Action 2012 for Mac — top best games in the Action genre

Borderlands 2 - a game in the Action genre

Action, Shooter, Beat them all, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Mac → 21 November 2012

VGTimes: 9.4/10

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Borderlands 2 is a continuation of a dynamic cooperative shooter with a first-person view and role-playing elements in a post-apocalyptic world. A new era of...

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 18 October 2012

VGTimes: 9.6/10

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 88/100

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is a continuation of the third-person role-playing game, based on the series of novels of the same name by Polish writer Andrzej...

FTL: Faster Than Light

Simulation, Action, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Strategy

Game released: Mac → 14 September 2012

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 86/100

FTL: Faster Than Light is a unique management simulator with role-playing elements in a sci-fi setting. The cruiser Kestrel was lucky to find out secret information...

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Action, Shooter, First-person view

Game released: Mac → 21 August 2012

Players: 6.9/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) is a popular competitive team-based first-person shooter. The main ideology revolves around the confrontation between two...

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk

Game released: Mac → 26 April 2012

VGTimes: 9.4/10

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a continuation of the legendary first-person action role-playing game Deus Ex. The game will take you to 2027, in which you will play...

Driver: San Francisco

Arcade, Action, First-person view, Third-person view

Game released: Mac → 8 March 2012

VGTimes: 7.6/10

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Driver: San Francisco is a continuation of the legendary arcade racing game with a third-person view in the Driver series. The game tells the story of the events...

Diablo 3

Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, Beat them all, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Mac → 15 May 2012

VGTimes: 7.8/10

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 87/100

Diablo 3 is the long-awaited continuation of the isometric role-playing action game in the fantasy universe of Diablo. The events of the game take place twenty...

Serious Sam 3: BFE

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox

Game released: Mac → 23 April 2012

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Serious Sam 3: BFE is a first-person action game with a touch of shooter and sandbox from the Croteam Ltd. studio. The game is published by Devolver Digital, the...

Dwarf Fortress

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Mac → 22 February 2012

Players: 6.7/10

Metacritic: 93/100

Dwarf Fortress — in the main mode, the player indirectly controls a group of dwarves, trying to build an underground fortress in a procedurally generated...

RAGE

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Cyberpunk

Game released: Mac → 2 February 2012

VGTimes: 7.4/10

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Tiny Troopers

Arcade, Action, Isometric, Tactics, Indie, Tanks, Warships / Submarines

Game released: Mac → 24 August 2012

Players: 9.9/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Tiny Troopers is an arcade indie action game with tactical elements and an isometric view. This game puts you in charge of a team of little soldiers. You must guide...

LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Comics

Game released: Mac → 6 September 2012

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 75/100

LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes is a continuation of the arcade adventure with a first-person view based on the Batman comics in the style of LEGO toys. The game...

Blades of Time

Action, Adventure, Slasher, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Mac → 18 April 2012

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 48/100

Blades of Time is an action-adventure slasher game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. The plot tells about the brave hunter Ayumi, who goes on a journey...

Walking Dead: Season 1

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Interactive movie

Game released: Mac → 24 April 2012

Players: 9.3/10

Walking Dead: Season 1 is an episodic third-person interactive adventure based on Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comics. The main character is a black guy named...

Dungeon Defenders

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Mac → 15 March 2012

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Dungeon Defenders is a dynamic cooperative action role-playing game with a third-person view and elements of the tower defense genre in a fantasy setting. You have...

BioShock 2

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Mac → 29 March 2012

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 88/100

BioShock 2 is an adventure shooter with a first-person view. On the streets of the city of Rapture, the echoes of past sins are heard again. All along the Atlantic...

Sanctum

Action, Shooter, Strategy, First-person view, Top-down view

Game released: Mac → 14 August 2012

Players: 7.8/10

Sanctum is a top-down tactical shooter with strategy elements in the tower defense genre in a sci-fi setting. As one of the first tower defense shooters in history...

DLC Quest

Action, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: Mac → 9 May 2012

Players: 3.5/10

DLC Quest is a third-person action game with platforming elements from developers from Going Loud Studios. The game is published by Going Loud...

Check vs. Mate

Arcade, Action, Isometric, Board / Group Game, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Mac → 3 August 2012

Players: 7/10

Tomb Raider: Underworld

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 14 June 2012

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Legend of Grimrock

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 19 December 2012

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Legend of Grimrock is an action role-playing game with a first-person view in a fantasy setting. A group of prisoners are sentenced to death by exile to the...

Binding of Isaac: Wrath of the Lamb

Action, Shooter, DLC, Third-person view, Top-down view

Game released: Mac → 29 May 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Disney Princess: My Fairytale Adventure

Third-person view, Arcade, Action, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 25 September 2012

Players: 8.5/10

Disney Princess: My Fairytale Adventure is a third-person arcade game with a dash of action and adventure from the masters at High Impact Games, LLC. The main...

Thomas Was Alone

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 30 June 2012

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Thomas Was Alone is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer with puzzle elements. In this game, you have to guide a group of rectangles through a series of...

McDROID

Action, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Mac → 5 September 2014

Players: 7.5/10

Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: Mac → 15 October 2012

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 75/100

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria

Role-playing game, Online, Action, DLC, In real time, Third-person view, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Mac → 25 September 2012

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 82/100

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria is a third-person role-playing game with online, action and fantasy elements from developers Blizzard Entertainment. The game...

Awesomenauts

Arcade, Online, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Free game, Side view

Game released: Mac → 14 June 2013

Players: 6.6/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Awesomenauts is a free-to-play 2D side-scrolling MOBA action game. The events of the game will take you to the distant year 3587, in which there is a great...

Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances

Online, Action, Strategy, Isometric, Tactics

Game released: Mac → 20 July 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances - The main goal of this game is to control the center of the world. Each player chooses a sector on the World Map and begins...

Lone Survivor

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 24 April 2012

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Dustforce

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Sandbox

Game released: Mac → 1 May 2012

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Dustforce — the gameplay is based on acrobatic stunts. Playing as one of four cleaning heroes, the player tries to clear the dirt from the level as quickly as...

Uprising 44

Action, Shooter, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Tactics

Game released: Mac → 14 September 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Dynamite Jack

Action, Top-down view, Sandbox

Game released: Mac → 10 May 2012

Dynamite Jack is a top-down action game with a sandbox twist from the developers of Hassey Enterprises, Inc.. The main publisher of the game is Hassey Enterprises...

Receiver

Action, Shooter, First-person view

Game released: Mac → 18 June 2012

Receiver is a first-person action game with shooter elements from developers from the Wolfire Games studio. The game is published by Wolfire...

Guns of Icarus Online

Online, Action, Shooter, MMO, Warships / Submarines, First-person view, Third-person view, Steampunk, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Mac → 30 September 2012

Players: 2.8/10

Metacritic: 64/100

Guns of Icarus Online is a multiplayer competitive action game with a third-person view in a steampunk style. The events of the game take place in a fictional world...

Iron Sky: Invasion

Action, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Combat robots

Game released: Mac → 14 December 2012

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 49/100

Waveform

Action, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Side view

Game released: Mac → 20 March 2012

Metacritic: 81/100

Waveform — A unique side-scrolling rhythm puzzle game set in a sci-fi setting. You have to ride a beam of light and go to conquer various solar systems. As...

Streets of Rage 3

Arcade, Action, Anime / Manga, Side view, Beat them all

Game released: Mac → 3 May 2012

Players: 4.9/10

Streets of Rage 3 — After Mr. X suffered two defeats, he founded the research company RoboCy Corporation to cover his illegal activities. Dr. Zahn, the...

Будь лидером! Менеджер гонок 2012

Simulation, Action, Racing, Strategy, Sports game

Game released: Mac → 20 April 2012

Be a leader! Race Manager 2012 is a simulator with a mixture of action, racing, strategy and sports game from developers from the studio destraX Entertainment...

Cargo Commander

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Mac → 1 November 2012

Metacritic: 63/100

Cargo Commander is an action game with a mixture of platformer and indie game from the masters from the Serious Brew studio. The game is published by Digital Tribe...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2012 for Mac