Shooters with a twist
Radius Raid puts you in an arena twice the size of your screen, steering with the keyboard and aiming with the mouse while new enemy types join each level. Bullet Hell Space Shooter fills the screen with bullet patterns across six levels, and gives you slow motion and bombs as a safety net.
Egg Time Rewind plays with time itself. Each death winds the clock back, and your earlier lives come back as ghost ships that fight alongside you. Tank Ricochet slows things down, since shells can bounce off stone walls, so the best shot often hits a wall first. A red line previews where each shell will travel.
Swords, spells and swarms
Stolen Sword needs only one finger. You pull back like a slingshot, see a faint path, and let go to launch your swordsman through the air while time slows almost to a stop. Norman the Necromancer has you lob green spells at angry villagers, then raise the fallen as skeletons who fight on your side.
Emoji Horde is a survival challenge. Your weapons attack on their own while you dodge waves of emoji monsters for 15 minutes before a boss arrives. Staying on the move is the whole skill, since standing still lets the swarm close around you.
Running and jumping
Little Platformer is the most open of the bunch. It lets your bullets and grenades carve tunnels straight through the rock, so the level changes as you play. Bee Kind follows a bunny beekeeper across seven pixel stages, blasting grubs so the colony can grow.
Lost City of S adds a strange curse to a jungle trek: every 13 seconds your controls scramble, while gorillas, scorpions and piranhas stand between you and a lost idol. Hurry Cave Shooter gives you just ten seconds on the clock in a cave that builds itself as you run, so you aim with the mouse and keep moving.
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Common questions
Which action games work on a touch screen?
Stolen Sword, Emoji Horde, Tank Ricochet, Little Platformer and River Strike all support touch. Radius Raid and Bullet Hell Space Shooter need a keyboard.
Do I need a mouse?
Only for some. Radius Raid and Hurry Cave Shooter use the mouse to aim, while Bee Kind and Bullet Hell Space Shooter run on the keyboard alone.
Which one is good for beginners?
Tank Ricochet shows a red aiming line, which makes it easy to learn. Bullet Hell Space Shooter is the toughest, though its slow motion helps.