Pc game releases 2012 list

Delve with Shovel Knight into the depths of the Pocket Dungeon in an action-packed puzzle adventure mashup like none other.

Delve with Shovel Knight into the depths of the Pocket Dungeon in an action-packed puzzle adventure mashup like none other! Join your mysterious guide Puzzle Knight as you shovel through scads of foes, procure new equipment, and battle bosses both familiar and new.

Explore a tale with endless twists and turns, quest as your favorite heroes, and even challenge a friend for fast-paced head-to-head competition in Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon! Enter a world of falling block puzzle games, with a dungeon-crawling twist! Bump into enemies to battle them and trade damage in a unique combat system. Group foes together for massive chain attacks while grabbing keys, power-ups, and potions to refill your health!

Take control of more than 10 of your favorite heroes from the Shovel Knight universe, each with a unique power and play style. Equip yourself on the fly with a treasure trove of items and equipment. Mix and match your loadout to prepare for any encounter.

A bold new visual style complements a new story. Learn the ropes from your pal Puzzle Knight as you attempt to escape the mysterious Pocket Dungeon. Using your Shovel Knight series Amiibo allows you to call upon a familiar fairy friend to keep you company on your perplexing puzzle adventure! Unpacking is a zen puzzle game about the familiar experience of pulling possessions out of boxes and fitting them into a new home.

The award-winning point-and-click adventure returns in the Director's Cut with an extended story, additional puzzles, and new areas to explore. Witness the rise of an iconic detective as you uncover a dark and sinister truth hiding behind the calm exterior of a small rural town. Kathy is a strong-willed journalism major who must come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently departed grandfather.

Armed with her motorcycle, a pack of cigs, and a notepad, Kathy delves into a local mystery surrounding her hometown that will take her on a harrowing journey of emotional and personal turmoil. As she follows a trail of clues left by her grandfather, questions emerge: What was Joseph Rain really looking for that night all those years ago? What turned him into a mere shell of a man, confined to a wheelchair? What secret did a suicidal young artist take with her to the grave, and why are so many people in Conwell Springs going mad?

The truth is dark, sinister, and yours to uncover. Set in Japan around the early Edo period, Aiko's Choice is a stealth strategy game that takes place within the story of Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. The expansion focuses on one of the main game's protagonists: the kunoichi adept Aiko. She is a master of camouflage and distracts enemies disguised as a Geisha. Although Aiko was certain that she left her old life behind her, Aiko's former sensei, the cunning spymaster Lady Chiyo, reappears from the shadows to challenge her.

Together with her deadly companions she sets out to hunt down the ghosts of her past Driven together by fate, they set off on a quest that to save the planet itself. Take up your weapon in this RPG bullet-hell world and embark on a journey to right wrongs from long ago. Only you can defeat the evil forces of the Undying guardians and reunite the world with the fabled Archvale.

The real-time strategy series returns to glory with Age of Empires IV, putting you at the center of epic historical battles that shaped the world.

Featuring both familiar and innovative new ways to expand your empire in vast landscapes with stunning 4K visual fidelity, Age of Empires IV brings an evolved real-time strategy game to a new generation. Return to History — The past is prologue as you are immersed in a rich historical setting of 8 diverse civilizations across the world from the English to the Chinese to the Delhi Sultanate in your quest for victory.

Build cities, manage resources, and lead your troops to battle on land and at sea in 4 distinct campaigns with 35 missions that span across years of history from the Dark Ages up to the Renaissance. The choice is yours — and every decision you make will determine the outcome of history. Customize Your Game with Mods — Available in Early , play how you want with user generated content tools for custom games.

An Age for All Players — Age of Empires IV is an inviting experience for new players with a tutorial system that teaches the essence of real-time strategy and a Campaign Story Mode designed for first time players to help achieve easy setup and success, yet is challenging enough for veteran players with new game mechanics, evolved strategies, and combat techniques.

A strange signal… an alien craft… Exo One is an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey through space and time. Use gravity and momentum to reach colossal speeds and exhilarating heights. Rise Against Ruin. In this immersive turn-based RPG, you will have the freedom to configure your party and control an unlikely group of League of Legends champions, explore the bustling city of Bilgewater and the mysterious Shadow Isles, and experience the Lane Initiative System.

Explore the dazzling streets of Colonial Japanese Taiwan in the early 20th century. Time Loader is a story-driven, physics-based puzzle platformer with a twist. At the helm of a small robot, you'll travel back to the 90s to prevent a tragic accident. Explore the house of your creator, solve brain-teasing puzzles, acquire unique and powerful upgrades, and see common household items from an entirely new perspective!

But remember: meddling with time has serious consequences. You may succeed in changing the past, but can you deal with the result of your actions? Whether you are drawn to Gloomhaven by the call of adventure or by an avid desire for gold glimmering in the dark, your fate will surely be the same. Gloomhaven, the digital adaptation of the acclaimed board game, mixes Tactical-RPG and dungeon-crawling. The classic first person shooter from Crytek is back with the action packed gameplay, sandbox world, and thrilling epic battles you loved the first time around.

Crysis Remastered Trilogy includes each of the single player campaigns from the legendary first person shooters Crysis, Crysis 2, and Crysis 3, optimized for today's hardware. Relive the adventure in this great value all in one bundle. Playing as super soldier Nomad, you are armed with a powerful Nanosuit equipped with Speed, Strength, Armor, and Cloaking abilities.

Use avast arsenal of modular weaponry and adapt your tactics and gear to dominate enemies in an enormous sandbox world. As the invaders lay waste to New York and begin an assault that threatens the total annihilation of humankind, only you have the technology to lead the fightback. Equipped with the upgraded Nanosuit 2. Fight through seven distinct districts and decimate your opponents in a blaze of brute force using the Nanosuit's superior technology, or use stealth to achieve your goals and become humanity's silent savior.

Equipped with your powerful and deadly new Predator Bow, there's no wrong way to save the world. Wolfstride is a role-playing game about three former partners-in-crime coming to a turning point in their lives. When they inherit a junkyard mecha called Cowboy, they reunite to enter the planet's most elite mecha competition: the Ultimate Golden God Tournament.

Each member of the team lends their unique experience as they prepare to outwit the best mecha opponents from around the world. Between dog-mechanic Duque, mecha pilot Knife Leopard, and jack-of-all-trades Dominique Shade, the core crew's got just about everything covered. That is Over time, the Worlds of Alaria faded. The Evertree where many worlds resided on its countless branches is now nothing more than a sapling, its splendor long erased from memory.

No one knows how to make it grow. But you are different. You hear the sun as it sings across the sky. You hear the language of rain against the earth. You are the last of the Everheart Alchemists and it is your ancestral task and privilege to care for the Evertree. Grow your own worlds and nurture a deep natural connection with everything they hold. See your actions change the world for better! Bring the Evertree back to life in this breathtaking world-crafting sandbox, with life management and adventure elements.

A little boy falls asleep to a horrible nightmare. Can you make him happy again? Endure and escape three unforgettable nightmares. Solve deeply disturbing puzzles in not so charming environments. Deal with suspicious smiley faces and pink bunnies. Creepy songs and screeches from the Czech freakfolk band DVA.

It's time to build a zoo! Let out your wild side, and create your own animal empire with this cute, expansive management sim. Import and breed rare creatures, hire the right staff, keep your visitors happy, and deal with plenty of weird and wonderful events. Then try your hand at DNA Splicing, and stitch together over , different types of animal, ranging from the majestic Giraffephant to the peaceful PandOwl!

Let's Build a Zoo lets you import a variety of animals from other Zoos around the world! Breed your animals and start families to expand your wildlife and fill your enclosures. But if that doesn't suit you With DNA splicing at your finger tips, you have the power to bind together over , different types of animal, creating monstrosities and oddities as you go! Ever wondered what a ChicKaka would look like? Now you can find out! Jump into the Riders Republic massive multiplayer playground!

Meet and compete with other players, and ride hard with an exciting range of activities such as bike, ski, snowboard, wingsuit and rocket wingsuit. Live out the rider's fantasy as you roam free in a huge, vibrant open world, always buzzing with other players around you. Squad up with your friends and compete in a wide range of multiplayer modes: feel the rush of downhill races, dominate maps in team vs team competitions, or give it your best shot in epic mass PvP races with more than 50 other players.

Go all out. Join the madness! Blue Reflection: Second Light follows the adventures of three students — Ao Hoshizaki, Kokoro Utsubo, and Yuki Kinjou — who find themselves transported to a mysterious floating academy, searching for clues to find their way back home, with only their names as memories.

By battling the fiendish creatures, they unlock unknown powers that only seem to deepen the cryptic nature of their surroundings.

Throughout the adventure, the three friends cooperate and struggle to make their everyday-life as rich and as fun as possible. With the unpredictable Guardians at your side, blast your way from one explosive situation to another, with original and iconic Marvel characters caught in a struggle for the fate of the universe.

You got this. Cultivated to be bigger and better the ultimate and multimillion selling farming simulation returns this November!

Farming Simulator 22 offers more depth and the highest extent of player freedom in the history of the series. With more than machines and tools from over authentic agricultural brands, players can look forward to an improved and realistic as ever simulation. Suited for all ages, players dive into even more diverse agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry. Two new maps inspired by US and EU regions plus an updated alpine Erlengrat map emphasize different kinds of farming operations, including three new crops.

The addition of seasonal cycles adds new challenges throughout the year, and enhances the atmosphere many times over. Players can now start various production chains to further extend their income whether they produce bread, oil, juice or more. To allow more individualization of farms and characters, the vastly improved customization tools add plentiful new possibilities.

User Score: 5. Votes: M Action, Adventure, Crime. After assassinating his former handler Diana, Agent 47 goes on a mission on her request to track down a young girl named Victoria.

Meanwhile, his own employers hunt him. M Action, Crime. A first person shooter game depicting death matches between terrorists and counter-terrorists. Twenty years after the events of Diablo II , Deckard Cain and his niece Leah are in Tristram Cathedral when a mysterious star falling from the sky strikes the Cathedral, creating a deep crater into which Deckard Cain disappears.

Director: Nicholas S. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning follows the story of a mortal known as the "Fateless One", who, having died before the game's outset, is revived in the experimental Well of Souls by the gnomish scientist Fomorous Hugues. Votes: 2, A group of high school students discover a hidden TV world called 'The Midnight Channel', an alternate reality infested with shadows that is being used to commit murder. After awakening to their Personas, the group decides to investigate.

M Adventure, Mystery, Thriller. T Action, Adventure, Crime. Play as James Bond in this first person shooter adventure. You will encounter the most memorable nemeses of spanning from Goldfinger to Skyfall. Warriors of various races and agendas in a medieval high fantasy world must unite to reform the guild that once fought and defeated a monstrous dragon-like creatures that threatened the world and are now reemerging.

M Action, Drama, Mystery. Set in modern day Dubai, massive sandstorms have buried the city. As Capt. Martin Walker, you're sent in to find any survivors and learn what happened to the original rescue and evacuation team led by Lt. Colonel John Konrad. Action, Adventure, Fantasy. The adventure continues in Torchlight II. An Action RPG filled with epic battles, bountiful treasure, and a fully randomized world.

Bring your friends along for the journey with online and LAN multiplayer. Stars: Lev Liberman , Lani Minella. Action, Adventure, Crime. Enter the gritty and medieval fantasy world of Westeros as players will forge alliances and wage battles as they play a pivotal role in the ongoing war for power of the Seven Kingdoms. An adventurer on Eorzea, a continent ravaged by a calamity five years prior, becomes involved with an order known as the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, who are dedicated to rebuilding the continent and stopping growing threats.

Open up cards and create card deck to earn as much resource as possible! You can choose active cards to boost click power or create an idle deck that helps you deal damage without having to click! Once things are really difficult, tap the Restart tab to launch the "prestige" system. You back to stage 1, however you will gain powerful skills. Use them to rank up your cards, giving them extra power. Just keep doing this over and over. This is idle game!

See how far you can get! Bring the card storm down on monsters! A sense of immersion that overflows! An exhilaration that never stops! Blast Beat is a VR rhythmical action game set in a fantasy world. With ancient gauntlets, players shall challenge the guardian of each stage.

Blast the mighty guardian's ranged attacks in rhythm, avoid melee attacks, and wind up the battle with a flashy counterattack! From now there is no going back. You can master your favourite dungeon, learn patterns and get better and better by beating your personal records.

The game includes a powerful in-game level editor using which you can create your own dungeons. A simple turkey is sometimes all you need. It will take some effort and friends to save the farmer and free the magic back into the land, but you are up for it! Take yourself on the journey in this peaceful 2D poultry platformer. Meet different characters and gain new abilities on your journey across the lands.

Test the skills you've gained in the bonus levels to compete. Turk-A-Lurk is a pixel platformer with peaceful and relaxing graphics, enjoy it at blazing speeds or go slowly at your own pace! Jump Challenge! To escape, you must face numerous obstacles such as spikes, shooting flowers, cacti, cannons, and much more! You can also race with your buddies or run away from lava together! It's a platformer set in mines, castles, jungles, the sky and space!

Your goal is to jump from one "level" to the next as high as you can. And beat all the other players in this universe by getting the highest score! Good luck! Xtreme Aces Racing brings a new exciting racing genre with combat mechanics and jets!

You are in the shoes of a rookie pilot of Xtreme Aces League, who must win races and championships to earn the respect of fans and rivals and be the next Xtreme Aces World Champion.

Be the first to see the checkered flag and leave your rivals in the dust in this beautiful and exciting game! Welcome to the Museum of Mechanics: Lockpicking. We're happy to have you! Explore an interactive exhibition of meticulously recreated lockpicking minigames from throughout video game history. This isn't a game with a story, or an ending; it's not possible to 'win'.

It is also not a long experience, but one you will hopefully want to return to. The Nightmare continues in Mary Skelter 2! In this first-person dungeon crawler, play as fairy tale-inspired characters called Blood Maidens, each with deeply customizable character-specific classes.

Balance between power and madness in turn-based battles with a blood-fueled transformation system, and escape a living prison while indestructible Nightmares give chase in real time. This is a game that simulates the survival, development and exploration of civilization in the game. The game is divided into three parts. Part one, sky of chaos. Simulated civilizations exist in a three body to nine stars system. The player controlled civilization on a planet, the operation of multiple stars and the change of gravity will cause high or low temperature, leading to the demise of civilization.

Civilization needs to develop from ancient civilization to cosmic civilization to win. Part two, galaxy of slaughter. Simulate a large number of civilizations fighting in the galaxy, and finally only one civilization can win. The civilization controlled by players needs to develop and expand in a galaxy, and will face the great threat of other civilizations at the same time. The third part, twilight of gods. Simulate god civilization and explore the ultimate mystery in the universe.

Years ago an intelligence agency sent a Satellite into space coded with a frequency that could be received and sent back to Earth in hopes to contact alien life. Another few years later a transmission was sent back and was located just outside the solar system, not knowing what they contacted was hostile and ready to destroy human kind Maybe they shouldn't have sent that satellite at all. Anthropocene Epoch is an alien shooter based in the Sonoma Region which is a semi open concept in a few levels to explore and find items on your way.

It is a mission based game with with 14 levels as well as secret missions. Your Mission is to escape earth by hijacking one of the Mantis ships and and reuniting with the rest of the human race. After a UFO-crash in the desert, all your squadmates have been captured and they're being held at Place 52, a highly secured military base where government secrets and experiments are being hidden. Infiltraliens is a wobbly action adventure game.

In Infiltraliens you take on the role of an Alien, called Gorp that needs to make his way to Place 52 to save his alien friends.

Sugarcane Empire is story dressed up as a clicker farm sim. Experience their family's transforming story by running a sugarcane farm, employing pandas, and starting your own vanity space program. Players need to control a jet fighter to fly on terrain full of obstacles. When the aircraft accidentally hits these obstacles, it will be destroyed. All players need to do is to control the plane to move left and right, and go through circles as much as possible to get higher scores!

Ox Warrior is a third-person overhead shooting game. Players need to control mechanical warriors in an arena to fight endless battles with the enemy. The game has very rich operability and can perform operations such as jumping, rolling, sprinting, shooting, and dropping bombs. Find your way from a dragon's castle in a series of mind-bending challenges! Be careful: the dungeon is full of traps. And your character is cursed and feels really dizzy!

All you need to do is to go through a room avoiding chainsaws, lava fields and other traps. But after you win, one more room is added. This is a duplicate of the room you just passed, but it is rotated 90 degrees clockwise. The player in this room moves right when you press the up arrow key, move down when you press the right key, and so on. When you pass the second room, you should go through another one, which is rotated degrees, and so on until you go through the full circle.

But that's not all. By pressing the arrow keys, you control all players in all four rooms. So you need to keep in mind that the players in the previous rooms won't step into their own traps while you try to pass the current location! Tor-tor cubes is a puzzle game with a 2D view. The goal of the game is to destroy all the cubes in the level.

Many different powerups. Word Crack is a simple word guessing game. You have 5 attempts to guess the correct word, with each submission giving you clues and hints about what the word is. Each game generates 10 words at random to guess. Guessing the correct word in as few attempts as possible nets you a better score. Construct your symbol combination to generate more defense value until it completely resists the attack of zombies.

Different guards have different initial symbols and the corresponding best possible symbol combination strategy. Sanoku Hime 4 set the story back to the era of The Three Kingdoms. Sanoku Hime 4 changed all of the heroes' appearances into beautiful female warriors. In this fantasy Three Kingdom troubled times, players will experience the new story developed from the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

On one hand, players can map out the best strategies to fight for power. On the other hand, players can also start a love relationship with beautiful female warriors. You will choose your future, guide your country, and fall in love. This game covers the rather unknown fight in the British colony of Hong Kong at the start of the Pacific War during World War Two, between the British and Commonwealth forces and their Japanese opponents.

The outnumbered defenders managed to resist for 3 weeks, abandoned by all. They did it for the glory, and this fight is worth being recalled. Can you do better than history and, as the British commander, resist past the 3 weeks, inflicting an intolerable loss of face to your opponent?

Or, as the Imperial Japanese commander, can you win that battle quickly and dispatch your forces in significant numbers back to the other fronts of the war? This game allows players to deepen their understanding of WHMIS , in alignment with the Globally Harmonized System, by taking the time to apply their learning. Players will learn to read through Safety Data Sheets to properly sort and organize products given to them by their robot helper named Glitch.

However, Glitch is very clumsy and does not follow safe practices. The player will need to manage eye and body contaminations from spills when Glitch has accidents and put out fires started by Glitch's mechanics by learning how to use a fire extinguisher. The game has three different working environments: the laboratory, warehouse, and construction site. Each of these environments offers a different array of products to practice storing.

The gameplay length can be modified from 5 to 30 minutes to ensure students can use this in an educational setting or it can be utilized for corporate training. And on the bright side, for every game that gets delayed, something new and exciting pops up too. PC gaming is never boring. This is your big guide to the games to watch in , which we've organized by month to help you look ahead.

At the top we've highlighted the biggest and most anticipated games launching this year. At the bottom are games with release dates "TBA"—things that should be or we hope will be arriving this year—but haven't yet committed to a release date. As game studios switched to working from home during the Covid pandemic, a number of big releases originally planned for launch in got pushed back.

Now there are plenty of big games, both delayed and newly announced, to look forward to in Here are the most anticipated games of this year to watch for. Hitman 3 January 20 Agent 47 is back for more comedy assassination hijinks, and progress from Hitman 2 will carry over—in fact, you'll be able to play the maps from both of the last two Hitmans in Hitman 3.

Sneak a peek in our Resident Evil Village review. It looks like will finally be the time for this promising realistic take on traditional MMOs. Master assassin Colt is stuck in a time loop on Blackreef Island where he'll have to sneak and plan and maneuver to kill all of his eight targets in 24 hours, or start over. Back 4 Blood Co-op zombie murder October 12 Turtle Rock Studios are returning to run and gun zombie co-op under a new name but don't be fooled, this is essentially a Left 4 Dead game, which we're all for.

Age of Empires 4 Strategic Return October 28 Relic has a lot to live up to with this highly anticipated follow-up to a classic real-time strategy series. Trailers suggest it'll follow in the footsteps of the well-liked Age of Empires 2, which would be the safe play. It also has extra ridiculous armaments like falling tanks with maneuvering thrusters. The Banished are back for Master Chief to tangle with, and this time he's got a grappling hook!

Taking a page from other FPS series, Infinite's multiplayer will actually be free to play while the campaign will be purchased as usual. January's release schedule this year is the home of at least one game that flung itself into when Cyberpunk got its final delay into December Bloober Team's next horror adventure The Medium didn't want to compete with the biggest developer in Poland, apparently.

We're also being treated to a new Hitman this month among other surprise delights. Get more intel in our Hitman 3 review. The Medium January 28 Bloober Team is back with another horror game, this time one that takes place in two planes of existence. As the titular medium, you'll use your psychic abilities to solve puzzles that take place between both realities.

Get a full reading in our The Medium review. The collection includes remastered versions Yakuzas 3, 4, and 5, making up the middle chunk of Kiryu Kazuma's punching adventures in Kamurocho. February is full of sequels and spinoffs in popular series like Nioh 2, Little Nightmares 2, and Persona 5 Strikers.

This month has also turned into the release window for several early access games that plan to continue development throughout this year. Valheim February 2 Valheim calls itself a brutal survival game but you might be best off thinking of it as Viking Minecraft with bosses. It's got a huge open world of crafting and survival that's especially fun in co-op. Check out our Valheim tips if you want to get started. Nioh 2 February 5 Team Ninja's next action RPG maintains its Souls-inspired roots but continues to spice up its samurai combat with a new yokai form for your half-demon protagonist.

Get a look at the successes of the sequel in our Nioh 2 review. Little Nightmares 2 February 10 Tarsier Studios has cooked up a sequel to its grim and spooky platformer. As young children Mono and Six, you'll sneak your way through the horrible nightmare world.