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...

Minecraft

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

Game released: iOS → 15 August 2011

Players: 7.7/10

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...

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...

Devil May Cry 4

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Slasher, Adventure

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...

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...

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

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

Game released: iOS → 28 June 2011

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 45/100

Transformers: Dark of the Moon, like its predecessors, is primarily a third-person shooter game in which players fight various types of AI enemies in...

Gangstar Rio: City of Saints

Action, Shooter, Third-person view

Game released: iOS → 10 November 2011

Players: 6/10

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...

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...

Death Rally

Arcade, Racing, Online, Isometric, Action, Remake

Game released: iOS → 30 March 2011

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Arcade racing with an isometric view. The gameplay is exciting, intense, and explosively fun. You will win races, upgrade your cars and weapons to...

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...

Jetpack Joyride

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view, Adventure

Game released: iOS → 1 September 2011

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 90/100

Jetpack Joyride is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer. It's time to join Barry Steakfries and equip cool jetpacks, dress up in stylish suits...

Streets of Rage 2

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Anime / Manga

Game released: iOS → 14 April 2011

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 83/100

This arcade action fighting game follows the struggle against the Syndicate after Mr. X kidnaps Adam. Players choose Axel, Blaze, Skate, or Max, each...

Sims FreePlay

Arcade, Strategy, Business / Management, Free game, Action, Sandbox, Isometric, In real time, Simulation

Game released: iOS → 15 December 2011

Players: 5.9/10

The Sims FreePlay is a real-time arcade strategy game with business elements and an isometric view. From head to toe—and floor to ceiling—you can...

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...

Max & the Magic Marker

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: iOS → 17 March 2011

Metacritic: 73/100

A platform puzzle about Max, who discovers a magic marker that brings anything he draws to life. When the monster he has drawn becomes real, Max must...

Double Dragon (1988)

Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Side view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: iOS → 4 March 2011

Players: 9/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 65/100

A side-scrolling action game about martial arts experts Billy and Jimmy Lee, who take on the Black Warriors street gang to rescue Marian. Players...

Tecmo Bowl Throwback

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Isometric, Sports game, American Football

Game released: iOS → 26 May 2011

Metacritic: 67/100

An arcade football game that carries on the Tecmo Super Bowl legacy. Tecmo Bowl Throwback retains the familiar gameplay and offers matches in either...

Infinity Blade 2

Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: iOS → 29 November 2011

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Infinity Blade 2 — the young warrior Siris travels with the Infinity Blade, the only weapon in the world capable of killing immortals, which he...

Mega Man X

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga

Game released: iOS → 21 December 2011

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 55/100

Mega Man X is a futuristic action platformer built around shooting and completing a series of stages. The player moves through levels, jumps, attacks...

Zenonia 3: The Midgard Story

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view

Game released: iOS → 28 April 2011

Metacritic: 70/100

A top-down action RPG set in the world of Midgard continues the ZENONIA universe, raising questions about Regret’s fate and Chael’s role. Players...

Saving Yello

Puzzle, Logic, Action

Game released: iOS → 17 November 2011

Metacritic: 79/100

Saving Yello is a physics-based action puzzler about Yello, a goldfish whose seven-year-old owner, Mathilda, takes him out of his bowl. The player...

Battleheart

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Adventure, In real time, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: iOS → 1 February 2011

Players: 6.7/10

Metacritic: 81/100

A fantasy role-playing game with real-time combat, Battleheart follows a party of heroes fighting monsters. The player assembles a team from...

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...

Another World: 20th Anniversary Edition

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Platformer

Game released: iOS → 22 September 2011

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This science-fiction action platformer follows young scientist Lester Knight Chaykin, who is hurled through space and time when a nuclear experiment...

Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap

Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view

Game released: iOS → 31 May 2011

Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap is a fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer set in a fantasy setting. The game tells the story of a valiant...

Aquaria

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Metroidvania, Indie, Exploration

Game released: iOS → 3 November 2011

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Aquaria is a metroidvania set in a vast underwater world filled with living creatures and ancient secrets. Naija, a solitary ocean dweller, searches...

Sonic CD (2011)

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Anime / Manga

Game released: iOS → 15 December 2011

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 85/100

A platform game about Sonic traveling through time, set on Little Planet, a mysterious world where the past, present, and future are linked by the...

Who's That Flying?!

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Side view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: iOS → 28 April 2011

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Who's That Flying?! is a side-scrolling arcade shooter in a sci-fi setting. As the mysterious and powerful "Guardian of the Earth" with an iron eye...

Z

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...

Containment: The Zombie Puzzler

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: iOS → 12 December 2011

Players: 5/10

Steam: 89/100

An action puzzle game about containing a zombie outbreak in Franklin County. To defeat the undead, the player surrounds them with survivors of the...

Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Platformer

Game released: iOS → 14 July 2011

Metacritic: 64/100

Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty — you have to play as Captain America and try to stop the Red Skull from overturning the balance of power...

Pirates of the Caribbean: Master of the Seas

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Historical

Game released: iOS → 4 October 2011

Players: 10/10

Pirates of the Caribbean: Master of the Seas is an isometric role-playing game with action and historical elements from developers at Disney...

Evil Dead HD

Action, Shooter, Horror, Top-down view, Adventure

Game released: iOS → 7 June 2011

Metacritic: 56/100

Evil Dead is a furious top-down action-horror game in the world of the zombie apocalypse for mobile platforms. You have to take on the role of the...

Temple Run

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Runner

Game released: iOS → 4 August 2011

Players: 6.7/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Temple Run is an arcade action platformer with a third-person view. In this game you will test your reflexes by running along the walls of an ancient...

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...

Dark Incursion

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Platformer, Futurism (Future)

Game released: iOS → 19 October 2011

Dark Incursion is an arcade game with a touch of action, a game in the genre of "beat 'em all" and a platformer from the masters from the studio Big...