Games - Action (45)

Wire Hang Redux is a simple yet very addictive game where you use your grappling hook to vault your character up and avoid falling below the screen. Great time-waster.

Gusanos is a fully moddable Liero clone designed to run on modern operating systems. Liero is a classic game that bridges the gap between Worms and Quake, making a fast and furious deathmatch fragfest in 2D. Playable online, one-on-one or against bots, the program includes with plenty of options and maps.

Warning: This game contains excessive low-detail blood and gore.

T2002 is a remake of the classic Amiga game Turrican. Note that there is a smaller version for Win2K/XP, and another larger version for Win98 and up.

Atomic Butcher is a side-scrolling action game in the spirit of Abuse, but much more violent and graphic. Battle across the radiation-warped wasteland of Earth in search for meat to feed your shelter, using the mouse to aim and the keyboard to move.

Warning: NOT for the easily offended, as it contains plenty of blood, gore and urine. There is also a package offered that does not contain the music files, which cuts the size in half (roughly 30 megabytes).

Note: Official site offline -- linking to Softpedia mirror

Duck Doom Deluxe is the classic Nintendo game Duck Hunt with a DooM twist. Blast ducks out of the sky with DooM weaponry, including the rocket launcher and BFG. Allows you to play with either one or two ducks on two difficulty levels.

Tsunami 2010 is an "updated" version of the arcade classic, Tsunami. It features gorgeous 3D effects, special attacks, built-in chiptunes or user-defined background music, 100 different stages, and 14 different enemies. Thanks to procedural generation of the visuals and music, Tsunami 2010 is only around 100 KB.

Endless Fire is an abstract vector shoot-em-up. There are an infinite number of enemies that evolve to become more aggressive over time. The spread shot increases your multiplier while the stream shot increases your score.

Pekka Kana 2 is an oldschool 2D platformer where you control a rooster called Pekka. Your mission in Pekka Kana 2 is to save Pekka's chicken friends from an evil crow. There is also a level editor to create your own stages.

Attack of the Mutant Camels - the title quite literally says it all. A sidescrolling shooter where you capture cute animals and blast down the "meanies." Great graphics, sound, and gameplay.

Wok is a simple and addictive game in which you toss paper to the right side of the screen with the mouse. Higher scores are achieved by collecting many balls in the wok and throwing them all at once. If any paper falls to the bottom of the screen, the game is over.

Mu-cade is a very unique shooter that is reminiscent of Centipede and the old classic Nibbles, with a healthy dose of smooth physics and King of the Hill gameplay. Keep from falling off the edges by pushing enemies off the playfield, either with bullets or your ever-growing tail. The physics engine allows you to use this tail in a variety of ways, and you can sacrifice your tail to wipe out enemy bullets and gain a little boost in shot power. However, keeping a long tail will give you large multipliers for points.

Nomltest FS is a very slick space shooter with an interesting mixture of old-school graphics and new-school effects. Features a unique "bullet eating system" which rewards the player for keeping themselves in dangerous situations. There are three different shot patterns (each with its own effect on the bullet eating range and ship speed) as well as a few unlockable modes.

Invisible vision is a game of undersea submarine combat where sound is your greatest ally and your biggest foe. The wireframe ocean around you ripples with the sound of engines and torpedoes for beautiful effects and vital information about your battlefield. Complete with bosses, different choices of music and color schemes, and bonuses for exemplary combat achievements. (Z key fires torpedoes)

Gunroar is a top-down shooter that lives up to its name. You pilot a boat and are pitted against boats of all strengths and sizes as well as mounted turrets. No real story, just adrenaline-pumping action which you can share with a friend in the Double Play mode.

Tumiki Fighters is a side-scrolling shoot-em-up with a fun twist: the enemies you shoot down can be captured and added to your own arsenal, each of which gives you bonus points every second. The broken parts you collide with will stick to your ship and fire normally at your enemies, and also serve as extra layers of defense. There is also a "slow" key which reduces your movement and hides all attached pieces to prevent them from being destroyed.

Torus Trooper is a 3D shooter that is all about speed and high scores. Race against the clock with guns blazing, hunting all the little ships and boss ships you possibly can while avoiding all of their shots. Reaching certain scores and destroying bosses will add some time, though losing a ship will knock you down by 15 seconds.

Speed Shooter is a unique cross between a card game and an arcade game. There are four endless stocks of cards that are controlled by the keys [Z,X,C,V]. Each key throws a card onto the playing field. If the space on the playing field contains a card that is either directly above or below the card's value, it is destroyed and can possibly trigger a chain reaction on the surrounding cards.

Racer is a car simulation project using professional car physics papers to achieve a realistic feel. Cars, tracks and such can be created quite easily. Editors and support programs are also available to get a very customizable and expandable simulator.

Note: Racer requires ATi or nVidia graphics card as well as DirectX 8 and above to function properly.

Space Invaders OpenGL is a 2D/3D game based on the old arcade classic in which you must destroy enemy ships by shooting them up. It should run on any machine with a 3D accelerator card and OpenGL drivers.