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

Painkiller: Recurring Evil - a game in the Action genre

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: PC → 29 February 2012

Players: 3.8/10

Steam: 40/100

This first-person shooter is set in a dark version of Hell and continues Bill Sherman’s story. The hero must escape a prison deep in the underworld and fight for...

Containment: The Zombie Puzzler

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 March 2012

Players: 5/10

Steam: 89/100

An action puzzle game about containing a zombie outbreak in Franklin County. To defeat the undead, the player surrounds them with survivors of the same color, while...

Slender

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view

Game released: PC → June 2012

VGTimes: 6.0/10

Players: 6.7/10

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...

Manhunter

Action, Shooter, First-person view

Game released: PC → 1 February 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Manhunter is an exciting first-person shooter where you take on the role of a bounty hunter and destroy crime in...

Mass Effect 3: From Ashes

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

Game released: PC → 6 March 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 59/100

Mass Effect 3: From Ashes is an addition to the third-person role-playing action game Mass Effect 3. In addition, you will find a new mission on Eden Prime, new...

Death Rally (Classic)

Action, Shooter, Racing, Top-down view

Game released: PC → 3 August 2012

Players: 3.2/10

Steam: 91/100

Death Rally (Classic) is a furious racing shooter with a top-down view, where you have to survive in battle against real death...

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...

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...

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...

Revelations 2012

Action, Shooter, Strategy, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: PC → 23 April 2012

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 55/100

This first-person shooter with strategy elements takes place in an alternate dimension where heroes battle gods who entered the human world through a portal...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013

Simulation, Action, Shooter, Hunting / Fishing, First-person view

Game released: PC → 23 October 2012

Players: 9.2/10

Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013 — The game begins with young brothers Jacob and Luke Marshall going hunting in Alaska with their father, a park ranger. The...

Superfrog

Action, Platformer

Game released: PC → 11 January 2012

This side-scrolling platform game follows a prince transformed into a frog by a jealous witch, who also abducts his princess. After a bottle of Lucozade grants him...

Dogfight 1942

Arcade, Flight Simulator, Simulation, Action

Game released: PC → 21 September 2012

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 59/100

This arcade flight game features aerial combat and fighter missions across the major theaters of World War II. Players pilot historically accurate aircraft in...

Ys: The Oath in Felghana

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: PC → 19 March 2012

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This third-person action RPG follows Adol Christin and his companion Dogi as they return to Dogi’s homeland of Felghana after an eight-year absence. Monsters have...

Kung Fu Strike: The Warrior's Rise

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Beat them all, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 25 April 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 79/100

An arcade beat ’em up featuring martial arts combat and drawing inspiration from ancient Chinese tales of revenge and retribution. In Kung Fu Strike: The Warrior's...

Rune Classic

Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Collection, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure

Game released: PC → 13 June 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 91/100

This third-person fantasy action game follows a Viking warrior battling Loki and his minions as they seek to bring Ragnarok to Midgard. In the single-player...

Ice Age: Continental Drift - Arctic Games

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Sports game

Game released: PC → 29 June 2012

Players: 5.8/10

Metacritic: 43/100

A sports game based on Ice Age: Continental Drift, in which Manny and the herd compete with seafaring pirates for hidden treasure. To decide who gets the prize, the...

Check vs. Mate

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

Game released: PC → 16 August 2012

Players: 7/10

Steam: 73/100

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...

Space Ark

Arcade, Action, Pinball, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 16 March 2012

Steam: 50/100

Metacritic: 67/100

This arcade game with puzzle elements follows a team of animal astronauts who flee their home solar system after it is shattered by a wandering black hole. Aboard...

Prime World

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

Game released: PC → 26 July 2013

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...

Dynamite Jack

Action, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 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...

Virus Named Tom

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 1 August 2012

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This action-puzzle platformer follows TOM, a virus created for revenge after a corporation fires its creator, Dr. X. Players rewire circuits to spread the virus...

Cladun X2

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 14 August 2012

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Cladun X2 is a top-down action RPG in which characters explore randomly generated dungeons in the world of Arcanus Cella. It combines hack-and-slash combat with...

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Natural Selection 2

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

Game released: PC → 30 October 2012

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 80/100

A multiplayer first-person shooter with strategy elements, Natural Selection 2 is a revamped version of a Half-Life mod. The available information does not specify...

Mass Effect 3: Omega

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

Game released: PC → 27 November 2012

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 60/100

Mass Effect 3: Omega is an addition to the third-person action role-playing game Mass Effect 3. The plot of the add-on develops the original story: Aria teams up...

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...

Time Commando

Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Historical

Game released: PC → 5 January 2012

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This third-person action game follows a virus that has invaded a top-secret military supercomputer and is disrupting the flow of time. To restore its memory and...

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...

Hard Reset

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 13 September 2011

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Hard Reset is a first-person cyberpunk shooter set in a future where, after a war with machines, only one human city remains on Earth. Major Fletcher, a soldier and...

Dark Scavenger

Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 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...

Crash Time - Undercover

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

Game released: PC → 28 September 2012

Steam: 80/100

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...

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...

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