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10.10.2023 - 20:41 / pczone.co.uk / Of All / Best
Deciding on a list of the best PC games of all time is like publicly declaring a favourite child. Strangely compelling, yet highly controversial. Still, we don’t care about offending anyone around here, so let’s get the hell on with it.
My criteria for the 10 best PC games is fairly broad. I’m only going back about 20 years (any further than that, and we’re in proper retro territory), and the games I’ve picked are not exclusive to the platform.
I’ve selected based on the combination of gameplay, reviews, cultural impact, longevity and the PC-centric qualities each title offers.
Oh, and before you lose it in the comments, I’ve not put these in order of merit; it’s just my top 10 games.
I could have picked so many other games for this list. I could have categorised them by genre. I could have gone back 30+ years. There are many things that I did not do.
It’s basically an impossible task to define the best games and whether the PC version is the absolute best way to play. Especially when you’re comparing games across decades of PC gaming. But alas, I have tried to create a credible list worthy of your judgment. One that seems (mostly) relevant to 2023.
Got it? Good. Let’s get into my largely subjective list of the 10 best PC games of all time. Don’t like what I’ve picked? Write your own damn list in the comments, pilgrim.
There’s never been a game like The Orange Box, and I doubt there will be again.
Valve used to actually make games, brilliant games, and in 2007, released a collection consisting of Half-Life 2, two Half-Life 2 expansions (Episode One & Episode Two), Team Fortress 2 and Portal. All for the standard RRP of a single release. If that’s not one of the best PC games of all time, I don’t know what is!
It would take a lot of paragraphs to describe each of these classic titles in detail, so I’m not going to. Each game here is an out-and-out classic in its own right. To get all three games (plus two expansions) on a single disc was downright ridiculous.
To summarise, Half-Life 2 revolutionised the FPS genre with its extensive use of real-time physics while thrilling players with an exciting story, novel puzzles and exceptional level design.
To say that we’re sad that Half-Life 3 has never emerged (Half-Life: Alyx doesn’t count, nerd) is to understate our collective sorrow, given how amazing it was to experience Half-Life 2 at the time.
But that is the point: Half-Life games were designed to showcase new frontiers of gameplay (OK, in that sense, Half-Life: Alyx does sort of count), so we’ll have to wait for the ‘next big thing’ in PC gaming, whatever that may be, before we’re likely to see a 3rd entry in the series. If ever.
Team Fortress 2 became a must-play multiplayer shooter classic. With its iconic
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