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Best Free to Play Action Steam Games

Find the most popular and highly rated free-to-play Action games on Steam. Filtered by user reviews to help you skip aggressive microtransactions and jump straight into games with solid gameplay and active player bases.

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Altitude Now Available on PC, Mac and Linux!
Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Dec 2009
Hammerfight Hammerfight is about 2D battles of flying machines equipped with various slashing, piercing and blunt weaponry.A unique combat system is based on realistic physics simulation, and it ties the movements of the rider to the movements of your mouse. As you wave the mouse, your rider swings his warhammer, smashing the foe into the wall!
Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 28 Oct 2009
America's Army 3 Download AA3 Today and Become a Member of the elite America's Army Team! America's Army fans and new players alike can now experience America's Army 3, the official U.S. Army game.
Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 17 Jun 2009
Dystopia Dystopia is a cyberpunk game with tense combat situations in a high-tech world spanned by computer networks. Playing as either Punk mercenaries, or Corporate security forces, the player will fight through the physical world to gain access, via jack-in terminals, to cyberspace.
Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 06 Feb 2009
Zombie Panic! Source Dive into the zombie apocalypse with Zombie Panic! Source: a cooperative, survival-horror first-person-shooter. A fast-paced standalone modification.
Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 03 Oct 2008
Empires Mod Unique strategy/first person shooter mix: One commander on each team plays from above, choosing research, placing buildings and giving orders. The rest fill the role of soldiers on the ground, with four distinct classes to choose from and customizable vehicles to drive.
Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 28 Jul 2008
TrackMania Nations Forever A free game in the truest sense of the word, TrackMania Nations Forever lets you drive at mind-blowing speeds on fun and spectacular tracks in solo and multiplayer modes.TrackMania Nations Forever offers a new "Forever" version of the Stadium environment, a solid solo mode and 65 brand new, progressively challenging tracks.
Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 16 Apr 2008
Team Fortress 2 Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities. Constantly updated with new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats!
Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 10 Oct 2007
Peggle Extreme Peggle Extreme delivers fast-paced puzzle action that combines elements of pinball and pachinko to create a truly unique game experience. Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun, now exclusively themed with art and sounds from Half-Life: Episode 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2.
Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 11 Sep 2007
POSTAL Take control of The POSTAL Dude in his infamous first outing as he battles to survive in a world gone mad! POSTAL is a classic isometric shooter filled to the brim with fast-paced explosive action.
Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 14 Nov 1997
Shadow Warrior Classic (1997) Strap on your combat sandals...Lo Wang is coming to the Land of the Rising Sun to turn out the lights. Experience total blood immersion. If you can't touch, kill or drive something...then blow it away! Whether you're wielding shurikens, an Uzi, or a freshly plundered Guardian head...you've got your work cut out for you.
Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
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Highly Rated Free Action Games on SteamNot all free-to-play titles are worth your time. We filter Steam's free catalog using positive review percentages and player feedback to highlight titles that offer actual depth without immediate paywalls.Browse the top-rated Action free games below and jump directly to Steam to install and play.