Action 2012 for PC — top best games in the Action genre / Page 7

Top Gun: Hard Lock - a game in the Action genre

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 13 March 2012

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 54/100

This arcade aerial shooter focuses on high-speed jet dogfights and draws on aviation action films. The game features the F-14 Tomcat, along with other licensed...

Warp

Arcade, Stealth, Action

Game released: PC → 13 March 2012

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Warp is an arcade game with elements of a stealth game from developers from the Trapdoor studio. The main publisher of the game is Electronic...

Poacher

Action, Shooter, Hunting / Fishing, First-person view, Sports game

Game released: PC → 4 April 2012

Poacher is a first-person action game with elements of a shooter, hunting/fishing simulator and sports game from the Fully Ramblomatic studio. The game is published...

Receiver

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Wanderlust: Rebirth

Role-playing game, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 27 July 2012

Steam: 51/100

This action RPG is set in the fantasy world of Valandria, where heroes are summoned to Westhaven Arena to prove their worth. Their journey soon becomes a fight to...

Closure

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

Game released: PC → 1 January 2009

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Closure is a puzzle game built around manipulating light: in its dark world, only visible objects exist, and lighting shifts objects in and out of reality. The...

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...

Brawl Busters

Action, Fighting, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 21 April 2012

Brawl Busters is a third-person action game with a dash of fighting from the masters at SkeinGlobe Corporation. The game is published by Rock Hippo Productions Ltd...

Pandora Saga

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

Game released: PC → 1 March 2012

Players: 8.4/10

Pandora Saga is a third-person role-playing game with action, massively multiplayer and fantasy elements from the developers of Headlock Corporation and Rosso...

Warp (2012)

Action, Stealth, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 March 2012

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This sci-fi stealth-action puzzler follows Zero, an alien abducted from his home world by a general and taken to an underwater research facility. To escape, he...

Revenge of Shinobi (1989)

Action, Fighting, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 3 May 2012

Revenge of Shinobi (1989) is a third-person action game with a mixture of fighting and platforming from the developers of SEGA Enterprises Ltd.. The game is...

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...

Serious Sam 3: Jewel of the Nile

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

Game released: PC → 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...

AirBuccaneers

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Indie, Free game

Game released: PC → 5 December 2012

Steam: 61/100

This multiplayer action game with strategy and role-playing elements sets airship battles in the ancient North, a once peaceful land now corrupted by magic. Players...

Fray

Action, Strategy, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Tactics, Indie

Game released: PC → 8 February 2012

Steam: 1/100

Metacritic: 27/100

This tactical strategy game with shooter elements takes place in a dystopian 2098, where human interaction has largely moved into virtual reality and three...

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...

Lair of the Evildoer

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Top-down view

Game released: PC → 8 March 2012

Lair of the Evildoer is a third-person action game with shooter elements from Going Loud Studios. The main publisher of the game is Going Loud...

Sub Rosa

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

Game released: PC → 19 July 2012

Steam: 67/100

A multiplayer first-person shooter built around tense deals, betrayal and shootouts that can spill into high-speed car chases. In World Mode, corporations compete...

8BitBoy

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 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...

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...

Chester

Arcade, Indie, Adventure, Action

Game released: PC → 23 February 2012

Steam: 78/100

This arcade platformer combines action and adventure as Chester sets out to recover stolen cupcakes after a prank leads to burned buildings and shattered realities...

Mount & Blade Collection

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

Game released: PC → 13 March 2012

Players: 9.3/10

Mount & Blade Collection is a third-person role-playing game with action, massively multiplayer and fantasy elements from TaleWorlds Entertainment. The game is...

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...

Vectorman 2

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

Game released: PC → 3 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...

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...

Adventures of Shuggy

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

Game released: PC → 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: PC → 13 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...

Ixion Saga

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

Game released: PC → summer 2012

Ixion Saga is a third-person role-playing game with online, action, massively multiplayer and fantasy elements from developers Capcom. The game is published by...

Bunny Must Die

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Platformer

Game released: PC → 11 September 2012

Bunny Must Die is an arcade game with a mixture of action, a game in the genre of "beat 'em all" and a platformer from developers from the Rockin' Android. The...

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

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Oddboxx

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Collection, Tactics

Game released: PC → 20 December 2012

Steam: 88/100

Oddboxx is a third-person action game with elements of adventure and tactical game from the masters from the studio Oddworld Inhabitants Inc.. The game is published...

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...

Waveform

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Valley Without Wind

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 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...

Desolate Hope

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 25 April 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 92/100

Desolate Hope is a unique action-platformer with role-playing elements, turn-based combat and a side view in a sci-fi setting. The action takes place on the...

Smashmuck Champions

Online, Action, Third-person view, Free game

Game released: PC → 1 September 2012

Smashmuck Champions is a free-to-play, third-person action-based online game from the developers at Kiz Studios. The main publisher of the game is Kiz...

Raiderz

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

Game released: PC → 20 November 2012

Arena Wars 2

Strategy, Action

Game released: PC → 12 October 2012

Steam: 31/100

A real-time strategy game with RPG elements, Arena Wars 2 is set on a battlefield of the future. Matches combine tactical combat with capture-the-flag objectives...

Dark Shadows: Army of Evil

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

Game released: PC → 29 November 2012

Steam: 37/100

This first-person medieval fantasy action game follows a knight setting out to rescue his kidnapped beloved. In September 1362, an army known as the Dark Shadows...

Solar Struggle

Online, Simulation, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Arcade

Game released: PC → 18 November 2014

Steam: 42/100

Solar Struggle is an arcade space shooter about a young pilot whose convoy comes under attack in the distant future. Humanity has spread across the solar system...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2012 for PC