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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...

Borderlands 2: Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage

Action, Shooter, DLC, Hack and slash, First-person view, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 20 November 2012

Metacritic: 83/100

An add-on for Borderlands 2, this campaign follows the fight for the Big Loot on Pandora under Mr. Torgue. The enemies include hordes of Biker Bandits, and the...

SCP-087

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

Game released: PC → 18 January 2012

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 34/100

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

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...

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...

Transformer: Fall of Cyberton

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

Game released: PC → 24 August 2012

Players: 10/10

Transformer: Fall of Cyberton is a third-person action game with a touch of shooter from developers from High Moon Studios and Mercenary Technology. The game is...

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...

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...

Toy Soldiers: Cold War

Action, Shooter, Strategy, In real time, Isometric

Game released: PC → 26 October 2012

Metacritic: 81/100

This action strategy game with shooter elements depicts a fictional Cold War in which toy armies from the USA and USSR come to life. Players command base defenses...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Age of Barbarian

Arcade, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 7 December 2012

Steam: 77/100

A fantasy action platformer drawing on sword-and-sorcery adventures, the game is set in a world where reality blends with dreams. An ancient evil has awakened...

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...

All Zombies Must Die!

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

Game released: PC → 12 March 2012

Players: 3.2/10

Steam: 53/100

Metacritic: 64/100

This post-apocalyptic action shooter with role-playing elements follows four heroes—a gamer, a girl, a mad scientist, and an alien—as they face hordes of zombies in...

Confrontation (2012)

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

Game released: PC → 4 April 2012

Metacritic: 51/100

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...

Nexuiz (2005)

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

Game released: PC → 10 May 2012

Nexuiz (2005) is a first-person action game with shooter elements from developers from the studios Alientrap Games Inc. and IllFonic. The game is published by...

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...

BasketBelle

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sports game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 9 December 2014

Steam: 80/100

An experimental 2D basketball platformer about a heroine who must save her sister. Set on improvised courts across Paris, the game gives the mechanics and ideas of...

The Juicer

Action

Game released: PC → 6 September 2012

Steam: 95/100

This first-person shooter takes place in a fictional country in the near future, where mutated fruits and vegetables turn against humanity after a farmer’s...

They Bleed Pixels

Arcade, Platformer, Slasher, Action

Game released: PC → 29 August 2012

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 74/100

An action platformer with slasher elements, inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft and classic horror. A young girl arrives at Lafcadio Academy for Troubled Young...

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...

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...

Moon Breakers

Simulation, Action, Futurism (Future), Indie, Free game

Game released: PC → 17 May 2012

Moon Breakers is a simulator with elements of action, indie game and shareware from the masters from the Imba Entertainment studio. The game is published by Uber...

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...

Dark Blood

Role-playing game, Action, MMO, Slasher, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 24 May 2019

Steam: 8/100

This fantasy action RPG follows Athanas, a knight seeking power to avenge his wife, who was killed during the demon legion’s invasion. With help from the dark...

GunZ: The Duel

Online, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Free game

Game released: PC → 24 July 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 42/100

GunZ: The Duel is an online third-person action, shooter and beat 'em up game from MAIET Entertainment. The game is published by MAIET Entertainment. Sometimes the...

Bit.Trip Core

Action, Music game, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 October 2012

Players: 5/10

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 80/100

A retro arcade action-rhythm game inspired by 1980s games, with a modern twist. In Bit.Trip Core, players control two axes, unlike the single-axis controls of its...

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...

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...

Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse

Action, Third-person view, Interactive movie

Game released: PC → 21 November 2012

Players: 7.9/10

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...

McDROID

Action, Strategy, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Combat robots

Game released: PC → 5 September 2014

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 74/100

This science-fiction game blends arcade action, real-time strategy and tower defense. The modular robot McDROID must protect its shuttle and crops from mutants, 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...

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...

Dead Horde

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Indie, Zombies

Game released: PC → 16 February 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 37/100

Metacritic: 45/100

This action arcade game follows a survivor of a mutant virus fighting to stay alive. Alone or alongside a partner, the player makes their way through city levels...

Adam's Venture: Episode 3 - Revelations

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

Game released: PC → 27 April 2012

Steam: 79/100

Adam's Venture: Episode 3 — Revelations is a third-person adventure with puzzle elements from the masters of Vertigo Games B.V.. The main publisher of...

All Zombies Must Die!: Scorepocalypse

Arcade, Action, DLC, Indie, Zombies

Game released: PC → 19 April 2012

Steam: 74/100

An arcade action game about fighting a zombie army in Deadhill, where the main goal is to score as many points as possible. The player controls McJagger, kills...

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...

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