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

Scarygirl (2012)

Game released: PC → 9 April 2012

Metacritic: 65/100

Scarygirl is an action platformer about an abandoned girl with a tentacle arm who sets out to discover the meaning of her troubling dreams about a strange man. The...

Gettysburg: Armored Warfare

Online, Action, Shooter, Strategy, In real time, First-person view

Game released: PC → 27 March 2012

Gettysburg: Armored Warfare are first-person online games with action, shooter and strategy elements from the masters at Radioactive Software. The game is published...

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...

Quest for Glory 1-5

Role-playing game, Action, Collection, Adventure, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 10 May 2012

Steam: 95/100

This collection of five adventure role-playing games with action elements takes place in the fantasy world of Gloriana, where a hero sets out in search of fortune...

Lament

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 28 May 2012

Steam: 77/100

Lament is a third-person action game with a dash of platforming and puzzle from the masters at Crobasoft Interactive. The main publisher of the game is Crobasoft...

Expendables 2

Action, Shooter, First-person view

Game released: PC → 17 August 2012

Metacritic: 33/100

This action shooter, based on The Expendables films, follows a mission to rescue a kidnapped billionaire. The operation soon turns into a series of large-scale...

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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...

Colour Bind

Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 24 September 2012

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Colour Bind is a physics-based platform puzzler set in an abstract world where gravity depends on colour rather than mass. The player changes the character’s colour...

Happy Wars

Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game

Game released: PC → 12 October 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 61/100

A multiplayer action game set in a fantasy world, where comical characters battle across varied locations, from grasslands to the ocean floor. Players can choose...

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...

Sugar Cube : The Bittersweet Factory

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 7 November 2012

Steam: 76/100

This 2D platformer follows a sugar cube escaping from factories to avoid becoming a cookie. The player works through levels using clues hidden on background tiles...

Puddle (2012)

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

Game released: PC → 9 November 2012

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This physics-based puzzle platformer challenges the player to guide a puddle of fluid to its destination by tilting the game world. Friction, momentum, and the...

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...

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...

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...

Dragon Knights

Role-playing game, Online, Action, MMO, Hack and slash, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game

Game released: PC → сентябрь 2012

Players: 2.1/10

Dragon Knights is a third-person role-playing game with a mixture of online play, action, massively multiplayer, hack-and-slash, fantasy and shareware games from...

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...

Offspring Fling!

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

Game released: PC → 11 May 2012

Steam: 89/100

Offspring Fling! is a puzzle-platformer about a forest creature who has lost all her children and sets out to bring them home. She makes her way through more than...

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...

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...

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...

Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Role-playing game, Casual game

Game released: PC → 27 September 2012

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 76/100

A fantasy action RPG in which a hero must prevent the end of the world, with only 30 seconds to complete each mission. The hero explores dungeons, helps people...

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...

Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller - Episode 1: The Hangman

Action, Adventure, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 30 October 2012

Metacritic: 69/100

This third-person adventure thriller follows FBI agent Erica Reed as she investigates a serial killer connected to her brother’s death. By touching an object, Erica...

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...

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...

P3

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 17 July 2012

Players: 1/10

P3 is a top-down action game with a mixture of shooter and indie game from the studio BatCat Games. The game is published by BatCat...

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...

Bit.Trip Core

Action, Music game, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 October 2012

Players: 5/10

Steam: 58/100

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...

AXRIA Retro World

Action, Platformer

Game released: PC → 31 March 2012

AXRIA Retro World is an action game with platformer...

Unmanned

Simulation, Action, First-person view, Third-person view, Historical

Game released: PC → 15 February 2012

Unmanned is a first-person simulator with a dash of action and history from the developers of Molleindustria and No Media Kings. The main publisher of the game is...

Luxor Evolved

Arcade, Indie, Casual game, Action

Game released: PC → 23 February 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 97/100

A retro-styled arcade marble shooter built around firing at chains of moving spheres across fast-paced levels. Luxor Evolved reworks the series’ classic formula...

Confrontation (2012)

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

Game released: PC → 4 April 2012

Metacritic: 51/100

Космический охотник: Геноцид

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...

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...

Voxeliens

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

Game released: PC → 27 April 2012

Voxeliens is a third-person action game with shooter elements from the studio Volumes of Fun. The main publisher of the game is Volumes of...

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...

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...

Ixion Saga

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

Game released: PC → лето 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...

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