Action 2012 for PC — top best games in the Action genre / Page 4

Golden Axe 3 - a game in the Action genre

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

Game released: PC → 3 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...

World of Mercenaries

Online, Action, Shooter, First-person view

Beta testing: PC → 23 May 2012

Anticipation Rating: 5/10

World of Mercenaries are online games with a first-person view mixed with action and shooter from developers from the City Interactive studio. The game is published...

Iron Front - Liberation 1944

Action, Shooter, Tactics, First-person view, Historical, Tanks, Simulation

Game released: PC → 25 May 2012

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 58/100

Metacritic: 55/100

Iron Front — Liberation 1944 — takes place during the summer offensive of Soviet troops in South-Eastern Poland. The campaign can be played as both...

Death Rally

Arcade, Racing, Online, Isometric, Action, Remake

Game released: PC → 3 August 2012

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Arcade racing with an isometric view. The gameplay is exciting, intense, and explosively fun. You will win races, upgrade your cars and weapons to defeat incredible...

War of the Roses

Action, Hack and slash, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 2 October 2012

Players: 6.2/10

Metacritic: 73/100

War of the Roses — The game is focused on multiplayer, there are only a few single missions that are designed to teach the player the basics of gameplay and...

Motorbike

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Gimbal

Simulation, Action, Shooter, MMO, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Construction, Online, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 4 December 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 79/100

Gimbal is a top-down multiplayer shooter in which players build flying vehicles and fight in real time. Before taking off, pilots can customize weapons, engines...

Vessel

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie

Game released: PC → 1 March 2012

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Vessel is a fun puzzle platformer with action elements and a side view. The events of the game take place in the amazing world of mechanical machines that have...

GunZ: The Duel

Online, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Free game

Game released: PC → 24 July 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 43/100

GunZ: The Duel is an online third-person action, shooter and beat 'em up game from MAIET Entertainment. The game is published by MAIET Entertainment. Sometimes the...

Battlefield 3: Armored Kill

Simulation, Action, Shooter, DLC

Game released: PC → 11 September 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An expansion for Battlefield 3 focused on large-scale battles fought with vehicles. Across four new maps, players can use tanks, ATVs, mobile artillery and other...

Crash Time - Undercover

Simulation, Racing, Online, Action, First-person view

Game released: PC → 28 September 2012

Steam: 81/100

Players take on the role of a police officer and take part in a dangerous covert operation to take down a criminal gang. A variety of cars and armored vehicles will...

Primal Carnage

Action, Shooter, Online

Game released: PC → 29 October 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Set on a remote island overrun by dinosaurs, this online shooter pits human mercenaries against prehistoric predators in asymmetrical team battles. The mercenaries...

Legends of Dawn

Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 October 2012

Steam: 26/100

Legends of Dawn is a role-playing game set in the world of Narr, where a darkness spreading from the ancient battlefield of Ashglades twists creatures into...

Prime World

Online, Action, Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game, MOBA

Game released: PC → 26 July 2013; The project is closed: PC → 31 March 2021

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 46/100

Prime World — action for several players. This is a game with a unique universe, where tactical session battles, castle management and hero development are...

Super Monday Night Combat

Online, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Free game, MOBA

Game released: PC → 19 April 2012

Metacritic: 76/100

A third-person online shooter with character classes, Super Monday Night Combat builds on the original Monday Night Combat. It adds new classes, modes, and maps...

Lone Survivor

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

Game released: PC → 23 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...

Mass Effect 3: The Extended Cut

Role-playing game, Action, DLC, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Free game

Game released: PC → 26 June 2012

Players: 7.8/10

Mass Effect 3: The Extended Cut is a free addition to the third-person action RPG Mass Effect 3 that clarifies the ending of the game. An extended epilogue of the...

Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances

Online, Action, Strategy, Isometric, Tactics, Free game

Game released: PC → 20 July 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 39/100

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...

Awesomenauts

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

Game released: PC → 23 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...

Tiny Troopers

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Air Conflicts: Pacific Carriers

Arcade, Flight Simulator, Action, Simulation

Game released: PC → 1 October 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 59/100

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...

Borderlands 2: Mechromancer Pack

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view

Game released: PC → 9 October 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Borderlands 2: Mechromancer Pack is an add-on for a dynamic cooperative shooter with a first-person view and role-playing elements in the post-apocalyptic world of...

Ace of Spades: Battle Builder

Online, Action, Shooter, MMO, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 12 December 2012

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 54/100

Metacritic: 49/100

A team-based first-person shooter set on a constantly changing voxel battlefield. Players destroy maps and use the freedom to build and reshape the environment...

Bleed

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 12 December 2012

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This action platformer follows Wryn, a heroine who dreams of becoming the greatest videogame hero and sets out to challenge the heroes already celebrated as the...

ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron

Action, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 15 March 2012

Steam: 100/100

ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron — in the previous part, ToyJam and Earl crashed on planet Earth, after which they were forced to look for a way to get...

Batman: Arkham City - Harley Quinn's Revenge

Action, Stealth, DLC, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Free game

Game released: PC → 29 May 2012

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 72/100

An expansion to Batman: Arkham City, in which Harley Quinn leads her own gang and lures Batman back into Arkham City to take revenge on the Dark Knight. As the...

Combat Arms

Online, Shooter, First-person view, Free game, Action, MMO

Game released: PC → 26 July 2012

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 55/100

Combat Arms is a free-to-play competitive shooter with a first-person view. The game features more than 300 types of weapons, 34 maps, 12 game modes and 4,500,000...

Damage Inc. Pacific Squadron WWII

Shooter, Flight Simulator, Third-person view, Historical, Action, Simulation

Game released: PC → 28 August 2012

Steam: 61/100

Metacritic: 49/100

This flight-combat game with shooter elements is set in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Players pilot fighters, dive bombers, and torpedo bombers in battles...

They Bleed Pixels

Arcade, Platformer, Slasher, Action

Game released: PC → 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...

Retro City Rampage

Arcade, Action, Top-down view

Game released: PC → 9 October 2012

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 73/100

This top-down arcade action game takes place in the open city of Theftropolis, where the protagonist’s crime spree is interrupted by “evil” do-gooders protecting...

Fairy Bloom Freesia

Action, Fighting, Slasher, Platformer, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 October 2012

Steam: 89/100

This action platformer with hack-and-slash elements follows the fairy Freesia as she defends Lita Forest from monsters and humans seeking its spirit stones, the...

Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse

Action, Third-person view, Interactive movie

Game released: PC → 21 November 2012

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 40/100

Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse — Brian and Stewie are spending time at home when Bertram appears out of nowhere in a flash of light. Stewie is shocked by...

Dustforce

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

Game released: PC → 17 January 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...

Confrontation

Strategy, Role-playing game, Action

Game released: PC → 4 April 2012

Steam: 36/100

Metacritic: 51/100

Set in the war-torn world of Aarklash, this action role-playing and strategy game follows a Griffin force on missions against the Scorpion, Wolfen, and Bran-Ô-Kor...

Tribes: Ascend

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

Game released: PC → 12 April 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 86/100

This futuristic multiplayer shooter combines fast-paced combat with jetpacks, skiing, and vehicles. Matches emphasize teamwork and...

Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Pole Position 2012

Simulation, Action, Racing, Strategy, Sports game

Game released: PC → 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...

Gas Guzzlers: Combat Carnage

Racing, Action, Arcade

Game released: PC → 18 May 2012

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 58/100

This combat racing game presents its races from a camera positioned behind the car. The player starts with a low-performance vehicle and earns money in a series of...

Game of Thrones (2012)

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

Game released: PC → 8 June 2012

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 54/100

A fantasy role-playing game set in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire, it follows two former soldiers of Robert’s Rebellion who must reunite to confront a new...

Alan Wake's American Nightmare

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Adventure

Game released: PC → 22 May 2012

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Alan Wake's American Nightmare is a game about Alan Wake, which continues the plot of the original Alan Wake and sends the hero to the American outback. The game...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2012 for PC