Five action games under A$30 to start a rampage
You do not need to drop sixty bucks to get into action games. The genre is loud, fast and forgiving at the cheap end. Filter the catalogue by Cheap chaos and start swinging — here is where we would point a first-timer.
The picks
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance — cyborg ninja, katana, you cut things into geometric slices. Pure style, short enough to finish in a weekend.
Dead Rising — a shopping mall, thousands of zombies, and a photojournalist with a lawnmower. Chaos sandbox, endlessly re-playable.
Shadow Warrior 2 — daft one-liners, katanas and shotguns, co-op ready. Best dumb fun per dollar on the shelf.
Resident Evil Zero — slower burn, but the survival-horror tension holds up and it goes cheap second-hand.
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions — four Spideys, four art styles, criminally underrated. A great pick-up-and-swing brawler.
The strategy
Brawlers and hack-and-slash are the easiest doorways: big feedback, low stakes, maximum noise. Buy one, finish it, then let the algorithm of your own boredom pick the next.