Action Video Games8
Action games. Wide category of games that require reflex, accuracy and agility. It includes, among other things, shooters (e.g. Call of Duty and Battlefield series) and action-adventure games (Tomb Raider). First and third person perspective (FPP/TPP) is used. In most cases we are playing as a character who has to defeat some enemies and reach a specific point. We can use a wide range of weapons, including pistols, rocket launchers, swords, knives and like. Action-adventure is a particular category within action games genre. Such titles put less emphasis on action and combat, focusing more on story, exploration and puzzles.
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Volcanoids
Action 2025 (early access since 29 January 2019)
Survival action game in which we find ourselves on a volcanic island controlled by robots. At Volcanoids, our command centre is the Drillship, a huge machine that is a mobile base, as well as a self-propelled mine and factory.
Blackout Protocol
Action 2025 (early access since 20 July 2023)
A twin-stick shooter with roguelike elements. Blackout Protocol has us playing as agents tasked with regaining control over a facility overrun by supernatural creatures.
Contain
Action 2025 (early access since 16 January 2024)
A tactical first-person horror shooter inspired by the SCP universe. Contain tasks us with neutralising and intercepting cosmic anomalies. The game was developed with co-op in mind but also supports solo play.
Necesse
Action 2025 (early access since 12 December 2019)
An open-world action adventure game with an extensive crafting system. Necesse is set in a procedurally-generated fantasy land. It's up to us how we'll live in it. The game supports singleplayer and multiplayer.
Six Days in Fallujah
Action 2025
A realistic action game dedicated to the battle for the Falluja. The creators focused on presenting the clash as accurately as possible, without taking sides in the conflict.
Yandere Simulator
Action 2025
A third-person action game which can be called a jealous girl simulator, developed by an independent designer by the nickname of YandereDev. The title is a term borrowed from Japanese pop culture, meaning a type of personality: such person seems nice and harmless at the first glance but with time shows their alternate, brutal aspect. In Yandere Simulation, we assume the role of a seemingly ordinary high school student who is madly in love with a boy.
Beware
Action 2025
An original survival horror, in which we take the role of a car driver whose mission is to gather information during the journey through a gloomy communist country. Beware features a first-person perspective, and the gameplay offers loads of impressive car chases, stealth elements, and thrilling encounters with other drivers.
Project Genesis
Action 2025 (early access since 22 May 2020)
Project Genesis is a genre combination of an FPS game and a space simulator from Studio 8 Circuit. The game puts a lot of emphasis on multiplayer mode. In it we play the role of an artificial intelligence that has gained self-awareness and we will decide about the future of humanity.
Convallaria
Action 2025
An online shooter featuring both PvE and PvP content, set in a futuristic fantasy universe. The game was created as part of the PlayStation China Hero Project. It was developed by a Chinese indie studio Loong Force and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.
Faeland
Action 2025 (early access since 05 December 2023)
Metroidvania, in which we play the role of a talented hunter trying to save the kingdom from extinction. The action takes place in a fantastic world full of people, orcs and other creatures.
Hazelnut Bastille
Action 2025
A 2D action-adventure game with pixel-art visuals, inspired by a subgenre known as metroidvania. Developed by the American Aloft Studio, Hazelnut Bastille is an attempt to recreate the best features of 2D games released in the 90s for SNES. The creators brought both an adequate visual style and a fitting soundtrack, but they also limited the aspect ratio to 4:3 for example.
The Isle
Action 2024 (early access since 02 December 2015)
A survival sandbox, in which the player assumes the role of a dinosaur. The Isle Development Team enabled the player to control creatures like Austroraptor, Carnotaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Gallimimus, Utahraptor, Acrocanthosaurus and Allosaurus. The main and only objective of the game is to survive on an island the size of more than a dozen of square kilometers. Depending on the selected creature, the player must hunt for smaller dinosaurs, hide in bushes from predators etc.
Ravenfield
Action 2024 (early access since 18 May 2017)
A team FPS game featuring colorful visuals, designed solely to deliver a single-player experience. The game has been developed by one man - Johan "SteelRaven7" Hassel. In Ravenfield, the player assumes the role of an infantryman fighting for one of the two armies (red and blue) and engages in huge battles waged across diverse battlefields. An army comprises not only infantry units but also tanks, fighters, airplanes, and battleships. Different game modes feature various gameplay rules.
Witchfire
Action 2024 (early access since 20 September 2023)
The second game of The Astronauts, a studio responsible for The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. Witchfire is a dark fantasy first-person shooter.
VALHALL
Action 2024 (early access since 22 October 2020)
VALHALL is a battle royale for 50 players, which takes place in the Middle Ages, and players have the opportunity to take on the role of Vikings fighting for Odin's famous weapon, able to protect the world from the approaching Ragnarok.
Hytale
Action 2024
An interesting production with an open world, reminiscent of Minecraft. The game was created by Hypixel Studios - a company founded by people who over the years created content for the hit studio Mojang AB.
Soldat 2
Action 2024 (early access since 22 September 2020)
The 2D shooter and a direct continuation of the popular title from 2002 - Soldat. The game emphasizes multiplayer. It was developed by Polish independent developer Michal "MM" Marcinkowski (he belongs to Transhuman Design studio, which is responsible for releasing the game).
Dead Static Drive
Action 2024
Dead Static Drive is an action game created in cooperation of independent creator Mika Blackney and Fanclub studio. It is a title combining elements of survival, horror and adventure. In a world dominated by monsters we have to get to our family at all costs.
Negative Atmosphere
Action 2024
A science fiction survival horror based on the Dead Space series. Negative Atmosphere takes us aboard a spaceship where an epidemic has broken out, turning humans into bloodthirsty monsters. During the game we play the role of Samuel Edwards, a former field doctor trying to survive the nightmare in which he had to participate.
Savior
Action 2024
An advanced 2D action adventure game with a strong RPG element. Savior renews itself with an open fantasy world that responds to player choices and dynamic gameplay with a smooth a la parkour movement system. In the game we control a heroine involved in a conflict between two ancient organizations. The independent Starsoft Entertainment studio is responsible for the production.
Giants Uprising
Action 2024 (early access since 02 November 2021)
An action game, in which we play the role of a powerful giant, focusing on spreading destruction among human settlements. Giants Uprising in addition to a single player feature campaign offers arcade mode and gameplay with other people.
4 Minutes to the Apocalypse
Action 2024
An action adventure game with RPG and survival horror elements, which takes us to the secret submarine Arizona-12. During the game in 4 Minutes to the Apocalypse, we travel aboard the boat and learn its secrets, as well as fight the enemies... ...or hide from them.
SiN: Reloaded
Action 2024
SiN: Reloaded is a re-mastered version of FPS SiN from 1998 with the add-on Wages of Sin. The authors have improved object and character models and prepared better textures. There were also improvements in gameplay and control scheme.
