Action 2014 for Mac — top best games in the Action genre / Page 3

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Sports game, Indie, Skateboards

Game released: Mac → 22 July 2014

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This skateboarding arcade game revolves around landing tricks and maintaining control through obstacle-filled levels. Players perform more than 120 tricks and...

GoD Factory: Wingmen

Simulation, Action, Shooter, Strategy, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Space

Game released: Mac → 29 August 2014

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 76/100

GoD Factory: Wingmen is a team-based multiplayer space action game from Nine Dots Studio. Two teams of 4 people each will have to fight each other in various space...

Magnetic By Nature

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Action

Game released: Mac → 10 November 2014

Steam: 76/100

A science-fiction platformer about the last surviving robot, who journeys through forgotten ruins to reactivate its friends. The levels are built without...

Nidhogg

Fighting, Platformer, Indie, Action

Game released: Mac → 13 January 2014

Players: 4/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 81/100

A fighting game with platforming elements built around sword duels played as a tug-of-war. In Nidhogg, two players battle across an arena that stretches in both...

Dungeoning

Action, Beat them all, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 24 April 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 71/100

Dungeoning is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer in a fantasy setting. You will go to conquer dungeons that are randomly generated. There you can fight...

The Impossible Game

Action, Indie, Side view, Platformer, Music game

Game released: Mac → 8 May 2014

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 64/100

The player taps the jump screen and tries to navigate the orange square while avoiding traps to reach the end of the level. Any mistake will result in instant death...

Astro Lords: Oort Cloud

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, MMO, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Free game, Space, Science fiction

Game released: Mac → 1 July 2014

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 53/100

Astro Lords: Oort Cloud is a free-to-play multiplayer strategy game with real-time combat. The main feature of the game is the ability to withdraw the earned game...

Deer Hunter 2014

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Simulation, First-person view, Third-person view

Game released: Mac → 20 March 2014

Players: 7/10

Freedom Fall

Arcade, Action, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 10 January 2014

Steam: 88/100

This side-scrolling platformer is set in a prison tower that rises above the clouds. The hero attempts to escape, navigating traps and mechanical monstrosities set...

Tower of Guns

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Roguelike, Replayability, Comics

Game released: Mac → 4 March 2014

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 72/100

A fast-paced first-person shooter with roguelike elements, Tower of Guns sends players through a tower whose levels, enemies, and power-ups change with each run...

Ether One

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Mac → 25 March 2014

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Adventure with a first person view. Players have two ways to progress: a simple story without tension or solving complex puzzles to restore the...

Bardbarian

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Mac → 1 April 2014

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Combining action, role-playing, strategy, and tower defense, Bardbarian follows Brad, a barbarian tired of fighting who takes up a lute fashioned from an axe to...

Rock Zombie

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Fighting, Beat them all, Music game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 17 June 2014

Steam: 70/100

Rock Zombie is an arcade game with a mixture of action, adventure, fighting, beat 'em all and music game from the developers of Quaternion Studio. The game is...

Victory at Sea

Strategy, Warships / Submarines, In real time, Isometric, Simulation, Action

Game released: Mac → 8 August 2014

Steam: 75/100

Victory at Sea is an isometric strategy game with elements of a warship simulator from the developers of Evil Twin Artworks. The game is published by Evil Twin...

Land of Labyrinth

Action, Adventure, Hack and slash, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval

Frozen: Mac → 4 July 2014

Land of Labyrinth is a third-person action-adventure game with puzzle and fantasy elements. Sven, a young adventurer searching for his missing father, must navigate...

Ascendant

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Beat them all, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Mac → 13 May 2014

Steam: 76/100

Ascendant is an arcade role-playing action platformer with roguelike elements and a side view. You become a demigod who invades the dimension and must defeat hordes...

Zoo Rampage

Arcade, Action, Horror, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 9 July 2014

Steam: 62/100

This arcade action game with horror elements casts players as animals breaking free from captivity and rampaging through a zoo. Players choose from several angry...

Trine: Enchanted Edition

Action, Adventure, Collection, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Platformer

Game released: Mac → 24 July 2014

Steam: 94/100

This fantasy adventure platformer tells the origin story of Amadeus the Wizard, Pontius the Knight, and Zoya the Thief, whose fates are bound by the magical...

City Sleeps

Arcade, Action, Indie

Game released: Mac → 16 October 2014

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 61/100

A music-driven twin-stick shooter, A City Sleeps follows Poe, the youngest member of an ancient clan of dream exorcists who enter sleeping minds to fight demons...

IO (2007)

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

Game released: Mac → 5 December 2014

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 68/100

A physics-based platformer about guiding a ball through puzzle-filled levels using momentum and changes in size. Growing or shrinking the ball affects its speed and...

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 2

Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Stealth

Game released: Mac → 25 March 2014

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 82/100

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea — Episode 2 — The beginning of the 20th century, Elizabeth is basking in the sun in the city she was so eager to get to...

Depths of Fear: Knossos

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 24 April 2014

Steam: 67/100

Depths of Fear: Knossos is an action-adventure game with a first-person view and horror elements. You are destined for the role of one of the legendary Greek heroes...

Fist of Awesome

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Action

Game released: Mac → 3 July 2014

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This arcade action game follows lumberjack Tim Burr, who travels through time and fights bears that have taken over the world. After his family disappears and his...

Hack 'n' Slash

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Indie, Slasher

Game released: Mac → 9 September 2014

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Hack 'n' Slash is a fantasy puzzle adventure about a hero who defies a wizard’s restrictions and sets out to discover why the kingdom has fallen into disarray...

BlazeRush

Arcade, Action, Racing, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Mac → 28 October 2014

Players: 6/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 66/100

BlazeRush is an arcade survival racer set in a futuristic world, where the focus is on fighting for position: cars have no health, levelling system or brakes...

Arctico

Simulation, Action, First-person view, Third-person view, Indie, Online, Survival, Cooperative (co-op)

Early Access: Mac → 24 November 2014

Players: 4.7/10

Steam: 72/100

Arctico is an atmospheric survival simulator with first and third person views. The main means of survival in the game is a team of four dogs. You can move around...

Death Rally (Classic)

Action, Shooter, Racing, Top-down view

Game released: Mac → 5 May 2014

Players: 3.2/10

Steam: 91/100

Death Rally (Classic) is a furious racing shooter with a top-down view, where you have to survive in battle against real death...

1001 Spikes

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Mac → 3 June 2014

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This arcade platformer with puzzle elements follows Aban Hawkins as he searches the ruins of Ukampa in South America for his missing father, archaeologist Jim...

Murder Miners

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Zombies

Game released: Mac → 25 July 2014

Steam: 90/100

A multiplayer first-person shooter built around arenas, destructible and constructible environments, and zombie survival. Its core gameplay takes inspiration from...

ArmA 3: Zeus

Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Third-person view, Tactics, Strategy, Simulation

Game released: Mac → 10 April 2014

Players: 5/10

Steam: 89/100

An expansion for ArmA 3, adding a multiplayer format in which one participant directs battles in real time while others fight on the ground. Inspired by tabletop...

Volt

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Action

Game released: Mac → 14 April 2014

Steam: 70/100

This puzzle platformer follows a battery that escapes while being taken for recycling and tries to get out of an industrial facility. Without legs, the heroine...

Rise of the Triad: Dark War

Action, Shooter, First-person view

Game released: Mac → 5 May 2014

Steam: 85/100

This first-person shooter follows a member of HUNT (High-risk United Nations Taskforce), an elite unit sent to infiltrate a monastery and stop a cult leader who...

Last Tinker: City of Colors

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Indie

Game released: Mac → 12 May 2014

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 69/100

This third-person action adventure takes place in Colortown, a world built around creativity, emotion, and collaboration. Koru, a boy from the city’s slums, sets...

Turbo Dismount

Simulation, Action, Logic, Indie, Sandbox

Game released: Mac → 21 May 2014

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 94/100

A physics-based sandbox about high-speed crashes featuring Mr. Dismount and the cars that love him. Points are awarded for damage, with outcomes shaped by...

Boson X

Action, Arcade, Runner

Game released: Mac → 15 September 2014

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Boson X is an arcade runner set inside a particle accelerator, where the character navigates a subatomic space without conventional floors or ceilings. The aim is...

Ziggurat

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Mac → 23 October 2014

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Ziggurat is a first-person shooter with roguelike elements, inspired by the Hexen and Painkiller series. You have to put on the skin of a sorcerer and go...

Crashtastic

Action, Racing, Third-person view, Stunts, Indie

Game released: Mac → Q1 2014

Players: 10/10

Crashtastic is a third-person action game with a mixture of racing, stunts and indie games from developers at Mark Smith Games. The game is published by Mark Smith...

Infested Planet

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

Game released: Mac → 6 March 2014

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This tactical real-time strategy game pits a squad of five soldiers against a swarm of 100,000 aliens. To hold back the enemy, players use weapons, buildings and...

Earth: Year 2066

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Mac → 17 April 2014

Players: 1/10

Earth: Year 2066 is a first-person action game with a touch of shooter from developers from Killing Day Studios. The main publisher of the game is Killing Day...

Anomaly Defenders

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

Game released: Mac → 29 May 2014

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A futuristic tower defense game in the Anomaly series, where aliens repel a human counterattack and protect their homeworld. Unlike earlier entries, attacking...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2014 for Mac