Platformer 2012 for Mac — top best games in the Platformer genre

Tomb Raider: Underworld - a game in the Platformer genre

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

Game released: Mac → 14 June 2012

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Tomb Raider: Underworld is a third-person adventure action game in which Lara Croft explores ancient and uncharted locations concealing mysteries of the underworld...

LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Comics, Open world, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 6 September 2012

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 75/100

LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes is a continuation of the arcade adventure with a first-person view based on the Batman comics in the style of LEGO toys. The game...

LEGO Lord of the Rings

Arcade, Platformer, Third-person view, The Lord of the Rings

Game released: Mac → 21 February 2012

Players: 7.9/10

LEGO Lord of the Rings is an arcade action adventure game with a third-person view in the Lord of the Rings universe. An exciting adventure awaits you through the...

Waking Mars

Arcade, Platformer, Adventure, Side view, Science fiction, Indie

Game released: Mac → 13 December 2012

Players: 1/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Waking Mars is a side-scrolling arcade adventure platformer. In 2097, life was discovered on Mars. During the mission to make first contact, you find yourself...

Thomas Was Alone

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure, Side view, Science fiction

Game released: Mac → 30 June 2012

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Thomas Was Alone is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer with puzzle elements. In this game, you have to guide a group of rectangles through a series of...

Awesomenauts

Arcade, Online, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Free game, Side view, MOBA

Game released: Mac → 14 June 2013

Players: 6.4/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Awesomenauts is a free-to-play 2D side-scrolling MOBA action game. The events of the game will take you to the distant year 3587, in which there is a great...

Wonder Boy in Monster World

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Metroidvania, Side view, Role-playing game

Game released: Mac → 2 May 2012

Steam: 100/100

Monsters have overrun a fantasy land, leaving its citizens afraid for their lives as they wait for a hero to restore peace. Wonder Boy in Monster World is an action...

Cargo Commander

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Procedural generation

Game released: Mac → 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...

DLC Quest

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

Game released: Mac → 9 May 2012

Players: 3.5/10

Steam: 86/100

This humorous platform action game satirizes downloadable-content practices and other quirks of the gaming industry. The hero collects coins to buy content packs...

Super Crate Box

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Free game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 29 August 2012

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 75/100

An arcade platform action game inspired by classic games, built around chasing a high score while fighting endless hordes of enemies. The player collects weapon...

Virus Named Tom

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Mac → 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...

Adventures of Shuggy

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

Game released: Mac → 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...

Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack

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

Game released: Mac → 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...

Dustforce

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

Game released: Mac → 1 May 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...

Dynamite Headdy

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Fighting, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: Mac → 2 May 2012

Steam: 100/100

A platform action game about Dynamite Headdy, a puppet caught up in a plot unfolding in the puppet world. His stage rival, Trouble Bruin, and the evil doll Dark...

They Bleed Pixels

Arcade, Platformer, Slasher, Action

Game released: Mac → 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...

Revenge of Shinobi

Arcade, Action, Platformer

Game released: Mac → 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...

Mari0

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 3 March 2012

Players: 9.5/10

Mari0 is an action game with a mixture of platformer and puzzle from the developers from the Stabyourself.net...

Valley Without Wind

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Mac → 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...

Trine 2: Goblin Menace

Arcade, DLC, Platformer, Logic

Game released: Mac → 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: Mac → 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...

Basement Collection

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 31 August 2012

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...

Cortex Command

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Platformer, Tactics

Game released: Mac → 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...

Offspring Fling!

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

Game released: Mac → 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...

Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers

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

Game released: Mac → 19 June 2012

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 91/100

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...

Probability 0

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Mac → 1 October 2012

Steam: 79/100

This downward-scrolling infinite platformer with roguelike elements revolves around descending into a dangerous pit: survival is impossible, but each attempt can...

8BitBoy

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Mac → 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...

1000 Amps

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

Game released: Mac → 22 February 2012

Steam: 77/100

1000 Amps is a third-person strategy game with some platforming and puzzle...

BasketBelle

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

Game released: Mac → 6 July 2012

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...

Vectorman 2

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Mac → 2 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...

Bean's Quest

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer

Game released: Mac → 1 February 2012

Players: 10/10

Bean's Quest is an arcade game with a mixture of adventure and platformer from the developers from the Kumobius studio. The main publisher of the game is Kumobius...

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Best Games in the Platformer genre of 2012 for Mac