Arcade 2012 for PC — top best games in the Arcade genre / Page 3

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 12 December 2012

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This action platformer follows Wryn, a heroine who dreams of becoming the greatest videogame hero and sets out to challenge the heroes already celebrated as the...

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...

Basement Collection

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 15 March 2013

Players: 8/10

Steam: 89/100

This collection of indie games by Edmund McMillen brings together projects across several genres, from an exploration adventure to platformers, puzzles, and...

Ice Age: Continental Drift

Arcade

Game released: PC → 29 June 2012

Players: 4.4/10

Ice Age: Continental Drift is an arcade game from the Behavior Interactive studio. The main publisher of the game is Activision, and Lazy Games is responsible for...

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...

Teddy Floppy Ear: The Race

Arcade, Racing, Third-person view, Sports game, Indie

Game released: PC → 22 May 2015

Steam: 77/100

This arcade kart racer follows the residents of Animalville as they compete for the championship. Players choose a character from the Teddy Floppy Ear universe and...

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...

Symphony

Arcade, Music game, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 6 August 2012

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Symphony is an arcade music action game about a mysterious entity that absorbs and corrupts the player’s music collection. To reclaim the music, the player battles...

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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...

Sine Mora

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

Game released: PC → 9 November 2012

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Sine Mora is a horizontally scrolling shoot ’em up in which time is central to combat. It combines classic shooter mechanics with a Story Mode that unfolds its tale...

Street Fighter X Mega Man

Arcade, Beat them all, Platformer

Game released: PC → 17 December 2012

Metacritic: 71/100

This 8-bit-style crossover brings together Mega Man and characters from Street Fighter. The Blue Bomber stars as the protagonist, while Street Fighter characters...

Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone

Arcade, Role-playing game, Platformer, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 January 2012

Steam: 85/100

A platforming role-playing game set in the fantasy country of Scotsholm, where mass-produced Elemental Stones have made magic commonplace. After moving with her...

Top Gun: Hard Lock

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...

Worms (Facebook)

Arcade, Online, Strategy, Platformer, Mini-game / browser-based

Game released: PC → 6 September 2012

Players: 8.2/10

Worms (Facebook) is an arcade game with elements of an online game, strategy, platformer and browser or mini-game from the developers from the Team 17 studio. The...

Intrusion 2

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 20 June 2012

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 93/100

This futuristic action platformer takes place on a reserve planet seized by a hostile military corporation conducting research into forbidden technologies...

Jet-Set Radio

Arcade, Third-person view, Stunts

Game released: PC → 19 September 2012

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 74/100

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...

Jane's Advanced Strike Fighters

Arcade, Simulation

Game released: PC → 18 October 2011

Steam: 36/100

Jane's Advanced Strike Fighters is an arcade game from the masters from the Trickstar Games studio. The game is published by Evolved Games and Koch...

Adam's Venture - Episode 3: Relevations

Arcade, Adventure

Game released: PC → 10 March 2012

Adam's Venture — Episode 3: Relevations is an arcade game with adventure elements from developers from the Vertigo Games studio. The game is published by...

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...

Revenge of Shinobi

Arcade, Action, Platformer

Game released: PC → 2 May 2012

Steam: 71/100

An arcade platformer about the ninja Joe Musashi, who sets out to take revenge on the criminal syndicate Neo Zeed. The revived organization has killed his teacher...

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...

Trine 2: Goblin Menace

Arcade, DLC, Platformer, Logic

Game released: PC → 6 September 2012

Trine 2: Goblin Menace is an arcade game with platformer elements from the masters from the Frozenbyte studio. The game is published by Atlus.Trine 2: Goblin Menace...

Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Platformer

Game released: PC → 15 October 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This side-scrolling action platformer with puzzles is set in Albatropolis, a land ruled by a totalitarian penguin regime. Hardboiled Chicken sets out to assassinate...

FIFA Manager 13

Arcade, Strategy, Football, Business / Management, Sports game, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 25 October 2012

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 69/100

A football management simulator focused on setting tactics and lineups, developing players and negotiating transfers. The tactical editor lets the manager give...

Haunted Past: Realm of Ghosts

Arcade, Adventure, First-person view, Logic, Hidden Objects, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 10 April 2014

Steam: 82/100

This hidden-object adventure follows an inherited house where the boundary between life and death conceals unfinished business. Sara discovers that the abandoned...

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...

Valley Without Wind

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 23 April 2012

Steam: 64/100

Metacritic: 54/100

A 2D platforming action game with tactical combat and settlement building, Valley Without Wind takes place in a post-ice-age world in the distant future. Players...

Slash Monsters

Arcade, Hack and slash, Free game, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 1 August 2012

Slash Monsters is a Point and Click arcade game with a dash of hack-and-slash and free-to-play from the developers at White Laser Games. The main publisher of the...

Super Amazing Wagon Adventure

Arcade, Adventure, Side view, Comedy, Shooter

Game released: PC → 28 August 2012

Steam: 95/100

Super Amazing Wagon Adventure is an arcade game with adventure elements from the sparsevector studio. The game is published by...

Cortex Command

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Platformer, Tactics

Game released: PC → 28 September 2012

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 44/100

A tactical arcade game with strategy and platforming elements, Cortex Command centers on mining gold from deformable pixel terrain. The resources can be spent on...

Karateka (2012)

Arcade, Fighting, Indie, Action, Tactics, Side view, Strategy

Game released: PC → 3 December 2012

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 60/100

Karateka (2012) is an indie tactical fighting game with action and arcade elements. The game takes place in a feudal universe. Your mission is to save your beloved...

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...

Snuggle Truck

Arcade, Action, Racing, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 3 February 2012

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Snuggle Truck is an arcade driving game about delivering a load of quirky animals to the zoo without letting them fall out or get hurt. The player steers a truck...

Kung Fu Rabbit

Arcade, Platformer, Side view

Game released: PC → 14 March 2012

Metacritic: 68/100

Kung Fu Rabbit is a classic platformer with a charming cartoon style. You take on the role of a bunny teacher who must save his students from alien evil while...

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...

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...

Cosmic Predator

Arcade, Shooter, Logic

Game released: PC → 31 December 2012

Cosmic Predator is an arcade game with a touch of shooter from developers from the Steel River Games studio. The game is published by Steel River...

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...

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...

Arcade

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