Action

Description

In action games players are required to have good reflexes and quick reaction in order to overcome challenges. Action games typically focus on combat, during which the player must press buttons or keys rapidly or in timed intervals in order to execute attacks and other moves. Non-combat challenges may include avoiding traps, jumping, running, completing tasks within a pressing time limit, etc.

Common action sub-genres are shooters, fighting, and platform games.

Though most racing / driving, sports, and many simulation games contain action-oriented gameplay, they can be considered action games only if they specifically emphasize arcade-like, reflex-based gameplay.

Action games may include extensive non-violent exploration and/or puzzle-solving, or combine themselves with other genres, e.g. role-playing or driving.

Quick thinking is often required to succeed in action games; however, games that specifically emphasize quick thinking over reflexes are usually real-time strategy or puzzle games.

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Bactron Amstrad CPC (1986) and Thomson TO (1986) The game is flowing inside the body of critically ill patient. You as Bactron - a yellow blob of antibiotics...
Bad Blood DOS (1990) and Commodore 64 (1991) A nuclear war has turned the world into a wasteland. The pure-blooded humans have retreated in large cities while mutants...
Bad Boys: Miami Takedown GameCube (2004), PlayStation 2 (2004), Windows (2004) and Xbox (2004) This game is based on the Will Smith & Martin Lawrence buddy cop movie sequel Bad Boys II. You can...
Bad Company Amiga (1990) and Atari ST (1989) The plot of "Bad Company" is quickly told: Earth is dying and mankind needs new worlds to colonize, the Nu-Worlds....
Bad Dreams Windows (2004) Bad Dreams is perhaps the first horror-themed Breakout clone. You bounce a ball using a paddle and try to smash...
Bad Dudes DOS (1988), NES (1989), Apple II (1988), Atari ST (1988), Amiga (1988), Commodore 64 (1988), ZX Spectrum (1988), Amstrad CPC (1988), Zeebo (2010) and MSX (1988) This six-level action game was converted from a Data East coin-op. The gameplay involving beating a succession of guys to...
Bad Egg Browser (2008) Yum, yum, yum, yum! Easter eggs! But why wait for the Easter Bunny to hide them? Grab them all for...
Badlands Pete Amiga (1990) and Atari ST (1990) The gouvernor's daughters were kidnapped and he hires the desperado Badlands Pete to get them back. The player takes the...
Bad Street Brawler DOS (1987), NES (1989), ZX Spectrum (1987), Amiga (1994) and Commodore 64 (1987) In Bad Street Brawler, players take the role of the former punk rocker and current martial artist Duke Dunnegan, or...
Bad Toys Windows 3.x (1995) In Bad Toys, you are a factory man sent to destroy "toys" who have gone berserk and are getting smarter...
Bagitman Commodore 64 (1986) and TRS-80 CoCo (1983) You are a robber, whose goal is to collect bags of money in each of the three scenes and dump...
Bailout War$ iPhone (2009) Even though they already got paid, the bankers are still storming the White House in order to collect the rest...
Bakumatsu Roman Gekka no Kenshi: 1+2 PlayStation 2 (2006) This is a compilation of the two games in the Last Blade series: The Last Blade The Last Blade 2:...
Bakumatsu Roman: Last Blade 2-in-1 PlayStation 2 (2006) A compilation of both titles in the Last Blade series of 2D fighting games by SNK. Last Blade takes us...
Bakushō: Yoshimoto no Shinkigeki TurboGrafx CD (1994) The game is based on the comedy TV show Yoshimoto no Shinkigeki, which in its turn is based on a...
Balance DOS (1993) This German game of dexterity delivers what the title promises. Balance is a lesson in applied gravity: guide a ball...
Balance Macintosh (2008) and Windows (2008) In Balance the player's goal in each level is to get the ball to the exit by tilting the playing...
Baldr Bullet Windows (2000) At one point of the human history, a computer system was created that could manage everything that happened on Earth....
Baldr Force Windows (2002) In the future, cyberspace has become exceedingly dominant. Armed conflicts and cyber-terrorism flourished. Giant mechas known as Simulacrums are utilized...
Baldr Force EXE Dreamcast (2004), PlayStation 2 (2005) and Windows (2003) Baldr Force EXE is an enhanced release of Baldr Force. It adds a new weapon (gravity field), a "very easy"...
Baldrhead: Busō Kinyū Gaiden Windows (1999) In the future, technological excesses lead to never-ending conflicts between religious groups, newly-formed nobility and people of different social classes....
Baldr Sky Dive1: Lost Memory Windows (2009) During the course of the 21st century, nanomachines became more and more prevalent in daily life. Many humans chose to...
Baldr Sky Dive2: RECORDARE Windows (2009) RECORDARE is the second episode of Baldr Sky, directly continuing the story that was not concluded in the previous entry....
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance PlayStation 2 (2001), Xbox (2002) and GameCube (2002) Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance casts the player as one of three basic characters: an elf sorceress, a human archer, or...
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance Game Boy Advance (2004) This version of Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance follows the same story and has many gameplay similarities to the console release,...