Action 2016 for PC — top best games in the Action genre / Page 3

Early Access: PC → 3 June 2016

Steam: 45/100

A cartoon-styled multiplayer first-person shooter. Players choose from five classes—Assault, Sniper, Engineer, Medic, and Machine Gunner—and battle others...

Death Road to Canada

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Roguelike, Zombies, Survival

Game released: PC → 22 July 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Death Road to Canada is a top-down action RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world. You will go to the center of a full-scale invasion of the living dead. Having taken...

Project Spark

Role-playing game, Action, MMO, Third-person view, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 7 October 2014; The project is closed: PC → 12 August 2016

Players: 9.8/10

Metacritic: 73/100

A game creation tool for building original games and worlds, then playing and sharing them. Project Spark combines content-creation tools with the ability to play...

Aragami

Action, Adventure, Stealth, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 4 October 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Aragami is a classic Japanese-style third-person stealth action game. The game tells the story of a mysterious ninja who is a warrior-killer revived after death who...

Polygon Attack

Indie, Casual game, Action

Game released: PC → 28 December 2016

Steam: 89/100

An arcade action game about defending Earth from an alien fleet. The lone fighter to stand against the invading spacecraft keeps up a constant barrage, breaks...

Subterrain

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Futurism (Future), Indie, Survival, Top-down view, Crafting

Game released: PC → 21 January 2016

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 79/100

Subterrain is an action-horror adventure with RPG elements and a top-down view. In the game you will play as one Doctor West, apparently the only survivor of an...

Slain: Back from Hell

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Action, Indie, Slasher

Game released: PC → 24 March 2016

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Slain: Back from Hell is an action-adventure platformer in a gothic setting. The story follows the doomed hero Bathoryn as he travels through a Gothic world and...

Roll'd

Casual game, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 14 April 2016

Steam: 78/100

An arcade endless runner with multiplayer in which the player controls the track rather than the runner. The aim is to keep the path level so the character can...

Star Drifter

Indie, Action, Casual game

Game released: PC → 1 June 2016

Steam: 47/100

Star Drifter is an arcade space shooter built around battles with alien enemies and a high level of difficulty. Enemies, power-ups, secret weapons and large bosses...

Totally Unbalanced

Racing, Action, Adventure

Game released: PC → 29 July 2016

Steam: 82/100

A 3D platform game with puzzles, Totally Unbalanced puts players in control of a wobbling ball and challenges them to finish levels as quickly as possible. Progress...

Unravel

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Action

Game released: PC → 9 February 2016

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Unravel is a side-scrolling arcade adventure with various puzzles. The platformer will tell the story of a knitted man — Yarny, who stretches like a ball with...

Adr1ft

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Virtual Reality (VR), Space

Game released: PC → 28 March 2016

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 60/100

Adr1ft is a space survival simulator powered by Unreal Engine 4. The game tells the story of a female astronaut who, as a result of a disaster, is left alone on a...

TOKYO WARFARE

Tanks, Action, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 29 July 2016

Steam: 80/100

This arcade tank combat game stages battles in Japanese city locations and across other maps, from deserts and snowy landscapes to fantastical arenas. The vehicles...

Titan Quest Anniversary Edition

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Collection, Fantasy / Medieval, Slasher, Online

Game released: PC → 31 August 2016

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 89/100

Titan Quest Anniversary Edition is an anniversary edition of the wonderful action role-playing game with an isometric camera view, which includes the original Titan...

SUPERHOT VR

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Puzzle, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: PC → 5 December 2016

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 79/100

SUPERHOT VR is a special version of the game for virtual reality devices HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR. You will find an innovative control scheme that...

5089: The Action RPG

Role-playing game, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 3 February 2016

Steam: 82/100

5089: The Action RPG is an action role-playing game with sandbox elements, set amid a war between experimental robots on the procedurally generated planet Xax. Set...

Noob Squad

Action, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 5 October 2016

Steam: 41/100

Mother Russia Bleeds

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Side view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 5 September 2016

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Mother Russia Bleeds is a side-scrolling arcade action game. You advance through the level, destroying all enemies along the way using hand-to-hand combat and...

Imprisoned Light

Role-playing game, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 28 October 2016

Steam: 63/100

This action RPG follows a battle to defend a kingdom from an ancient demon that has corrupted its holy light crystals and imprisoned the guardian inside one of...

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Star Wars, Adventure, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 27 June 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 75/100

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens is an arcade action game with a third-person view in the popular Star Wars universe. The game tells about the events that occurred...

Rescue your chickens

Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 4 November 2016

Steam: 80/100

An arcade action game about a farmer left alone to look after his chickens and protect them from forest creatures. The player dodges enemies and fights bosses while...

Witch and Hero(魔女と勇者)

Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 21 April 2016

Steam: 82/100

This 8-bit-style action game follows a hero battling the monsters of Medusa to save a witch who has been turned to stone. By collecting the blood of defeated...

Dead Effect 2

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Zombies, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 6 May 2016

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 56/100

This first-person sci-fi shooter with RPG elements takes place aboard the colony ship ESS Meridian, where the heroes face zombies and other enemies. Dead Effect 2...

Dinocide

Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Action

Game released: PC → 21 January 2016

Players: 1.4/10

Steam: 53/100

Metacritic: 51/100

Dinocide is a side-scrolling prehistoric indie platformer. Players will have to take on the role of an ancient man and, together with the animals of that era, cope...

What The Heck, Dude?

Casual game, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 3 November 2016

Steam: 38/100

A drunk-fighting simulator with realistic physics, in which the protagonist finds himself in various everyday situations. The goal is to disrupt events and start...

Gloria Victis: Medieval MMORPG

Role-playing game, Online, Action, Third-person view, MMO, Medieval era, Open world, Indie

Game released: PC → 7 February 2023; Early Access: PC → 10 June 2016

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 66/100

A realistic MMO action game in which players explore a breathtaking, atmospheric world inspired by the Witcher and Gothic series. In the game you can choose any...

Marvel Ultimate Alliance

Role-playing game, Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Comics, Adventure

Game released: PC → 26 July 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Marvel Ultimate Alliance is an exciting action role-playing game with an isometric camera view about Marvel superheroes. The game will allow you to create your own...

The Final Station

Action, Platformer, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Side view, Survival

Game released: PC → 30 August 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Action platformer in a post-apocalyptic setting. The player will have the opportunity to become a train driver in a desert world, carrying his passengers from...

Shadow Warrior 2

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Cyberpunk, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: PC → 13 October 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Shadow Warrior 2 is a continuation of the action game with a first-person view in a cyberpunk setting. Luo Wang returns to kill more mercenaries and try not to be...

Where's My Helmet?

Action, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 20 May 2016

Steam: 71/100

This platform action game, set in a Nordic-inspired world, has players fight enemies and overcome obstacles and puzzles across a series of levels. The hero, Axel...

Hover 2030

Action, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 14 June 2016

Steam: 72/100

A sci-fi action game set in 2030, where robots have taken over Earth after exterminating humanity. The only human to resist them is armed with a hoverboard and a...

Strike.is: The Game

Free game, MMO, Action

Game released: PC → 14 July 2016

Steam: 72/100

A multiplayer action shooter about cells that have learned to wield guns and fight one another. Players collect ammunition, choose from weapons with different...

Sparkle ZERO

Indie, Simulation, Action

Game released: PC → 14 March 2016

Steam: 52/100

An action-tinged simulation about organisms beginning their evolutionary journey as a spark of life. The player searches for food to grow and change while competing...

Medieval Defenders

Strategy, Casual game, Action

Game released: PC → 11 November 2016

Steam: 36/100

A medieval strategy game in which the player defends an ancestral castle and its lands from raids by warlike neighbors. The available defenses include cannon towers...

Hybrids Arena

Simulation, Action, Casual game

Game released: PC → 9 May 2016

Steam: 52/100

An action-oriented simulation game about combining animals into hybrids and pitting them against one another. The player selects two animals from a large roster...

Paragon

Online, Action, Strategy, MMO, Tactics

The project is closed: PC → 26 April 2018; Beta testing: PC → 16 August 2016

Anticipation Rating: 8.4/10

Paragon is a multiplayer action game with MOBA elements and a third-person view. Having chosen a hero, you have to fight in various arenas, where the main goal is...

Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour

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

Game released: PC → 11 October 2016

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour is an anniversary re-release of the first-person shooter Duke Nukem 3D for next-generation systems. The new part of...

VERSUS SQUAD

Action, Indie, Zombies

Game released: PC → 26 October 2016

Steam: 77/100

This fast-paced top-down twin-stick shooter lets players build an arena and defend it from zombie mutants. Before a fight, players set their class, attributes and...

Planet Explorers

Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Sandbox, Open world, Survival

Game released: PC → 8 November 2016

Players: 5.2/10

Steam: 59/100

Planet Explorers is a free-to-play action role-playing game with a third-person view and survival elements in a sci-fi setting. The plot tells about the distant...

panGEMic

Free game, Action, Platformer

Game released: PC → 23 June 2016

Steam: 84/100

panGEMic is a retro platformer styled after games for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, with levels built around a time limit. The player collects gems while avoiding...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2016 for PC