Action 2011 for iOS — top best games in the Action genre

Arcade, Action, Online, MMO, Platformer, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: iOS → 26 May 2011

Players: 6.9/10

Roblox is a huge online sandbox for creativity. Its toys are mini-games of all kinds of genres, with arcade-style gameplay and visuals that aren’t weighed down by...

Minecraft

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Online, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Sandbox, Indie, Survival, Crafting

Game released: iOS → 15 August 2011

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An exciting sandbox focused on freedom of action and exploring a practically endless open world. Created through procedural generation, it is filled with...

Sid Meier's Pirates!

Action, Strategy, Fighting, Warships / Submarines, In real time, Third-person view, Isometric, Sports game, Open world, Role-playing game, Adventure

Game released: iOS → 21 July 2011

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 94/100

An adventurous pirate game that combines elements of strategy, role-playing, and sea travel simulation. In the age of great discoveries, the player becomes the...

Minecraft: Pocket Edition

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Sandbox

Game released: iOS → 17 November 2011

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 53/100

Minecraft: Pocket Edition is a sandbox version of Minecraft, ported to mobile devices. Players explore spacious worlds and build various structures from cubes. To...

Devil May Cry 4

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Slasher

Game released: iOS → 3 February 2011

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This third-person fantasy hack-and-slash takes place in the fortified city of Fortuna, where the religious Order of the Sword fights demons. Young knight Nero is...

The Bard's Tale

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Comedy

Game released: iOS → 1 October 2011

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 75/100

The Bard's Tale is a fun role-playing adventure with an isometric camera view in the fantasy universe of The Bard's Tale. In the game you will try on the role of an...

Groove Coaster

Action, Music game, Arcade

Game released: iOS → 28 July 2011

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Groove Coaster is a rhythm arcade game built around a roller-coaster-like track that travels through a world of sound and light. Players time their inputs to the...

Swing the Bat

Action

Game released: iOS → 1 September 2011

Metacritic: 68/100

A physics action-puzzler about a bat swinging through the jungle with its grappling legs. The player builds and maintains momentum to stay ahead of the rising sun...

Gangstar Rio: City of Saints

Action, Shooter, Third-person view

Game released: iOS → 10 November 2011

Players: 6.1/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Gangstar Rio: City of Saints — open-world action-adventure game with a third-person view for mobile platforms. You will visit 5 districts of Rio de Janeiro...

Infinity Field

Action

Game released: iOS → 27 January 2011

Metacritic: 87/100

Infinity Field is a space shooter with dual-stick controls, in which the player guides a spacecraft through enemy-filled arenas and fires at incoming targets. As...

Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation

Action, Shooter, First-person view

Game released: iOS → 27 October 2011

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 88/100

Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation — The game's backstory involves the formation of a terrorist alliance in Russia, Pakistan, and North Korea (K.P.R.). General...

The Last Rocket

Action

Game released: iOS → 11 August 2011

Metacritic: 79/100

A puzzle-platform game about Flip, a small rocket trying to help AMI, the ship’s onboard artificial intelligence, escape before the vessel falls into a star. The...

Mr.Ninja

Action

Game released: iOS → 24 March 2011

Metacritic: 78/100

An arcade action game about a ninja fighting aliens in the invaded Karakuri Castle. The player taps the screen to make the hero jump and slash enemies with a...

Shantae: Risky's Revenge

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Metroidvania

Game released: iOS → 27 October 2011

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This platform action game with metroidvania elements follows half-genie Shantae on an adventure through the magical land of Sequin. She faces the pirate Risky Boots...

The Blocks Cometh By Halfbot

Action

Game released: iOS → 17 February 2011

Metacritic: 75/100

This arcade action game challenges the player to escape a shower of falling blocks. The hero dodges and attacks the obstacles, then climbs higher while the blocks...

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Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Action

Game released: iOS → 13 July 2011

Players: 10/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 74/100

A real-time strategy war game in which robotic armies fight for territory and resources. Battles unfold across open environments, and the player must capture ground...

Mos Speedrun

Action

Game released: iOS → 7 April 2011

Metacritic: 77/100

Mos Speedrun is a platformer starring Mos, an insect girl who races through 20 stages, jumping over obstacles and dodging zombies, bees and robot zombees. The...

Celebrity Bodyguard

Action

Game released: iOS → 16 April 2011

Metacritic: 53/100

Celebrity Bodyguard is a side-scrolling action game about protecting celebrities from attackers on the red carpet. Threats include paparazzi, stalkers, snipers...

Rocket Bunnies

Action

Game released: iOS → 7 June 2011

Metacritic: 84/100

An arcade game about a spacefaring rabbit who travels across the universe to find food for his friends. The player guides the hero through 60 levels spanning two...

Hard Lines

Action

Game released: iOS → 9 June 2011

Metacritic: 86/100

This arcade game of skill and reflexes follows Lionel, a yellow line trying to survive in space by avoiding collisions and eliminating other lines. The player...

Kickin Momma

Action

Game released: iOS → 4 August 2011

Metacritic: 79/100

This arcade puzzle game follows a mother who wants a new necklace and sends her children to collect jewels. The player aims and kicks the children onto a field of...

SHADOWGUN

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: iOS → 28 September 2011

Metacritic: 72/100

SHADOWGUN — players use virtual touchscreen controls. Moving is done with the analog stick on the left side of the screen, and the command buttons on the...

Asteroids GUNNER

Action

Game released: iOS → 10 November 2011

Metacritic: 69/100

This space arcade shooter sends players through asteroid fields and against alien warships in pursuit of cosmic treasures. Collecting resources supports progress...

Puckerz!

Action

Game released: iOS → 1 February 2011

Metacritic: 79/100

Puckerz! is an arcade game about launching a puck through trap-filled levels with destructible environments. Players aim and release the puck to collect as many...

Xtreme Wheels (2011)

Action

Game released: iOS → 14 July 2011

Metacritic: 70/100

An arcade trial-bike racing game about navigating obstacle courses while balancing the bike and controlling its speed. Tracks feature explosives, ladders, barrels...

Six-Guns

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Historical

Game released: iOS → 5 December 2011

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 59/100

Six-Guns — Buck Crosshow, a lone amnesiac outlaw, awakens in the Arizona desert and heads west in search of the nearest settlement. As he approaches the...

Trenches II

Action

Game released: iOS → 15 December 2011

Metacritic: 72/100

A tactical game about battles of the First World War, fought across European battlefields filled with trenches, barbed wire, tank traps, and landmines. The player...

Velocispider

Action

Game released: iOS → 1 June 2011

Metacritic: 76/100

Velocispider is a retro arcade shoot-'em-up in which a heavily armed arachnosaur defends its eggs from an army of aquatic robots. The evil CEO of Robot Seafood...

Sprinkle: Water splashing fire fighting fun!

Action

Game released: iOS → 25 August 2011

Metacritic: 81/100

This water-physics puzzle game follows the inhabitants of Titan, Saturn’s moon, as their homes are threatened by fires caused by falling asteroids. To fight the...

Bring Me Sandwiches!!

Action

Game released: iOS → 20 October 2011

Metacritic: 82/100

Bring Me Sandwiches!! is an arcade platformer about fast-food worker Jimmy Nugget, who is tasked with saving Earth from the alien Gourmo, whose demand is simple...

Crabitron

Action

Game released: iOS → 30 December 2011

Metacritic: 83/100

This game follows a giant space crab that descends on the civilized galaxy to teach humanity to stop eating crustaceans. The player controls its claws by touching...

Etolis: Arena

Action

Game released: iOS → 3 February 2011

Metacritic: 67/100

This sci-fi twin-stick survival shooter follows a space marine captured by aliens and forced to fight for their entertainment in an arena. The hero faces waves of...

RoboSockets

Action

Game released: iOS → 21 February 2011

Metacritic: 78/100

This robot-themed puzzle game combines mechanics from Tetris, pipe puzzles and match-three games. After a short circuit leaves RoboPlanet without electricity, the...

Air Penguin

Action

Game released: iOS → 14 April 2011

Metacritic: 82/100

Air Penguin is an arcade game about a penguin crossing the icy Antarctic to save his family from melting ice caps. The character is guided by tilting the device in...

Anomaly: Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Action, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: iOS → 11 August 2011

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 92/100

Anomaly: Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign is a continuation of the top-down strategy game in the sci-fi setting of Anomaly: Warzone Earth, which adds 15 new missions...

EDGE Extended

Action

Game released: iOS → 25 August 2011

Metacritic: 91/100

EDGE Extended is a puzzle game set across platforming levels in a geometric world. The player guides a cube using telekinetic strength, navigating obstacles and...

Pixel Ranger

Action

Game released: iOS → 29 September 2011

Metacritic: 75/100

This arcade shooter pairs a colorful cowboy with retro 8-bit visuals. Players shoot approaching enemies, which leave behind pixels that can be collected to score...

Siegecraft

Action

Game released: iOS → 11 October 2011

Metacritic: 71/100

A physics-based strategy game about siege battles between knights, Vikings and samurai. The player commands a siege team and attacks enemies with crossbows...

Whale Trail

Action

Game released: iOS → 20 October 2011

Metacritic: 84/100

This arcade game follows Willow the Whale as he flies through a magical rainbow world, dodging the Thunder Bros and trying to escape the evil Baron Von Barry. The...

Blood & Glory

Action

Game released: iOS → 17 November 2011

Metacritic: 75/100

Blood & Glory is an arena fighting game about death matches staged before bloodthirsty crowds. Combat uses swipes and slashes, along with special attacks and...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2011 for iOS (Game released)