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Verdict: A slick RPG with superb tactical combat, a detailed world to explore, and a gleefully crude sense of humour. Almost everything has been improved, here, yet it still feels like a classic survival horror game, one infused with enough psychological horror to keep it feeling fresh.

Verdict: An intense and thrilling psychological survival horror sequel that improves on its forerunner in almost every way. The level design is constantly inventive, the characters are charming and memorable if very silly , and the basic act of running, jumping, climbing, and collecting colorful baubles never gets old.

An uneven drip of credits don’t make driving a ’70 Chevelle in first person on a rainy track as the sun cracks through the clouds any less stunning. It’s the songbird of cars, the sublime ocean cliffside filling the car poet with wonder and respect. Not much respect for time or skill, but respect for cars at least. Verdict: Light performance problems and a poor loot box system can’t quite distract from Forza Motorsport 7’s accommodating difficulty, stunning beauty, and lavish racing options.

Verdict: Not just for the masochists, Cuphead is a demanding but supremely rewarding modern 2D shooter that looks and sounds fantastic. Underneath, a thumping top-down action game delivers sword-sharp combat, the familiarity of its design offset by the constant urge to simply stand still and drink everything in. Verdict: Dazzling, dangerous, and dripping in style, Ruiner is a superb, if short, whirlwind of cyber-violence and sightseeing.

Warhammer has gone in the opposite direction. We had one large-scale strategy game of turn-based campaigning and real-time battles in the fantasy setting of the Old World, and now a year later we get another, bigger one—with promise of a third still to come. Verdict: A maximalist sequel that improves on almost every aspect of the first game.

I can’t stop regaling friends with my stories of heists gone bad or boasting about my flashes of brilliance in the heat of the moment. Heat Signature is brilliant at teasing these anecdotal threads out of a procedural universe.

Verdict: By making excellent use of its procedurally generated world and wacky gadgets, Heat Signature is a mission worth taking.

Larian promised a lot, and it has absolutely followed through, crafting a singular game that juggles a bounty of complex, immersive systems, and never drops them. My favourite thing wasn’t a mission or an individual section but the chance to see the world react to the events of Dishonored 2, and from a new perspective. It frequently shines new light on characters from throughout the series. Verdict: Not as consistently intricate or surprising as Dishonored 2, but still a worthy epilogue that adds depth and atmosphere to the series’ world.

Verdict: Serious racing for serious racers. Extraordinarily convincing at each of the disciplines on offer. The rumours are true: Sonic is good again. Verdict: A breakneck platformer that uses classic Sonic as a foundation for something fresh and exciting. If the rhythms of XCOM 2 feel stale now, the expansion does enough to shake things up, just expect a slightly slower pace as you systematically pull apart those new alien champions.

Verdict: The new classes and super villains are excellent, even if the expansion bloats the campaign a little. Verdict: It’s like, how much more Nidhogg could this be? And the answer is none. None more Nidhogg. But if you want to be reductive, Rez probably isn’t for you. Accept its big ideas and singular purpose, and it’s like nothing else you’ve played. What Rez does still feels remarkable, but only if you’re prepared to meet it half way. Verdict: Like having a drunken conversation with a friend who really loves music, but it’s a videogame and good.

It’s an uncompromising game that doesn’t make apologies for its high skill ceiling, but isn’t so exclusionary that only those with pristine reflexes can enjoy it. There’s a quiet gracefulness to managing the Battle Medic’s hoverpack, knowing when to toggle the hover on and off to conserve fuel.

It’s a treat to play an FPS where some of the roles demand more left-hand coordination than they do mouse aim. Verdict: Nimble, graceful, and original, LawBreakers’ movement sets it apart from other FPSes despite a few aesthetic weaknesses. Verdict: The turn-based combat isn’t the best, but it’s a delightfully written RPG absolutely packed with humor.

Beautiful art direction and rich, nuanced sound design bring the deep forests, frozen lakes, and ragged mountains of the Canadian wilderness to life. Verdict: Deep, brutal, and hauntingly atmospheric, The Long Dark is a survival game done right. Verdict: A smart and thoughtful science fiction mystery featuring a cast of believable, nuanced characters. Your first go of Nex Machina will leave you feeling pleasantly dazed, as this exhilarating and ferociously tough twin-stick shooter sucks you in and spits you back out.

Verdict: Slight in form, but deep and consistently satisfying. Nex Machina is a gem of a shooter. As a challenge, they’re fine—there are bosses I can kill without taking a hit, but who’ll still punish a lapse in concentration.

But, unlike in regular play, these encounters mostly remain the same, no matter the build. A better bow may make things quicker, but that only affects the length of the fight, not how I approach it. Despite this misstep, though, Caveblazers is an excellent procedural platformer.

It’s slightly looser and less intricate than Spelunky, but it scratches the same itch—offering plenty of variety, and a difficult challenge that’s fun to unravel. Verdict: A varied, challenging platformer that’s adept at forcing improvisation and punishing mistakes. But as someone who is heavily invested in its world and characters, it is a triumph.

With automatic weapons in every hand, RS2 makes positioning, smoke grenades, and battlefield intel even more important. The new Supremacy mode disappoints somewhat, but the linear point-by-point Territories matches remain great. Verdict: A fiery test of awareness, speed and accuracy which upholds the series’ devotion to teamwork and authenticity, but doesn’t nail the asymmetry of modern era combat. The console game finally made its way to PC, bringing us another shot of Platinum’s brand of third-person combat.

It’s a dumb, brash shooter, but clever with it. Verdict: A great port of an entertainingly subversive cover shooter. It’s short, but the core loop never gets old. A roguelike platformer that’s more forgiving than Spelunky, made great by its grappling hook. Verdict: A satisfying, moreish take on the roguelike formula, and one that’s most likely to appeal to genre naysayers.

An immersive sim in the style of the classics. The combat is disappointing, but the horrible mimics, who might be a chair or a coffee mug waiting to pounce, the gorgeous, open space station, and the freeform creative problem solving make Prey not to be confused with the game it shares little in common with a great success. It also has one of the best intros opens in new tab we’ve played in a good while.

Verdict: It’s let down by lacklustre combat and some annoying enemy design, but Prey is still a compelling, beautiful immersive sim. A series of stories about a strange, deceased family, each told with different first-person formats. The interactivity is sparse—it’s often a guided experience—but the stories themselves are fantastic.

Verdict: Touching, sad, and brilliant; a story worth forgiving the limited interactivity to experience. Inhabit a cow and tumble end-over-end, or become a microbe, or a galaxy. Everything lives up to its name—though it obviously doesn’t include literally everything, it lets players become the tiniest molecules or entire islands, planets, and beyond. Mixed in with this surreal playspace are audio recordings of philosopher Alan Watts. It’s a slow burn, but worth the silly, life-examining trip.

You’re exploring a cave, but you can’t see in the dark—except with LIDAR, which paints every surface with colorful dots. It’s a unique premise that conveys space the sound design helps, too and natural beauty without rendering a single rock texture. Verdict: A beautiful but short-lived expedition that left me wanting more of its best ideas. First-person horror at its most disgusting, Outlast 2 suffers from some confusing stealth segments, but makes up for it with pure horror.

For fans of branching paths and horrible deaths, as Andy put it , point-and-click puzzles, and philosophy lectures. A curious adventure game in which the player returns to the start of the same costume ball again and again on a quest to prevent a series of murders that take place during the evening. The beauty and cleverness of it make up for the built-in repetitiveness.

Good things come to those who wait: the PC now has the best version of one of the best hack-n-slash games ever made. Bayonetta’s fluid fighting style—combos, dodges, hair-based attacks—and absurd story deserved 4K and 60 fps support, and we’re happy it’s finally joined us.

If you dodge in the middle of a combo while holding down either punch or kick, you can resume the combo out of the dodge. This offset speaks to the fluidity of Bayonetta’s fighting style—as does the way she so smoothly transitions from dodge into attack, or from melee to guns.

Verdict: A great port of what is still one of the best action games around. Bayonetta is the essential hack-‘n-slash. And who doesn’t? Stellaris’ Utopia expansion overhauls politics, adds factions to your population, and introduces Tradition trees—which are how you might blot out the sun.

The add-on gives Stellaris a big push in the right direction, filling out the previously light mid-game. Big Robot, which is headed by former PC Gamer contributor Jim Rossignol, brings us a sci-fi shooter mystery that’s two parts exploration—hopping and stomping around—and one part “crisp, satisfying combat,” as our review states. It’s slow-paced, but smart, lean, and a step above the developer’s previous game, Sir, You Are Being Hunted.

Verdict: A fascinating setting and fizzing gunplay make for a lean, thoughtful exploration-led shooter. Manage a band of mercenaries, earn money to expand your operation and reach more distant contracts on the wide-open map, and fret over decisions in turn-based battles. A throwback to ’90s adventure games, but not a nostalgia-driven rehash—Thimbleweed Park builds on the genre and is great on its own merits.

There’s also an overwhelming amount of game here to play. With six different origin characters, custom tags to make your own, and over 74, lines of fully voiced dialogue, this massive RPG has more than enough to keep you coming back to it.

Through its relaunch and subsequent four expansions, FFXIV has slowly morphed from a relatively generic good-versus-evil plot into a sprawling, political, and fantastical thriller. Story missions are intended to be tackled solo, and even instanced dungeons now have an option for you to enter with computer-controlled party members instead of forcing you into a group with strangers. From its exhilarating combat, to its incredible soundtrack, to its clever and well written narrative with characters that seemingly never run out of meaningful things to say, all the way to its deep and innovative post game that keeps you wanting to come back for more even after beating the last boss.

Hades is incredibly difficult, but it never feels punishing in defeat. Dying is part of the game, and actually comes with its own rewards in the form of new conversations with its fascinating cast of characters, new opportunities to purchase game changing upgrades, and an opportunity for a brand new run with a completely new set of godly boons that dramatically alter how you approach combat. Every 22 minutes, everything ends — and restarts again. The sands that had passed between twin planets go back to their original place, a planet that had fallen apart becomes whole, and you awaken to see a mysterious object in space break apart once again.

In Outer Wilds , you live through those same 22 minutes until you can successfully solve the puzzle of why you’re stuck in the time loop, among other mysteries, by exploring ruins left by a long-dead civilization across multiple planets. This gorgeous, heartfelt space adventure is one of the best examples of video game exploration and discovery.

Outer Wilds encourages you to hop into your spaceship and go wherever you want — or just stay on your home planet and see what’s happening there. Should you feel lost or need a hint on what to do next, all of your activities and progress are saved to your ship’s log, which helpfully tells you when there’s still more to discover in an area.

The only thing limiting your curiosity is time, but even that can sometimes be your ally. The short expansion’s puzzles are just as enjoyable as what you’ll find in the rest of Outer Wilds, but the pervasive, menacing tension in Echoes of the Eye makes each step forward in the overall mystery feel even more rewarding.

Its sprawling caves open up and offer multiple paths to you at any given time, but no matter which way you go there are exciting bosses to fight and significant power-ups to make you stronger. And even though it was already a massive game, Hollow Knight has only gotten bigger since its launch in early Developer Team Cherry released multiple free updates with new areas and bosses, each harder than the last.

But whether you just want to get to the credits, find the true ending, or push even farther than that, Hallownest is a world worth exploring. A sequel, Hollow Knight: Silksong , will seemingly be released sometime before June Crusader Kings 3 gives you many ways to tell those stories, be it overwhelming military might, the diplomacy of a well-placed betrothal, or ending your enemies with a cloak-and-dagger plot.

The latest expansion, Royal Court, adds a zoomed-in physical space where your ruler can look their subjects in the eye, passing down individual judgements in addition to making realm-wide decrees. The expansion also weaves an intricate overhauled culture system throughout the game, giving you more opportunities to make your empire feel unique, with all the benefits and penalties that entails.

Its world is a wonder to explore, with memorable experiences, valuable rewards, and imposing boss fights covering nearly every square inch of its absolutely enormous map. The only thing that holds it back on this list is the fact that it still struggles a bit performance-wise on the PC.

Elden Ring remains one of the best-reviewed games of at IGN — and one of the best-reviewed games in modern history. As well as transplanting the dice-rolls and deep dialogue options from Dungeons and Dragons into a lesser-seen noir-detective setting, it offers entirely original ways to play, such as such as debating against 24 different sections of your own brain, each representative of a different skill or trait. Your down-and-out detective is thrust into circumstances where you must solve a murder, but with all great stories its not the conclusion that is solely gratifying, but the journey you took to get there as its ludicrously detailed world and cast of characters drive it along, supported by some of the best writing seen in a game.

It has the same tension of going from a technologically inferior underdog to powerful war machine, with the constant threat of the permanent death of your customized soldiers looming over every decision. However, it turns the formula of defending Earth from alien invaders on its head by boldly recasting XCOM as a guerrilla force attempting to liberate the planet from alien occupation, making the situation feel even more desperate than ever.

This bigger, deeper sequel adds not just complexity in the form of new and more powerful soldier classes, equipment, and aliens, but also a huge focus on replayability.

Procedurally generated maps keep you from falling into a repeatable pattern in tactical missions, frequent random events on the strategic map shake up your build and research orders, and of course mods galore.

The next-gen Witcher 3 upgrade , meanwhile, will be released for free on December Just as the first Half-Life proved you could tell a compelling story in a first-person game without taking control of the camera away, and Half-Life 2 pioneered physics-based puzzles and combat, Half-Life: Alyx set a new standard for polish in virtual reality shooters and is a truly unique experience.

Alyx’s full-length campaign pulls out all the stops for an amazing and horrifying battle against aliens and zombies where the simple act of reloading your weapon becomes a desperate life-or-death struggle as headcrabs leap toward your actual face. Other VR games have great shooting, but even more than a year later nothing has yet matched Valve’s level of detail. Clever three-dimensional puzzles and excellent and often funny performances from its cast break up the action, and it’s all capped off with a fantastic ending that made the decade-plus we had to wait for the third coming of Half-Life almost feel worth it.

Those looking for a reason to return to the Continent can dive back into The Witcher 3 on December 14 when its free next-gen update is deployed. The update adds enhanced visuals, new quests, and various quality-of-life improvements. Those are our picks for the 25 best modern PC games! Let us know in the comments what’s on your list that didn’t make ours, and be sure to check out our other best games lists — we update them whenever new, great games are made:.

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