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.
 Game Title |
Xbox 360 (2011) Aban Hawkins & the 1000 Spikes is a self-described "hardest extremest craziest platform action puzzle adventure", which is a surprisingly... |
Windows (2003) Abashera is a first person maze/platform game. Your mission is to find, and sometimes activate, the exit by solving different... |
CD-i (1992) ABC Sports Presents: Power Hitter is a baseball game for the CD-i. The game only lets you bat, the rest... |
DOS (1991) and Amiga (1991) STORY
You play a rookie boxer trying to fight your way to the top. Fight bouts to win money, to... |
Xbox 360 (2010) In Abduction Action! the player takes on the role of an alien in control of a UFO. It is invading... |
J2ME (2005) Aberrance is a futuristic side-scrolling shooter. You control a hero with a jet pack through three organic levels, each with... |
Atari 2600 (2002) A Better Pac-Man in an alteration of the official Atari 2600 Atari release of Ms. Pac-Man. The music and graphics... |
DOS (1991) ABM is an EGA graphic remake of Missile Command. In this game you must stop missiles from coming down to... |
iPhone (2009) ABM Command (formerly DEFCON 1) is a missile defense game. The game is split into three phases:
In the defense... |
DOS (1996) Abmis the Lion, King of the Beasts, has a problem: all of his kingdom's potatoes have been stolen, without which... |
Browser (2012) Abobo's Big Adventure is a parody tribute to well-known and loved games of the NES era. Players control Abobo, an... |
Windows (2007) Abo Hadeed is a 3D, third person shooter inspired by the Egyptian environment.The game takes place entirely in modern-day Egypt.... |
Xbox 360 (2009) A Bomb's Way is a 2D platformer that puts the player in the role of a bomb whose fuse has... |
Wii (2009) The far-off kingdom of Blobolonia is threatened by an evil emperor. An alien blob escapes from Blobolonia, searching for help,... |
Atari 8-bit (1983) Abracadabra is a simple arcade game starring a young wizard who has to collect keys in the maze-filled wizard’s castle... |
Xbox 360 (2009) Abronium Party puts the player in control of a spinning disc, shown from a top-down view, that shoots around the... |
Windows (2005) Absolute Blue is a side-scrolling casual shooting game set in a sci-fi setting. The player is given the control of... |
DOS (1996) Absolute Pinball is a pinball game which features four tables with different themes: Desert Run (car tour from Paris to... |
Windows (2000) Absolute Terror is a single player space shooter.Earth's colonies are revolting. What is worse, their forces are winning because they've... |
DOS (1995) and Macintosh (1995) In the 24th century, on the frozen Jovian moon of Europa, earth has established a colony to extract water from... |
Browser (1998) Having no connection whatsoever with the identically-titled game by Domark, this Absolute Zero is a shoot 'em up in which... |
Xbox 360 (2010) The gameplay of Absorb revolves around a blob that has to change colour in order to destroy enemies and absorb... |
Xbox 360 (2008) Abstacked is a Tetris variant where the player needs to clear stars. Pieces drop down in pairs, can be rotated,... |
Browser (2008) Abstracta is a flash-based, semi-abstract, meditative shooter. The gameplay consists in controlling a blue blob with the mouse, collecting and... |
Linux (1995), DOS (1995), Macintosh (1996), Amiga (1998), iPhone (2009) and Acorn 32-bit (1998) It is the unimaginably distant year 2009. You are Nick Vrenna, falsely locked inside a high security prison. The genetic... |
