Top rated Action games from 2021

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Vampire Survivors

Mow thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn!

poncle

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(1,432 total ratings)

Action

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Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(337 total ratings)

Action

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Red Handed

A stealth game where you have to get caught

Bad Piggy

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(1,297 total ratings)

Action

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Ruin Valley Demo

Metroidvania

Pavel Shibaev

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(329 total ratings)

Platformer

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10-103: NULL KELVIN

Infiltrate. Investigate. Exterminate.

Nerdspartan

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(198 total ratings)

Action

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Dome Romantik

Prospect. Upgrade. Survive.

bippinbits

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(510 total ratings)

Action

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Swallow the Sea

Take a Short Surreal Swim.

ItsTheTalia

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(305 total ratings)

Adventure

Ranita Fishing

A little frog on a fishing adventure 🐸🎣

Fáyer🔥

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(224 total ratings)

Adventure

Adventures of Julia

Brian_rt5000

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(78 total ratings)

Platformer

ENDLESS BLUE

An underwater Survival Horror Adventure - but what lies beyond the ocean's deepest depths?

mrdiv

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(286 total ratings)

Action

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The Lesser Evil

Survive 10 nights, each painstakingly harder as you get to pick a curse for yourself

Jon Topielski

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(303 total ratings)

Action

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HaachamaWare

HaachamaWare: The Game!

CenTdemeern1

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(191 total ratings)

Action

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satryn

a chaotic, infinite twin stick shooty ✨

maybell🌻

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(155 total ratings)

Action

Happy's Humble Burger Barn

Manage customers in this PSX themed Burger Chef Simulator!

Scythe Dev Team

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(319 total ratings)

Adventure

Unsung Warriors - Prologue

A 2D action-adventure game set in Iron Age inspired Europe.

Unsung Warriors

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(157 total ratings)

Action

Half Sword

Physical medieval combat simulator

Knives_Frank

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(175 total ratings)

Action

UNBEATABLE [white label]

An exclusive side-story demo set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' debut work.

D-CELL GAMES

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(84 total ratings)

Action

Kobold Siege

One-kobold siege against a whole castle!

Stopsignal

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(142 total ratings)

Action

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Sand: A Superfluous Game

$12.74

An open world, base-building, adventure survival game with quirky humor and Llamas!

Voided Pixels Studio

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(161 total ratings)

Action

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Had

let's get your stuff back!

Kultisti

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(161 total ratings)

Platformer

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Pathogen-X [Demo]

Retrieve the vaccine to a deadly mutative virus.

sodaraptor

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(163 total ratings)

Action

What Lives Below

8 months of development. Hunt sea monsters in this boss-rush-boat-sim-game

st3b

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(206 total ratings)

Action

Bittersweet Birthday

A challenging, half boss-rush, half adventure-exploration game where every encounter is a unique fight!

World Eater Games

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(126 total ratings)

Adventure

ONE BTN BOSSES

It's in the name. It's ONE BUTTON BOSSES, a boss rush with a single button.

Brin

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(178 total ratings)

Action

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A Firm Handshake

Reach out and touch your fellow man.

Torfi

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(313 total ratings)

Action

BLASTRONAUT

BLASTRONAUT is a mining game in a procedural alien world. Explore, extract and profit.

Perfoon

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(165 total ratings)

Adventure

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Seraph's Last Stand

A rogue-like shoot'em up based on the flash classic "Heli Attack".

Socket Lab

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(151 total ratings)

Action

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pureya

$4.99

A different game every 10 seconds!

Majorariatto

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(33 total ratings)

Action

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Sticky Cats

A 2-4 player competitive cat fishing game

The Bones Brothers

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(69 total ratings)

Action

The Kars

En iyi oyunumsun

lokistudios

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(39 total ratings)

Action

Arietta of Spirits

$14.99

A story-driven action-adventure game, following Arietta on her journey to unveil the mysteries of the Spirit Realm.

Third Spirit Games

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(101 total ratings)

Adventure

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Roborazzi

tin can photoshooter!

Kultisti

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(199 total ratings)

Action

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Enter the Chronosphere

A psychedelic roguelike that blurs the line between real-time action and turn-based tactics.

Effort Star

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(57 total ratings)

Action

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Mallory and the Marble Sanctum

Explore a mysterious desolate labyrinth in this pre-alpha Mallory demo

Ivan Khoroshev

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(88 total ratings)

Platformer

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ROOTS

Send your roots deeper and deeper ! (1h)

Pierre Vandermaesen

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(130 total ratings)

Action

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Olympus: Secret Services

Invisible, United, Powerful.

EKGfiction

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(80 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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