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

Awesomenauts - a game in the Action genre

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

Game released: Mac → 14 June 2013

Players: 6.4/10

Steam: 84/100

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...

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...

Wonder Boy in Monster World

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Metroidvania, Side view, Role-playing game

Game released: Mac → 2 May 2012

Steam: 100/100

Monsters have overrun a fantasy land, leaving its citizens afraid for their lives as they wait for a hero to restore peace. Wonder Boy in Monster World is an action...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

An expansion for World of Warcraft set on the new continent of Pandaria. After stopping Deathwing's destructive rampage and saving the dragonflights, heroes explore...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Wizorb

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

Game released: Mac → 14 March 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 80/100

An arcade game set in a fantasy medieval world, Wizorb combines classic block-breaking action with light role-playing...

Pole Position 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...

Check vs. Mate

Arcade, Action, Isometric, Board / Group Game, Fantasy / Medieval, Strategy, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 3 August 2012

Players: 7/10

Steam: 73/100

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...

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...

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Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Mac → 1 October 2012

Steam: 80/100

This downward-scrolling infinite platformer with roguelike elements revolves around descending into a dangerous pit: survival is impossible, but each attempt can...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Omegalodon

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

Game released: Mac → 9 March 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 68/100

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...

Dungeons and Dragons Online: Menace of the Underdark

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

Game released: Mac → 25 June 2012

Dungeons and Dragons Online: Menace of the Underdark is a third-person role-playing game with a mixture of online play, action, massive multiplayer and fantasy game...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2012 for Mac (Game released)