Short action games on Steam

Action that fits a weekend.

591 action games on Steam where half of the reviewers had played 8 hours or less when they gave their verdict, Titanfall® 2, Portal and Muck among them.

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And 471 more: Webbed (6 hours), IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator (5 hours), Dino D-Day (2.5 hours), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (4 hours), Worms W.M.D (6.5 hours), Dead as Disco (5 hours), Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (6.5 hours), POSTAL (3 hours), Bad North: Jotunn Edition (7.5 hours), Haste (7 hours), Magicka 2 (6 hours), Serious Sam 2 (5.5 hours), Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (3.5 hours), Spellbreak (4.5 hours), Furi (7 hours), Everhood (8 hours), Titan Souls (3.5 hours), The Invincible (7.5 hours), Road Redemption (5 hours), Jump Space (7.5 hours), Still Wakes the Deep (5.5 hours), Crysis (8 hours), Gunpoint (4.5 hours), BOKURA (6 hours), PANICORE (4.5 hours), Entropy : Zero (4 hours), Aragami (7.5 hours), SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE (5.5 hours), Amnesia: The Bunker (8 hours), Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location (3.5 hours), Deadlight (4.5 hours), Party Hard (7 hours), RUINER (6.5 hours), Post Void (1.5 hours), SEGA Mega Drive & Genesis Classics (4 hours), Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator (3.5 hours), The Beast Inside (7.5 hours), Bills Must Be Paid (4.5 hours), In Silence (3.5 hours), Gotham City Impostors: Free To Play (5 hours), Pikuniku (5 hours), Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight (7 hours), FlyKnight (4 hours), ARK: Survival Of The Fittest (3 hours), Biped (3.5 hours), RWBY: Grimm Eclipse (5 hours), Superflight (2.5 hours), Destroy All Humans! (8 hours), BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE (5.5 hours), Five Nights at Freddy's 3 (2.5 hours), Double Action: Boogaloo (2.5 hours), Learn to Fly 3 (7 hours), Strange Brigade (7 hours), POSTAL: Brain Damaged (6.5 hours), Genital Jousting (1.5 hours), Paunch (40 minutes), Medal of Honor(TM) Single Player (4.5 hours), CastleMiner Z (5 hours), SteamWorld Dig (6.5 hours), Lucius (6 hours), Have a Nice Death (6.5 hours), Neva (5 hours), Planet of Lana (6 hours), Cat Quest (8 hours), Octodad: Dadliest Catch (4 hours), Hand of Fate (7 hours), The Headliners (4 hours), MIMESIS (3.5 hours), Quake II (7 hours), Severed Steel (3.5 hours), 12 is Better Than 6 (4.5 hours), VVVVVV (3.5 hours), YAPYAP (4 hours), The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (7 hours), Anomaly Agent (4.5 hours), Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad (55 minutes), Hand Simulator: Survival (1.5 hours), Pumpkin Jack (5.5 hours), SUPERHOT VR (2.5 hours), Tannenberg (6.5 hours), Police Stories (5 hours), Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition (7 hours), MULLET MADJACK (4 hours), Manhunt (3.5 hours), Radical Heights (2.5 hours), Deliver Us The Moon (6.5 hours), Devil Daggers (4 hours), F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin (7.5 hours), The Final Station (5.5 hours), Book of Demons (8 hours), Slender: The Arrival (3 hours), Arizona Sunshine® VR Legacy (4.5 hours), Unravel Two (5 hours), Team Fortress Classic (2 hours), Stick It to the Stickman (6.5 hours), King of Crabs (3 hours), Overgrowth (6.5 hours), Sayonara Wild Hearts (2 hours), Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter (5.5 hours), DOOM II (4 hours), DOOM 64 (5 hours), Killer is Dead (5.5 hours), Half-Life 2: Update (7.5 hours), Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) (4 hours), UNBEATABLE [white label] (1.5 hours), Downwell (4.5 hours), Due Process (6 hours), Jotun: Valhalla Edition (4 hours), Monaco (4.5 hours), Gloomwood (6.5 hours), Defy Gravity (1 hour), DOOM 3 (7 hours), Knockout City™ (7 hours), Among the Sleep (3.5 hours), Bombergrounds: Reborn (4 hours), POSTAL Redux (3.5 hours), Jet Set Radio (5 hours), Prodeus (4.5 hours), Melatonin (3.5 hours), The LEGO® NINJAGO® Movie Video Game (7 hours), Echo Point Nova (7.5 hours), KLETKA (6.5 hours), Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 (3.5 hours), DuckTales Remastered (4.5 hours), Nidhogg (2.5 hours), AMID EVIL (7 hours), UBERMOSH (3 hours), Unfortunate Spacemen (5 hours), Distance (5 hours), The Swapper (6 hours), Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate (5 hours), Beat Hazard (7 hours), Arma 2: DayZ Mod (2.5 hours), Crawl (5.5 hours), The Flame in the Flood (5.5 hours), Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative (4.5 hours), Fallen Aces (4.5 hours), Tomb Raider: Underworld (6.5 hours), Jusant (6 hours), Journey To The Savage Planet (8 hours), Out There Somewhere (2.5 hours), Epistory - Typing Chronicles (6.5 hours), Eastern Exorcist (6 hours), Relic Hunters Zero: Remix (3 hours), Katamari Damacy REROLL (5 hours), Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour (5.5 hours), Enclave (2.5 hours), Stories: The Path of Destinies (6.5 hours), Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered (2 hours), Rift of the NecroDancer (6.5 hours), Gravity Circuit (6.5 hours), Race The Sun (3 hours), Murder Miners (3.5 hours), Blockstorm (4.5 hours), Project Warlock (6 hours), Hot Lava (6 hours), Lil Gator Game (5 hours), Tomb Raider: Legend (7.5 hours), Forgive Me Father (6.5 hours), Ricochet (45 minutes), The Gunk (6 hours), Mortal Shell II - Open Beta (3.5 hours), Sker Ritual (5 hours), Lethal League (5 hours), I Am Bread (2 hours), Turbo Dismount (5 hours), Idol Showdown (2.5 hours), BAPBAP (5 hours), The Ship (4 hours), Burglin' Gnomes (4.5 hours), Ninja Kiwi Archive (5 hours), Devolverland Expo (55 minutes), Machine Party (1.5 hours), Figment (6 hours), FAR: Changing Tides (6.5 hours), A Difficult Game About Climbing (6.5 hours), Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (4 hours), DEADBOLT (8 hours), Intravenous (6.5 hours), Unravel (7 hours), Half-Life Deathmatch: Source (1 hour), Mega Man 11 (6 hours), Kill It With Fire (6.5 hours), Job Simulator (4.5 hours), Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Deleted Scenes (6 hours), Mother Russia Bleeds (5.5 hours), Murky Divers (4.5 hours), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (8 hours), Nocturnal (3 hours), Bread & Fred (3 hours), Gato Roboto (4.5 hours), Warpips (6 hours), Ironsight (5 hours), Bang-On Balls: Chronicles (6.5 hours), GRIP: Combat Racing (4.5 hours), Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood (7 hours), SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake (7.5 hours), Tattletail (3 hours), ONE PIECE BURNING BLOOD (7 hours), Halo: Spartan Assault (3 hours), Zero Caliber VR (5 hours), En Garde! (4 hours), Roadside Research (5 hours), Hard Reset (6 hours), Hitman 2: Silent Assassin (5.5 hours), Ultimate Zombie Defense (4 hours), Mini Ninjas (5 hours), PICO PARK 2 (5 hours), Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (7.5 hours), Thinking with Time Machine (1.5 hours), Anomaly Warzone Earth (3 hours), Resident Evil 7 Teaser: Beginning Hour (55 minutes), Heavenly Bodies (5.5 hours), One Finger Death Punch 2 (4 hours), LUFTRAUSERS (4 hours), Shift Happens (4 hours), The Legend of Tianding (7.5 hours), Never Split the Party (3 hours), Thumper (4.5 hours), Tinykin (8 hours), Condemned: Criminal Origins (6 hours), Seraph's Last Stand (6 hours), Teeworlds (2.5 hours), Serial Cleaner (5 hours), Strider (7 hours), Turok (6.5 hours), Sniper Elite (5.5 hours), DARQ (3.5 hours), Cyber Hook (5 hours), GUNTOUCHABLES (3 hours), Going Under (8 hours), Receiver (2 hours), Penumbra: Overture (6 hours), APE OUT (2.5 hours), Tooth and Tail (5.5 hours), Rock of Ages (4 hours), GOAT OF DUTY (1 hour), Zombie Driver HD (3.5 hours), Shank (4 hours), Golden Light (2.5 hours), OTXO (5.5 hours), Quake 4 (7 hours), Squirrel with a Gun (5.5 hours), Happy Wheels (1 hour), Heavy Metal Machines (3.5 hours), Outland (4 hours), BIT.TRIP RUNNER (2.5 hours), HOLE (5.5 hours), McPixel (3 hours), Assassin’s Creed® Chronicles: China (6 hours), Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball (4.5 hours), Sir, You Are Being Hunted (3.5 hours), Funnel Runners (3.5 hours), Dead Effect (3.5 hours), Exit the Gungeon (5 hours), Yet Another Zombie Defense HD (2.5 hours), Betrayer (7 hours), Hell Yeah! (4.5 hours), Rock of Ages 2 (5 hours), Hitman: Contracts (6 hours), Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game (6 hours), Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty (7.5 hours), Get To Work (7.5 hours), Denshattack! (7.5 hours), Crazy Taxi (1.5 hours), Shank 2 (4.5 hours), Skillshot City (3 hours), STAR WARS: Galactic Racer™ (4.5 hours), Dark Sector (5.5 hours), The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters (8 hours), Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter (5 hours), Moss VR (4 hours), Ghostrunner Demo (1.5 hours), HYPER DEMON (3 hours), Sledding Game (3.5 hours), 10 Second Ninja X (2 hours), Until You Fall (2.5 hours), DOOM VFR (1.5 hours), ScourgeBringer (4.5 hours), Half dead (1.5 hours), Deathmatch Classic (55 minutes), Leap Year (2.5 hours), Trover Saves the Universe (6 hours), Bigscreen Beta (5 hours), Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi (2.5 hours), Fight'N Rage (5 hours), Supraball (2.5 hours), Zeno Clash (4 hours), Space Crew: Legendary Edition (6.5 hours), Skate Story (6.5 hours), ELDERBORN (4.5 hours), STAR WARS™: Dark Forces (3.5 hours), Boomerang Fu (5 hours), SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell (5.5 hours), Happy's Humble Burger Farm (6.5 hours), UNDERDOGS (3.5 hours), SPRAWL (5 hours), Teleglitch: Die More Edition (3 hours), Back to Bed (2.5 hours), Fury Unleashed (5 hours), Akane (3.5 hours), Metal Unit (6.5 hours), Renegade Ops (5 hours), Raji: An Ancient Epic (5 hours), Valfaris (6 hours), Will You Snail? (6 hours), Guts and Glory (3 hours), Space Pirate Trainer (3 hours), Midnight Fight Express (6.5 hours), Puzzle Agent (4 hours), Omno (4.5 hours), Aliens versus Predator Classic 2000 (3.5 hours), Delver (4.5 hours), FORCED (4.5 hours), Lovely Planet (2.5 hours), We Love Katamari REROLL+ Royal Reverie (6.5 hours), Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse (5 hours), Glyphica: Typing Survival (3.5 hours), No Time To Explain Remastered (2.5 hours), Kabounce (2 hours), They Bleed Pixels (5 hours), XIII - Classic (5.5 hours), Scribblenauts Unmasked (7 hours), Crash Time 2 (1 hour), Maid of Sker (5.5 hours), Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising (5 hours), Splatter - Zombiecalypse Now (3.5 hours), Slain: Back from Hell (3.5 hours), Dead Pixels (2.5 hours), Hotshot Racing (2 hours), What the Fog (1.5 hours), A Juggler's Tale (2.5 hours), Hard Reset Redux (6 hours), Moving Out (4.5 hours), Jamestown (3.5 hours), BARRIER X (1.5 hours), Rollerdrome (4 hours), PAC-MAN 256 (4 hours), EDGE (2 hours), Beat Hazard 2 (3 hours), House (4.5 hours), STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (6 hours), Creed: Rise to Glory™ (2 hours), Embr (4 hours), HALF DEAD 2 (3 hours), Phantom Abyss (6.5 hours), Solar 2 (4.5 hours), Eldritch (4 hours), bit Dungeon II (3.5 hours), Nex Machina (3 hours), Lead and Gold - Gangs of the Wild West (2 hours), Command & Conquer™: Generals (5 hours), UNLOVED (2.5 hours), Colt Canyon (5 hours), AtmaSphere (2.5 hours), Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter (6 hours), The Hong Kong Massacre (3.5 hours), NOT A HERO (5.5 hours), Hammerfight (2.5 hours), Rustler (5 hours), Tumblestone (3.5 hours), Streamline (3.5 hours), CRYPTARK (5 hours), Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition (45 minutes), Screencheat (2.5 hours), Dreams of Aether (1 hour), Sir Whoopass™: Immortal Death (5 hours), Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut (3.5 hours), Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams (4 hours), Alien Breed: Impact (5.5 hours), Really Big Sky (1.5 hours), F.E.A.R.: Extraction Point (5 hours), Budget Cuts (4.5 hours), Space Channel 5: Part 2 (3.5 hours), ROBOBEAT (4.5 hours), Bionic Commando (5.5 hours), OlliOlli World (5 hours), Black The Fall (4 hours), Aegis Defenders (3.5 hours), Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD (7 hours), Polygoneer (45 minutes), Q.U.B.E. 2 (6.5 hours), Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut (8 hours), Mr Shifty (4.5 hours), Fortified (3.5 hours), The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia (3.5 hours), Rochard (6 hours), Sairento VR (3.5 hours), Strike Suit Zero (5 hours), Distant Space 2 (1 hour), Trip to Vinelands (3 hours), Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania (4.5 hours), Laser League: World Arena (4.5 hours), Will Glow the Wisp (1 hour), SpyParty (4 hours), Fashion Police Squad (4.5 hours), Golfing Over It with Alva Majo (2.5 hours), Source of Madness (3 hours), FACEMINER (3.5 hours), Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice VR Edition (4.5 hours), Heavy Bullets (3.5 hours), Cavern of Dreams (6.5 hours), PUSS! (2.5 hours), Greak: Memories of Azur (7.5 hours), Kero Blaster (5 hours), Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek (5 hours), STAR WARS™: Bounty Hunter™ (5 hours), Morbid: The Seven Acolytes (7 hours), Just King (4 hours), The Magic Circle (5 hours), Half Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy (3.5 hours), Figment 2: Creed Valley (4.5 hours), Sex Chess (1 hour), Golf Gang (3 hours), KarmaZoo (4.5 hours), Fling to the Finish (3 hours), BUTCHER (3 hours), F.E.A.R.: Perseus Mandate (6 hours), Cakey's Twisted Bakery (55 minutes), DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil (4.5 hours), Arma: Gold Edition (4 hours), Mama's Sleeping Angels (3 hours), And Yet It Moves (2 hours), WHAT THE PAK?! (45 minutes), Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut (3.5 hours), Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium (1.5 hours), Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition (7 hours), Scrap Garden (3 hours), Tower of Guns (4.5 hours), Acceleration of SUGURI 2 (3 hours), Revenge of the Titans (4.5 hours), Final DOOM (1.5 hours), Arcade Moonlander (1.5 hours), AX:EL (2 hours), DEPLOYMENT (1.5 hours), Polyball (1 hour), Splasher (6 hours), Indiana Jones® and the Emperor's Tomb™ (7.5 hours), Waking Mars (7.5 hours), Disc Room (4.5 hours), PropHunter (1.5 hours), Puzzle Agent 2 (4 hours), Bionic Commando Rearmed (2 hours), The Ball (5 hours), PLANET ALPHA (5 hours), OneShift (2 hours), Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (5.5 hours), Tools Up! (4 hours), Fearless Fantasy (3 hours), Crumble (3 hours), Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack (4.5 hours), Defend Your Life (6 hours), Capsized (3 hours), AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome (1 hour), Anomaly 2 (4 hours), Q.U.B.E. (3.5 hours), Bravery and Greed (5 hours), Vacation Simulator (5.5 hours), Aaero (2 hours), Blood Typers (3 hours), Gunbrella (7 hours), Turbo Golf Racing (4 hours), Swords and Soldiers HD (3 hours), Stealth Inc 2 (3.5 hours), Chicken Shoot Gold (2.5 hours), Iron Danger (7.5 hours), Lost in Random: The Eternal Die (8 hours), God's Trigger (4.5 hours), Maiden and Spell (4.5 hours), Hasbro's BATTLESHIP (4 hours), Accounting+ (1.5 hours).

How this list is made

The sticker on a case is the hours its own page leads with: half of the game's Steam reviewers had played that long or less when they gave their verdict. A game is here when that is 8 hours or less, three in four of those reviewers had played 16 hours or less, it has 1,000 Steam reviews or more, and at least 80% of the reviewers past Steam's two-hour refund window recommend it. Action is a genre Steam's store files it under. The most reviewed come first.

The hours are not a time to beat. Most of these games are short; a few are ones most players put down early, and a game's own page shows which, hour by hour. Nothing is placed by hand, and more games are read every night.