Action 2016 for PC — top best games in the Action genre / Page 4

Action, Slasher, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Top-down view, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 5 July 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Furi is an action-slasher game with a third-person view from the French studio The Game Bakers. The main character, armed with a samurai blade, will confront...

Defense Zone 3

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

Game released: PC → 14 December 2016

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 79/100

Defense Zone 3 Ultra HD is an indie tower defense strategy game with a top-down view in real time. This is a sequel to the famous Defense Zone strategy, only now...

Surfingers

Casual game, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 27 January 2016

Steam: 83/100

This arcade surfing game challenges players to travel as far as possible through hazardous settings, including oceans, snowy slopes, deserts and other worlds...

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...

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...

Fallout 4: Far Harbor

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Open world

Game released: PC → 19 May 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Fallout 4: Far Harbor — addition to the post-apocalyptic action role-playing game in the Fallout universe. Players will have to go to the island of Far...

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...

Deep Space Dash

Action, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 7 July 2016

Steam: 43/100

A futuristic runner with first- or third-person camera views follows a convict who has escaped his cell in an intergalactic high-security prison and become lost in...

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...

Through the Woods

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

Game released: PC → 27 October 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 65/100

Through the Woods is a third-person action-horror game based on Norse myths and legends. You have to get used to the role of a young mother who one day comes to a...

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Metroidvania, Indie

Game released: PC → 20 December 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This side-scrolling fantasy platformer builds its heroine’s actions around belly dancing and hair-whipping. Shantae: Half-Genie Hero is an HD adventure starring...

Dying Light: The Following

Action, Horror, DLC, First-person view, Role-playing game, Open world

Game released: PC → 9 February 2016

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 81/100

The expansion opens a new chapter in Kyle Crane's story and takes the action beyond Harran. A vast map with villages, fields, and abandoned corners becomes a...

Crashlands

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Open world, Survival

Game released: PC → 21 January 2016

Players: 7/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Crashlands is an action role-playing game in which the main character, after an unsuccessful intergalactic flight, crashes on an unknown planet. Having meager...

Rabi-Ribi

Action, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania, Exploration

Game released: PC → 28 January 2016

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Rabi-Ribi is a Japanese-style 2D side-scrolling action platformer. In the game you will find a huge world to explore, where you will take on the role of a quirky...

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...

Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia

Arcade, Adventure, Stealth, Platformer, Historical, Side view, Action

Game released: PC → 9 February 2016

Players: 5.9/10

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 58/100

Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia is an arcade adventure side-scrolling stealth platformer set in the Assassin's Creed universe. The game continues the story of...

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...

Back in 1995

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Exploration

Game released: PC → 28 April 2016

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 64/100

Metacritic: 52/100

Back in 1995 is an action-horror adventure game with a third-person view, stylized as games from the 1990s. You will find poor controls, character models and...

WITCH-BOT MEGLILO

Indie, Action, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 15 July 2016

Steam: 92/100

A vertical scrolling shooter with dark-comedy cutscenes, WITCH-BOT MEGLILO follows Meglilo, a witch who is killed amid a clash between Professor Amamori and the...

Worms W.M.D

Action, Strategy, Turn-based, Tactics, Side view, Online

Game released: PC → 23 August 2016

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Worms W.M.D is a turn-based tactical action strategy game with a side view. A continuation of the popular game series, where two squads of worms will clash again in...

BioShock 2 Remastered

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

Game released: PC → 15 September 2016

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 71/100

BioShock 2 Remastered is an improved version of the adventure first-person shooter BioShock 2. The streets of the city of Rapture once again echo with the echoes of...

Help

Action, Adventure, Horror

Game released: PC → 14 October 2016

Steam: 57/100

This action horror game follows a search for a daughter who disappeared while exploring an abandoned bunker. The player explores its rooms, encounters the horrors...

Disney Infinity

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Sandbox, Beat them all

Game released: PC → 9 December 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Disney Infinity is a third-person arcade game in the style of defeating them all. In this game you will go through a large number of exciting adventures together...

Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India

Arcade, Adventure, Stealth, Platformer, Historical, Action

Game released: PC → 12 January 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India is a side-scrolling arcade-adventure stealth platformer set in the Assassin's Creed universe. The game continues the story of the...

Devil Daggers

Arcade, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Horror

Game released: PC → 18 February 2016

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Devil Daggers is an arcade shooter in the spirit of the 90s with a first-person view. Battles take place in vast arenas where endless hordes of monsters are...

Space Impossible

Adventure, Indie, Action

Early Access: PC → 1 March 2016

Steam: 94/100

This space adventure with action and trading elements takes place in a procedurally generated sandbox universe. Players pilot a starship, explore systems, fight...

Redactem

Casual game, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 1 August 2016

Steam: 62/100

A 2D platformer built around parkour puzzles that require rewinding time and manipulating gravity. Each level centers on one of the game’s features, challenging...

Medieval Defenders

Strategy, Casual game, Action

Game released: PC → 11 November 2016

Steam: 35/100

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...

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...

VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action

Action, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Cyberpunk, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 21 June 2016

Players: 9/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 81/100

VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a unique adventure bartender simulator in a sci-fi cyberpunk setting. The events of the game take place in the distant...

Thirst VR

Action, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

Early Access: PC → 7 August 2016

Steam: 74/100

An arcade VR shooter set in a post-apocalyptic world where the last of the planet’s water is under threat. The player defends a transport train carrying the water...

Gal Gun: Double Peace

Simulation, Adventure, Visual novel, Anime / Manga, First-person view, Action

Game released: PC → 27 September 2016

Players: 6/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This anime-styled first-person rail shooter with visual novel elements follows Houdai, who is struck by Cupid angel Ekoro and suddenly becomes popular with every...

Carton

Adventure, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 October 2016

Steam: 75/100

This action-adventure with settlement-building elements takes place in a world where the landscapes, trees, buildings, and characters are all made of cardboard...

Dark Souls 3: Ashes of Ariandel

Role-playing game, Action, DLC, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 24 October 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Dark Souls 3: Ashes of Ariandel is an addition to the hardcore third-person action RPG Dark Souls 3. You will go to a new gloomy world, shrouded in snow, where you...

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...

X-17

Action, Indie, First-person view

Game released: PC → 1 March 2016

Steam: 52/100

This science-fiction action shooter, played from first- and third-person perspectives, follows an alien invasion of Earth and other planets. After his previous...

Noob Squad

Action, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 5 October 2016

Steam: 41/100

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...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan

Action, Adventure, Slasher, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 24 May 2016

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 50/100

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan is an arcade action game with slasher elements and a third-person view in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...

Fallout 4: Contraptions Workshop

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 21 June 2016

Players: 5.6/10

Steam: 38/100

Fallout 4: Contraptions Workshop is an addition to the post-apocalyptic action role-playing game in the Fallout universe. It will offer you to improve your...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2016 for PC