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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. more

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Destiny: The Taken King
Destiny: The Taken King

Action 15 September 2015

The third, and the largest so far, expansion for Destiny – a multiplayer first-person shooter developed by the creators of the Halo series, Bungie Software. The plot of the expansion focuses on character from the Hive race, Oryx – the father of prince Crota, main antagonist of the first DLC. The new expansion provides a completely new story campaign that consists of 12 missions and a new multiplayer raid during which players are visiting the Dreadnought, Oryx’s powerful fortress of a ship.

Kung Fury: Street Rage
Kung Fury: Street Rage

Action 11 August 2015

A video game adaptation of the wacky parody of the 80s action movies, funded on Kickstarter. Kung Fury: Street Rage is a beat 'em up game, based on the classic productions of the genre. It was developed by Swedish studio Hello There, creators of simple advert games. You play as a policeman wielding superhuman kung-fu powers, fighting the Nazi armies led by Kung Führer. The combat mechanics utilize the skillful use of two buttons: right attack and left attack.

Battlefield Hardline: Criminal Activity
Battlefield Hardline: Criminal Activity

Action 30 June 2015

The first official expansion pack for Battlefield Hardline. The DLC was created by the developers of the original Battlefield Hardline - Visceral Games. It focuses mainly on the multiplayer mode. With this expansion, the players receive four new maps: The Beat (an impoverished city district), Black Friday (a shopping mall), Code Blue (a nightclub), and Backwoods (an old sawmill turned into a drug factory). Moreover, the expansion introduces a new game mode called Bounty Hunter.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare - Supremacy
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare - Supremacy

Action 02 July 2015

The third DLC included in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s season pass. The add-on offers the next episode of Exo Zombies mode, titled Carrier, which continues the story from the previous expansions. The cast is still trapped on the aircraft carrier belonging to the Atlas company and must face hostile groups of Atlas Strike and Sentinel, not to mention hordes of the living dead.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

Action 18 June 2019

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an action-adventure platform game set in a gothic horror setting. The game is a spiritual successor to the Castlevania series. The person in charge of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night was Koji Igarashi, who previously worked on the Castlevania series over the course of many years. The game revolves around exploring a large castle, which is crawling with demons the players need to fight against, you also develop your character and gather items.

The Evil Within: The Executioner
The Evil Within: The Executioner

Action 26 May 2015

The third story DLC included in the Season Pass for the dark survival horror The Evil Within released in 2014. Just like the original game, the expansion is set in the ominous asylum in which a brutal massacre takes place. Interestingly, The Executioner tells the story from the perspective of an enemy of The Evil Within’s protagonist.

Arizona Sunshine
Arizona Sunshine

Action 27 June 2017

A first-person perspective shooter developed by Jaywalkers Interactive and Vertigo Games. The player is taken to the post-apocalyptic areas near the Grand Canyon in Colorado. He is tasked with facing hordes of blood-thirsty zombies. Luckily, he isn’t helpless as he can use melee weapons and various guns (including pistols, machine guns and shotguns). The game also consists of survival features – the key to victory is to constantly control the supplies of ammunition and food.

Syphon Filter
Syphon Filter

Action 23 June 2022

Re-edition of the cult action game with elements of a sneaky, which was originally released on the PlayStation in 1999. In this game we play the role of a secret government agent Gabe Logan, who tries to prevent a threatening terrorist attack in Washington using a dangerous biological weapon called Syphon Filter. In subsequent missions, our protagonist faces many different challenges, from open fire to silent sneaking behind enemies' backs.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare - Ascendance
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare - Ascendance

Action 30 April 2015

The second DLC pack prepared for the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Season Pass owners. The add-on brings along another episode of the co-op Exo Zombies mode introduced in the previous expansion, entitled Havoc. Besides that, there is an extra game mode called Civilian Extraction, in which you help evacuating civilians from a danger zone, and an all new weapon: Magnetron Microwave Gun, which the heroes can use exclusively in this game mode.

Gunship X
Gunship X

Action canceled

Gunship X is a first-person shooter in which the player takes control of a powerful gun on board a combat aircraft. Our task is to finish off the maximum number of enemies who invaded the Earth, but we also have to make sure that escaping civilians safely reach the evacuation point.

Shutshimi
Shutshimi

Action 25 August 2015

A light-hearted arcade game developed by Neon Deity Games which draws from classic side-scrolling shooters. In Shutshimi, player assumes the role of an unusual goldfish that ventures into the deepest parts of the ocean in order to face the dangers which threaten the safety of the marine kingdom. Regrettably, the main hero – as every fish – has a problem with long-term memory, and remembers only last ten seconds.

Alien: Isolation - The Trigger
Alien: Isolation - The Trigger

Action 03 March 2015

Alien: Isolation - The Trigger is the fifth and final DLC for the science fiction horror game Alien: Isolation developed by Creative Assembly. This DLC is available for the game's season pass owners, but can also be bought separately. The expansion takes place prior to the events of the main game. We play as Ricardo, who, along with his supervisor, tries to remove a xenomorph from Sewastopol's deck.

Ziggurat
Ziggurat

Action 21 April 2015

Ziggurat is a dungeon crawler with roguelike and action game elements developed by Milkstone. We play as a neophyte wizard who enters the titular ziggurat in order to prove his worth and earn the right to be called a powerful sorcerer. We will have to explore the building's many rooms, where we will encounter all kinds of enemies and traps. Our hero uses three types of magic: blue, orange, and green. Each of them is represented by spell books, staves, and objects we can simply throw.

Death Road to Canada
Death Road to Canada

Action 08 May 2018

An retro-stylized action adventure game with survival elements, developed by the Rocket Games studio. In Death Road to Canada the player's task is to travel the eponymous route from Florida to the city of Ontario in Canada and to survive the hordes of zombies attacking us along the way. In the game we control a team of up to five characters (human or animal), each of which has its own unique virtues and vices.

Far Cry 4: Valley of the Yetis
Far Cry 4: Valley of the Yetis

Action 10 March 2015

Far Cry 4: Valley of the Yetis is the first story DLC released for the fourth installment of the best-selling FPS series Far Cry. The game takes place in Himalayas, in the titular Yeti Valley, where a helicopter with our hero crashes. In this cold and inhospitable land, Ajay Ghale, known from the base game, will have to face new enemies, spearheaded by the brutal local cultists and mighty Yetis. That, however, is only the beginning of a darker story.

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor - The Bright Lord
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor - The Bright Lord

Action 24 February 2015

The Bright Lord is the second DLC to Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor developed by Monolith Productions. The expansion takes us to the distant past where we play as Celebrimbor. Remembering how much the Dark Lord hurt his family, Celerbrimor declares war on Sauron and tries to stop him from getting his hands on the Ring of Power. Unlike Talion, the protagonist of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor - The Bright Lord can use the power of the One Ring.

Gunsport
Gunsport

Action canceled

An unusual sports game, in which two teams play a game resembling volleyball; the difference being that instead of their hands they are using pistols, rifles, and shotguns to launch the ball over the net. Matches are played on small maps characterized by their futuristic stylistics. The game primarily focuses on the player’s skills and sharp eye. Gunsport takes place in the city of Neo Tokyo. The city features gloomy cyberpunk stylistics.

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

Action 04 October 2016

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.

Rack N Ruin
Rack N Ruin

Action 31 March 2015

Rack N Ruin is an independent top-down action game stylized to look like a 16-bit computer production. We play as the evil demon Rack who is one of the trusty servants of Ruin, the most evil lord of darkness. We are sent to one of the planets to destroy it and enslave its population. Rack will have to face not only champions of good, but also demons that got out of Evil's control.

Legend of Kay Anniversary
Legend of Kay Anniversary

Action 29 July 2015

A modern version of a classic PlayStation 2 TPP action game from 2005, developed by Untold Games studio. Legend of Kay Anniversary takes place on an island inhabited by peaceful cats, who lived in harmony with the nature and other animals. But this came to an end when an army of gorillas arrived, sent by the evil emperor Shun. We play as the eponymous cat, who must protect his village from Shun’s malicious schemes.

Alien: Isolation - Lost Contact
Alien: Isolation - Lost Contact

Action 10 February 2015

The fourth expansion to a first-person survival horror - Alien: Isolation, developed by Creative Assembly. Like the previous expansion to the game (Safe Heaven), the Lost Contact DLC is a variation of the game’s Survivor Mode. However, in this particular DLC, the player returns to the Sebastopol space station and assumes the role of Axel. Gameplay mechanics build on the exploration of a new map, which now includes private Lorenz quarters and the station’s backup power generator area.

Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition
Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition

Action 27 October 2015

Complete edition of Darksiders II, a TPP action game released in 2012, now remastered for the eight generation consoles by Nordic Games, who gained the license after the closure of THQ company. In the game you become one of the legendary Horsemen of the Apocalypse, trying to solve a complex intrigue and help one of his brothers, who got into some serious troubles.

Ships That Fight Underground
Ships That Fight Underground

Action canceled

A new installment in a popular series of space shooters developed by Descendent Studios and funded thanks to a crowdfunding campaign which managed to accrue over 600,000 dollars. Descent: Underground takes us to near future, where a live feed from a war for resources between mining capsules, known as Underground Games, serves as the main source of entertainment for the wealthy and powerful. The players assume control of VTOL-like ships fighting for their lives as well as fame and sponsors.

Destiny: House of Wolves
Destiny: House of Wolves

Action 19 May 2015

The second large expansion for Destiny – the multiplayer first-person shooter developed by Bungie Software (creators of the Halo series). This time the players will operate in the asteroid belt of the Solar System known as the Reef. The place is inhabited by the Awoken and has been recently threatened by the Fallen. The player must repel the attacks of the invaders while obtaining as much riches from the new location as possible.