Best pc action games of 2013

Fire up the Time Portal and send your Sims to their most exciting destination yet: a whole new world that exists hundreds of years in the future! While they are there, your Sims can build their Advanced Technology Skill in order to get the most out of future technology. Whether your Sims are cruising around on their hoverboard or jetpack, traveling via monorail or tube elevator, or trying out attractive futuristic hairstyles and clothing, there's a whole new world to experiment with and explore.

Create and customize Plumbots with Create A Bot, add them to the household, and program them with a wide variety of trait chips that will alter their behaviors! Jump between present and future worlds at will, and experiment with how your Sims' actions in the present can have surprising effects on their own legacy, their descendants, and even the way of life for future Sims! The world of Elemental needs your help. The Fallen Enchantress seeks to destroy the fragile civilizations that have arisen from the ashes of the cataclysm.

Fortunately, your fame has spread far and wide attracting the great heroes to aid you. Live the 4th Great Ninja War and its overpowering boss fights or defy your friends in ultra dynamic online and offl ine ninja confrontations!

Proteus is a minimalist game of pure exploration and sublime discovery in a musical wilderness environment.

There are no challenges and no goals other than those set by the player. A reactive audio mixing system allows the player to explore the environment as music. Wargame: AirLand Battle allows players to command all military resources of the Cold War era from tanks to planes. A total of planes strengthen the playable arsenal of the game, from fighters to bombers to electronic warfare planes.

Four new nations and their vehicles join the original eight from the first installment, making a total of over vehicles and combat units rendered in realistic detail! Wargame: AirLand Battle also brings authenticity to the next level thanks to a new weapons system, better handling of fire effects, and a new Urban Combat Interface UCI allowing for battle inside cities. The sequel to 's Game of the Year continues the story of Clementine, a young girl orphaned by the undead apocalypse.

Left to fend for herself, she has been forced to learn how to survive in an unforgiving world. Experience what its like to play as Clementine, meet new survivors, explore new locations and make gruesome decisions in this five-part game series of choice and consequence. Based on the award-winning Fables comic book series by Bill Willingham published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint , The Wolf Among Us is a dark, often brutally violent, and mature take on the characters and creatures of fairytale and legend.

Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore from the UK, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and many more, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits. If you've got what it takes to be part of an elite trucking force, get behind the wheel and prove it!

User Score: 3. Written in collaboration with best-selling Quebec author Bryan Perro Amos Daragon and Wariwulf , Sang-Froid: A tale of werewolves transports players into the 19th century, to a Canada of legend populated with will-o'-the-wisps, Windigos and werewolves, in which two feuding brothers will have to put aside their differences to save their sister, who is pursued by the Devil himself. From the dust of a gold mine to the dirt of a saloon, Call of Juarez Gunslinger is a real homage to the Wild West tales.

Live the epic and violent journey of a ruthless bounty hunter onto the trail of the West's most notorious outlaws. Blurring the lines between man and myth, this adventure made of memorable encounters unveils the untold truth behind some of the greatest legends of the Old West. The Dark Eye: Memoria tells the tale of princess Sadja of the faraway-land of Fasar, who once ventured into war to fight demons in the Gorian Desert.

Her goal - to become the greatest hero of all time - was foiled under mysterious circumstances. Something had occurred, the girl disappeared and her tale was eventually forgotten. Five centuries pass, until one day Geron, a young bird catcher, meets a traveling merchant named Fahi in his native forest. This merchant promises to turn Gerons girlfriend Nuri, who has been transformed into a Raven, back into human form. But this favor comes at a price: Geron has to finally solve the mystery of Sadja's fate.

He agrees without hesitation - knowing that this will trigger a chain of events that will soon cast a shadow on his homeland and turn his present into a dark image of its long forgotten past Race the Sun is an intense action game that could be described as a mash-up of Star Fox and Temple Run with a community focus.

Meet Ray, he lives in a world where everything is made out of paper and stickers. One day he has an accident and wakes up with a giant pink spaghetti arm sticking out of his brain. This gives him awesome powers and he can suddenly change the world around him by folding it, tearing it, pulling stickers off and sticking them elsewhere!

And if that weren't enough, Ray can also read peoples minds! Digging into the brains of his fellow citizens, Ray can hear their thoughts and use that to his advantage. Unfortunately, Ray doesn't have much time to get to grips with his new abilities. He is framed by 'The Man' with a crime he didn't commit, and is on the run.

Can you help to get Ray out of this sticky situation? Assume the role of Wilson, an intrepid Gentleman Scientist who has been trapped by a demon and transported to a mysterious wilderness world. Wilson must learn to utilize his environment and its inhabitants if he ever hopes to escape and find his way back home. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises.

Collect resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style. Play your way as you unravel the mysteries of this strange land. The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world. You choose where to make your stand, designing and fortifying your home base, performing daring raids for food and ammunition, and rescuing other playable survivors with unique talents.

The open, sandbox world develops in real-time, shaped by your actions, dynamically generating content based on your choices and the ever-increasing zombie threat. The Walking Dead: Season Two continues the story of Clementine, a young girl orphaned by the zombie apocalypse. Left to fend for herself, she has been forced to learn how to survive in a world gone mad.

Many months have passed since the events seen in Season One of The Walking Dead, and Clementine is in search of safety. But what can an ordinary child do to stay alive when the living can be just as bad — and sometimes worse — than the dead?

As Clementine, you will be tested by situations and dilemmas that will test your morals and your instinct for survival. Your decisions and actions will change the story around you. Become immersed in a futuristic and dreamlike adventure which will see you climb a huge Tower born from the void and truly put your capabilities to the test. Can you reveal the secrets that lie beneath this fog-ridden world? Teleglitch is a roguelike top-down shooter with pixel graphics.

Dead Space 3 embodies deep space terror. Players embark on a ride through space that takes them to a hostile new planet, Tau Volantis. Fortunately, they are not alone this time around.

Players that choose to take down the terror together experience additional story details, side missions and gameplay mechanics only found when playing as John Carver. You have been kidnapped, imprisoned, and tortured. The wizard Irenicus holds you captive in his stronghold, attempting to strip you of the powers that are your birthright. Can you resist the evil within you, forge a legend of heroic proportions, and ultimately destroy the dark essence that haunts your dreams?

Samurai Gunn is a Player local multiplayer game. Each player is armed with a sword and gun, with only 3 bullets to a life. Both swords and bullets can be deflected with clever control and timing.

Levels range from thick bamboo forests that can be hacked through, to vertically-looping cliffs and caverns which bear walls that can be sharpened to deadly points. Join five new characters as they struggle to survive in The Walking Dead: Days.

Battlefield 3: End Game is a digital expansion pack for Battlefield 3 that brings four distinct maps, a new dirt bike, new lightweight AA vehicles, and two classic Battlefield game modes - Capture the Flag and Air Superiority. F1 sees Codemasters introducing a new F1 Classics mode, opening up circuits and drivers from the s. Expeditions: Conquistador is a story-driven tactical roleplaying game with a touch of strategic resource management and a pinch of choose-your-own-adventure.

Element4l is a moody and experimental platform game, with a strong focus on flow and smooth gameplay, wrapped in an exceptional soundtrack by MindTree In Element4l, you control the state of your character to find your way through a dreamy underworld. Your only hindrances are nature and the sun. It takes a different, experimental approach to classic platform games and challenges you to rearrange your reflexes.

The state-changing, physics-based gameplay invites all ages to think logically, and reveals that pressing the right button at the right time, is often more rewarding than mashing buttons. Just when you thought pressing the left button would make your character go left, Element4l crushes this doctrine. Just don't expect an easy platformer. The first time you play element4l, you will struggle Teslagrad is a 2D puzzle-platformer, where you play as a young lad who suddenly finds himself embroiled in an ancient conflict that will shake the foundations of his entire existence, and bring a gruesome truth to light.

The game revolves around the use of electricity and magnetism, and your ingenuity will be put to the test as you employ the amazing technology of the Teslamancers to traverse the abandoned Tesla Tower. The game is completely devoid of both text and dialogue, and prefers to tell the story purely through visual means.

Eldritch is a 1st-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. Unearth ancient secrets and find your path to freedom. Sneak, fight, and explore strange worlds. Invoke mystical powers to augment your play style. Randomly generated levels provide fresh challenges and opportunities. Unlock shortcuts to jump directly to deeper dungeons. In Sanctum 2 players assume the role of one of four elite soldiers, each with their own unique abilities and weapons whose mission is to protect the Cores from hordes of mysterious alien creatures on the human colony planet, LOEK III.

Melding the best elements of the tower defense and first-person genres, players are challenged to protect the Cores. In each scenario, players must set up defensive towers to take out waves of attacking enemies and ensure victory. However, Sanctum 2 is not just a game where players sit back and watch the action unfold.

Instead they jump into the fray head-on in FPS mode to light up the opposition with a wide array of weapons, some of which you've never seen before in an FPS game. An immersive storyline and strong integration with the Magic - Core Set ties the experience together for players, culminating in an end-of-summer Magic Celebration that brings all Magic fans together in stores across the world.

Players will have immediate access to additional aircrafts and numerous aircraft skins as well as skills and maps. The multiplayer portion of the game will feature support through Games for Windows Live from Microsoft. The game will be available at retailers and for download via Steam and the Games for Windows Marketplace. Get your bishops appointed cardinals and tap the might of the Papacy, borrow money from the Knights Templar and send troublesome relatives off to live out their days in a monastery.

Sons of Abraham also introduces the Jewish religion and allows you to recreate the Kingdom of Israel and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.

The expansion for Crusader Kings II explores one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by Paradox Development Studio, the masters of Grand Strategy. Medieval Europe is brought to life in this epic game of knights, schemes, and thrones. Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements.

With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.

Explore a forest island, learn magical songs and interact with the local wildlife to solve environmental puzzles. It's super accessible, yet it builds up to incredible complexity later on. After puzzle-solving your way to five Ancient Frogs and saving the island from a strange pollution, you can still find s of golden wings, snap dozens of creature pictures and go Achievement hunting.

The clock has stopped around the turn of the 19th century, and humankind has prematurely blown itself to bits. The remaining scraps are huddling in caves beneath the surface, and steam-powered robots have taken over the Wild West. Coming Soon. Essential Links. Highs and Lows. Highest of the Month. Lowest of the Month. BioShock Infinite Platform: PC March 25, Initially conceived as a floating symbol of American ideals at a time when the United States was emerging as a world power, Columbia is sent to distant shores with great fanfare by a captivated public.

Metascore: 94 User Score: 8. Metascore: 91 User Score: 6. Spelunky Platform: PC August 8, Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a new and challenging experience each time you play. Metascore: 90 User Score: 7. Metascore: 90 User Score: 8. Dota 2 Platform: PC July 9, Dota 2 features the characters and factions from the original Defense of the Ancients title with new features.

Metascore: 90 User Score: 6. M Action, Adventure, Comedy. With the help of Cable, Rogue, Wolverine and many other heroes, Deadpool must stop Mister Sinister, while trying to make his video game really awesome and going over budget countless times. Desmond Miles continues to travel the memories of Ezio Auditore, bringing him to turn-of-the-century Rome with Ezio rebuilding the assassin order to bring down the tyrannical Borgia rule. Votes: 14, Simmons , Joe Micheals. A man is sent to the flying city of Columbia to find a missing girl.

However, upon arrival he discovers that the city, its people, and his objective are all not what they seem. Freeman is taken out of stasis by his "employer" to help rid the planet of invading aliens forces known as the Combine that entered through the portals he helped create. A larger, more powerful agency is systematically eliminating assassins in a series of hits, who are all from Agent 47's contract killing firm, The International Contract Agency ICA. The American Colonies, It's a time of civil unrest and political upheaval in the Americas.

As a Native American fights to protect his land and his people, he will ignite the flames of a young nation's revolution. Votes: 16, Cole Phelps, a war hero and rookie cop, moves up the ranks and solves dark cases in s Los Angeles.

Harrington , Sean McGowan. Proving you can't keep a good agent down, Sam Fisher returns for this third undercover outing, which takes him deep inside North Korea on an information warfare mission. M Adventure, Horror, Thriller. In the fictional American city of Haventon, one year after a worldwide cataclysm that wiped out most of human civilization, Adam struggles for survival in the desolate city as he tries to reunite with his wife, and his daughter, Mary. Sgt James Heller, a soldier and grieving husband, must take down everyone responsible for the murder of his family, and have his revenge.

In a technologically advanced future, an elite human soldier takes command of a prototype star ship and works to defend the galaxy from danger. Spider-Man's strength and powers are tested when he is forced to save the world after Manhattan gets threatened by a deadly cross-species virus and robots created by Oscorp mastermind Alistaire Smythe. A massacre at a Russian airport leads to a war between Russia and the United States. Meanwhile, a Task Force is sent to find the perpetrators and bring the bloodshed to an end.

Votes: 22, Set on the frozen planet of Tau Volantis, Isaac Clarke and John Carver team up as they attempt to end the Necromorph threat once and for all. M Action, Crime. A family tragedy prompts gangster Carl "CJ" Johnson to return home, only to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which he must regain control of the streets before it gets even worse.

Votes: 38, You are Alex Mercer, a shapeshifter with amazing powers of combat, destruction, and deception. Stalk the streets of New York City, searching for the life you lead before. Take the form of anyone in your path out to capture or kill you. Treasure hunter Nathan Drake embarks on a quest in search of the Atlantis of the Sands while battling an ancient, sinister organization.

Votes: 20, After being freed by the Emperor of Tamriel, the hero must prevent the gates of Oblivion from spreading throughout the Empire. Jackie Estacado is now the Don of the Franchetti crime family. A brotherhood seeks the Darkness' powers for themselves using the Siphon, created to ensnare the Darkness by an entity known as the Angelus. Frame , William Salyers.

In Battlefield 4, players once again step into the role of the U. They will experience nail biting single player missions and competitive multiplayer action ranging from areas across the world. Sign In. Copy from this list Export Report this list. Little is known about Battlefield 4 except that it exists and it's coming soonish.

Leading up to Medal of Honor: Warfighter's launch, EA ran a deal that guaranteed Warfighter preorder customers access to BF4's beta, which is expected to kick off sometime in fall of this year and suggests that EA is aiming for a holiday release. For reference, Battlefield 3's beta ran from September 29, through October 10, and the game hit shelves in North America on October There's no trailer out yet, but here's one Battlefield fan's wish list for BF BioShock's third installment exits the abandoned underwater metropolis of Rapture and introduces players to Columbia, a floating city suspended by blimps and balloons.

It unfolds in -- prior to the events of previous entries -- and players control ex-Pinkerton agent Booker DeWitt as he rescues a young woman named Elizabeth a companion character who has been trapped in Columbia for most of her life.

Along with the new characters and environments, Infinite will encourage players to explore weapons more and touts proper PC support. User Comments: Add your comment to this article. You need to be a member to leave a comment. Join thousands of tech enthusiasts and participate. TechSpot Account Sign up for free , it takes 30 seconds. Already have an account? Login now. Call of Juarez: Gunslinger.