accessible RTS game to date. Featuring a campaign of 25 single-player missions, 12 co-op missions, multiplayer and skirmish modes.

Price -69% 4.60€
Rating 7.9
Release 22 Apr 2016

Don't Starve Together

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Price -73% 3.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 21 Apr 2016

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is the RTS videogame adaptation of Games Workshop’s classic tabletop game, pitting the Chaos, Imperium, Eldar, and Orks against each other in visceral space-battles.

Price -85% 2.22€
Rating 6.7
Release 21 Apr 2016

Frederic: Resurrection of Music Director's Cut

New version of cult game with new levels and exclusive Steam online multiplayer! Frederic Chopin – a long time deceased classical compositor – returns back from beyond the grave to fight intense musical duels. In his way stand some of the worlds greatest pop stars charmed with enormous profits that wild commercialization provides

Price 5.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 21 Apr 2016

Rogue Stormers

An action packed platform shooter mashed-up with roguelike and RPG elements, crazy 3D graphics and co-op multiplayer for one to 4 players.

Price -95% 1.00€
Rating 6.6
Release 21 Apr 2016

Bloons TD Battles

Go head to head with other players in a Bloon-popping battle for victory. From the creators of best-selling Bloons TD 5, this all new Battles game is specially designed for multiplayer combat, featuring the ability to control bloons directly and send them charging past your opponent's defenses.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 20 Apr 2016

ARCADE GAME SERIES: PAC-MAN

First released in arcades in 1980, the masterpiece PAC-MAN comes to Steam! Move PAC-MAN up, down, left, and right to avoid the ghosts and gobble up all the Pac-Dots!

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 19 Apr 2016

ARCADE GAME SERIES: GALAGA

First appearing in arcades in 1981, the masterpiece GALAGA finally comes to Steam! Move the fighter left and right and destroy the waves of incoming aliens!

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 19 Apr 2016

ARCADE GAME SERIES: DIG DUG

First appearing in arcades in 1982, Dig Dug finally comes to Steam! Control Dig Dug to make underground tunnels and inflate or crush the enemies!

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 19 Apr 2016

Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code

The final episode of the series, "MELTY BLOOD Actress Again Current Code" is now on Steam!

Price -88% 2.78€
Rating 9.0
Release 19 Apr 2016

IS Defense

„IS Defense” is a game set in politically-fictional 2020 – where the expansion of ISIS went out of hand. The player takes the role of NATO’s stationary machine-gun operator, deployed to defend the shores of Europe.

Price -81% 1.00€
Rating 8.7
Release 19 Apr 2016

SpeedRunners

Cut-throat multiplayer running game that pits 4 players against each other, locally and/or online. Run, jump, swing around, and use devious weapons and pick-ups to knock opponents off-screen! One of the most competitive games you'll ever play.

Price -88% 1.75€
Rating 9.2
Release 19 Apr 2016

Battlezone 98 Redux

One of the greatest sci-fi strategy games of all time returns with remastered visuals, online multiplayer and near unlimited mod content from Steam Workshop. Experience thrilling first person action and acclaimed RTS in this explosive alternate vision of the 1960s space race.

Price -83% 3.46€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Apr 2016

Pang Adventures

The Pang series is a beloved collection of arcade video games from the early 90s. Guide two brothers on a quest around the world to save humankind from a massive alien invasion!

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 18 Apr 2016

Inexistence

Discover a vast world full of mysteries and action in this Metroidvania-style game inspired by the classics of the 16-bit era.

Price -83% 0.50€
Rating 6.3
Release 18 Apr 2016

Spaceport Hope

A huge hand-crafted world packed with 13 unique bosses, a gripping story, and tons of enemies, Spaceport Hope is the ultimate test of gaming prowess.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 15 Apr 2016

Zombie Training Simulator

Are you ready for the zombie apocalypse? We've done the research and want to make sure you're prepared. When the news reports the zombies are here and your friend gives you a call, "They're here. I need you," how will you respond? That's right, you'll say "On my way. We've got this thanks to ZTS!"

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 15 Apr 2016

METAL SLUG 2

“METAL SLUG 2”, the 2nd entry in SNK’s emblematic 2D run & gun action shooting game returns to the battlefield on the Steam gaming platform!

Price 6.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 14 Apr 2016

FINAL FANTASY IX

Selling over five million copies since its release in 2000, FINAL FANTASY IX proudly returns on Steam! Now you can relive the adventures of Zidane and his crew on PC !

Price -66% 7.07€
Rating 9.2
Release 14 Apr 2016

Soda Drinker Pro

The world's most advanced soda drinking simulator.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 13 Apr 2016

Stories: The Path of Destinies

Stories: The Path of Destinies is an Action RPG, an enchanted storybook filled with madcap fantasy tales, each told by a zippy narrator attuned to the player’s choices and actions.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 12 Apr 2016

DARK SOULS™ III

Dark Souls continues to push the boundaries with the latest, ambitious chapter in the critically-acclaimed and genre-defining series. Prepare yourself and Embrace The Darkness!

Price 59.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 11 Apr 2016

Tower Unite

PLAY, CREATE, PARTY! Tower Unite is a community-based virtual world party game with online games, entertainment, activities, and absolutely NO microtransactions.

Price -54% 9.00€
Rating 8.8
Release 08 Apr 2016

Ace of Seafood

In the seas of the distant future, humans have all but disappeared. In your current, newly-awakened state, you are no more than a piece of seafood. However, you have been blessed with the talent for leading your allies into battle. Do whatever it takes to become the Ace of Seafood.

Price 11.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 08 Apr 2016

StarsOne

You’ll see an unexplored world full of dangers, mysteries and adventures. You will explore randomly generated planets, develop industry, conduct trade, plant colonies, explore outer space.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.0
Release 08 Apr 2016

Mushroom Wars

Mushroom Wars is a dynamic real-time strategy game, where smart strategy meets furious action in epic PvP and PvE battles.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 07 Apr 2016

A Blind Legend

A Blind Legend is the first-ever action-adventure game without video – where ears replace eyes! Discover the original, innovative sensory experience of binaural 3D sound.

Price -86% 1.00€
Rating 7.2
Release 07 Apr 2016

NO THING

The year is 1994 and it is the future. NO THING is a minimalistic surreal action game set in totalitarian regime of future. Tells the story of an office clerk who is sent with important message to the Queen of Ice.

Price -32% 2.72€
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Apr 2016

Job Simulator

In a world where robots have replaced all human jobs, step into the "Job Simulator" to learn what it was like 'to job'.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.8
Release 05 Apr 2016

Hover Junkers

Engage in multiplayer VR gunfights that capture real gun play like no FPS you've played before. Pilot and fortify Hover Junkers as you physically walk, duck, dodge and aim in cross ship combat.

Price 19.50€
Rating 6.1
Release 05 Apr 2016

A grande bagunça espacial - The big space mess

Hello everyone! Welcome to the craziest adventure of your lives! The fearless Waldisglédson will face creatures from space and find allies on his journey!

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 6.3
Release 05 Apr 2016

The Lab

Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 05 Apr 2016

Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades

Do you like hot dogs? How about horseshoes? Hand grenades? (everyone likes hand grenades) Anyway, we've got all that, and guns. SO MANY GUNS. So if you like ordnance, meat, and far too many groan-worthy puns, this is the VR sandbox game for you.

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 05 Apr 2016

The Cubicle.

The Cubicle is a short VR experience about your regular everyday job in an office, or is it?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 05 Apr 2016

Project Starship

Project Starship is an arcade bullet-hell with random mechanics. No match will ever be the same. Who will you be? Garret or Gwen? Will you save the world from the mighty cthulhu?

Price 2.39€
Rating 7.7
Release 05 Apr 2016

Domino Sky

Domino Sky is a physics based game where you place and topple domino pieces to solve puzzles. Free build mode also available.

Price 2.50€
Rating 7.6
Release 05 Apr 2016

Surgeon Simulator VR: Meet The Medic

Surgeon Simulator VR: Meet the Medic – be the Medic and operate on the Heavy in this free and exclusive teaser for the HTC Vive!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 05 Apr 2016

Enter the Gungeon

Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.4
Release 05 Apr 2016

Final Approach

Take control of the skies like never before in a full Virtual Reality world! Airplanes on fire, commuter aircraft low on fuel, mid-air collisions, emergency helicopter rescues, military exercises and so much more!

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 04 Apr 2016

1979 Revolution: Black Friday

1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 1970’s.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.3
Release 04 Apr 2016

Holopoint

Holopoint is pure archery madness. Fight your way through waves of responsive targets, samurai, and highly dangerous ninjas - all while drawing, nocking, and shooting your arrows as quickly as possible.

Price 10.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 04 Apr 2016

Stikbold! A Dodgeball Adventure

Stikbold is a glorious and intense sport which will put your friendships to the test with fast-paced, hard-hitting and occasionally hilariously unfair action! Or play the co-op story mode to unlock the full roster of quirky sporting heroes and earn achievements.

Price -87% 1.32€
Rating 8.3
Release 01 Apr 2016

GUILTY GEAR 2 -OVERTURE-

The ultimate melee action [GUILTY GEAR 2 -OVERTURE-] is now on Steam!! Pushing [Gameplay] and [Entertainment] to the extremes, with a splash of [Competitiveness] -- That's GUILTY GEAR 2 for you.

Price -81% 3.79€
Rating 7.1
Release 31 Mar 2016

Hyper Light Drifter

Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

Price -70% 4.49€
Rating 9.1
Release 31 Mar 2016

Leap of Fate

Leap of Fate is a furiously-paced cyberpunk roguelite about overcoming your fears and achieving your fate. In a New York City where magic is real, you play as a technomage who must develop unspeakable powers to confront the Crucible of Fates. Can you survive the trials?

Price 15.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 30 Mar 2016

Epistory - Typing Chronicles

Epistory immerses you in an atmospheric action/adventure game where you play a girl riding a giant fox who fights an insectile corruption from an origami world. As you progress and explore this world, the story literally unfolds and the mysteries of the magic power of the words are revealed.

Price -85% 2.20€
Rating 9.2
Release 30 Mar 2016