Shooter 2012 for PC — top best games in the Shooter genre

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - a game in the Shooter genre

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Free game

Game released: PC → 21 August 2012

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) is a popular competitive team shooter with a first-person view. The main ideology is the confrontation between two teams...

Borderlands 2

Action, Shooter, Beat them all, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: PC → 17 September 2012

VGTimes: 9.4/10

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Borderlands 2 is a continuation of a dynamic cooperative shooter with a first-person view and role-playing elements in a post-apocalyptic world. A new era of...

Fallout: New Vegas

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Open world

Game released: PC → 15 May 2012

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Fallout: New Vegas is an adventure role-playing shooter with a first-person view in the post-apocalyptic Fallout universe. The events of the game will take you to...

Far Cry 3

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Open world, Adventure

Game released: PC → 29 November 2012

VGTimes: 9.0/10

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 90/100

Multiplatform shooter-action Far Cry 3 with RPG elements was released by Ubisoft in 2012 and immediately gained huge popularity. The game is dedicated to survival...

Warface

Action, Shooter, Online, First-person view, Free game

Game released: PC → 1 July 2014

Players: 5.2/10

Steam: 61/100

Metacritic: 62/100

Warface — a free-to-play dynamic multiplayer first-person shooter. Players choose one of five classes — assault, medic, engineer, sniper, or SED — and fight in...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

Action, Shooter, Online, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Zombies

Game released: PC → 12 November 2012

VGTimes: 6.0/10

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 80/100

A first-person shooter that continues the story of the series and combines events from two eras. The plot takes players from the end of the 20th century to the near...

Max Payne 3

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

Game released: PC → 5 June 2012

VGTimes: 10.0/10

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Max Payne 3 is a continuation of the legendary action game with a third-person view. Max Payne, the famous fighter for justice, returns after several years. The...

Spec Ops: The Line

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 25 June 2012

VGTimes: 9.0/10

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Spec Ops: The Line is an unusual cinematic third-person shooter that will force you to confront not only real opponents, but even your own principles. Get ready to...

Mass Effect 3

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Science fiction, Space

Game released: PC → 11 June 2020

VGTimes: 8.3/10

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 90/100

Mass Effect 3 is the final part of the space role-playing trilogy with a third-person view. Events begin with a devastating attack on Earth by an army of an ancient...

Hotline Miami

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

Game released: PC → 23 October 2012

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Hotline Miami is a brutal and bloody top-down action game. You have to step into the shoes of a serial killer who kills hundreds of various bandits and simply not...

Syndicate (2012)

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

Game released: PC → 21 February 2012

VGTimes: 8.0/10

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Syndicate (2012) — Taking the storyline of the popular 1993 tactics game Syndicate as a basis, Starbreeze makes a modern remake in the spirit of cyberpunk and...

Serious Sam 3: BFE

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Comedy

Game released: PC → 2 December 2011

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Set in a future Egypt amid crumbling cities and ancient temples, this first-person shooter is a prequel to Serious Sam: The First Encounter, following Earth’s final...

PlanetSide 2

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

Game released: PC → 20 November 2012

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This large-scale multiplayer first-person shooter centers on an ongoing war between three factions competing for territory and resources across four continents...

Alpha Protocol

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Stealth

Game released: PC → 25 May 2012

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Alpha Protocol is a spy role-playing action game with a third-person view. You will get into the role of a young agent Michael Thorton, who was framed by the US...

Darkness 2

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

Game released: PC → 6 February 2012

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Darkness 2 is a continuation of the fantastic first-person shooter in the Darkness universe. You will once again play the role of Jackie Estacado - the head of the...

Postal 2

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Open world, Comedy

Game released: PC → 2 November 2012

Players: 9/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 50/100

Postal 2 is an open-world satirical action-adventure game with a first-person view. The main character in the game is a certain Dude, who is used to solving his...

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Tactics

Game released: PC → 26 June 2012

VGTimes: 7.4/10

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is a continuation of the third-person tactical shooter in the Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon series. There is devastation in...

Sniper Elite V2

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Third-person view, Historical, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 4 May 2012

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 68/100

A tactical shooter set in Berlin during the final days of World War II. American sniper Karl Fairburne must prevent the Red Army from acquiring technology from the...

Binary Domain

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Science fiction, Combat robots

Game released: PC → 27 April 2012

VGTimes: 8.0/10

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Binary Domain is a dynamic tactical shooter with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting. Tokyo, 2080. On the streets of the metropolis, people and robots clashed...

Mass Effect Trilogy

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Collection, Futurism (Future)

Game released: PC → 15 November 2012

Players: 9.1/10

Mass Effect Trilogy is a third-person role-playing game with a dash of action and shooter from BioWare. The game is published by Electronic...

Inversion

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op), Science fiction

Game released: PC → 26 July 2012

VGTimes: 8.0/10

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 55/100

Inversion is a third-person shooter based entirely on physics. An alien scoundrel invaded Earth, and not only invaded, but also changed the gravitational field in...

Medal of Honor: Warfighter

Online, Shooter, Adventure, First-person view

Game released: PC → 15 November 2012

VGTimes: 7.8/10

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 55/100

Medal of Honor: Warfighter is a continuation of the series of military shooters with a first-person view. You will again be part of a Tier One special forces unit...

I Am Alive

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Survival

Game released: PC → 6 September 2012

VGTimes: 9.0/10

Players: 8/10

Steam: 63/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This post-apocalyptic survival action game follows a man struggling to stay alive in a ruined city and find his missing wife and daughter, one year after a...

Manhunter

Action, Shooter, First-person view

Game released: PC → 1 February 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Manhunter is an exciting first-person shooter where you take on the role of a bounty hunter and destroy crime in...

Hawken

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

Game released: PC → 12 December 2012

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Hawken is a free-to-play competitive online shooter with a first-person view about combat robots. The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which people...

Galaxy on Fire 2

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

Game released: PC → 21 August 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Galaxy on Fire 2 - The game follows the adventures of Keith T. Maxwell as he is sent forward in time after his hyperdrive malfunctions due to damage from a skirmish...

Gotham City Impostors

Online, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Comics, Free game

Game released: PC → 7 February 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Gotham City Impostors is a free-to-play multiplayer first-person shooter based on the Batman comic book series. The game is designed for teams of 4 by 4 people. You...

Death Rally (Classic)

Action, Shooter, Racing, Top-down view

Game released: PC → 3 August 2012

Players: 3.2/10

Steam: 91/100

Death Rally (Classic) is a furious racing shooter with a top-down view, where you have to survive in battle against real death...

Choplifter HD

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

Game released: PC → 11 January 2012

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Choplifter HD is a fast-paced arcade action game where you take on the role of a rescue pilot. You are a member of an elite international rescue team that travels...

Doom 3: BFG Edition

Action, Shooter, Horror, DLC, First-person view

Game released: PC → 19 October 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Doom 3: BFG Edition is a special edition of the first-person shooter Doom 3 with enhanced graphics and a number of other innovations. In addition to the game...

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...

Natural Selection 2

Shooter, First-person view, Online, Strategy, Action

Game released: PC → 30 October 2012

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 80/100

A multiplayer first-person shooter with strategy elements, Natural Selection 2 is a revamped version of a Half-Life mod. The available information does not specify...

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...

Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 28 April 2010

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This arcade first-person shooter sends its hero against an army of enemies across South America, ancient Mesopotamia, and medieval Europe. Serious Sam HD: The...

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

Online, Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 26 July 2012

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 6.9/10

Metacritic: 51/100

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is a third-person cooperative action-horror game set in the Resident Evil universe. The plot of the game takes place in 1998...

Binding of Isaac: Wrath of the Lamb

Action, Shooter, DLC, Third-person view, Top-down view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 29 May 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 93/100

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...

Combat Arms

Online, Shooter, First-person view, Free game, Action, MMO

Game released: PC → 26 July 2012

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 55/100

Combat Arms is a free-to-play competitive shooter with a first-person view. The game features more than 300 types of weapons, 34 maps, 12 game modes and 4,500,000...

Battlefield 3: Aftermath

Action, Shooter, DLC

Game released: PC → 4 December 2012

Players: 1/10

Battlefield 3: Aftermath is an action game with shooter elements from the studios DICE and EA Digital Illusions CE. The main publisher of the game is Electronic...

Hard Reset

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 13 September 2011

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Hard Reset is a first-person cyberpunk shooter set in a future where, after a war with machines, only one human city remains on Earth. Major Fletcher, a soldier and...

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