Action 2012 for PC — top best games in the Action genre / Page 6

Raiderz

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

Game released: PC → 20 November 2012

Cargo Commander

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

Game released: PC → 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...

NiGHTS into Dreams

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Adventure

Game released: PC → 17 December 2012

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 74/100

NiGHTS into Dreams is an arcade adventure action-platformer with a side view, set in the World of Dreams. This world is divided into Nightopia and Nightmare. It is...

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (Special Edition)

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

Game released: PC → 7 February 2012

Steam: 87/100

Set in the fantasy world of Amalur, this role-playing game follows a warrior who is the first to return from the dead and becomes caught in a war tearing the world...

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (Collector's Edition)

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

Game released: PC → 7 February 2012

Steam: 87/100

Set in the fantasy world of Amalur, this role-playing game follows a warrior resurrected from death and born without a predetermined fate. The hero explores lands...

Really Big Sky

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

Game released: PC → 24 February 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 73/100

Really Big Sky is a third-person action game with shooter elements from the Boss Baddie studio. The game is published by Boss Baddie and...

Scarygirl (2012)

Action, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 9 April 2012

Metacritic: 65/100

Scarygirl is an action platformer about an abandoned girl with a tentacle arm who sets out to discover the meaning of her troubling dreams about a strange man. The...

All Zombies Must Die!: Scorepocalypse

Arcade, Action, DLC, Indie, Zombies

Game released: PC → 19 April 2012

Steam: 74/100

All Zombies Must Die!: Scorepocalypse is an arcade game with a mixture of action and indie games from the developers of the doublesix games studio. The game is...

Fireburst

Arcade, Action, Racing, Adventure

Game released: PC → 25 April 2012

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 35/100

An arcade racer with combat elements, Fireburst sends vehicles onto tracks filled with shortcuts, obstacles and cooling zones. Players choose from 16 vehicles...

Adam's Venture 2: Solomon's Secret

Adventure, Puzzle, Logic, Point & Click, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 8 April 2011

Steam: 78/100

This third-person adventure with puzzles follows a search for the Garden of Eden in 1920s Jerusalem. After escaping the Caverns of Eden, Adam Venture and his crew...

Babel Rising

Arcade, Strategy, Action

Game released: PC → 7 August 2012

Steam: 43/100

Metacritic: 53/100

Babel Rising is a whimsical adaptation of the biblical context. During the construction of the city of Babylon, the people build a tower designed to reach the sky...

Iron Brigade

Action, Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 13 August 2012

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 79/100

An action game with strategy and tower defense elements, Iron Brigade has players pilot a combat mech and fend off robotic enemies. The game combines a third-person...

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Arcade, Logic, Indie, Casual game, Action

Game released: PC → 11 September 2012

Steam: 93/100

This arcade action game combines twin-stick shooting with match-three puzzles. Players control the Nano Probe, a microscopic device fighting an infection by...

Carrier Command: Gaea Mission

Strategy, Action, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 28 October 2012

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 51/100

Metacritic: 53/100

This science-fiction strategy game with action elements follows Lieutenant Myrik, commander of an armed carrier fighting for resources on the moon Taurus. After a...

Probability 0

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 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...

Guns of Icarus Online

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

Game released: PC → 29 October 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...

Sleeping Dogs: Nightmare in North Point

Action, Third-person view, Adventure

Game released: PC → 30 October 2012

Players: 5.6/10

Steam: 56/100

An expansion for Sleeping Dogs in which Wei battles supernatural forces threatening to take over the city. After his girlfriend is kidnapped, he fights his way...

Clan of Champions

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

Game released: PC → 30 October 2012

Steam: 63/100

Clan of Champions — dynamic action game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. In the game you can choose a character from one of three available...

Iron Sky: Invasion

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

Game released: PC → 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: PC → 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: PC → 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: PC → 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...

Mutant Storm: Reloaded

Arcade, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 21 March 2012

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This top-down arcade twin-stick shooter challenges players to survive 89 levels filled with hostile creatures. Players blast their way through waves of enemies...

Dragon Knights

Role-playing game, Online, Action, MMO, Hack and slash, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game

Game released: PC → September 2012

Players: 2.1/10

Dragon Knights is a third-person role-playing game with a mixture of online play, action, massively multiplayer, hack-and-slash, fantasy and shareware games from...

Darwinia

Action, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Puzzle, God Simulator

Game released: PC → 3 April 2012

Steam: 78/100

This real-time strategy game blends action and puzzles in a digital world inhabited by intelligent creatures called Darwinians. When a dangerous virus disrupts...

Ys Origin

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Puzzle, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: PC → 31 May 2012

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Ys Origin is an isometric action role-playing game set in the Ys fantasy universe. The plot of the game tells about events that took place 700 years before the...

Intrusion 2

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 20 June 2012

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 93/100

This futuristic action platformer takes place on a reserve planet seized by a hostile military corporation conducting research into forbidden technologies...

inSANE

Action, Horror, First-person view

Game canceled: PC → August 2012

Anticipation Rating: 8/10

inSANE — 3 modes — championship, quick race and practice. 5 vehicle classes — Sports, 4x4, trucks, pickups and extreme. More than 30 cars to...

Mutant Mudds

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 August 2012

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 75/100

A retro-styled action platformer in which the hero, Max, fights mutants with a water cannon. Armed with the cannon and a jetpack, he makes his way through levels by...

ArmA 2: Army of the Czech Republic

Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Third-person view, Tactics, Simulation, Action

Game released: PC → 13 September 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 68/100

ArmA 2: Army of the Czech Republic is an addition to the first-person tactical military shooter that adds the armed forces of the Czech Republic to the game. Two...

Afterfall Insanity Extended Edition

Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: PC → 3 December 2012

Players: 4.9/10

Afterfall Insanity Extended Edition is a third-person action game with elements of shooter, horror and indie game from Intoxicate Studios. The game is published by...

War of the Roses: Kingmaker

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

Game released: PC → 11 April 2013

War of the Roses: Kingmaker is a third-person action game with fantasy elements from Fatshark. The game is published by Paradox...

Incredipede

Arcade, Platformer, Logic, Construction, Action, Simulation

Game released: PC → 25 October 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Incredipede is a physics-based puzzle game about Quozzle, a creature who can grow arms and legs wherever needed. By changing her body, she takes the form of...

Forge

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, MMO, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 4 December 2012

Metacritic: 65/100

Forge is a class-based multiplayer online shooter set in a remote fantasy universe. The game combines the best aspects of MMO and FPS and will offer you addictive...

Mortal Kombat: Arcade Kollection

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Collection

Game released: PC → 2 February 2012

Players: 6.5/10

Metacritic: 61/100

Mortal Kombat: Arcade Kollection is a collection of three classic fighting games from the Mortal Kombat series, which includes Mortal Kombat (1992), Mortal Kombat 2...

Gemini Rue (Collector's Edition)

Action, Third-person view, Collection, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Point & Click, Adventure, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 10 February 2012

Steam: 87/100

This science-fiction point-and-click adventure follows Azriel Odin, an ex-assassin who arrives on the rain-soaked planet of Barracus, and Delta-Six, who wakes up in...

Mari0

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle

Game released: PC → 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: PC → 9 March 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 68/100

ToeJam & Earl

Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Adventure

Game released: PC → 15 March 2012

Players: 3.2/10

Steam: 100/100

This adventure action game follows two aliens from the planet Funkotron whose spaceship has broken apart on Earth. ToeJam and Earl must find the ten scattered...

Offspring Fling!

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

Game released: PC → 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...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2012 for PC