Best Action Games 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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SimplePlanes Build airplanes by snapping parts together, designing wing sections, and attaching engines. At any time, you can strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies with realistic physics. If you're not in the mood for building, over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free.

Price -92% 1.04€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Dec 2015
Commander Cool 2 Commander Cool 2 is a four player local coop retro-styled adventure that is destined to be one of coolest game in 2015!

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 17 Dec 2015
River City Super Sports Challenge ~All Stars Special~ This is the River City sports challenge! The Rule is simple, be the # 1 in 4 events by all means. That's it! Hitting and kicking? Of course! Wooden swords dumbbells and even bombs are available to use. The great sports challenge where anything's possible has just begun!!!

Price -94% 1.38€
Rating 6.5
Release 17 Dec 2015
Taimumari: Definitive Edition Retro-style platform game in keeping with the best traditions of games of our childhood! Take control of the Himari, the young female wizard travelling across various ages to settle the balance in time across the whole world!

Price 6.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 16 Dec 2015
Waves 2: Notorious Waves 2: Notorious is an arcade twin-stick shooter set in Cyberspace. Build Combos, earn Adrenaline and unleash powerful Burst attacks as you Dive into the Net and do battle against an AI that adapts to your weaknesses!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 16 Dec 2015
Project Pulsation Project Pulsation - a sci-fi first person shooter with elements of horror and stealth. The distant space station 'Complex' located nearby Thanatos Asteroid keeps a valuable Artifact. Fight your way through turrets, unknown creatures and mysterious ghosts, survive and try to get back.

Price -85% 0.78€
Rating 6.7
Release 15 Dec 2015
Contract With The Devil Welcome to the world where mysticism and reality, past and present, good and evil are united in a single whole!

Price 14.79€
Rating 6.8
Release 11 Dec 2015
Emily Wants To Play It’s 11pm and the last house on your route. The windows are boarded up, the yard is overgrown, but the lights are on and the front door is open… strange place to deliver a pizza. You’re getting soaked from the rain, so you hesitantly step inside the house. You shouldn’t have done that.

Price -31% 3.48€
Rating 7.5
Release 10 Dec 2015
Dragon's Wake Dragon's Wake is a 2D Adventure Platformer where a fledgling dragon hatches into a world in which the extermination of dragons at the hands of a mysterious black knight is already underway.

Price 3.29€
Rating 8.2
Release 10 Dec 2015
PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist Join your favorite YouTubers on an Epic Quest in PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist.

Price -94% 0.50€
Rating 8.6
Release 10 Dec 2015
LIGHTNING RETURNS™: FINAL FANTASY® XIII Lightning Returns is the concluding chapter of the Final Fantasy XIII saga and series heroine Lightning's final battle. The grand finale of the trilogy brings a world reborn as well as free character customization and stunning action based battles.

Price -64% 5.79€
Rating 7.7
Release 10 Dec 2015
MechWarrior Online™ Legends MechWarrior Online™ Legends is a tactical, 'Mech-based online shooter set in the vast BattleTech Universe. Assume the role of an elite MechWarrior, piloting powerful BattleMechs, fighting for supremacy over the Inner Sphere.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 10 Dec 2015
Block Story™ There isn’t much better than a wide open game world in which you have essentially no limits and can alter the very landscape in which you play – that is, unless you add dragons, of course…

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 10 Dec 2015
GUILTY GEAR Xrd -SIGN- Kept you waitin'. GUILTY GEAR Xrd -SIGN- is finally here on Steam!

Price 27.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 09 Dec 2015
Apotheon Arena Apotheon Arena is the free online-multiplayer complement to the mythic Greek action RPG, Apotheon. Pit your skills with spear and shield against other players in brutal bronze-age combat. Battle across the statuesque arenas of Olympus, depicted with beautiful black-figure pottery artwork.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 08 Dec 2015
Ben and Ed Ben and Ed is a 3D platformer, in which the player controls Ed the Zombie, who is forced to participate in a grotesque game show called "Rundead". Will he beat all obstacles Hans Showmaster confronts him with, to save his best friend Ben?

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 08 Dec 2015
The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare Take part of history’s greatest battle of Green VS. Tan. Fight amongst and against others online. Jump, shoot and roll your way into victory with fast paced objective based gameplay. Sometimes the greatest battles are fought by the smallest of soldiers.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.0
Release 08 Dec 2015
Gun Wings A mysterious meteorite from deep space was detected approaching the Solar System, before the meteorite is due to hit the Earth, three of the girls who had their bodies modified as weapons are sent, along with all the hopes of humanity, to destroy the meteorite and save mankind...

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 08 Dec 2015
Bullet Heaven 2 Bullet Heaven 2 is a bullet-hell shoot-em-up inspired by games like Touhou and Jamestown. It's all about shooting every cute thing that moves, while dodging hundreds of shiny bullets per second!

Price 13.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 07 Dec 2015
HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition HELLDIVERS™ is a hardcore, cooperative, twin stick shooter. As part of the elite unit called the HELLDIVERS, players must work together to protect SUPER EARTH and defeat the enemies of mankind in an intense intergalactic war.

Price -95% 1.14€
Rating 8.9
Release 07 Dec 2015
Zombie Vikings From the creators of indie smash hit Stick It to The Man! comes a new one to four-player co-op stab-you-in-the-gut-a-thon. Embark on a dead funny adventure with the Zombie Vikings. A putrid posse sent on a mission through the most epic of worlds to retrieve Odin’s lost eye.

Price 11.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 07 Dec 2015
Nuclear Throne Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?

Price -96% 0.50€
Rating 9.4
Release 05 Dec 2015
Nyan Cat: Lost In Space Play with the most celebrated flying cat in human history. Drink milk, eat ice-cream, collect coins, buy gorgeous boosts, fly like a superhero (sorry... supercat), jump onto platforms made of cake, avoid angry dogs, and discover the infinite space.

Price -50% 2.00€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Dec 2015
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist A 15 minute heist game by Crows Crows Crows & Directed by William Pugh (The Stanley Parable). Slip into the soft-soled shoes of the mastermind responsible for the greatest heist- oh god I can’t do this any more, i’m joining the strike. good luck writing the steam description. -tina

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 04 Dec 2015
AX:EL - Air XenoDawn Combining the very best of sci-fi and aerial dogfighting gameplay, AX:EL delivers a totally new gaming experience. Create your very own shape-shifting vehicle and dominate both the sky and the ocean.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 04 Dec 2015
Corgi Warlock Corgi Warlock is a 1-4 player side-scrolling fantasy action game, where one brave Corgi will take on the Skeleton Bunny King's army! Against the power of Narwhals, Fencing Bears, and Crazed Unicorns, it takes more than your average Corgi to survive the King's onslaught... it takes a CORGI WARLOCK.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 03 Dec 2015
DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ Slime Edition DRAGON QUEST, one of the most iconic RPG series from Japan, now comes to PC as a full-scale action RPG in DRAGON QUEST HEROES: The World Tree’s Woe and the Blight Below.

Price 39.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 03 Dec 2015
DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours is the latest installment in Taito's DARIUS series of arcade-style shooting games. Blast hordes of alien sea-monsters, and blaze your own trail through branching environments.

Price -54% 22.62€
Rating 7.8
Release 03 Dec 2015
ShipLord ShipLord is a space avoid-er mixed with interesting boss fights and breathtaking visuals, with a reward system to take your skill to another lvl.

Price -95% 0.27€
Rating 6.1
Release 02 Dec 2015
Office Battle Welcome to Office Battle! Many workers will lose their job because a layoff is happening very soon in your office. That is why "Big B" decided to organize a competition and the winners gets to keep his job. But don’t think that it will be easy.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 02 Dec 2015
The Isle Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 01 Dec 2015
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege is an elite, tactical team-based shooter where superior planning and execution triumph.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 01 Dec 2015
Just Cause™ 3 With over 1000 km² of complete freedom from sky to seabed, Rico Rodriguez returns to unleash chaos in the most creative and explosive ways imaginable.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 30 Nov 2015
One More Dungeon One More Dungeon is a first person shooter roguelike with procedurally generated levels and pixel-art graphics.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Nov 2015
12 is Better Than 6 12 is Better Than 6 is a dynamic top-down shooter with stealth elements, presented in a Wild West theme. The story puts you in the shoes of escaped slave fleeing to the United States in 1873.

Price -93% 0.49€
Rating 8.1
Release 20 Nov 2015
Zero Punctuation: Hatfall - Hatters Gonna Hat Edition HATFALL is a high-energy game of skill and hat-wearing born from Zero Punctuation, the hit online video series from The Escapist, created by the man behind ZP, Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 20 Nov 2015

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