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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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Warhaven
Warhaven

Action canceled

Multiplayer TPP action game in which two teams of sixteen players fight for victory in battles set on fantastic battlefields. The Warhaven game is a development by Nexon, distributed on a free-to-play model.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - The Sky Breaker
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - The Sky Breaker

Action August 2024

The first major expansion to the action adventure game Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - The Sky Breaker tasks us with defending the clans against RDA forces once again.

Postal: Brain Damaged
Postal: Brain Damaged

Action 25 October 2023

Postal: Brain Damaged is a retro spin-off of a series of shooters developed by Polish studios Hyperstrange and CreativeForge Games, in which we play the role of a murderous psychopath. The game offers impressions similar to shooters from the 1990s.

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

Action 23 October 2023

The follow-up to a hit action game from 2012. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is a production of an independent studio Dennaton Games, the developer duo of Jonathan “Cactus” Söderström and Dennis Wedin. The player controls a bandit, who, provided there is a payoff, undertakes a number of risky jobs. Depending on the mission conditions, the hero can be either forced to avoid a direct confrontation, or brutally eliminate all enemies.

Synduality: Echo of Ada
Synduality: Echo of Ada

Action 2024

SYNDUALITY is a post-apocalyptic TPP shooter. The player controls the pilot of a mecha, who goes on expeditions into the ruins of human civilization in search of resources. The gameplay focuses on dynamic skirmishes and developing relationships with an AI-controlled companion.

Orcs Must Die! 3
Orcs Must Die! 3

Action 08 June 2022

Orcs Must Die! 3 is the third full-fledged version of the popular action game using elements of the tower defense genre. The player's task is to repel the attack of the orc hordes by means of various traps. Studio Robot Entertainment is responsible for the production.

Ship of Fools
Ship of Fools

Action 22 November 2022

An action game with roguelike elements that spreads its wings in co-op mode. In Ship of Fools we take on the role of the heroes, who traverse the archipelago aboard their ship and face sea monsters.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy

Action 06 March 2024

A compilation of the first three FPP games from the STALKER series, originally created by GSC Game World and modified for console players with the help of Mataboo studio. The package contains STALKER: Shadow of Chornobyl, STALKER: Clear Sky and STALKER: Call of Pripyat.

Grounded
Grounded

Action 16 April 2024

Grounded is a survival action game in which players take on the role of a teenagers, shrunk down to ant size, who are forced to fight for their survival in the garden of a house in the American suburbs. While playing, they collect raw materials, construct objects and buildings, and fight against aggressive animals.

Biomorph
Biomorph

Action 2025

A dark 2D metroidvania from Lucid Dreams Studio (authors of Legends of Ethernal). Biomorph offers an anthropomorphic cat as th main protagonist. The hero can copy the shapes and abilites of fallen enemies. It allows for them to be used both for combat and solving puzzles.

Luna Abyss
Luna Abyss

Action July 2024

A dark sci-fi FPS with platform game and bullet hell shooter elements. The main character of the game Luna Abyss is a prisoner who traverses the Abyss stretching under the surface of the moon Luna.

Enemy of the State
Enemy of the State

Action 2025

Enemy of the State is a third-person shooter set in the Prohibition Era. Player's task is to create a mafia empire, which requires completing various missions and expanding the hideout. Game allows to play solo, in co-op mode and in PvP online battles.

Control 2
Control 2

Action TBA

Control 2 is a third person action game by Remedy Entertainment studio. During the game we fight with the enemies using many special abilities and we explore complicated maps designed in a style known from the metroidvania genre.

Tom Clancy's The Division 3
Tom Clancy's The Division 3

Action TBA

The third installment in a popular looter shooter series by Ubisoft. The game was developed by Ubisoft Massive, the same studio responsible for the previous two games.

John Carpenter's Toxic Commando
John Carpenter's Toxic Commando

Action 2024

John Carpenter's Toxic Commando is a postapocalyptic FPS inspired by John Carpenter's movies. The players control titular commandos, hunting a monster turning people into zombies.

System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition
System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition

Action 2024

A remastered version of an iconic 1999 immersive sim. System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition has us playing as a soldier facing dangers aboard the Von Braun spaceship. Compared to the original game, the remaster features enhanced visuals.

Crossfire: Sierra Squad
Crossfire: Sierra Squad

Action 29 August 2023

A VR first-person shooter. Crossfire: Sierra Squad has us playing as the leader of the titular squad, fighting for the Global Risk organization against the competing group Black List.

Concord
Concord

Action 2024

An online sci-fi FPS by Firewalk Studios, since recently part of Sony Interactive Entertainment. Concord is set in outer space, letting players compete against each other in PvP battles.

Assassin's Creed: Infinity
Assassin's Creed: Infinity

Action TBA

The biggest project in the history of Assassin's Creed series, created in collaboration with studios Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Quebec. Infinity is a game as a service, taking us to different historical eras where we take part in the conflict of Assassins and Templars.

Turbo Overkill
Turbo Overkill

Action July 2024

The debut game of Trigger Happy Interactive. Turbo Overkill stars Johnny Turbo, a cyborg mercenary returning to his hometown of Paradise, tasked with eliminating the AI controlling the city.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Hinokami Chronicles
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Hinokami Chronicles

Action 15 October 2021

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Hinokami Chronicles is an action game in which we fight one-on-one duels in small arenas against AI or other people. Inspiration for the game was a hit manga and anime based on it.

Bright Memory: Infinite
Bright Memory: Infinite

Action 21 July 2022

A first-person shooter made by an independent Chinese studio named FYQD. The action takes place in the realm of science fiction, and the combat system places great emphasis on elements such as conventional firearms, the use of melee weapons, and spectacular attack combinations.

Outriders
Outriders

Action 01 April 2021

A dark science fiction co-op shooter from the Polish studio People Can Fly (creators of such games as Bulletstorm). We take on the role of the crew of a spaceship sent to a distant planet with a mission on which the fate of humanity depends.

Maneater
Maneater

Action 12 November 2020

Action RPG game in which we play the role of a shark orphaned by its mother. In order to survive, the eponymous genocide has to fight for survival in the dangerous waters of the Gulf Coast, devouring everything that can be eaten and gradually growing in strength.