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

Mysteryville 2 - a game in the Action genre

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...

Dynamite Headdy

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

Game released: Mac → 2 May 2012

Steam: 100/100

A platform action game about Dynamite Headdy, a puppet caught up in a plot unfolding in the puppet world. His stage rival, Trouble Bruin, and the evil doll Dark...

Golden Axe 3

Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Mac → 2 May 2012

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 80/100

Golden Axe 3 is a fantasy action game about four heroes who oppose the risen Prince of Darkness, intent on conquering the world. Their goal is to stop him and...

Dynamite Jack

Action, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 10 May 2012

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This top-down action-adventure follows Jack, a space marine trying to escape the Anathema Mines. He can sneak past guards or use bombs to eliminate enemies, while a...

Bit.Trip Core

Action, Music game, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 2 October 2012

Players: 5/10

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 80/100

A retro arcade action-rhythm game inspired by 1980s games, with a modern twist. In Bit.Trip Core, players control two axes, unlike the single-axis controls of its...

Space Pirates and Zombies

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Space, Indie

Game released: Mac → 12 July 2012

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This space action game with strategy and role-playing elements follows a pirate assembling a fleet and travelling towards the galactic core in search of treasure or...

Air Conflicts: Pacific Carriers

Arcade, Flight Simulator, Action, Simulation

Game released: Mac → 21 September 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 58/100

This arcade flight simulator focuses on aerial battles of the Pacific War. Players take part in historical engagements and fly aircraft recreated in detail. The...

Lone Survivor

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Survival horror

Game released: Mac → 24 April 2012

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This psychological survival horror follows a masked man trying to escape a city ravaged by disease as he questions whether what he sees is real. Hunger and...

Tiny Troopers

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

Game released: Mac → 24 August 2012

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 81/100

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...

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...

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 point-and-click role-playing adventure blending science fiction and dark comedy. A powerful space traveler is stranded on a mysterious alien...

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...

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...

Puddle (2012)

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

Game released: Mac → 30 November 2012

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This physics-based puzzle platformer challenges the player to guide a puddle of fluid to its destination by tilting the game world. Friction, momentum, and the...

Snuggle Truck

Arcade, Action, Racing, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 3 February 2012

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Snuggle Truck is an arcade driving game about delivering a load of quirky animals to the zoo without letting them fall out or get hurt. The player steers a truck...

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...

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...

DLC Quest

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

Game released: Mac → 9 May 2012

Players: 3.5/10

Steam: 86/100

This humorous platform action game satirizes downloadable-content practices and other quirks of the gaming industry. The hero collects coins to buy content packs...

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...

BasketBelle

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

Game released: Mac → 6 July 2012

Steam: 80/100

An experimental 2D basketball platformer about a heroine who must save her sister. Set on improvised courts across Paris, the game gives the mechanics and ideas of...

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...

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

This side-scrolling action platformer with puzzles is set in Albatropolis, a land ruled by a totalitarian penguin regime. Hardboiled Chicken sets out to assassinate...

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...

Unmanned

Simulation, Action, First-person view, Third-person view, Historical

Game released: Mac → 15 February 2012

Unmanned is a first-person simulator with a dash of action and history from the developers of Molleindustria and No Media Kings. The main publisher of the game is...

Revenge of Shinobi

Arcade, Action, Platformer

Game released: Mac → 2 May 2012

Steam: 71/100

An arcade platformer about the ninja Joe Musashi, who sets out to take revenge on the criminal syndicate Neo Zeed. The revived organization has killed his teacher...

Cargo Commander

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Procedural generation

Game released: Mac → 1 November 2012

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 63/100

This futuristic action platformer follows a new Cargo Corps recruit sent into dangerous sectors of space to salvage valuable cargo from containers filled with...

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...

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...

Super Crossfire

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Indie

Game released: Mac → 5 January 2012

Metacritic: 85/100

Super Crossfire is a top-down arcade shooter in which the player pilots a ship against waves of enemies. Its central mechanic lets the ship switch between the top...

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...

Serious Sam 3: Jewel of the Nile

Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 16 October 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 78/100

An expansion for Serious Sam Collection, set during the events of Serious Sam 3: BFE. Sam and his team head to the Temple of Isis on the island of Philae, where...

Valley Without Wind

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Mac → 23 April 2012

Steam: 64/100

Metacritic: 54/100

A 2D platforming action game with tactical combat and settlement building, Valley Without Wind takes place in a post-ice-age world in the distant future. Players...

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...

Vectorman 2

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Mac → 2 May 2012

Steam: 83/100

An arcade platformer about Vectorman, who returns to Earth after a mysterious missile damages his ship. He lands near an abandoned research facility and sets out to...

Adventures of Shuggy

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...

Receiver

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Simulation, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Mac → 18 June 2012

Steam: 86/100

A first-person shooter with roguelike elements, Receiver follows a player exploring a building complex overrun by automated turrets and hovering shock drones while...

Rijn the Specpyre in... Manor of the Damned!

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

Game released: Mac → 13 November 2012

Rijn the Specpyre in... Manor of the Damned! is an isometric RPG with action and fantasy elements from The Hideout studio. The main publisher of the game is The...

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...

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...

Waveform

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

Game released: Mac → 20 March 2012

Steam: 82/100

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...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2012 for Mac