Action 2012 for Mac — top best games in the Action genre / Page 2

Adventures of Shuggy - a game in the Action genre

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

Game released: Mac → 13 June 2012

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A puzzle platformer about Shuggy, who inherits a castle inhabited by goblins, ghouls, zombies, and robots. To make his new home liveable, he explores more than 100...

Brick-Force

Online, Action, Shooter, MMO, First-person view, Logic, Mini-game / browser-based

Game released: Mac → 12 July 2012

Players: 10/10

Brick-Force — This project combines the building capabilities of Minecraft and the tactical shooting of Counter-Strike. Each player can show their imagination...

EVE Online: Retribution

Role-playing game, Action, MMO, DLC, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Mac → 4 December 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 73/100

EVE Online: Retribution is the perfect continuation of our recent series of well-received expansions, where we put even more control of the game universe into the...

Realm of the Mad God

Role-playing game, Online, Action, Shooter, MMO, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game, Roguelike, Indie

Game released: Mac → 20 February 2012

Players: 9/10

Steam: 80/100

Realm of the Mad God is a free-to-play top-down multiplayer shooter in a fantasy setting. You have to team up with dozens of players and fight for the Kingdom of...

POP: Methodology Experiment One

Action, Indie

Game released: Mac → 10 May 2012

Steam: 65/100

An experimental game built around music, which informs its mechanics, visual style, and overall structure. POP: Methodology Experiment One is a sequence of...

Containment: The Zombie Puzzler

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 26 July 2012

Players: 5/10

Steam: 89/100

An action puzzle game about containing a zombie outbreak in Franklin County. To defeat the undead, the player surrounds them with survivors of the same color, while...

Check vs. Mate

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

Game released: Mac → 3 August 2012

Players: 7/10

Steam: 73/100

Super Crate Box

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Free game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 29 August 2012

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 75/100

An arcade platform action game inspired by classic games, built around chasing a high score while fighting endless hordes of enemies. The player collects weapon...

They Bleed Pixels

Arcade, Platformer, Slasher, Action

Game released: Mac → 29 August 2012

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 74/100

An action platformer with slasher elements, inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft and classic horror. A young girl arrives at Lafcadio Academy for Troubled Young...

Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet

Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Metroidvania, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Mac → 17 April 2012

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This 2D action-adventure with shooter and metroidvania elements follows a journey toward the center of the mysterious Shadow Planet. The protagonist explores...

Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack

Arcade, Platformer, Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Indie, Action

Game released: Mac → 15 August 2012

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle platformer in which you become an alien bubble and try to destroy all of humanity. The game...

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

Steam: 91/100

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...

Omegalodon

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Indie, Online

Game released: Mac → 9 March 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 68/100

Dustforce

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Sandbox, Indie

Game released: Mac → 1 May 2012

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 93/100

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...

Postal 2: Complete

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Collection, Futurism (Future), Open world, Comedy

Game released: Mac → 20 December 2012

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 97/100

This first-person shooter with dark humor follows a week in the life of The Dude, an ordinary man trying to complete everyday errands: buying milk, returning an...

Motorbike

Third-person view, Stunts, Motorcycle racing, Sandbox, Online, Racing, Sports game, Action

Game released: Mac → 15 November 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 59/100

Motorbike — motorcycle racing with a third-person view. This game will test your skills and is full of action and real physics. You will find 100 original...

Mari0

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 3 March 2012

Players: 9.5/10

Mari0 is an action game with a mixture of platformer and puzzle from the developers from the Stabyourself.net...

Dynamite Headdy

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Fighting, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: Mac → 2 May 2012

Steam: 100/100

Dynamite Headdy is a third-person arcade game with a mixture of action, shooter, fighting and platformer from the masters from the studio Treasure Co., Ltd.. The...

Dark Scavenger

Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 12 July 2012

Steam: 89/100

Dark Scavenger is a first-person role-playing game with a mixture of action, hack-and-slash and fantasy games from Psydra Games. The game is published by Psydra...

Star Wars: Jedi Knight 2 - Jedi Outcast (Collector's Edition)

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Collection, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Star Wars, Science fiction, Online

Game released: Mac → 14 May 2012

Steam: 90/100

This science-fiction action game set in the Star Wars universe follows Kyle Katarn, an agent of the New Republic fighting a new threat to the galaxy. Combat...

Foreign Legion: Multi Massacre

Online, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 9 July 2012

Steam: 65/100

Foreign Legion: Multi Massacre is the continuation of the furious third-person shooter Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood. Once again you have to protect civilians...

Blades of Time: Dismal Swamp

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

Game released: Mac → 21 April 2012

Steam: 61/100

Blades of Time: Dismal Swamp is a third-person action game with a dash of fantasy from the developers at Gaijin Entertainment Corporation. The main publisher of the...

Valley Without Wind

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Mac → 23 April 2012

Steam: 64/100

Metacritic: 54/100

Valley Without Wind is an arcade game from developers from the Arcen Games studio. The game is published by Arcen...

Mysteryville 2

Action, Strategy, First-person view, Top-down view, Puzzle, Casual game, Adventure, Hidden Objects

Game released: Mac → 10 May 2012

Mysteryville 2 is a first-person action game with a dash of strategy and puzzles from the developers at NevoSoft studio. The main publisher of the game is...

Offspring Fling!

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

Game released: Mac → 11 May 2012

Steam: 89/100

Offspring Fling! is a puzzle-platformer about a forest creature who has lost all her children and sets out to bring them home. She makes her way through more than...

Iron Sky: Invasion

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

Game released: Mac → 14 December 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 61/100

Metacritic: 49/100

This sci-fi space action game centers on an invasion of Earth by the Fourth Reich, launched from a lunar base in 2018. The player takes control of a pilot and...

Fallen City

Action, Educational game (Education), Third-person view

Game released: Mac → 23 April 2012

Fallen City is a third-person action game with a touch of educational game from Big Robot Limited. The game is published by Channel Four Television...

Waveform

Action, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 20 March 2012

Steam: 83/100

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...

Revenge of Shinobi

Arcade, Action, Platformer

Game released: Mac → 2 May 2012

Steam: 71/100

Revenge of Shinobi is an arcade game with a mixture of action and platformer from the Sega studio. The main publisher of the game is Sega. Revenge of Shinobi is...

Nexuiz (2005)

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

Game released: Mac → 10 May 2012

Nexuiz (2005) is a first-person action game with shooter elements from developers from the studios Alientrap Games Inc. and IllFonic. The game is published by...

McDROID

Action, Strategy, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Combat robots

Game released: Mac → 5 September 2014

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 74/100

This science-fiction game blends arcade action, real-time strategy and tower defense. The modular robot McDROID must protect its shuttle and crops from mutants, and...

Uprising 44

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

Game released: Mac → 14 September 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 22/100

This third-person action game with real-time strategy elements is set during the Warsaw Uprising against Nazi occupation. Its story follows the Silent Shadows...

Shatter

Arcade, Action, Music game, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Arkanoid, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: Mac → 18 September 2012

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Shatter is a top-down futuristic arkanoid game where you need to clear the playing field from colorful blocks using a ball and a moving...

Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Platformer

Game released: Mac → 15 October 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Puddle (2012)

Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Mac → 30 November 2012

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 72/100

SCP-087

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Action

Game released: Mac → 18 January 2012

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 31/100

SCP-087 is a first-person adventure with horror...

8BitBoy

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Mac → 22 November 2012

Players: 4.7/10

Steam: 73/100

This classic platformer follows the unemployed 8BitBoy, who finds an old console and a strange cartridge in his basement before being drawn into a decaying game...

Colour Bind

Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Action

Game released: Mac → 24 September 2012

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Colour Bind is a physics-based platform puzzler set in an abstract world where gravity depends on colour rather than mass. The player changes the character’s colour...

Probability 0

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Mac → 1 October 2012

Steam: 79/100

Probability 0 is an arcade game with a mixture of action, platformer, indie game and Roguelike from the developers from the Droqen studio. The game is published by...

Humble Bundle Mojam

Action, Shooter, Strategy, Fighting, Third-person view, Top-down view, Collection, Trains

Game released: Mac → 19 February 2012

Humble Bundle Mojam is a third-person action game with a mixture of shooter, strategy, fighting and railway simulator from Mojang AB studio. The game is published...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2012 for Mac