Action Hidden Gems on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated action games.

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Mad Bullets Mad Bullets, the wackiest shooter is here to put your reflexes and laughing muscles to an intensive test. You can forget about boring stories, complicated controls and irritating tutorials, and jump right into a mind blowing, high-speed action.

Price -40% 7.49€
Rating 8.5
Release 10 Jun 2016
Zombie Party Zombie Party is a retro rampage of fun and over-the-top action, while still giving the players a deep and engaging Action-RPG Rogue-like experience! Go on a time traveling adventure, or delve deep into procedural dungeons full of gold, loot, and secrets!

Price -95% 0.48€
Rating 8.0
Release 10 Jun 2016
Death Goat Death Goat is a bloody arcade shooter featuring hordes of brutal enemies & eardrum destroying Heavy Metal.

Price 0.61€
Rating 7.1
Release 07 Jun 2016
WASTED Get wasted or get wasted trying in WASTED, a roguelike post-apocalyptic pub crawler. Fight tooth and nail, bullets and baseball bats in search of Booze, gain strange mutational Hangovers, and explore the Coolers in search of powerful weapons, armor, and a nice stiff drink to top it all off.

Price -94% 0.88€
Rating 7.4
Release 07 Jun 2016
Allods Online Allods Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, set in the fantasy space opera universe of Sarnaut. It is the fourth opus of the Rage of Mages series which started in the mid-90s, conquering the minds of millions of gamers around the world.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 03 Jun 2016
Age of Barbarian Extended Cut Age of Barbarian Ex is an action hack 'n 'slash game inspired to 80s, fantasy and sword-and-sorcery genre. Muscular barbarians, scantily clad girls, hordes of bloodthirsty monsters, a lot of gore, a pretty epic story and an addictive soundtrack! What's best in life?

Price -50% 6.49€
Rating 7.5
Release 03 Jun 2016
Captain Forever Remix Can you create the raddest spaceship? Captain Forever Remix is the spaceship builder roguelike. Voyage across the Solar System and blast apart randomly-generated enemies for spare parts. This is an officially-licensed re-imagining of the indie classic Captain Forever.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.6
Release 03 Jun 2016
Onechanbara Z2: Chaos Onechanbara Z2: Chaos is the latest entry in the Onechanbara series. Two sets of buxom vampire sisters battle through over a dozen stages of high-octane real-time swordplay. Fight off the invasion in gruesome detail, occasionally transforming into a demon for short bursts of added power and speed.

Price -98% 0.95€
Rating 7.5
Release 02 Jun 2016
TurnOn "TurnOn" tells the spellbinding tale of a brave alien creature and its striking journey through blackout world, in an incredibly colorful and detailed platformer without platforms.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 01 Jun 2016
Dungeon Escape Challenging 2D platformer with simple graphics and a great chiptune soundtrack.

Price -88% 0.35€
Rating 7.6
Release 27 May 2016
Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity Discover the secrets of the estate, as you look for answers among the violent inhabitants. A strange and repelling madness took hold of the servants roaming the halls, and they will attack on sight, for their madness is one rooted in a deeper understanding of cosmic insignificance.

Price -75% 2.45€
Rating 7.6
Release 27 May 2016
OmniBus OmniBus is next-to-last gen physics game about the most powerful bus in the universe that can’t stop or even slow down for reasons incomprehensible to the simple human mind.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 26 May 2016
ORCS ORCS is an action/platformer 2D old school inspirated by classic like Castlevania and Ghosts 'n Goblins.

Price -55% 0.90€
Rating 7.6
Release 20 May 2016
Koihime Enbu Originally an arcade fighting game, Koihime Enbu features fast combat, tight controls, clean visuals, and 13 different playable characters!

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 19 May 2016
SMASHING THE BATTLE In the year 2085, a huge multiplex construction site becomes a victim of a massive-scale hacking incident. Due to the hack, the construction robots start to attack the workers onsite.

Price 11.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 15 May 2016
Neon Space Neon Space is a fun and simple but at the same time highly addictive game.

Price -99% 0.34€
Rating 6.9
Release 12 May 2016
Madness Cubed Online shooter with a variety of game modes and a huge arsenal of weapons. Fight with other players, or team up with them to defeat hordes of zombies and mutants!

Price 1.59€
Rating 7.4
Release 12 May 2016
Dungeon of Zolthan Dungeon of Zolthan is a casual, arcade-style metroidvania platformer where your goal is to defeat Zolthan; a powerful mage that lives inside the dungeon. Using an array of powerups and your own wit and guile, guide your character through Zolthan's Dungeon!

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 11 May 2016
Glitchspace Glitchspace is about reprogramming the game to solve puzzles. Trapped in an abstract cyberspace world, your way forward uses visual programming to edit environmental geometry, whilst unlocking key programming concepts along the way.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 05 May 2016
I and Me If there were another me, Observing myself from the perspective of a spectator, How would I regard another me?

Price -88% 1.27€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 May 2016
Shadow Complex Remastered ChAIR’s fresh twist on classic side-scrolling design with modern gameplay is amplified in Shadow Complex Remastered. 10+ hrs of exploration and fast-paced combat from award-winning original game, updated with graphical enhancements, dynamic melee take-downs, and new Master Challenges.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 03 May 2016
Zombillie Help Zobillie reach the legendary meat farm. A long road ahead: a 90 complex levels full of puzzles and traps.

Price -90% 0.53€
Rating 7.4
Release 29 Apr 2016
HordeZ If you are looking for a on-rails arcade experience that blends between classics like Doom, Left 4 dead and House of the Dead then we got you covered! Fast and simple gameplay that will bring you into a creepy world of zombies and demons. Show your skills to the world through our global leadboard system!

Price -80% 3.39€
Rating 7.8
Release 29 Apr 2016
Left Alone Left Alone plunges you into a first-person psychological horror journey, where darkness and memories intertwine. As secrets emerge from shadows, use your wits to solve puzzles and explore haunting, forgotten locations. Every step echoes with the past; can you face the truths that await?

Price 6.89€
Rating 7.1
Release 28 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 -65% 5.24€
Rating 8.3
Release 25 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 -96% 0.29€
Rating 7.9
Release 21 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 -50% 1.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 19 Apr 2016
ARCADE GAME SERIES: Ms. PAC-MAN Developed in America and first released in 1981, Ms. PAC-MAN finally comes to Steam! Move Ms. PAC-MAN up, down, left, and right to avoid the ghosts and gobble up all the Pac-Dots!

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.2
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 -50% 1.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 19 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
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 -80% 2.01€
Rating 7.5
Release 18 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 -95% 1.01€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 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
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
Roll'd Enter the world of Roll'd where rolling comes in at a new degree.

Price -56% 0.44€
Rating 7.8
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

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