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Action games. Wide category of games that require reflex, accuracy and agility. It includes, among other things, shooters (e.g. Call of Duty and Battlefield series) and action-adventure games (Tomb Raider). First and third person perspective (FPP/TPP) is used. In most cases we are playing as a character who has to defeat some enemies and reach a specific point. We can use a wide range of weapons, including pistols, rocket launchers, swords, knives and like. Action-adventure is a particular category within action games genre. Such titles put less emphasis on action and combat, focusing more on story, exploration and puzzles.

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Prey: Mooncrash
Prey: Mooncrash

Action 11 June 2018

Prey: Mooncrash is a DLC for the action came by Arkane. The expansion adds a new mission with roguelike elements, in which you have to make your way through a dangerous lunar base, where challenges, dangers, and rewards are randomly generated with each playthrough.

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Mothergunship
Mothergunship

Action 17 July 2018

A roguelike FPS, in which the players must exhibit great skill and quick fingers, fighting and dodging a storm of bullets from many ships of a hostile armada. Randomly generated levels provide more and more challenges, while the unique weapon creation system lets us create true avatars of destruction in gun form, like ten-barrel rocket-launcher or welded miniguns.

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Fade to Silence
Fade to Silence

Action 30 April 2019

Fade to Silence is a survival action game set in a post-apocalyptic world and developed exclusively for PC Windows. The player assumes the role of a man trying to survive during the eternal winter. On their adventures, the players have to gather resources, build shelters, recruit allies, and fight monsters that roam the ice-bound locations.

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Assault Gunners HD Edition
Assault Gunners HD Edition

Action 20 March 2018

A remastered edition of the 2012 Assault Gunners released in Japan for PlayStation Vita. Assault Gunners HD Edition is a 3D action game allowing the players to control giant mechs. The game was developed by Shade Inc.

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Machine Hunter
Machine Hunter

Action 31 August 1997

A shooting in which we observe the action from a top-down perspective. In Machine Hunter we play the role of a soldier equipped with a special suit allowing him to take control of the robots, which in turn gives him access to the arsenal used by them. This is important as the Eurocom Entertainment Software studio takes us to Mars, and our task is to counter the attack from aggressive aliens.

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Desolate
Desolate

Action 17 January 2019

A first-person perspective survival-horror game developed by Nearga. In Desolate the players assume the role of Volunteers who are sent to island Granichny to examine the paranormal activities and gather information required for removing the repercussions of a disaster that occurred there two years ago. The title can be played alone, although it becomes more interesting in four player cooperation mode.

PC

Battle Royale Trainer
Battle Royale Trainer

Action 04 January 2018

Battle Royale Trainer is an unusual production, in which you are provided with comfortable conditions to train participating in matches typical for 3D shooters of the battle royale genre. The game features two camera modes (TPP and FPP), various kinds of weapons, and customizable AI.

PC

Total Eclipse Turbo
Total Eclipse Turbo

Action 29 August 1995

A rail shooter that is one of the PlayStation 1 starting titles. In Total Eclipse Turbo, we sit at the helm of a futuristic fighter and fight against the sinister Drak-Sai race, which intends to lead to a premature supernova sun. The action is observed from the camera following the ship, and the struggle takes place both over the surface of the four planets, as well as in their underground tunnels.

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Blast Radius
Blast Radius

Action 30 July 1998

Prepared by Psygnosis studio, authors of the Colony Wars series, a space shooter with a high degree of difficulty. Production focuses on the arcade model of fun, testing the player's skills in a number of dynamic missions.

PS1

Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

Action 20 November 2000

Brawler based on the motifs of an animated series known in Poland as Batman of the future. Players take on the role of Terry McGinnis, the new Nietoper Man, whose task is to solve the mystery behind the return of the famous Joker and stop him from implementing the next evil plan.

PS1

Battlefield 1: Revolution
Battlefield 1: Revolution

Action 21 August 2017

A complete edition of one of installments in the popular first-person shooter series from DICE that was originally released in 2016. This time the player arrives at the battlefields of World War I as one of soldiers fighting in that great conflict. Gameplay in Battlefield 1: Revolution is a bit different from several previous games, bringing back larger, more open maps and the freedom known from the first entries in the series.

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Dark Devotion
Dark Devotion

Action 25 April 2019

Dark Devotion is a two-dimensional action game by French team Hibernian Workshop. Production takes us to the gloomy fantasy land, ruled by omnipotent church. Players control the warrior trained by the religious order, sent on a mission to purify the cursed temple. During the game we deal mainly with exploration, solving puzzles and most of all fighting. Skirmishes are played at a slow pace, requiring the right timing of attacks and effective anticipation of enemies' movements.

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World of Warships: Legends
World of Warships: Legends

Action 12 August 2019

World of Warships: Legends is a free MMO game developed by Wargaming.net, where you take control of your own warship. The creators faithfully reproduced the external appearance and technical parameters of several dozen different models of 20th-century naval vessels. Naval battles between players combine simulation and arcade elements.

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Project Overkill
Project Overkill

Action 12 September 1996

Maintained in a dark shoot'em up style, in which the action is presented in isometric projection. The production hands over to the player four mercenaries with different skills.

PS1

New Gundam Breaker
New Gundam Breaker

Action 22 June 2018

The fourth entry in the Gundam Breaker brawler series, in which the players are fighting by using Gunpla toys. In addition to fighting, the players are tasked with modifying the toy models by painting them or changing various parts.

PCPS4

WRATH: Aeon of Ruin
WRATH: Aeon of Ruin

Action 27 February 2024

A shooter in which we find ourselves in a dark fantasy world, in order to get rid of the remaining guardians of the Old World and hordes of horrifying enemies as a stranger. WRATH: Aeon of Ruin is the work of an experienced 3D Realms team and is based on the Quake Engine.

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Zombie Panic in Wonderland DX
Zombie Panic in Wonderland DX

Action 25 January 2019

A shooter belonging to the sub-genre of the so-called rail-shooters, in which we play the characters known from various fairy tales and legends. Zombie Panic in Wonderland DX is a conversion of the game from the Nintendo Wii console. The Japanese developer Akaoni Studio is responsible for its creation.

Switch

Maid of Sker
Maid of Sker

Action 28 July 2020

An interesting survival horror, inspired by the famous Welsh story of Elizabeth Williams and the Sker House. The production was developed by Wales Interactive, a Welsh studio, as part of the Creative Europe Programme - MEDIA.

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Darksburg
Darksburg

Action 23 September 2020

An action game with survival elements, designed for four-person cooperation. While playing in Darksburg, players take on the role of daredevils fighting against hordes of zombies, which captured the title town.

PC

Jets'n'Guns 2
Jets'n'Guns 2

Action 24 July 2020

The second part of the shoot'em up series, in which we sit at the helm of a space fighter, fighting with numerous enemy forces. The high pace of Jets'n'Guns 2 is amplified not only by the ubiquitous explosions, but also by the dynamic soundtrack.

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Turok Remastered
Turok Remastered

Action 17 December 2015

A remastered edition of the cult first-person shooter from Iguana Studio, released back in 1997 for Nintendo 64 and PC. The comic book-inspired character of Turok, a Native America named Tal Set, fulfills a centuries-long tradition of his people, serving as Mother Earth's protector from dangers posed by the inhabitants of the Lost Land.

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Shakedown Hawaii
Shakedown Hawaii

Action 07 May 2019

An old-school open-world action game and a sequel to Retro City Rampage developed by Vblank Entertainment. The action of Shakedown Hawaii takes place 30 years after the events presented in its predecessor. The protagonist has grown really old and got himself a large belly. Dramatic events forced him to take up arms once again and to rebuild his crime empire.

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Heliborne
Heliborne

Action 12 October 2017

An action combat game that combines elements of multiplayer shooters and arcade helicopter simulators. Heliborne is a debut production of JetCat Games. Mechanically, gameplay draws inspirations from MMO games, such as World of Tanks and World of Warplanes. The game features dozens of helicopter models from different countries and decades.

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Tom Clancy's The Division: Underground
Tom Clancy's The Division: Underground

Action 28 June 2016

Underground is the first paid expansion that comes as a part of the season pass for The Division, a multiplayer online action game by Ubisoft Massive. Initially, the DLC was made available for Xbox One and after a month-long period of exclusivity, it came out for other platforms: PC and PlayStation 4. The division is a political thriller the action of which takes place in a plague-torn New York.

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