Best Action Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy 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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Counter-Strike 2 For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 21 Aug 2012
Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack A sci-fi puzzle-platformer of cataclysmic proportions! Evolve from a tiny captive into a world-eating giant. Use your mutant blob powers to devour the pathetic humans and all of civilization!

Price -79% 2.13€
Rating 8.6
Release 15 Aug 2012
Tower Wars Tower Wars combines elements of tower defense, RTS, and all-out multi-player mayhem to bring you a completely unique experience, delivered with a fun and funny not-so-old world style!

Price -41% 4.75€
Rating 7.0
Release 14 Aug 2012
Iron Brigade Join The Mobile Trench Brigade and protect humanity from the evil Monovision menace!

Price -83% 2.68€
Rating 8.1
Release 13 Aug 2012
Symphony A mysterious entity is absorbing and corrupting your music before your very eyes. You must battle through your own song collection and fight to reclaim your music!

Price -58% 2.14€
Rating 8.0
Release 06 Aug 2012
Death Rally Load your guns, start your engines...THE CLASSIC IS BACK! Brought to you from Remedy, renowned developers of Max Payne and Alan Wake, Remedy's Death Rally classic top down racer is back, stronger and more vicious than ever.

Price -96% 0.43€
Rating 6.8
Release 03 Aug 2012
Awesomenauts Use your power, show your might! Play this Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game! AWESOMENAUTS combines 2D platforming with team-based strategy and hero based action. Whether you are a new recruit or an intergalactic legend, play AWESOMENAUTS!

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.3
Release 01 Aug 2012
Orcs Must Die! 2 You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.

Price -93% 0.98€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 Jul 2012
Prototype 2 Become the ultimate shape-shifting weapon!

Price 29.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 26 Jul 2012
Kung Fu Strike - The Warrior's Rise Taking its inspiration from ancient Chinese tales of revenge and retribution and then adding a dash of over-the-top martial arts and old school arcade fun, Kung Fu Strike features 28 stages of fast-paced combo-based fighting.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 24 Jul 2012
Hard Reset Extended Edition Over-the-top destruction, loads of enemies & a beautifully realized cyberpunk setting. Hard Reset is here to shake up the shooter scene. Try the demo now.

Price -95% 0.77€
Rating 7.9
Release 12 Jul 2012
Divine Divinity Divine Divinity is an epic role-playing game with hack-and-slash action, offering a huge world to explore and thousands of items to investigate, trade and use.

Price -21% 3.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Jul 2012
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier™ In Ghost Recon Future Soldier join an elite team of highly trained, cut-throat special-ops soldiers. Armed to the teeth with unrivalled combat technology, Ghost Recon takes you to the globe’s most deadly warzones to hunt down the highest value targets.

Price 14.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 27 Jun 2012
Tribes: Ascend This edition packages weapon DLC from ten previous expansions as well new featured content.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 27 Jun 2012
Dungeons & Dragons Online® Enter a world of danger and adventure with Dungeons & Dragons Online® based on the beloved RPG that started it all.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 25 Jun 2012
LEGO® Batman™ 2: DC Super Heroes Legends Unite! The Dynamic Duo of Batman and Robin join other famous super heroes from the DC Universe including Superman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern to save Gotham City from destruction at the hands of the notorious villains Lex Luthor and the Joker.

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 22 Jun 2012
Vindictus Vindictus is an Action RPG that delivers the highest level of combat mechanics and high-quality visuals. Featuring a fully interactive environment, dungeon objects and monsters become part of your arsenal. Experience unique, creative action gameplay that sets a new standard for online RPGs.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 22 Jun 2012
Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers You are Tiny, a nerdy inventor, who tries to reclaim his most beloved possession - Grandpa's underpants!

Price -96% 0.56€
Rating 8.8
Release 19 Jun 2012
Adventures of Shuggy Shuggy has just inherited a castle full of goblins, ghouls, zombies, and robots. Help him clear out over 100 rooms to make his new home liveable again!

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 13 Jun 2012
Rune Classic Experience an exciting single player storyline where you thwart Loki and his minions from bringing Ragnarok to Midgard.

Price -73% 2.79€
Rating 8.5
Release 13 Jun 2012
Game of Thrones Experience an amazing adventure in one of the most fascinating universes! Amidst conspiracy and betrayal, try to survive the orchestrated machinations around the Iron Throne.

Price -1% 14.98€
Rating 7.0
Release 07 Jun 2012
The Lord of the Rings Online™ Join the world’s greatest fellowship of players in the award-winning online re-creation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s legendary Middle-earth.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 06 Jun 2012
Ys Origin The perfect mix of action, exploration and story with screen-filling bosses, unique platforming elements, and innovative puzzles.

Price -55% 7.30€
Rating 8.9
Release 31 May 2012
Max Payne 3 No longer a New York City cop, Max Payne moves to SĂŁo Paulo to protect a wealthy family in an effort to finally escape his troubled past. This complete edition of Max Payne 3 includes the complete original game and all previously released downloadable content.

Price -70% 5.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 31 May 2012
Conflict Desert Storm™ Take charge of the most feared special operations forces in the world: the elite British SAS or the US Delta Force squads. You're the best trained, best equipped and best organised. The area that has been assigned to you is yours for the taking. Seek, locate and destroy enemy targets and personnel.

Price -86% 0.97€
Rating 6.8
Release 28 May 2012
Thief II: The Metal Age The ultimate thief is back! Tread softly as you make your way through 15 new complex, non-linear levels full of loot to steal and guards to outsmart. Improved enemy AI, new gadgets and a riveting story will draw you into the world of Thief II: The Metal Age, a place of powerful new technologies, fanatical religions and corruption.

Price -65% 2.47€
Rating 9.0
Release 22 May 2012
Thief Gold Stalk your prey on the quest for stolen goods with your blackjack, sword, and an assortment of unique arrows. Steal for money and uncover the hidden agendas of your allies and enemies as you play through an unravelling story of deception and revenge.

Price -75% 1.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 22 May 2012
Alan Wake's American Nightmare A thrilling new storyline, hordes of creepy enemies, serious firepower and beautiful Arizona locations, combined with a fun and challenging new game mode!

Price -94% 0.57€
Rating 7.1
Release 22 May 2012
Alien Shooter 2 Conscription The Great War has begun! The world population capable of functioning is mobilized to serve in the army and the outcome depends on you!

Price -82% 1.79€
Rating 7.7
Release 18 May 2012
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode II The Sonic 4 Saga continues in Episode II with the return of a beloved side kick and fan-favorite villains! Following the events of Episode I, Metal Sonic has returned to form an alliance with Dr. Eggman! To face this new evil, Sonic will have to call upon an old friend to help him save the day!

Price -69% 3.11€
Rating 7.2
Release 14 May 2012
Offspring Fling! Offspring Fling is a game about a poor forest creature that has misplaced all of her children.

Price -62% 2.32€
Rating 7.8
Release 11 May 2012
Dynamite Jack A brave space marine, armed with only bombs and a flashlight, must escape the Anathema Mines!

Price -95% 0.50€
Rating 8.0
Release 10 May 2012
Port Royale 3 The Caribbean, in the turbulent 17th Century. The mighty kingdoms of Spain, England, France and the Netherlands fight over the colonies. And there you are, a young sea captain whose only goal is to become the most powerful man in the New World.

Price -92% 1.20€
Rating 7.1
Release 04 May 2012
Aliens: Colonial Marines Collection You & your friends are the deadliest killers in the galaxy – the US Colonial Marines. It’s up to you to not just survive, but wipe out the Xeno infestation.

Price -79% 6.55€
Rating 6.0
Release 01 May 2012
Toy Soldiers Command your TOY SOLDIERS in epic, action-packed battles.

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 27 Apr 2012
Binary Domain Set in futuristic Tokyo, take control of the robotic community before they control everything!

Price -96% 0.60€
Rating 8.3
Release 26 Apr 2012

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