Action games by popularity
Packed with action. Fast reaction, swift input control and a quick eye are advantageous.
Salvation Prophecy
Action, Simulation, Strategy, Real-time Salvation Prophecy is a military space epic. Human, mutant, and robotic factions are at war for galactic domination. Battles rage as space fleets collide, and planet invasions...
Heroes of Newerth
Action, Role-playing, Real-time Heroes of Newerth, a session-based, multiplayer, Action-RPG, is heavily inspired by the popular Warcraft 3 mod, Defense of the Ancients (DotA), but with vast improvements in...
Brütal Legend
Action, Adventure, Strategy Brütal Legend is an action-adventure that marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom. Set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap, it’s a...
FLARE
Action, Role-playing Free Libre Action Roleplaying Engine is a simple game engine built to handle a very specific kind of game: single-player 2D action RPGs. Flare is not a reimplementation of an...
X-Blaster Dominator
Action, Arcade, Shooter, Shoot 'Em Up X-Blaster Dominator is a vertical scrolling shoot'em up in 2D available for Windows and Linux. This is an independent project that I made in C + + with SFML in ArchLinux. In this...
RUNNING WITH RIFLES
Action, Shoot 'Em Up RUNNING WITH RIFLES is a top-down sandbox shooter, with emphasis on cooperation, squad leading and being a tiny soldier in a big war. The events take place on an open world...
Unvanquished
Action, Shooter Unvanquished is a fast-paced, futuristic FPS with RTS elements, pitting technologically advanced humans against hordes of highly adaptable aliens. The player can choose from...
Urban Terror
Action, Shooter, Total conversion Urban Terror started as a realism based "total conversion" mod for Quake III Arena. Nowadays, Urban Terror is played using the free, stand-alone, ioquake3 engine modified, which...
Counter-Strike 2D
Action 2D clone of the first person shooter Counter Strike. You can play it like Counter-Strike by Valve Software. Plant and defuse bombs, rescue hostages or escort the V.I.P. In...
Red Eclipse
Action, Shooter Red Eclipse is a Free and Open Source game, using SDL and OpenGL which allows it to be ported to many platforms.. The game is a single-player and multi-player first-person ego-...
Babylon 5: I’ve Found Her
Action, Simulation, Shooter Babylon 5: I've Found Her(IFH) is a freeware space combat simulator game developed by Space Dream Factory (SDF) and set in the universe of Babylon 5. It's storyline covers the...
FreeSpace 2 Open
Action, Shooter, Total conversion From the time it became apparent that there would be no FS3 the most repeated complaint the community had was that Volition wouldn't release the source code so that the community...
FreeSpace Port
Action, Shooter, Total conversion The FreeSpace Port is a user-made FreeSpace 2 port of the main Descent: FreeSpace campaign. The package ports all the mission, ship and weapon data from Descent: FreeSpace to...
Blue Planet
Action, Shooter, Total conversion Blue Planet is the overall name of a series of campaigns set 18 years after the events of FS2. The Blue Planet project focuses on storytelling first and foremost, detailing a...
Abuse
Action, Platform, Shoot 'Em Up Abuse is a dark 2D side-scrolling platform game. The protagonist of the game, Nick Vrenna, has been unjustly incarcerated in a prison where the staff are performing unethical...
