Best Fast-Paced 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 fast-paced games.

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oO "oO" is a hardcore minimal arcade game.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 8.4
Release 06 Jul 2015
Rocket League Rocket League is a high-powered hybrid of arcade-style soccer and vehicular mayhem with easy-to-understand controls and fluid, physics-driven competition. Rocket League includes casual and competitive Online Matches, a fully-featured offline Season Mode, special “Mutators” that let you change the rules entirely, hockey and...

Price 863.45€
Rating 8.7
Release 06 Jul 2015
METAL SLUG “METAL SLUG ”, the very first title in SNK’s legendary 2D run & gun action shooting game series where all began, returns to the missions on the Steam gaming platform!

Price -92% 0.66€
Rating 8.6
Release 25 Jun 2015
Monument Oldschool FPS. Hardcore classic gameplay action. Huge hordes of monsters. Blood. Horror. Fun. Each level is unique and not similar to the previous. You need to survive in this dangerous world and become the best evil shooter.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 05 Jun 2015
Duck Game Enter the futuristic year of 1984, an age where ducks run wild in a frantic battle for glory. Blast your friends with Shotguns, Net Guns, Mind Control Rays, Saxophones, Magnet Guns, and much, much more. This is DUCK GAME. Don't blink.

Price -56% 5.74€
Rating 9.5
Release 04 Jun 2015
Dirty Bomb Work together or die alone! Fight to restore peace to London or tear it down for profit in the most challenging team based shooter around.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 02 Jun 2015
Interloper Interloper is an online multiplayer real-time strategy game with matches that take only 5 minutes. Instead of destroying your opponent, you win by claiming domain. By predicting your opponent's movements, you corner them to claim the entire map.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 21 May 2015
ROCKETSROCKETSROCKETS ROCKETS fire ROCKETS at ROCKETS in this action-arcade, arena-combat, gorgeous festival-of-fireworks! It's dogfighting meets figure-skating in space with local multiplayer and single-player fast-paced action modes plus a ZEN MODE where ROCKETS learn to LOVE.

Price -94% 0.43€
Rating 7.1
Release 01 May 2015
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the brutal conclusion to the Hotline Miami saga, set against a backdrop of escalating violence and retribution over spilled blood in the original game.

Price -94% 0.90€
Rating 9.3
Release 10 Mar 2015
DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE revisits famous battles from the series through your custom Avatar and other classic characters. New features include the mysterious Toki Toki City, new gameplay mechanics, new animations and many other amazing features!

Price -90% 3.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 26 Feb 2015
David. You play David, an awfully small abstracted chosen hero tossed into a blissfully simple world overrun by giant culminations of evil physics-beasts. As David, you are given a slingshot-esque gift that you will have to use to conquer your colossus foes. Be there AND be square.

Price -65% 0.69€
Rating 7.5
Release 16 Feb 2015
Pix the Cat Pix the Cat is a critically acclaimed intense arcade game that will challenge your reflexes and your wits, pitting you against your friends and the world in a race to the highest score!

Price -85% 0.74€
Rating 7.6
Release 29 Jan 2015
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 Welcome back to the new and improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza! As always, Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for death or dismemberment.

Price 7.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 10 Nov 2014
FOTONICA Ever wondered what running at 140mph feels like? FOTONICA is a first-person game about the thrill of speed and traveling flawlessly through complex environments.FOTONICA is simple, but is not easy: it follows a tradition of arcade games that are easy to pick up and almost impossible to master.

Price -88% 1.79€
Rating 8.2
Release 06 Nov 2014
Call of Duty : Advanced Warfare - Gold Edition Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare envisions a powerful future, where both technology and tactics have evolved to usher in a new era of combat for the franchise.Power Changes Everything.

Price -67% 19.79€
Rating 6.4
Release 03 Nov 2014
Ziggurat Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!

Price -97% 0.59€
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Oct 2014
Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition Paranautical Activity combines the classic FPS action of games like Doom and Quake, with the randomness and difficulty of modern roguelikes like Binding of Isaac and Spelunky.

Price -88% 0.83€
Rating 6.6
Release 20 Oct 2014
DeadCore DeadCore is a Platformer-FPS blending exploration and speedrun. Become immersed in a futuristic and dreamlike adventure which will see you climb a huge Tower born from the void and truly put your capabilities to the test. Will you be able to reveal the secrets that lie beneath this fog-ridden world?

Price -68% 3.23€
Rating 8.2
Release 17 Oct 2014
Split/Second Split/Second is an intense action racing game set within a reality TV show. Competitors vie to be the first to the finish line in a set rigged to blow. Players don’t just collide with other vehicles to knock them from the track, but can also trigger devastating events that alter the race dynamics.

Price -50% 9.75€
Rating 7.8
Release 06 Oct 2014
Wrack Wrack is all about action - spectacular action! The addictive kill chain system encourages you to mow down as many enemies in a short period of time as possible. No hiding - keep your chain going by getting out there and kicking some alien ass!

Price -68% 3.20€
Rating 6.7
Release 30 Sep 2014
STARWHAL The local multi-player space narwhal fighting game that has rocked the internet is finally ready for its big debut in a fully loaded release! Flop it out with 1-4 players in a retro, epic narwhal battle in space! The heart-piercing action is furious and unrelenting. STARWHAL will change your life.

Price -89% 1.10€
Rating 8.4
Release 29 Sep 2014
Quake Live Experience the most exciting and fast-paced FPS gameplay while competing with players from around the world in over 100 arenas, a dozen game modes, and with persistent career stats tracking, in this online features-focused successor to Quake III Arena.

Price -80% 2.02€
Rating 8.5
Release 17 Sep 2014
Color Symphony Color Symphony is a game program utilizing the human recognition ability and visual senses, and various colors are used to play the game by changing colors to disrupt the cognition or to strengthen the cognition. The player can control the enemy, eliminate obstacles or build new roads with different colors.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 15 Sep 2014
Boson X Boson X is a fast-paced rotational runner set in a particle accelerator.

Price -80% 1.03€
Rating 8.8
Release 15 Sep 2014
Velocibox Velocibox is a twitch-heavy action game crafted for the hardcore audience.

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.2
Release 08 Sep 2014
Lethal League Lethal League is a competitive projectile fighting game where you have to hit an anti-gravity ball into the face of your opponent to win. The ball speeds up with every strike, up to explosively extreme velocities. Play intense local matches with friends and foes, challenge yourself in the singleplayer mode or battle it out online.

Price -57% 5.21€
Rating 9.1
Release 27 Aug 2014
Orbital Gear Orbital Gear is a fast paced sidescroller shooter where you utilize the gravitation of celestial objects to give you momentum through space. Arm your Mech with two of the twelve different weapons and destroy your enemies.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Aug 2014
Epigenesis Epigenesis is an online multiplayer sports/FPS game in which two sides are locked in a never-ending fight for world domination by playing ball.In this non-lethal ballgame of the future, players leap across platforms suspended high up in the air trying to get a ball located in the middle of the arena and score goals against their...

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 01 Aug 2014
Lovely Planet A First Person Shooter Gun Ballet set in a cutesy abstract world. Jump and shoot your way through five worlds full of treacherous enemies with your trusty semi-automatic!

Price -83% 1.03€
Rating 8.7
Release 31 Jul 2014
Rodina A single-developer passion project. A seamless full scale solar system. Thrilling action. Be part of an incredible journey as a Universe is built from the ground up!

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Jul 2014
Freedom Planet Fight your way across the celestial world of Avalice where cats are green, motorcycles drive up walls and monster girls do most of the buttkicking! Freedom Planet is a cartoony, combat-based platform adventure that pits a spunky dragonoid and her friends against an alien attack force.

Price -80% 2.88€
Rating 9.2
Release 21 Jul 2014
GunZ 2: The Second Duel GunZ 2: the Second Duel is a free-to-play 3D TPS and is the most fast-paced tough action shooter game.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.5
Release 01 May 2014
FootLOL: Epic Soccer League The craziest soccer management game you have ever played! Use mines, aliens, cows, guns and other crazy cheats to decimate the opposing team and protect your players. Play against your friends or AI opponents!

Price -95% 0.51€
Rating 7.9
Release 16 Apr 2014
T.E.C. 3001 Run, Rush, Haste, Burst Speed has never been pushed this far. Jump, Charge, Dodge, Slide You just slipped and got crushed! You can’t handle T.E.C 3001 yet… Try again until speed holds no secrets for you.

Price 0.59€
Rating 8.3
Release 11 Apr 2014
Half Minute Hero: The Second Coming The world's speediest homage/roast to JRPGs! Can you save the world in 30 seconds? Get a quest, find those in need, fight through dungeons, earn cash, get cool loot and level up until YOU>EVIL. Don't have enough time? Pay the Goddess to reset the clock and try again! Over 100 mini-JRPGs for you to test your might with!

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 04 Apr 2014
Call of Duty : Ghosts Outnumbered and outgunned, but not outmatched.Call of Duty®: Ghosts is an extraordinary step forward for one of the largest entertainment franchises of all-time. This new chapter in the Call of Duty® franchise features a new dynamic where players are on the side of a crippled nation fighting not for freedom, or liberty, but simply to...

Price -67% 19.79€
Rating 6.4
Release 25 Mar 2014

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