Action 2012 for PC — top best games in the Action genre / Page 5

All Zombies Must Die!: Scorepocalypse - a game in the Action genre

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...

Royal Quest

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

Game released: PC → 3 April 2012

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 67/100

Royal Quest is a free-to-play multiplayer role-playing game with an isometric camera view. The game takes place in a world called Aura, where magic, technology and...

Panzar

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

Game released: PC → 12 April 2012

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 50/100

Panzar — shareware competitive action game with a third-person view. Intense team battles with other players await you, in the role of monstrous orcs. There...

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning — Teeth of Naros

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

Game released: PC → 18 April 2012

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning — Teeth of Naros is a third-person role-playing game with action and fantasy elements from the developers of 38 Studios, Big...

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...

Battlefield 3: Close Quarters

Online, Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 26 June 2012

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Battlefield 3: Close Quarters is an add-on for an exciting first-person shooter. The addition will allow you to fight on closed maps without using military...

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...

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...

Dead Pixels

Zombies, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 7 December 2012

Steam: 86/100

This zombie action game begins when toxic waste contaminates the water supply and causes the recently deceased to rise from their graves. To escape the city, the...

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...

Realm of the Mad God

Role-playing game, Online, Action, Shooter, MMO, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game, Roguelike, Indie

Game released: PC → 20 February 2012

Players: 9/10

Steam: 80/100

Realm of the Mad God is a free-to-play top-down multiplayer shooter in a fantasy setting. You have to team up with dozens of players and fight for the Kingdom of...

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...

Golden Axe 2

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 3 May 2012

Golden Ax 2 is a third-person arcade game with elements of action, fighting and fantasy games from the developers from the studio SEGA Enterprises Ltd.. The game is...

Beyond Oasis

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Puzzle, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure

Game released: PC → 3 May 2012

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 100/100

This top-down action-adventure with role-playing elements follows Prince Ali, who uncovers a gold armlet once belonging to a powerful sorcerer. When Ali puts it on...

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...

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...

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...

Vox

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

Game released: PC → 8 September 2012

Ravaged

Action, Shooter, Hack and slash, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PC → 17 October 2012

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 64/100

Dynasty Warriors 7: Empires

Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 22 February 2013

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 63/100

An action game with strategic elements, Dynasty Warriors 7: Empires combines battlefield combat with the opportunity to influence the course of history. Players...

Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse

Action, Third-person view, Interactive movie

Game released: PC → 21 November 2012

Players: 6.9/10

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...

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...

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...

Infestation: Survivor Stories

Role-playing game, Online, Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, In real time, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Zombies, Survival, MMO

Game released: PC → 17 December 2012

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 31/100

Metacritic: 20/100

Infestation: Survivor Stories is an action role-playing game for several people. One of the most iconic games in survival history returns, bringing classic gameplay...

Omegalodon

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

Game released: PC → 9 March 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 68/100

Blacklight: Retribution

Online, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Free game

Game released: PC → 3 April 2012

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 100/100

Metacritic: 67/100

This first-person shooter is set in a futuristic urban warzone. Building on Blacklight: Tango Down, Blacklight: Retribution features combat with a wide range of...

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...

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...

Rotastic

Arcade, Action, Casual game

Game released: PC → 11 October 2012

Steam: 82/100

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ether Vapor: Remaster

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 September 2012

Steam: 84/100

This 3D arcade shooter is set during a war between Lydia and Caldea, whose forces have an overwhelming advantage in numbers and technology. An unknown pilot takes...

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...

Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack

Arcade, Platformer, Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 15 August 2012

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle platformer in which you become an alien bubble and try to destroy all of humanity. The game...

Garshasp: Temple of the Dragon

Action, Slasher, Indie

Game released: PC → 24 September 2012

Steam: 29/100

This fantasy hack-and-slash game, drawing on Persian mythology, follows the hero Garshasp through cursed lands. Set before the events of Garshasp: The Monster...

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...

iBomber Attack

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

Game released: PC → 1 November 2012

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This top-down arcade action game sends the player across Europe in a tank to complete combat missions and destroy enemy installations. Targets include naval...

Deep Black

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

Game released: PC → 18 April 2012

Metacritic: 47/100

This futuristic third-person action game takes place mostly underwater, where the player fights hostile enemies and infiltrates enemy bases. The available equipment...

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