1 PC Gamer’s writers vote for their favourite games across four categories. 2 The total score for each category is divided by the number of people who voted, to create an average score. 3 The four averages are split according to our special weighting

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RELEASED 2022 | TOP 100 SCORE 222.09 Quality 7.92 Importance 6.79 Hotness 5.50 Playability 8.10 Rich Stanton: Death Stranding is 100% a vibes game. Though I watched the cutscenes my first time through, and am always interested in teasing out Kojima’s

Saving an animal shelter has to be one of the best motivations for diving into the chaos of fixing plumbing and cutting down trees with a sword I’ve ever seen. You play as Doug, an animal-loving handyman with the requisite facial hair and cargo short

RELEASED 2014 | TOP 100 SCORE 225.29 Rich Stanton: The only Alien game ever made where I am actually scared of the Alien, and a perfect corrective to Hollywood’s mismanagement of the series. This was a labour of love for its developers, and that shin

RELEASED 2011 | TOP 100 SCORE 258.50 Quality 8.57 Importance 9.95 Hotness 7.70 Playability 8.26 Kara Phillips: For a game that’s all about stacking blocks, Minecraft is unmatched in holding its charm and the attention of its players. The creativity o

RELEASED 2022 | TOP 100 SCORE 259.81 Quality 8.68 Importance 8.65 Hotness 9.17 Playability 7.77 Fraser Brown: FromSoftware at its most audacious and unrestrained, Elden Ring is the pinnacle of the genre the studio created. With the huge Shadow of the

WHAT IS IT? A charming cash shop cover EXPECT TO PAY Nothing/everything DEVELOPER MiHoYo PUBLISHER HoYoverse REVIEWED ON Intel Core i7-7700HQ, GTX 1070, 16GB RAM MULTIPLAYER No LINK zenless.hoyoverse.com Zenless Zone Zero adopts a zesty Hi-Fi Rush

RELEASED 2015 | TOP 100 SCORE 225.77 Phil Savage: Here’s a phenomenon I’ve noticed in Top 100 voting over the years: a disappointing sequel can also ruin the placement of its better, more beloved predecessor. It’s almost as if the stink of the sequel

RELEASED 2007 | TOP 100 SCORE 237.53 Tyler Wilde: Call it baby bear porridge, because Valve’s first-person puzzle classic is just right: just long enough to thoroughly explore its brain-twisting physics concept, with just the right frequency of gags

Neverwinter Nights is an endless RPG feast: the 7/10 base game from 2002 has nostalgia value for me, but that’s just the beginning. In 2003 we got two expansions that formed a single fantastic fantasy campaign, while the real NwN is a staggering libr

RELEASED 2019 | TOP 100 SCORE 222.91 Quality 7.24 Importance 7.67 Hotness 7.79 Playability 7.71 Jacob Ridley: I mean we’re all still playing it, right? Tim Clark: Yes Jacob, yes we are. If you’d asked me this time last year whether Bungie had any rea

Specialist in Ancient firearms Currently playing Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn This month Killed many gods. Oh, and in Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn she… Specialist in Furious kicking Currently playing Anger Foot This month Raced around PC Gamer

RELEASED 2020 | TOP 100 SCORE 240.27 Harvey Randall: It’s hard to overstate the impact Hades had on the roguelike genre – not only is it some of Supergiant’s finest work, it also proves that you can tell a strong narrative in a game that ends every t

Twitter @MorganRPark This month Installed a series of portals in PC Gamer Towers and kept jumping through them butt naked. Twitter @wesleyfenlon This month Managed a team of weirdo Japanese mascots, including a porn-loving cat and a giant severe

I campaigned to get The Sims 3 on this list, which resulted in no Sims on this list, somehow. I will recant my betrayal. The Sims 4 is a bug-ridden mess at times, but it’s still one of my go-to casual creative outlets. Nothing is more relaxing than c

RELEASED 2012 | TOP 100 SCORE 214.10 Phil Savage: It’s been 12 years, and Guild Wars 2 is still a quietly revolutionary vision of what an MMO can be. There’s no subscription, no FOMO-inducing scarcity, no penalty for taking an extended break. Everyth

Phil Icitous is a terrible person. An average-looking, mid-30s white male, Phil is ill-tempered, weak, stupid, lazy, myopic, chronically sarcastic and has as much talent as your average root vegetable. Yet he lives in a lovely house, is married to a

RELEASE July 18, 2024 (Early Access) DEVELOPER Long Jaunt PUBLISHER Hooded Horse LINK www.norlandgame.com “Oh thank God, they’re having sex,” I sigh as my king and his wife, Harold and Carol, finally get down to business. This, I admit, is not a ty

RELEASED 2024 | TOP 100 SCORE 231.30 Quality 8.20 Importance 5.80 Hotness 7.20 Playability 8.40 Shaun Prescott: In this post-Hollow Knight world it’s exceedingly tough to stand out among modern metroidvanias. Animal Well adopts the time-worn pleasure

RELEASED 2017 | TOP 100 SCORE 238.06 Quality 8.08 Importance 7.92 Hotness 7.50 Playability 7.73 Kara Phillips: I didn’t think much of metroidvanias before going into Hollow Knight, but I quickly found a home in Hallownest. One of the only games to dr

RELEASE August, 2017 PUBLISHER Ninja Theory DEVELOPER Ninja Theory LINK ninjatheory.com Senua is unlike any other character I’ve come across in videogames. This remains to this day, seven years after Ninja Theory introduced the world to Hellblade.

TOP 100 SCORE 240.29 Harvey Randall: I have 276 hours logged in Slay the Spire. I regret none of them. Robin Valentine: These days I try pretty much every roguelike deckbuilder going, and I have to say, there’s still very few that beat this foundatio

RELEASED 2013 | TOP 100 SCORE 228.71 Joshua Wolens: The most moreish roguelike ever. I spent much of 2013 one-more-running my way through several hundred hours of Spelunky, switching from sheer triumph to utter despair as the game’s perfectly honed b

WHAT IS IT? A free to play open-world MMO survival/action/RPG EXPECT TO PAY Free to play, with cosmetic items for purchase DEVELOPER Starry Studio/Netease PUBLISHER Starry Studio/Netease REVIEWED ON Windows 10 Pro, Intel i9-10920X, 128 GB RAM, NVIDIA

RELEASED 2006 | TOP 100 SCORE 244.0 Wes Fenlon: The Steam version of this mantle-deep colony sim now features the underappreciated Adventure mode, a roguelike RPG that lets you venture forth into the world you generated for your fortress. You could p

RELEASED 2013 | TOP 100 SCORE 225.19 Quality 8.21 Importance 7.78 Hotness .22 Playability 7.80 Harvey Randall: One of the few games I’ve played that actually makes choosing to suck at it a mechanic itself. Papers, Please plays with the space of failu

I almost feel this fell off the list by accident. The first half of BioShock is the most incredible singleplayer FPS experience I’ve had and, even if it can’t quite maintain that stellar quality until the end, this stands proud as one of the most viv

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On the far reaches of my vision, on a distant horizon littered with bursts of flame, crumbling Imperial structures, and the remnants of heavily armoured vehicles, I see the Tyranid horde approaching. A mass of writhing carapace plates, talons, tails