Best Games for PC of 2012 / Page 8

2011

Nous is a third-person action game with shooter elements from the developers of the Awesome Shark Volcano studio. The game is published by DigiPen (USA...

Really Big Sky

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

February 24, 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...

Wolfschanze 2

Action, Shooter, First-person view

2011

Wolfschanze 2 is a first-person action game with a touch of shooter from developers from the City Interactive S.A. studio. The main publisher of the game is City...

Monopoly (2012)

Business / Management, Board / Group Game, Turn-based, Card game, Logic

November 30, 2012

Players: 7.3/10

Monopoly (2012) is a business simulator with a touch of card game from the studio Sperasoft. The game is published by PopCap...

Forge

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, MMO, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

December 4, 2012

Metacritic: 65/100

Forge is a class-based multiplayer online shooter set in a remote fantasy universe. The game combines the best aspects of MMO and FPS and will offer you addictive...

Age of Empires 2: Forgotten Empires

Strategy, DLC, In real time, Isometric

December 29, 2012

Age of Empires 2: Forgotten Empires — introduced 5 new civilizations (Inca, Indians, Italians, Magyars and Slavs), new units and technologies, new maps...

Panzar

Role-playing game, Online, Action, Hack and slash, Third-person view, Free game

April 12, 2012

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 50/100

Panzar — shareware competitive action game with a third-person view. Intense team battles with other players await you, in the role of monstrous orcs. There...

Revelations 2012

Action, Shooter, Strategy, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

April 23, 2012

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 55/100

This first-person shooter with strategy elements takes place in an alternate dimension where heroes battle gods who entered the human world through a portal...

Space Ark

Arcade, Action, Pinball, Indie, Casual game

June 16, 2010

Steam: 50/100

Metacritic: 67/100

This arcade game with puzzle elements follows a team of animal astronauts who flee their home solar system after it is shattered by a wandering black hole. Aboard...

The Dream Machine

Adventure, Horror, Side view, Point & Click, Puzzle

December 14, 2010

Players: 10/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 75/100

The Dream Machine is a plasticine point and click adventure with horror elements and a side view. The game tells the story of a certain Victor Neff, who one day...

Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden

Hidden Objects, Casual game, Adventure

October 29, 2012

Steam: 89/100

This hidden-object adventure follows a man searching for his missing fiancée in the abandoned underwater city of Eden. The former utopia, built in the Art Deco...

Gas Guzzlers: Combat Carnage

Racing, Action, Arcade

May 18, 2012

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 58/100

This combat racing game presents its races from a camera positioned behind the car. The player starts with a low-performance vehicle and earns money in a series of...

The Walking Dead: Episode 3 - Long Road Ahead

August 28, 2012

Metacritic: 87/100

The third episode in a five-part game series is set in Robert Kirkman’s universe. Betrayal within the group leads to a series of devastating events. Decisions made...

Orion: Dino Horde

May 4, 2012

Metacritic: 36/100

Orion: Dino Horde is an open-world, class-based cooperative survival sci-fi first-person shooter about fighting hordes of dinosaurs. Five players work together...

The Old Tree

Free game, Adventure, Indie

February 24, 2012

Steam: 89/100

The Old Tree is an adventure puzzle game about a microscopic alien creature that has just been born and is heading toward an unknown destination. The player escorts...

Close Combat - Panthers in the Fog

Strategy, Simulation

November 19, 2012

Steam: 73/100

This strategy game and military simulation depicts the German counterattack at Mortain during the fighting in Normandy in World War II. Close Combat - Panthers in...

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria

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

September 25, 2012

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 82/100

An expansion for World of Warcraft set on the new continent of Pandaria. After stopping Deathwing's destructive rampage and saving the dragonflights, heroes explore...

Hard Reset

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

September 13, 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...

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion

Simulation, Strategy, DLC, In real time, Futurism (Future), Business / Management, Online

June 12, 2012

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion is a sci-fi global real-time strategy game that is a standalone expansion for Sins of a Solar Empire. New factions and ship...

Vessel

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie

March 1, 2012

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Vessel is a fun puzzle platformer with action elements and a side view. The events of the game take place in the amazing world of mechanical machines that have...

World Rally Championship 2

Simulation, Racing, First-person view, Third-person view

October 14, 2011

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 65/100

World Rally Championship 2 — The single player mode includes many options such as single stage mode, single rally mode, championship mode, time attack mode...

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - Legend of Dead Kel

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

March 20, 2012

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - Legend of Dead Kel is an add-on for an action role-playing game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. The action takes...

Mercenary Ops

Online, Action, Shooter, Third-person view

fall 2012

Mercenary Ops are third-person online games with action and shooter elements from the Yingpei Games studio. The game is published by Delkans...

Prime World

Online, Action, Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game, MOBA

March 30, 2012

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 46/100

Prime World — action for several players. This is a game with a unique universe, where tactical session battles, castle management and hero development are...

Batman: Arkham City - Harley Quinn's Revenge

Action, Stealth, DLC, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Free game

May 29, 2012

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 72/100

An expansion to Batman: Arkham City, in which Harley Quinn leads her own gang and lures Batman back into Arkham City to take revenge on the Dark Knight. As the...

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD

Arcade, Third-person view, Sports game, Stunts, Skateboards

July 18, 2012

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 67/100

A third-person skateboarding arcade game centered on linking tricks into combos to score points. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD focuses on performing tricks and chaining...

Air Conflicts: Pacific Carriers

Arcade, Flight Simulator, Action, Simulation

September 21, 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 59/100

This arcade flight simulator focuses on aerial battles of the Pacific War. Players take part in historical engagements and fly aircraft recreated in detail. The...

SimCity Social

Simulation, Business / Management, Isometric, Mini-game / browser-based, Free game

June 25, 2012

Players: 9/10

SimCity Social is a simulator with an isometric view with a mixture of business simulator, browser or mini-game and shareware game from the masters from the studios...

Combat Arms

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

July 10, 2008

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...

Football Manager 2013

Football, Business / Management, Sports game, Top-down view, In real time

November 1, 2012

Players: 1/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Football Manager 2013 — includes a faster version of the game called Football Manager Classic. The new mode allows players to complete the football season in...

Critter Crunch

Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

July 10, 2008

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 87/100

A puzzle game built around a food chain in which creatures feed on one another until they burst. Single-player modes include Adventure and Puzzle, while multiplayer...

Darwinia

Action, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Puzzle, God Simulator

March 4, 2005

Steam: 78/100

This real-time strategy game blends action and puzzles in a digital world inhabited by intelligent creatures called Darwinians. When a dangerous virus disrupts...

Die Siedler 2: Die nächste Generation - Gold Edition

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Third-person view, Isometric, Collection, Sandbox

August 15, 2012

Die Siedler 2: Die nächste Generation — Gold Edition is a third-person simulator with strategy, business simulator and sandbox elements. The game is...

Journey Down: Chapter One

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click, Indie

May 18, 2012

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This point-and-click adventure with puzzles follows Bwana and his sidekick Kito as they struggle to make ends meet at a run-down gas station in Kingsport Bay, on...

Mari0

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle

March 3, 2012

Players: 9.5/10

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

Damage Inc. Pacific Squadron WWII

Shooter, Flight Simulator, Third-person view, Historical, Action, Simulation

August 28, 2012

Steam: 61/100

Metacritic: 49/100

This flight-combat game with shooter elements is set in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Players pilot fighters, dive bombers, and torpedo bombers in battles...

Poacher

Action, Shooter, Hunting / Fishing, First-person view, Sports game

April 4, 2012

Poacher is a first-person action game with elements of a shooter, hunting/fishing simulator and sports game from the Fully Ramblomatic studio. The game is published...

Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition)

Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Strategy, Role-playing game

October 30, 2012

Steam: 95/100

A tactical role-playing game with tower-defense elements, Defender's Quest centers on real-time battles in which individual heroes take the place of defensive...

Driftmoon

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie

October 2, 2012

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 73/100

DROD: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder

Indie, Puzzle, Turn-based

April 2, 2012

Steam: 93/100

A turn-based dungeon-crawling puzzle game in which each room is a test of logic and tactics. The player controls a hero with a huge sword and must defeat every...