36 published games carry Steam's Action genre tag; 36 of them also carry the “Indie” tag.
Steam's "Action" genre is applied to a wide spread of games — shooters, platformers, hack-and-slash and fighting games, roguelikes — usually alongside a second, more specific label. The genre field is set by the developer or publisher on the store page; this site copies it as-is and does not re-classify games.
The games below are the published entries whose Steam genre field contains "Action". The card text under each one is this site's own summary of the game, not Steam's store description.
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by Halberd Studios · published by indie.io
9 Years of Shadows is a Metroidvania action-adventure following Europa, a warrior who wields music and light to restore color to a world consumed by darkness. Developed by Halberd Studios, it blends tight combat with exploration across interconnected areas unlocked through new abilities. The color-restoration mechanic ties aesthetics directly to progression, shifting environments visually as you advance.
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by Frictional Games
Amnesia: The Bunker places you in a WW1 underground bunker hunted by a single AI-driven monster that dynamically responds to sound and light. Unlike earlier Amnesia titles, it emphasizes resource management — fuel for the generator, ammo scavenged from lockers — and allows more agency than pure hiding. The monster's behavior is procedural rather than scripted, making each run feel different.
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by The Game Kitchen · published by Team17
Blasphemous is a 2D action-platformer set in Cvstodia, a fictional world of extreme Catholic-inspired imagery and body horror, developed by The Game Kitchen. Combat is deliberate and execution-focused, with parry windows and unlockable abilities. The aesthetic draws heavily on Spanish Renaissance religious art, making it visually distinct from most pixel-art games.
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by Maddy Makes Games Inc., Extremely OK Games, Ltd. · published by Maddy Makes Games Inc.
Celeste is a precision platformer about Madeline climbing Celeste Mountain, developed by Maddy Makes Games. Each screen is a self-contained challenge built around tight jumping and dashing mechanics, with a narrative about anxiety and self-doubt that develops through dialogue and environmental storytelling. An Assist Mode lets you modify game speed and dash count, making it accessible without removing the default challenge.
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by Panic Ensues Software
Crash Dive 2 is a tactical submarine simulation set in the WWII South Pacific, developed by Panic Ensues Software. It places you in command of a US submarine managing torpedo attacks, depth-charge evasion, and crew assignments across procedurally generated patrol missions. The game is single-developer and targets players who want simulation depth without the complexity of full sim titles like Silent Hunter.
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by Massive Monster · published by Devolver Digital
Cult of the Lamb combines a roguelite dungeon crawl with a base-building cult management sim. Between runs you build facilities for your followers — assigning tasks, managing their faith and needs, performing rituals — while the runs themselves provide resources and unlock new doctrines. Developed by Massive Monster and published by Devolver Digital, it received significant post-launch content updates including online co-op.
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by Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc.
Cuphead is a run-and-gun game where nearly every level is a boss fight, with gameplay and art direction faithfully recreating 1930s Fleischer Studios animation through hand-drawn cel animation and watercolor backgrounds. Developed over seven years by a two-person team at Studio MDHR, it is demanding by design — each boss requires memorizing attack patterns across multiple phases. Two-player local co-op is supported throughout.
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by Motion Twin
Dead Cells is a roguelite action-platformer where each run through a procedurally generated castle is independent, with no checkpoints and permanent death. Combat is fast and punishing, with a weapon build assembled through each run that defines your playstyle for that attempt. Lore and world-building are delivered through environmental fragments rather than cutscenes. Extensive DLC expansions add new biomes, weapons, and a bestiary of new enemies.
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by 800 North and Digital Ranch
Dino D-Day is a 2011 multiplayer FPS built on the premise that the Nazi regime employed dinosaurs in WWII combat. Players choose Allied or Axis factions (the latter including dinosaur characters). As a novelty premise game from 2011, its player base is effectively inactive — the game's value is primarily as a quirky historical artifact.
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by Door 407
Diplomacy is Not an Option is a medieval fantasy RTS where you command a town against endless waves of enemies — thousands of units attacking simultaneously in battles that escalate toward the absurd. You build defenses, raise armies, and manage resources between assaults. The Steam Workshop enables custom maps and scenarios. Developer Door 407 targets players who enjoy being overwhelmed by escalating scale.
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by Klei Entertainment
Don't Starve Together is the standalone multiplayer expansion of Don't Starve, letting up to 6 players share a survival world. The cooperative survival loop remains — gathering resources, building a base, surviving seasons and boss events — but coordination adds social complexity to the resource management. The game receives ongoing free content updates including new biomes and characters.
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by Humble Hearts LLC · published by Xbox Game Studios
Dust: An Elysian Tail is a single-player action RPG created almost entirely by one developer (Humble Hearts), with hand-painted backgrounds and fluid combo combat centered on a spin attack and AI-companion Fidget's projectile spam. The game runs approximately 10 hours and tells a linear story through voiced characters. It won the 2012 Xbox Live Arcade Game of the Year.
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by Mediatonic
Fall Guys is a free-to-play massively multiplayer party royale game where up to 60 players compete in absurd obstacle courses, balance challenges, and team games, with players eliminated until one winner remains. Mediatonic (acquired by Epic) shifted it to free-to-play in 2022, expanding the player base significantly. A community course builder lets players create and share custom rounds.
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by Supergiant Games
Hades is Supergiant Games' roguelite dungeon crawler set in the Greek underworld, where Zagreus attempts to escape Tartarus while navigating his fraught relationship with his father Hades. Each run develops the narrative through conversations with Olympians, shades, and contractors, making the story progress through failure as much as success. Weapon variety and boon combinations from Olympian gods define each run's feel.
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by Supergiant Games
Hades II is the Early Access sequel by Supergiant Games, following Melinoë in the realm of Erebus with an expanded roster of weapons (10 vs. 6), new Olympian boon combinations, and a significantly different setting from the original. Early Access pricing makes it cheaper than a full-release game; the final content and balance are not yet complete.
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by Team Cherry
Hollow Knight is Team Cherry's Metroidvania set in Hallownest, a vast underground kingdom of bugs. Its map is interconnected and layered with secrets — areas unlock as you acquire new movement abilities, and most of the game's lore is delivered through scattered environmental detail rather than explicit narration. The combat is deliberate and demanding, with precise parry (soul) mechanics for progression through the game's optional Colosseum and boss rush content.
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by Cracked Atom
JezzBall Atomic is an indie remake of the classic Windows 95 JezzBall game by Cracked Atom. The objective is to fill a percentage of the screen by drawing walls while atoms bounce around the space, avoiding them during wall construction. It updates the original's presentation with modern UI while preserving the core mechanic.
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by Zeekerss
Lethal Company is a co-op horror game where 1–4 players scavenge abandoned industrial moons for scrap to meet a corporate profit quota each cycle. Each moon has randomized monster placements and loot, and dying forfeits all collected items for that round. Tension comes from balancing greed against survival as higher-value moons host increasingly dangerous creatures.
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by Borealys Games
Mages of Mystralia is an action-adventure where spell crafting is the central mechanic — players combine modular rune components to design spells with custom behaviors, trajectories, and effects. The game was developed with input from author Brandon Sanderson, whose magic-system philosophy shaped the modular rune design. Exploration and environmental puzzle-solving reinforce the spell-crafting loop throughout.
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by peropero · published by hasuhasu
Muse Dash is a side-scrolling rhythm game where players tap and hold to the beat while defeating enemies and dodging obstacles synchronized to the music. The game features an extensive anime-styled song library spanning J-pop, electronic, and classical arrangements with difficulty tiers from beginner to expert. Most of the song catalog requires purchasing DLC packs beyond the base game.
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by Charge Games · published by Digerati, Doyoyo Games
Overloop is a puzzle-platformer built around recording and looping your own movement, then interacting with past actions as physical entities in the same level. Players coordinate their current self with stacked ghost recordings to solve timing-sensitive environmental puzzles. Mechanical complexity escalates as recordings accumulate and must interact with each other and the environment simultaneously.
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by Owlcat Games · published by META Publishing, Owlcat Games
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is Owlcat Games' deep CRPG based on the Pathfinder ruleset, set during a demonic crusade in a besieged city. The Enhanced Edition adds the Inevitable Excess epilogue DLC, balance patches, and mythic power systems that grant near-deity-level abilities in later acts. Character creation spans hundreds of feat, class, and mythic path combinations requiring significant system knowledge.
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by Circle Five Studios, Pub Games · published by Circle Five Publishing
Primal Carnage: Extinction is an asymmetric multiplayer shooter pitting teams of human mercenaries against player-controlled dinosaurs across objective-based maps. Human classes use firearms and equipment while dinosaur classes have unique movement, bite mechanics, and special abilities. The game is a niche title with a small but dedicated playerbase.
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by yayapipi · published by Yayapipi Studio
Pulut Adventure is a Malaysian indie platformer featuring a sticky-rice-inspired character navigating vibrant environments drawn from Southeast Asian visual culture. The game focuses on accessible platforming mechanics with collectibles and level exploration rather than challenging combat. It represents a growing wave of Southeast Asian indie games bringing regional cultural aesthetics to the genre.
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by BiscuitPlay
Red Forest is an indie atmospheric adventure set in a dark and hostile forest environment, blending exploration with survival elements and occasional combat encounters. Players navigate dense woodland areas uncovering environmental storytelling while managing limited resources. The game prioritizes mood and tension over mechanical complexity.
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by Hopoo Games · published by Gearbox Publishing
Risk of Rain 2 is a third-person roguelite where item stacking fundamentally alters character behavior over each run, with hundreds of items combining in often unpredictable and intentionally overpowered ways by late game. Difficulty scales with time rather than deaths, creating pressure to progress quickly through each level. The Survivors of the Void DLC adds new characters, items, and a final act.
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by Psyonix LLC
Rocket League is a competitive vehicular soccer game where rocket-powered cars hit an oversized ball into the opponent's goal, with a skill ceiling built around aerial maneuvers, boost management, and team rotation. It went free-to-play in 2020 under Epic Games ownership. Ranked modes span competitive tiers with millions of active players across platforms.
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by Nezon Production
Shieldwall is an indie tactical strategy game simulating the collision of historical shield wall formations in medieval-style battles. Players position and maneuver infantry units before engagements resolve through formation physics and unit morale systems. The casual classification reflects accessibility over deep wargame simulation.
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by Offworld
Squad is a 50-versus-50 player military simulation shooter built around squad coordination, logistics, and communication rather than individual gunplay skill. Squad leaders coordinate with commanders for fire support and construction of forward operating bases that shape the battle's geography. Gameplay emphasizes infantry positioning, vehicle crewing, and resupply chains over twitch reflexes.
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by Re-Logic
A 2D sandbox action-adventure game where exploration, crafting, and boss progression interlock tightly. The world generates differently each run, and gear progression follows a clear path through 20+ bosses across pre-hardmode and hardmode phases.
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by Leonard Menchiari, Daniele Vicinanzo, Giulio Perrone · published by Playsaurus
A faithful remake of a 1987 CGA game with deliberate 2-bit graphics aesthetics and methodical platforming combat. The game's visual and audio design are its primary distinction — mechanical depth is modest but the atmosphere is exceptional.
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by Endnight Games Ltd
A first-person open-world survival horror game where a plane crash survivor must build shelters and fight cannibal mutants. The combination of crafting, exploration, and enemy AI creates emergent tension, especially in co-op. VR support is included.
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by Geoff 'Zag' Keene, Deep Field Games · published by Deep Field Games, New Blood Interactive
A free-to-play asymmetric online multiplayer game where most players work to survive and escape while one or more hidden monsters try to eliminate the crew. The social deduction layer requires communication and trust between players.
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by Smartly Dressed Games
A free-to-play zombie survival game with blocky low-poly aesthetics, extensive Steam Workshop modding support, and a long history of active development by a solo developer. Supports large multiplayer servers with PvP and PvE modes.
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by Iron Gate AB · published by Coffee Stain Publishing
A Norse mythology survival and exploration game for up to 10 players where progression unlocks through defeating biome bosses. The building system is detailed, the sailing and exploration create a genuine sense of discovery, and the world is procedurally generated.
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by poncle
A bullet-hell auto-battler where character movement is your only input and weapon selection drives build strategy. Runs last 20–30 minutes, passive weapon evolution creates dramatic power scaling, and the loop is deliberately simple to pick up in short sessions.
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