Action 2012 for PC — top best games in the Action genre / Page 8

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...

Revenge of Roger Rouge

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 8 April 2012

Revenge of Roger Rouge is an arcade game with elements of action, shooter, beat 'em all and fantasy games from developers from the studio Trazzy Entertainment. The...

Spaceforce Homeworld

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 July 2012

Steam: 25/100

An arcade shooter about humanity’s fight against invading alien forces on Earth and in space. Across more than 50 levels, the player shoots down enemies and dodges...

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...

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...

Pineapple Smash Crew

Action, Beat them all, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 2 February 2012

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 62/100

A tactical action game with a retro-futuristic style, Pineapple Smash Crew sends a squad to fight aliens, robots and zombies aboard randomly generated ships. The...

Bomb Buddies

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Free game

Game released: PC → 25 May 2012

Bomb Buddies is a top-down arcade game with action and free-to-play...

Dungeons and Dragons Online: Menace of the Underdark

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Raiderz

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

Game released: PC → 20 November 2012

Smugglers 5

Role-playing game, Simulation, Action, Strategy, Business / Management, Futurism (Future), Turn-based

Game released: PC → 19 October 2012

Smugglers 5 is a role-playing game with a mixture of simulation, action, strategy and business simulation from developers from the studio Niels Bauer Games. The...

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...

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...

Spirits (2010)

Indie, Strategy, Action

Game released: PC → 15 February 2012

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This action-puzzle game follows spirits of fallen leaves as they set out for home in autumn. The player guides them toward their destination by changing the wind...

Confrontation (2012)

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

Game released: PC → 4 April 2012

Metacritic: 51/100

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...

Scarygirl

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 9 April 2012

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 65/100

Scarygirl is an arcade, action, platformer and indie game from the developers of TikGames, LLC. The main publisher of the game is Square Enix. It seems that...

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...

Foreign Legion: Multi Massacre

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Din's Curse

Role-playing game, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 22 August 2012

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This real-time fantasy RPG follows a hero cursed by the god Din to spend a second life serving others; redemption depends on helping the inhabitants of towns. In...

Continent of the Ninth Seal

Role-playing game, Online, MMO, Third-person view, Free game, Action, Adventure

Game released: PC → 13 September 2012

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 71/100

Continent of the Ninth Seal is an action MMORPG in which heroes oppose Nefer, who seeks to open a gate to the Netherworld and unleash his infernal forces upon the...

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...

Rotastic

Arcade, Action, Casual game

Game released: PC → 11 October 2012

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Rotastic is a 2D arcade game built around swinging through levels and completing objectives. Players collect items, avoid traps, fight opponents, smash brick...

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...

Party of Sin

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 13 December 2012

Steam: 57/100

This puzzle-platforming action game follows an escape from Hell: the player controls the Seven Deadly Sins as they set out to torment humanity and travel through...

Sol: Exodus

Simulation, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 25 January 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 57/100

This space combat simulator follows humanity’s search for a new home after Earth becomes uninhabitable and the Sun begins to die. The player takes the role of a...

Star Trek Online Episode 4: The 2800

Role-playing game, Online, Action, Shooter, MMO, Third-person view, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Free game

Game released: PC → 11 February 2012

Star Trek Online Episode 4: The 2800 is a third-person role-playing game with a mixture of online play, action, shooter, massively multiplayer and free-to-play game...

game of concentration

Action

Game canceled: PC → 20 March 2012

game of concentration is an action...

Fallen City

Action, Educational game (Education), Third-person view

Game released: PC → 23 April 2012

Fallen City is a third-person action game with a touch of educational game from Big Robot Limited. The game is published by Channel Four Television...

POP: Methodology Experiment One

Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 10 December 2014

Steam: 65/100

An experimental game built around music, which informs its mechanics, visual style, and overall structure. POP: Methodology Experiment One is a sequence of...

Wolfram

Action, Shooter, First-person view

Game released: PC → 9 June 2012

Wolfram is a first-person action game with a dash of shooter from the masters at Chain Studios. The game is published by Chain...

Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers

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

Game released: PC → 19 June 2012

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This comic-styled platformer with puzzle elements follows Tiny, an inventor crossing a desert to reclaim his grandfather’s favorite possession: a pair of white...

EVE Online: Retribution

Role-playing game, Action, MMO, DLC, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: PC → 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...

Omegalodon

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

Game released: PC → 9 March 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 68/100

Legends of Pegasus

Strategy, Action, Simulation

Game released: PC → 10 August 2012

Steam: 22/100

Metacritic: 36/100

Legends of Pegasus — The game is a space 4X strategy game with a predominance of turn-based strategy. Disasters occur on Earth and thereby make it...

Tryst

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 14 September 2012

Steam: 20/100

Metacritic: 50/100

This real-time strategy game follows a war between humans and the sentient mechanical Zali on the planet Ishtonia IV. In the campaign, players follow Overseer...

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...

SCP-087

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 18 January 2012

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 31/100

SCP-087 is a first-person adventure with horror...

Wing Commander Saga: The Darkest Dawn

Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: PC → 22 March 2012

Wing Commander Saga: The Darkest Dawn is a first-person action game with shooter and flight simulator...

Blades of Time: Dismal Swamp

Action, DLC, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure

Game released: PC → 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...

Rigonauts

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Casual game, Simulation

Game released: PC → 7 August 2012

Steam: 52/100

Rigonauts is an arcade game with a mixture of action and strategy from developers from the Engient studio. The game is published by Engient. Rigonauts is definitely...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2012 for PC