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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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Horizon: Forbidden West
Horizon: Forbidden West

7.3 Game Score

Continuation of Horizon Zero Dawn, an action adventure action game with a TPP view from Guerrilla Games studio. Players return to the postapocalyptic world, dominated by mechanical creatures.

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Garena Free Fire
Garena Free Fire

7.2 Game Score

A mobile multiplayer shooter belonging to the popular battle royale sub-genre. The game is about fighting, and the clashes take place on increasingly shrinking maps. Up to 50 people can take part in each game at the same time. The game was released in a free-to-play model. Garena International is responsible for its creation.

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The Riftbreaker
The Riftbreaker

7.2 Game Score

Action game enriched with elements taken from tower defense and action RPG genres, which was created by the Polish team Exor Studios. In The Riftbreaker we find ourselves on an alien planet Galatea, and in order to prepare it for colonization, we have to build a resilient base on it and regularly repel the attacks of its inhabiting, aggressive creatures.

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The Pathless
The Pathless

7.2 Game Score

The Pathless is another game by Giant Squid studio, responsible for the well received experimental game titled Abzu. In Pathless, the player takes the role of Hunter, who tries to diminish the curse that was casted on the world.

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The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia
The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia

7.2 Game Score

Bullet hell shooter, in which we play as an exorcist fighting with demons trying to take control of Rome. Characteristic feature of The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia is control - entering into interaction with the game world and leading out attacks is done here by typing specific words.

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Minecraft: Dungeons
Minecraft: Dungeons

7.2 Game Score

Minecraft: Dungeons is a spin-off of the popular Minecraft, an action adventure game set in the realities of fantasy. Players take on the role of daredevils trying to save the village from the army of monsters. Production allows you to play solo or in cooperative mode for up to 4 people.

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Wizard of Legend
Wizard of Legend

7.2 Game Score

A fast-paced dungeon crawler game with roguelike traits. The title focuses on using spells. Wizard of Legend was developed by the independent studio Contingent99.

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Slime Rancher
Slime Rancher

7.2 Game Score

Monomi Park’s sandbox action game with economic simulation game elements. Smile Rancher lets us play as Beatrix Labeau – a farmer girl who travels to Far, Far Range looking for a better life. She decides to make a fortune by breeding the titular slimes – lovable creatures that look like jellybeans. However, our heroine must face various threats, including a hostile species of jelly creatures. Each day starts with Beatrix taking care of the harvest and feeding her creatures their favorite food.

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Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm
Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm

7.2 Game Score

Oceanhorn 2 is a sequel to the 2013 action RPG developed by a small Finnish studio Cornfox & Bros. The game takes place in the same fantasy realm as the series' first installment. We play as a young boy who trains very hard to become a Knight of Arcadia. We observe the game from a third-person perspective. Gameplay mechanics in Oceanhorn 2 are visibly inspired by the popular Legend of Zelda series. Oceanhorn 2 places more emphasis on exploration than the original game.

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Mothergunship
Mothergunship

7.2 Game Score

A roguelike FPS, in which the players must exhibit great skill and quick fingers, fighting and dodging a storm of bullets from many ships of a hostile armada. Randomly generated levels provide more and more challenges, while the unique weapon creation system lets us create true avatars of destruction in gun form, like ten-barrel rocket-launcher or welded miniguns.

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Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker
Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker

7.2 Game Score

A third-person perspective action game focused on online fights created by Soleil, a Japanese studio directed by Katsunori Ehara. The game takes place in the universe known from the manga series Naruto and its animated adaptation. The players control ninja warriors, that have superhuman abilities, and participate in battles of small teams.

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Middle-earth: Shadow of War
Middle-earth: Shadow of War

7.2 Game Score

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War is a direct sequel to the well-received action-adventure game Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor. Just like the first game in the series, Shadow of War takes place in the world created by J.R.R. Tolkien. The game is presented from a third-person perspective. We can explore the rich, open world of the game by riding various steeds and by taking good use of the free-running movement system, similar to that from the Assassin's Creed series.

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The Last of Us: Left Behind
The Last of Us: Left Behind

7.2 Game Score

An official story expansion for 2013's The Last of Us, created by Naughty Dog. Left Behind is a prequel to the original game, and it focuses on Ellie and her best friend Riley attending a military school in the quarantined area. One day a series of dramatic events occurs, changing both of their lives forever. The premise becomes an excuse to depict the bonds growing between the two characters.

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inFamous: First Light
inFamous: First Light

7.2 Game Score

A stand-alone expansion to the third installment of inFamous, a popular series that began in 2009, known as one of the famed exclusives for the new generations of PlayStation consoles. First Light, as well as all other titles in the series, was developed by Sucker Punch, a studio known from a series of games starring Sly Cooper, an adventurous raccoon.

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Zombi
Zombi

7.2 Game Score

A Ubisoft Monpellier production and a next-gen conversion of ZombieU, a game released in late 2012 on Nintendo Wii U console. The game is set in a virtual London, featuring the digital copies of all of its key landmarks. The inhabitants of the British capital have turned into bloodthirsty zombies and roam the streets in search for food. Players become the survivors, who need to find shelter and supplies in order to have a chance against the living dead.

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Watch Dogs 2
Watch Dogs 2

7.2 Game Score

A sequel to Watch Dogs, a sandbox action game from 2014, in which the players assume the role of a former criminal and use his hacking skills as well as a number of gadgets to control the city infrastructure as well as private communication devices. Watch Dogs 2 develops the key gameplay elements of its predecessor; the action, however, was moved to an entirely new city, and now takes place in San Francisco.

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Warhammer: The End Times - Vermintide
Warhammer: The End Times - Vermintide

7.2 Game Score

Set in the Warhammer universe, a co-op multiplayer game developed by Fatshark, the company known for such games as War of the Roses/Vikings and Escape Dead Island. The action takes place in and around Ubersreik – an almost completely destroyed city overrun by rat-men species called the Skaven. Players assemble a team of four daredevils with the objective of breaching through subsequent districts and taking them back from enemies.

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007 Legends
007 Legends

7.2 Game Score

007 Legends is an action game with a first person perspective (FPP) in a spy-like atmosphere. Players have the opportunity to play the role of James Bond and take part in a series of missions inspired by classic films with Her Majesty's agent. The title was produced by the Eurocom studio under license from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and EON Productions.

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District 187: Sin Streets
District 187: Sin Streets

7.2 Game Score

Sin Streets is a first-person shooter designed for multi-player games. The game focuses on network clashes between gangs and SWAT branches. The game is diversified by the system of character and equipment development. The whole is based on a free model with micropayments.

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Doom 3: BFG Edition
Doom 3: BFG Edition

7.2 Game Score

A remastered edition of the third installment in a series of classic first-person shooters developed by id Software. This edition was created for both PCs and the seventh generation of consoles, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the original game's release. The player takes on the role of a commando sent to a secret research facility located on Mars in order to close an interdimensional portal opened as a result of an accident.

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Killer is Dead
Killer is Dead

7.2 Game Score

Killer is Dead is an action game, in which players get to use melee weapons to eliminate their enemies. The game has been developed by the Japanese studio Grasshopper Manufacture known for Lollipop Chainsaw and two installments in the No More Heroes series.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified
Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified

7.2 Game Score

A spin-off of Call of Duty series, which is also the brand's debut on PlayStation Vita platform. Call of Duty: Black Ops - Declassified was developed by nStigate Games with the publishing support from Activision. The main campaign in the game consists of a series of loosely plot-related missions in which the player has the opportunity to take part in dangerous operations of secret services.

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World War II Combat: Iwo Jima
World War II Combat: Iwo Jima

7.2 Game Score

Another first person perspective title, referring to the events taking place during the Second World War. The Groove Games programmers, without being discouraged by the rather cool reception of World War II Combat: Road to Berlin, propose a campaign taking place in the Far East.

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Gravity Rush
Gravity Rush

7.2 Game Score

Gravity Rush (also known in its native Japan under the name of Gravity Daze) is a third-person action game, whose plot is set in Hekseville, a city modeled after towns from 19th and 20th century. We play as a heroine named Kat, who loses the memories of who and where she is. When our protagonist discovers she can manipulate gravitation, she decides to use her power to help the city’s inhabitants, which is constantly being destroyed by powerful gravitational storm.

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