Sometimes you just want to play the hero. These games are violent and include shooting but, as with B-movies and 1980s TV series, it’s as much about the quips, characters and fantasy settings as it is about killing. The drama may be peppered with cinematic gunfire but, like those TV series, the real draw is spending time with the heroes every week.
This list includes 80 games from the last 20 years, with 864 likes. They come from a range of different genres and play-styles and are all good games if you want to take on baddies with fists and guns.
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Content Rating: PEGI 7
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Adventure, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @Wishfully_Games
Players: This is a single player game
Planet of Lana is an adventure where you play a young girl Lana and her loyal animal friend Mui, on a rescue mission. Set on a planet under siege from cold machines and unfamiliar creatures. Rather than the war, though, this is a game about the vibrant...
Content Rating: PEGI 16
Skill Rating: 14-18 year-olds
Release Date: 19/11/2016, updated in 2017
Platforms: PS3 and PS4
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Shooting
Accessibility: 25 features
Developer: @Naughty_Dog
Players: You can play this with 10 players online
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is an action-adventure game set several years after the events of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. You play Nathan Drake, a happily married former treasure hunter coaxed out of retirement by his brother. This leads into...
Skill Rating: 8-11 year-olds
Release Date: 01/08/2017
Price: Free
Platforms: Android, PC, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action and Role-Playing
Accessibility: 1 feature
Developer: @Badimo
Players: You can play this with 30 players online
Jailbreak is a popular Roblox game about escaping prison and getting away with various crimes. Based on the popular Prison Life and Madcity Roblox games, but adds a large open world in which you could drive vehicles, earn weapons and rob various...
Content Rating: PEGI 12
Release Date: 25/05/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Accessibility: 29 features
Developer: @Experiment1O1
Biomutant is an open world role-play adventure game where you play a Raccoon warrior in a large world filled with mutated animals. Exploring this living breathing ecosystem has the feel of Zelda Breath of the Wild, but in a broken down steampunk...
Release Date: 27/09/2020
Platforms: Android, PC, PS4 and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World and Role-Playing
Accessibility: 22 features
Developer: @GenshinImpact
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Genshin Impact is a role-playing adventure set in a fantastical open world you explore by walking, climbing, swimming and gliding as necessary. Like the Zelda games, you can collect items, and craft new weapons. However, in this game to create a party...
Release Date: 08/08/2017, updated in 2018
Price: 44% off
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @Survivetheark
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 8 players online
This game offers hunting-and-harvesting gameplay in a primal setting. Although not as polished or streamlined as a game like Horizon Zero Dawn, this is a more ambitiously open world where you can choose your own way to survive. With crafting and...
Expected Content Rating: PEGI 7
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure and Platform
Developer: @StarsoftPDX
Savior is an action adventure game with hand-animated pixelated graphics. You play as Sam, a mysterious woman with hidden powers and innate acrobatic skills who has lost her memory and all possessions. Use diplomacy, parkour, and intricate combat to...
Skill Rating: 10-16 year-olds
Release Date: 14/08/2014, updated in 2020
Price: 24% off
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Switch and Wii U
Genres: Action and Fighting
Developer: @KoeiTecmoUS
The Hyrule Warriors series of games are hack and slash action games, set in the Legend of Zelda Universe and focussed primarily on close combat against large groups of enemies. The latest in the series Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, merges the...
Release Date: 14/06/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android and iOS
Developer: @SuperCell
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 10 players online
Brawl Stars is a fighting game where you battle the computer or other players in all against all and team matches. You can play as any of the game's 50 plus characters, called "Brawlers", in an arena. The cartoon style lends the game a more lighthearted...
Release Date: 10/12/2014
Genres: Fighting
Accessibility: 15 features
Developer: @Kabam
Marvel Contest of Champions is a fighting game where you collect teams of Marvel characters to fight against computer-controlled characters. The fights are one versus one that work through increasingly harder opponents. It's novel because you can form...
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World and Role-Playing
Developer: @AvalancheSweden
Hogwarts Legacy is an open-world role play game set in the world of Harry Potter. You control a wizard character who starts as a student at Hogwarts but then ventures out on a dangerous journey with a mystery to solve. You design your character, learn...
Skill Rating: 11-16 year-olds
Release Date: 15/02/2012
Platforms: PS Vita
Accessibility: 24 features
Uncharted: Golden Abyss is an action-adventure game. It's a spin-off of the Uncharted series, although also a substantial experience in its own right that features the series protagonist, Nate. As with the other games you explore, run, jump and shoot...
Release Date: 10/02/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Accessibility: 5 features
Developer: @TarsierStudios
Little Nightmares II is a running and jumping game wrapped in a horror theme. You play a little boy named Mono who explores a dark and disturbing world. On your journey, you meet a little girl called Six and together you try to survive and uncover the...
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Release Date: 02/06/2020
Genres: Action and Shooting
Accessibility: 4 features
Developer: @Riotgames
Valorant is a team-based online shooting game, where two teams of five compete under the role of agents with unique abilities. It's designed to be competitive and requires considerable skill and practice to win matches. Between rounds players spend...
Skill Rating: 10-18 year-olds
Release Date: 15/11/2001, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Fighting, Narrative and Shooting
Accessibility: 19 features
Developer: @Halo
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 16 players online
Halo is the longstanding sci-fi shooting video game series that started when Halo: Combat Evolved launched alongside the Xbox in 2001. The franchise has featured on every Xbox platform since then, with Halo 5: Guardians serving as the latest entry in...
Release Date: 01/11/2011
Genres: Action, Adventure and Shooting
Accessibility: 20 features
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception is an action-adventure game and the third entry in the Uncharted series. In Uncharted 3 you once again take the role of Nathan Drake, treasure hunter, in the hunt for the lost city Ubar (also known as Atlantis of the...
Release Date: 23/08/2017
Platforms: PS4
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle and Shooting
Accessibility: 26 features
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy is an action-adventure game where you Chloe Frazer and your counterpart Nadine Ross seek the Tusk of Ganesh. Set in the Western Ghats mountain ranges of India in the midst of a civil war, it's the first Uncharted game not to...
Content Rating: PEGI 18
Release Date: 06/10/2014, updated in 2019
Price: 40% off
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure and Narrative
Accessibility: 14 features
Developer: @FeralGames
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 1 player online
Alien: Isolation is an adventure horror game set in space, remastered in 2019 from the 2014 game due to its popularity. You play Amanda who is trying to find out the truth behind her mothers disappearance. You explore Sevastopol, a decommissioned...
Release Date: 28/08/2019
Genres: Action, Narrative and Shooting
Accessibility: 31 features
Developer: @RemedyGames
This game is an outlandish paranormal fantasy where you are swept into a role as the new director of the Federal Bureau of Control agency of the ‘paranatural’. With impressive cinematic visuals and storytelling, your interactions involve exploring,...
Release Date: 30/03/2021
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Narrative, Open World, Puzzle, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @Rebellion
Evil Genius 2 is a tongue-in-cheek strategy game where you play the evil villain. You must build a detailed, functional lair from where you can take control of the world. Similar to Sim City and 2 Point Hospital, you use your resources wisely as you...
Skill Rating: 13-18 year-olds
Release Date: 01/03/2017
Platforms: PC and PS4
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Shooting
Accessibility: 30 features
Developer: @Guerrilla
Horizon Zero Dawn, and the follow-up game Horizon Forbidden West, has a post-apocalyptic feel familiar from movies like Planet of the Apes. It plunges you into an overgrown landscape with now-crumbling remnants of modern life where animalistic machines...
Release Date: 19/11/2007
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative and Shooting
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune is an action-adventure where you, treasure hunter Nathan Drake, follow in the footsteps of your ancestor Sir Francis Drake in search of El Dorado. You run, jump, fight, shoot, and explore a rich world that unfolds a film-like...
Release Date: 25/08/2009
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS3 and Xbox 360
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting and Open World
Accessibility: 13 features
Developer: @RocksteadyGames
Batman: Arkham Asylum is an open-world adventure game. It's the first game in the Batman: Arkham series. In the game, the Joker has taken over Arkham Asylum trapping Batman inside and watching him as he tries to escape, sending various enemies after him...
Release Date: 23/11/2017, updated in 2019
Genres: Action, Adventure, Simulation and Strategy
Distrust is a survival game where you try to survive after a helicopter crash at an arctic base. Inspired by The Thing film, this is a horror game that initially seems to be about surviving the wild, but soon descends into something darker and...
Release Date: 18/10/2011
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Accessibility: 21 features
Batman: Arkham City is an open world adventure, the second instalment in the Arkham series taking place one year after the events of Batman: Arkham Asylum. You play Batman fighting crime, and a dwindling reputation,...
Release Date: 23/06/2015
Platforms: PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Open World, Role-Playing and Shooting
Batman: Arkham Knight is the final installment of the Batman: Arkham series. Nine-months after the events of Batman: Arkham City, Gotham seems safer as crime drops significantly. All good things must come to an end, as it is Halloween night and the...
Release Date: 31/03/2020
Platforms: PC and Switch
Genres: Action, Fighting, Role-Playing and Turn-Based
Developer: @aNuChallenger
Treachery in Beatdown City is a fighting game with a retro pixilated art style. It combines the popular beat'em up mechanics from games like Double Dragon, where you take on enemy characters with fists, kicks and weapons, with role play elements....
Release Date: 13/10/2009, updated in 2015
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is an action-adventure game that puts you in the role of treasure hunter Nathan Drake. You head to Nepal looking for the lost city of Shambala, unfortunately, you're not the only one looking for it. On your journey, you'll...
Release Date: 14/05/2010
Platforms: PC, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Bright Falls is the sleepy Midwest setting for this Twilight Zone-style horror game. The action focuses on surviving attacks from possessed ‘Taken’ locals. You use flashlights to burn away the possession before dispatching them with firearms. It’s...
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Release Date: 25/10/2013
Platforms: PC, PS3, Wii U and Xbox 360
Genres: Action, Adventure and Open World
Batman: Arkham Origins is an open-world adventure game. It's the prequel game to the Batman: Arkham series, taking place about five years before the first game, in the early years of Batman's career as a crime-fighter. You explore Gotham, collect items,...
Expected Content Rating: PEGI 16
Release Date: 06/01/2020
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World and Strategy
Developer: @10tonsLtd
Dysmantle is a survival strategy game where you play a character emerging after the apocalypse. The world is now inhabited with dangerous creatures and you only have your bare hands to survive. It's novel because most items in the world can be destroyed...
Release Date: 30/11/2019
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Android, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Platform
Developer: @EricChahi
Another World (Out of This World in North America) is a retro cinematic running, jumping and shooting game about a young scientist who, as a result of a failed experiment finds himself on a dangerous alien world where he is forced to fight for his...
Release Date: 29/10/2020
Platforms: Android, Switch and iOS
Genres: Action, Role-Playing and Strategy
Developer: @Gimblll
Barbearian is a hectic action game where you fight through three-level missions by hacking and slashing hundreds of tiny enemies, collecting cash and rescuing minions to add to your army. It's a role play game you can take on in bite sized portions each...
Release Date: 31/01/2020
Genres: Action, Adventure, Shooting and Strategy
Developer: @DCyberCherries
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 8 players online
Hypercharge: Unboxed is a shooting game where you play a small toy from the 1990s in human-sized arenas like a toy shop, back garden and a garage. It combines base defence play with exploration and collection running and jumping in a wide range of...
Release Date: 05/06/2013, updated in 2015
Platforms: Android, PS Vita, PS4, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @Playdead
Control a small boy as he runs, jumps and climbs through a dark, silhouetted forest that clanks and hums with foreboding. As the age-rating suggests, he is killed in all manner of gruesome ways. But this is not without reason. Rather than violent...
Release Date: 24/06/2020
Platforms: Switch
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform and Shooting
Developer: @PlayNinjala
Players: You can play this with 8 players online
Ninjala is an online action battle game where you play colourful gum-chewing ninjas who compete in futuristic tournaments.
Skill Rating: 9-16 year-olds
Release Date: 04/11/2002, updated in 2016
Platforms: PS Vita, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5 and PSP
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Platform and Shooting
Developer: @InsomniacGames
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Ratchet & Clank looks more cartoony but still offers the B-movie-style action. As Ratchet, you explore planets and space stations, battling enemies with a variety of weapons and gadgets. Sidekick Clank sits on Ratchet’s back and offers more abilities,...
Release Date: 19/04/2017, updated in 2018
Genres: Action, Fighting and Platform
Developer: @AngryMobGames
Brawlout is a fighting game with 4-player battles in levels with lots of platforms. You try to knock the other players off and win the round. As you inflict damage you can hit them further. Like, Super Smash Bros you also have dash, melee and ranged...
Skill Rating: 12-16 year-olds
Release Date: 13/05/2020
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Shooting, Simulation and Strategy
Accessibility: 18 features
Developer: @GhostShip_Games
Deep Rock Galactic is shooting game where you play a team of dwarves in a totally destructible world. You explore caves and battle enemy hordes that are different each time you play (like Left 4 Dead).
Release Date: 24/06/2005, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, PS2, PS3, PS4, Stadia, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World and Shooting
Developer: @BlackForestTeam
Destroy All Humans! is an adventure game series that parodies Cold War-era alien invasion films. With open-world like a bit like Grand Theft Auto, you play the alien Crypto, tasked to gather DNA from humans and explore the open-world levels to do this....
Platforms: PS5
Horizon Forbidden West is a post-apocalyptic action-adventure where you explore an overgrown landscape with now-crumbling remnants of modern life. The story of Aloy continues as she sets out to investigate a plague terminating from an arcane frontier...
Release Date: 29/06/2016, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative and Platform
Inside is from the same developer as Limbo. As such, you play another boy in a dark dream-light and horrific world. Here though, it's more modern-day and realistic.
Release Date: 03/02/2021
Platforms: PC
Genres: Puzzle, Role-Playing and Strategy
Developer: @_FQteam
Loop Hero is a dungeon exploring adventure game where you use cards to create a world for your character to survive. Rather than control the hero yourself, you take the role of designer (or Dungeon Master) who use cards to create a world that is hard...
Release Date: 28/02/2005, updated in 2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Fighting, Role-Playing and Shooting
Accessibility: 28 features
Developer: @AspyrMedia
Star Wars: Republic Commando is a shooting game set in the Star Wars universe, where you complete missions as part of an elite squad of Clones. Still regarded as one of the best Star Wars games over 16 years after its initial release, its fast-paced...
Release Date: 25/02/2016
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Open World and Role-Playing
Accessibility: 23 features
Developer: @UbisoftBlueByte
Assassin's Creed Identity is an action-adventure video game that takes the city exploration, combat and narrative adventure to mobile devices. Set during the Italian Renaissance, you explore Rome, Firenze, and Monteriggioni as one of four different...
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Genres: Action, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @CanariGames
Lunark is a platform game with simple pixilated graphics that tell a cinematic story. It's similar to games like Flashback that were popular in the 80s and 90s. You run, jump, hang, climb, roll, and shoot your way through mysterious alien ruins, a...
Release Date: 04/06/2019
Platforms: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Platform, Puzzle, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @Pixelatto
Reventure is a running, jumping and flying game. Or, that's what it looks like. In fact, it's a game about discovering ways to die. The goal isn't the usual rescue the princess. Instead, you're on a scavenger hunt to discover the 100 different ways to die.
Release Date: 28/09/2011, updated in 2021
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, PS5, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Narrative, Role-Playing and Shooting
Developer: @EdmundMcMillen
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
The Binding of Isaac is a series of adventure games where you progress through randomly generated rooms, collecting items and fighting off monsters. It's a twist on the simple Zelda dungeon, with hundreds of enemies, room variations and upgrades. The...
Release Date: 14/06/2018, updated in 2019
Price: 33% off
Genres: Action, Fighting and Racing
Developer: @BugBearGames
Players: You can play this with 16 players online
Wreckfest is a racing game where you aim to destroy other people's cars. It focuses on demolition modes with classic American muscle cars and other unusual vehicles. Rather than racing, this is a physical challenge with cars crammed onto a small track,...
Release Date: 30/04/2015, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting, Strategy and Turn-Based
Developer: @BeholdStudios
Chroma Squad is a strategy game themed around the The Power Rangers TV show. Rather than the heroes, you play the stunt actors who quit the show to start their own Power Rangers-inspired series. Rather than kill enemies in the turn based encounters,...
Release Date: 01/09/2020
Genres: Fighting, Simulation and Turn-Based
Developer: @FightsGame
Fights in Tight Spaces is a turn based fighting game where you use your deck of cards to win combat battles in small rooms and other locations. As you progress you gain more cards and build a deck tailored to each battle.
Release Date: 01/10/2013, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Platform
Developer: @PaulCuisset
Flashback is a running and jumping game with a strong narrative. Made in the 90s it's similar to Another World and Prince of Persia.
Release Date: 12/11/2014, updated in 2018
Developer: @LoveShackers
Framed is a puzzle adventure where you re-arrange panels of an animated comic book to change the outcome and timeline of the story. With a noir-detective look, the puzzles start simply but soon get complex.
Release Date: 13/03/2018
Developer: @SeithCG
Ghost of a Tale is a swashbuckling adventure where you, as plucky rat Tilo, take on a rich world of evil creatures. It’s another game full of lore and backstory, although here it is medieval darkness rather than technological apocalypse. The work of a...
Release Date: 28/08/2020, updated in 2021
Genres: Action, Adventure and Puzzle
Developer: @CleverPlays
Players: You can play this with 2 players online
Operation: Tango is an espionage-themed cooperative adventure where two people play as agent or hacker. The agent explores the world while the hacker provides information and checks out the systems you encounter. You must communicate clearly to work...
Skill Rating: 13-15 year-olds
Release Date: 02/06/2021
Platforms: PC, Switch and iOS
Genres: Narrative
Developer: @inkleStudios
Overboard is a murder mystery narrative game played in reverse. You murder your husband at the start of the game and then try and get away with it. It's played on a ship where the characters are affected by your choices and change their actions...
Developer: @HappyHappyNemo
Players: You can play this with 6 players online
Party Animals is a fighting game where wobbly animal characters go toe-to-toe. Like Gang Beasts, the novelty is in the game physics that recreate realistic movement and impact with a cartoon rag-doll feel.
Release Date: 11/06/2021
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Platform and Shooting
Accessibility: 27 features
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is a running, jumping and shooting game. The latest in the series, Rift Apart focuses on jumping between parallel worlds.
Release Date: 02/10/2020
Platforms: PC and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Fighting, Open World and Shooting
Developer: @SystemicRxn
Players: You can play this with 3 players online
Second Extinction is team based shooting game, where squads of three work to kill mutated dinosaurs that have taken over the planet. You play one of a handful of survivors and must work with two other online players with weapons, abilities and skills to...
Skill Rating: 9-14 year-olds
Release Date: 16/06/2017
Developer: @NintendoAmerica
Arms is a fighting game where you brawl other players with your abnormally long arms. The play is simple with motion and button controls to move around and attack the enemy player in a boxing-style arena. It's like Wii-Sports Boxing but with many more...
Release Date: 10/07/2012, updated in 2013
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Narrative and Platform
Developer: @TequilaWorks
Deadlight takes the monochrome running, jumping and shooting action in a more mature direction and with a deeper and coherent story. It draws on older (and equally excellent) platform games Another World and Flashback. You control Randall Wayne, a...
Release Date: 23/11/2010
Platforms: PS3 and Xbox 360
Developer: @NinjaTheory
Enslaved, similar to Heavenly Sword offers a heady mix of heroic storytelling and narrative. You control a character called Monkey (played by Andy Serkis) in a third-person perspective and use power-staff combat moves, running...
Release Date: 02/01/2012, updated in 2020
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Wii U and iOS
Genres: Action, Platform and Shooting
Accessibility: 8 features
Developer: @BertilHorberg
Gunman Clive is a platform game where you traverse through a hand drawn western landscape, negotiating moving platforms, traps and enemies. Shooting is a major part of the game, and the player can pick up specialized weapons such as a spread shot,...
Release Date: 06/04/2020
Accessibility: 3 features
Developer: @wombatstuff
Gutwhale is a challenging shooting game set inside a whale. Unusually, you only have one single bullet, which you must continue to collect after each use if you want to shoot again. The game is split into three distinct levels, each with four sub-levels...
Release Date: 07/11/2017
Horizon Frozen Wilds extends the Horizon Zero Dawn post-apocalyptic action-adventure where you explore an overgrown landscape with now-crumbling remnants of modern life. The story of Aloy continues as she sets out to investigate a plague terminating...
Expected Content Rating: PEGI 3
Release Date: 12/06/2020
Platforms: Mac and iPhone, iPad
Developer: @ChineseRoom
Little Orpheus is a running and jumping game set in 1962 where you play Ivan Ivanovich as he explores lost civilisations, undersea kingdoms and prehistoric jungles. The game is played in retrospect as you explain your adventures to a general suspicious...
Skill Rating: 8-12 year-olds
Genres: Fighting and Shooting
Developer: @Animal_Labs
Rawmen is a jovial combat game where you sling soup rather than bullets. Similar to Splatoon, this offers a less violent alternative to shooting games that is also a huge amount of fun in its own right.
Release Date: 30/10/2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, Switch and iPhone, iPad
Genres: Fighting, Shooting, Strategy and Turn-Based
Developer: @TortugaTeam
Spaceland is a quick turn-based strategy game where you command sci-fi troopers to shoot, kick, blow up and destroy the enemy. It's a little like a game of chess as you equip and plan your missions, before carefully moving and attacking on your turn.
Release Date: 31/08/2017
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Mac, PC, PS Vita and PS4
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform, Puzzle and Role-Playing
Developer: @ImageForm
The SteamWorld Dig series are action platform games where you play steam-powered robots trying to recover their lost civilisation. The two games in the series draws on classics like Dig Dug, Rick Dangerous, Repton and Boulderdash.
Release Date: 25/04/2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, Stadia and Switch
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Role-Playing and Turn-Based
Accessibility: 9 features
SteamWorld Quest is also turn-based, but here you pick card abilities to attack enemies, which moves the strategy from prioritisation and shooting to combining attack and defence abilities effectively.
Release Date: 23/10/2020
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing and Shooting
Accessibility: 35 features
Developer: @Obsidian
The Outer Worlds is a futuristic role-playing game where you are a colonist working to thaw your team and colonise the planet. Exploring, talking, shooting; how you do this is up to you, in what soon becomes a tangle plot of corporate control and...
Release Date: 29/05/2019
Developer: @BlueManchuGames
Void *!@?* is a tongue-in-cheek shooting game, where you control misfit prisoners out of the Sargasso Nebula. You decide which shops to investigate, what to do and who to fight. When you die, you start again with some of the loot you've collected...
Release Date: 27/09/2019
Genres: Rhythm and Shooting
Developer: @widerightgames
Freedom Finger is a tongue in cheek game where you pilot a hand that can shoot from its middle finger. Along with the shooting, the game is music driven as you punch, grab, and pound enemies to smithereens. It takes the classic, Gradius and Nemisis...
Genres: Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @MinuteofIslands
Minute of Islands is a running, jumping and exploring game where you play Mo, a skilled tinkerer living in the dilapidated poisoned ruins of an ancient race of giants. You scavenge parts from their strange machines to get them running and clean the air....
Release Date: 12/10/2021
Genres: Action, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @TurtleRock
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 8 players online
Back 4 Blood is a multiplayer shooting game where a team of four players work together to survive zombie-infested areas.
Skill Rating: 6-12 year-olds
Release Date: 16/09/2019
Platforms: iPhone, iPad
Genres: Adventure, Puzzle and Turn-Based
Accessibility: 17 features
Developer: @Helvetica
Card of Darkness is a hand-animated adventure game where you attack enemies represented on cards. This isn't unusual. What is, however, are the small set of intricate rules and charm of each character.
Release Date: 12/11/2007
Platforms: PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting and Narrative
Heavenly Sword, similar to Enslaved, offers a heady mix of heroic storytelling and narrative. The fighting is styled on martial arts and the main character, Nariko, uses a weapon called the Heavenly Sword which changes into one of three forms depending...
Skill Rating: 10-14 year-olds
Release Date: 16/11/2015, updated in 2016
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, PS Vita, PS4, Stadia and Wii U
Genres: Action, Platform, Role-Playing, Shooting and Turn-Based
Steam-powered robots fighting for space supremacy sounds like the script for a 1950s B-movie. As in those matinee hits, the point here isn’t realism but interesting characters. Like the related games (SteamWorld Dig and SteamWorld Quest), SteamWorld...
Release Date: 17/09/2020
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Super Punch Patrol is a challenging fighting game where you traverse a hand drawn urban environment, battling waves of enemies with your bare fists and a variety of other hand to hand weapons.
Expected Content Rating: PEGI 12
Developer: @SkyPirateStudios
Wild River Outlaws is a classic arcade-style shooting game where you and a friend shoot your way through bandits and cowboys. With a western theme and inspired by the old Gain Ground and Ikari Warriors game, you rescue and recruit a posse of bandits,...
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