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Action! - Gameplay Recording and Streaming
With Action! you can record and live stream your HD/4K/HDR10/8K gameplay, display game's fps, add webcams, live audio commentary, add streaming overlays such as chatbox, alert box, monitor the status of your recording and streaming, benchmark your computer and more!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-10-22 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-15.
“After 900 hours of recording and almost 200 videos uploaded on youtube i can now say that Action is far the best recording software i've ever had to buy. Encoding in MP4 and uses almost nothing of your CPU, you can easily record every game you want. Uploading your videos…”
— a player, Steam review · 3,233 hrs played“Easily the best software I've found for recording PROs FREE livestreaming. Yup. As of update 1.22.0 you can stream to YouTube, Twitch, HitBox, etc. for free so that's nice Hardly any lag on your system Allows for microphone audio to be recorded louder than the game. Even Fraps…”
— a player, Steam review · 23 hrs played“Ofcourse it goes on sale 2 days after I bought it at full retail... that would be my luck. But it is a good program to have. Does not record, at least for me at 1080 on mp4 but does for avi. Avi is definitly a HD space killer. Web cam feature is really easy to use. There is a…”
— a player, Steam review · 147 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Action! 4.48.1 with fix for Twitch account login is now available.
This update fixes login to Twitch accounts using Account Manager after latest Twitch API changes. Twitch account login is now done using external certified browser.
Action! 4.48.0 is now available!
Hi Everyone, Please find the list of changes in this latest release below: - Added support for Elgato 4K X, 4K S, HD60 X, Neo and Cam Link devices - Fixed video aspect ratio issues when recording mult
Action! 4.47.1 with fixes for Vanguard anti-cheat is now available.
- Fixed problems with AVI to MP4 exporting - Fixed Riot Games with Vanguard anti-cheat enabled (please use Screen Mode or Window Mode for League of Legends, Valorant and 2XKO game recording/streaming
Action! 4.47.0 with support for the latest Nvidia R590 drivers is now available!
Dear All, In this new important update we have added support for Nvidia 591.44 and newer drivers. This update also adds support for video encoding using multiple Nvidia NVENC cores (works on selected
Action! 4.46.0 with fixes for Nvidia 580.xx and newer drivers is now available.
Hi Everyone, We have finally fixed problems with 580.xx and newer Nvidia drivers. The fix includes: - Hardware acceleration is now working on RTX 5000 - DirectX 12 Game Capture works but with a slight
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Audio Production, Education, Software Training, Utilities, Video Production, Web Publishing |
| Player tags | Video Production · Audio Production · Utilities · Software Training · Web Publishing · Action · Education · Software (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, Simplified Chinese, Hungarian, Korean, Romanian, Turkish, Vietnamese |
| Official site | https://mirillis.com/en/products/action.html |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 Processor: Intel® Celeron® 1.4GHz or equivalent processor (SSE2 required) Memory: 512 MB RAM Graphics: Direct3D 9.0 compatible with Pixel Shader 2.0 support DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 92 MB available space Sound Card: DirectX® compatible Additional Notes: To access all features Action! may require administrator rights.