Best Action Games on Steam

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Putrefaction 2: Void Walker Putrefaction 2: Void Walker is fast-paced, hardcore, arcade FPS, inspired by old-school shooters.

Price -66% 1.71€
Rating 7.4
Release 29 May 2017
Flying Tigers: Shadows Over China FLYING TIGERS: SHADOWS OVER CHINA is an air-combat action game based on the historical events of America’s secret volunteer squadrons that defended China against Japan in the China-Burma-India theatre of World War 2.

Price -77% 2.95€
Rating 6.9
Release 29 May 2017
RiME A land of discovery stretches out before you. Explore the beautiful, rugged world of RiME. Armed with your wits and a will to overcome—and the guidance of a helpful fox—you must explore the enigmatic island, reach the tower's peak, and unlock its closely guarded secrets.

Price -98% 0.80€
Rating 8.7
Release 26 May 2017
UBERMOSH Vol.5 The fifth volume of the arcade series UBERMOSH.

Price -90% 0.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 25 May 2017
SUPERHOT VR Lose track of what’s real. Commit yourself, body and mind. Confront the evocative, elegantly brutal world of SUPERHOT VR. Enemies pouring into the room from all sides, dozens of bullets coursing through the air... Wait. Something seems different in here...

Price -78% 5.08€
Rating 7.3
Release 25 May 2017
Vanquish PlatinumGames’ revolutionary sci-fi action shooter slide-boosts onto PC. Battle legions of future-tech enemies using a vast arsenal of weapons, including all DLC. Fully unlocked framerate and gorgeous HD resolutions up to 4K. The definitive way to play: war has accelerated.

Price -78% 4.51€
Rating 8.7
Release 25 May 2017
EVERSPACE™ EVERSPACE™ combines fast-paced combat with roguelike elements, great visuals and a captivating story. It takes you on a challenging journey through an ever-changing, beautifully crafted universe full of surprises. Shoot, craft and loot your way to victory while the odds are stacked against you.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 25 May 2017
Black Desert Played by over 20 million Adventurers - Black Desert Online is an open-world, action MMORPG. Experience intense, action-packed combat, battle massive world bosses, fight alongside friends to siege and conquer castles, and train in professions such as fishing, trading, crafting, cooking, and more!

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 24 May 2017
Caveblazers Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.

Price -94% 0.61€
Rating 8.3
Release 24 May 2017
Cosmic Trip Cosmic Trip is an award-winning real-time strategy VR game. Build a base, command a flying drone army, and attack/defend hostile enemies on strange alien planets.

Price -75% 5.00€
Rating 8.0
Release 24 May 2017
SAMURAI WARRIORS: Spirit of Sanada Struggle for survival. Death before surrender! Experience the dramatic story and epic, action-packed battles of the Sanada clan during Japan's Warring States period.

Price -41% 29.81€
Rating 8.0
Release 23 May 2017
Steel Division: Normandy 44 Steel Division: Normandy is a tactical real-time strategy (RTS) game that pits players against AI enemies in a single-player campaign -- or against several opponents in massive 10-on-10 multiplayer battles.

Price -78% 4.49€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 May 2017
Skillshot City Loot, shoot, cast and drive in this chaotic PvP Roguelite. Level up fast, draft wild skills, and create crazy combos on the fly. Explore a GTA-style battle royale with no queues or downtime as you prepare to win the final fight!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 23 May 2017
The Elder Scrolls® Online Every legend starts somewhere and in The Elder Scrolls Online, it starts with you. Join millions of players in an online, fantasy RPG set in a vast living Elder Scrolls world.

Price -77% 4.74€
Rating 8.1
Release 22 May 2017
Cyberhunt Cyberhunt is a retro procedurally generated twin stick shooter, that takes you back to the sweet to the sweet arcade machines era!

Price -93% 0.35€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 May 2017
Hyper Knights Slash and Dash, raise your army, learn powerful combos and take back your land!

Price -75% 1.26€
Rating 8.4
Release 19 May 2017
Ravenfield Fight upon the Ravenfield together with your Blue allies! Take down those pesky Reds using helicopters, tanks, guns, and active ragdoll physics!

Price 17.49€
Rating 9.5
Release 18 May 2017
Mages of Mystralia In a world of magic, your mind is your greatest weapon. Learn the ways of magic and design your own spells to fight enemies, navigate treacherous terrain, and right past wrongs in the kingdom of Mystralia.

Price -96% 0.80€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 May 2017
TO THE TOP VR Platforming Game, that gives you the freedom to move across the environment with superhuman abilities. Conquer over 35 levels with new obstacles and challenges. Compete for the fastest times or explore the environment. Experience the freedom of movement.

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 May 2017
ENDLESS™ Space 2 ENDLESS™ Space 2 is a Strategic Space Opera, featuring the compelling “just one more turn” gameplay, set in the mysterious ENDLESS™ Universe. As the leader of your civilization, will you impose your vision and build the greatest stellar empire?

Price -80% 8.35€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 May 2017
Portal Knights The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!

Price -98% 0.56€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 May 2017
Bounty Train Explore the dangerous life, the accurate historic events and contemporary inventions of the North American/US 19th century. Acquire one of the most legendary steam machines and transform it into a fortress on rails.

Price -97% 0.35€
Rating 6.8
Release 16 May 2017
The Surge Welcome to CREO, the megacorporation saving the world! A catastrophic event has knocked you out during the first day on the job… you wake up equipped with a heavy-grade exoskeleton, in a destroyed section of the complex.

Price -96% 0.62€
Rating 7.4
Release 15 May 2017
OVIVO OVIVO is a minimalistic platformer with unusual mechanics where everything is as simple as black and white. The journey in this metaphoric world is filled with illusions and hidden messages.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 May 2017
Charlie Murder It’s a punk rock apocalypse! Team up with your friends to lead embattled punk rock band Charlie Murder in their epic quest to save the world from rival death metalers Gore Quaffer and their legions of evil.

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 12 May 2017
The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile The followup to 2009's Dead Samurai, The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile is a combo-fueled, fast-paced, stylistic 2D action platformer that features the series' staple gritty, graphic novel-inspired art style, built on a new engine that allows for an even more visually gruesome experience.

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 12 May 2017
Battlezone Gold Edition Strap into the cockpit of the Cobra – the most powerful tank ever built – and experience first-person tank combat across neon-scarred sci-fi landscapes in an explosive campaign for 1-4 players – now playable with or without a VR device!

Price -97% 1.14€
Rating 7.4
Release 11 May 2017
STRAFE: Gold Edition STRAFE® is the worlds bloodiest roguelike first-person shooter! Featuring mind melting secrets and persistent gore that allows you to paint levels red with the excessive entrails of your enemies. 30+ weapons, 20+ enemies, & a red hot soundtrack.

Price -76% 3.56€
Rating 7.0
Release 09 May 2017
World to the West World to the West is a standalone followup of Teslagrad, the indie hit that sold more than 1.6 million copies worldwide. A vast world of blue skies and dark caves awaits you in this 3D action adventure, as you try to unveil the mysteries of an ancient prophecy.

Price -97% 0.46€
Rating 7.3
Release 05 May 2017
ATOMINE Atomine is a twin stick procedural shooter rogue-lite set in a virtual world with minimalist design, where the player recounts on the screen the real events of STUXNET, the first weapon ever created in the form of computer virus.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 04 May 2017
Mass Exodus Redux Whether you’re playing the seeker (VR) or rogue android (PC), Mass Exodus is a tense and absorbing local multiplayer game. With 4 extensive maps each with unique kill methods and some creative power-ups, you need to try outsmart your friends anyway you can. Oculus Touch and HTC Vive compatible.

Price 6.89€
Rating 6.9
Release 04 May 2017
Shio “Shio” is a challenging platformer game in which you deep and moving story by jumping from lantern to lantern. If you are big fan of Super Meat Boy, you will like Shio as well!

Price 11.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 04 May 2017
Prey In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.

Price -88% 3.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 04 May 2017
Battle Bruise Stay atop a mountain of corpses! Fight numerous swarms of enemies, while dealing with the changing terrain.This game isn't messy. It's MESS ITSELF!

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 03 May 2017
WAVESHAPER WAVESHAPER is a minimalist score attack game in which you attempt to stop the 2D vector menace, one obstacle at a time.

Price 1.89€
Rating 8.5
Release 03 May 2017
Conductor Conductor is a action-adventure, puzzle game. Take control of a locomotive and clear anything that stands in your way. Solve puzzles by using tools and wit. Defend yourself from the forces of Overcorp.

Price -62% 3.80€
Rating 8.5
Release 02 May 2017

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