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10 great Windows PC games from 2023
27.12.2023 - 16:02 / theverge.com / Alan Wake
By Jon Porter, a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards.
2023 is likely to go down in history as one of gaming’s greats, and at times it’s been challenging just to keep up. Baldur’s Gate 3 brought the 20-year-old PC franchise back with a bang, and smaller releases like Slay the Princess were a reminder of the important role PCs still hold for indie games.
Given how cross-platform the vast majority of games are these days, we’re not going to primarily focus on PC exclusives. Instead, the aim is to highlight a great selection of games that show off PC gaming at its best in 2023. So alongside games like Slay the Princess, which are only available on computer platforms, there are also titles that work particularly well with a mouse and keyboard (Baldur’s Gate 3) or which offer interesting PC-exclusive graphics options (like Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty or Alan Wake 2’s ray tracing).
Regardless of your definition, the following ten games are a fantastic place to start if you’re looking to add this year’s best releases to your PC library. Whether you’re looking for a game to idly play on a laptop or something that’ll truly push your desktop gaming PC to its limits, you should find something to enjoy in the list below.
Basing video games around the expansive world of Dungeons & Dragons is a tall order. Not only does the beloved tabletop roleplaying game encompass decades’ worth of rules and lore, but its players have also come to expect that the only limit to the experience is their own imagination. Larian Studios hasn’t just managed to create a faithful D&D experience with Baldur’s Gate 3 — it’s come damn close to offering as much freedom as the tabletop game itself.
In Baldur’s Gate 3, if you can think it, you can probably do it. Want to fling a gnome across a village? Sure thing. Befriend a nest of ravenous giant spiders? You betcha. Take down imposing foes via the power of pure rizz and fart jokes? Hell yeah. And I haven’t even mentioned the bear scene yet. But this isn’t just the turn-based RPG that D&D nerds have spent years dreaming about — it’s also approachable enough to have sucked in folks who have never rolled a 20-sided die before.
Practically every inch of the game is explorable, and while you can make a fully customizable player character to explore the Sword Coast with, you can unlock oodles more unique content by playing as one of the game’s many romanceable companion characters. It’ll likely take completionists several run-throughs to experience everything that it has to offer. I’m still discovering new locations, items, characters, and secrets with 350-plus hours of gameplay, and I still expect
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