Annual (2024) - Vol.7

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Top 100 2023
In recognition of PC Gamer’s 30th anniversary, we asked ourselves a question: What is the point of the Top 100? Is it a list of games the team loves? A way to recognise the most important games on the platform? A celebration of the most exciting and
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“Discover The Story Of The Greatest Game Never Made”
Welcome to the latest edition of the PC Gamer Annual. In this special compilation, we’ve brought together the best games, features and Extra Life goodness from the magazine’s last 12 months. We celebrate the diversity of PC gaming as a platform and s
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The History Of God Games
Many videogames furnish the player with godlike powers, but surprisingly few have tried to simulate the complete experience of being a god. A specific sub-genre of management sim that emerged in the late 1980s, god games lend players control not mere
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Four Score
RELEASED May 9, 2016 | DEVELOPER Paradox | PUBLISHER In-house After seven years, several expansions, and dozens of patches, Paradox’s space 4X has aged like a fine alien wine. With a mind-boggling array of options to create anything from a profit-hun
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The History Of Star Wars Games
Star Wars may have started its journey in cinemas, but you can make the case that its best experiences are in videogames. The Star Wars universe lends itself well to an interactive medium. Jedi, bounty hunters and rebel spies make ideal videogame ava
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The Cosiest Games On PC
RELEASED July 30, 2019 | DEVELOPER adamgryu | PUBLISHER In-house With freedom to explore and extremely low stakes, this game about a young bird searching for mobile signal atop a mountain is the purest definition of cosy. The Peak Provincial Park whe
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Way Of The Space Ninja
Warframe is big. Both in its success and in its scale, a vast action game that is as much about space combat, apartment decorating, pet training, fishing, hover surfing, mech fighting and open world exploration, as it is the central ninja combat that
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The Most Apocalyptic Games On PC
Humanity’s anxiety over the prospect of nuclear Armageddon has manifested itself in countless creative ways, but it is videogames that have perhaps thought longest and hardest about the ramifications of atomic annihilation, building worlds dedicated
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The Un-history Of Half-life 3
“SELL YOUR GRANDMOTHER, REMORTGAGE THE CAT, DO WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO DO. JUST DON’T MISS OUT.”SO READS THE FINAL LINE OF PC GAMER’S REVIEW OF HALF-LIFE 2. ALMOST TWO DECADES SINCE ITS RELEASE, THE GENIUS OF VALVE’S SEQUEL HAS BEEN EXHAUSTIVELY DISCUSS
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The Most Controversial Games On PC
RELEASED June 23, 2015 | DEVELOPER Rocksteady Studios | PUBLISHER Warner Bros How broken does a port have to be to get pulled off sale entirely? In June 2015 we found out, with the average PC player experiencing the shadowy streets of Gotham at about
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The History Of Diablo
RELEASED 1997 | DEVELOPER Blizzard North | PUBLISHER Blizzard Entertainment When you think of what’s important in a Diablo game, story might not be the first thing that springs to mind. Yet like all Blizzard’s games, Diablo’s mix of monster bashing
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Beating Every Globetrotter Challenge In League Of Legends
After 11 years, League of Legends is anything but stale. Strategies shift and evolve with new characters, new features, and a community full of madhat theory-crafters. But after 11 years, most players have found a groove, sticking to a handful of com
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Learning That Cheats Never Prosper In Wwe 2k22
Some people grow up watching wrestling and dream of one day being WWE champion. Of winning the ultimate prize at Wrestlemania, the grandest stage of them all, while tens of thousands scream their name and millions more watch at home. Of carrying out
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Mass Effect Legendary Edition
Can you feel it? I can feel it. The moment is right, the stars have aligned, and you can lift your eyes from this magazine and meet your PC’s knowing gaze from across the room. It’s time. It’s time to start a new playthrough of the Mass Effect trilog
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Zetans!
Fallout games and aliens are no strangers. In Fallout 2 a crashed flying saucer can be found with two alien skeletons inside. In Fallout: New Vegas, another spaceship and more aliens can be spotted. Fallout 3 has DLC that actually lets you board an a
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Hogwarts Legacy
Park your broom and pocket your wand for a minute, because it looks like wizards and witches aren’t the only ones wielding magic. Barely a day had gone by since the release of open world RPG Hogwarts Legacy, and already modders were enchanting the ga
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Prince Of Persia
By the late 2000s, the Prince of Persia series was already on its way out. 2008’s entry, simply titled Prince of Persia, wasn’t quite the last gasp, but it was the last attempt at forging a real future for the series – a reboot that took big swings i
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Neverwinter Nights
Why did I reinstall Neverwinter Nights? First and foremost it is so I could relive its classy, beautifully written and emotional main narrative once again. A brief synopsis. Awakening in the city of Neverwinter as a recruit summoned to help deal with
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Minecraft Mods
For the 12 years that I’ve been playing Minecraft, I’ve only ever been really interested in the ‘mine’ part. Every new world would go about the same: explore around a bit, carve a simple one-bedroom apartment into a mountain, mine a bunch of ore, mak
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Yakuza’s Rubbish Minigames
Encountering a minigame typically inspires much groaning and huffing from your’s truly. It doesn’t matter if it’s working out in the gym in Final Fantasy VII or hacking a vending machine in BioShock – I’m almost guaranteed to hate it. Mechanically si
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Innocuous Settings In Horror Games
Some horror games are set in spooky castles, abandoned mental asylums, derelict spaceships, or circuses with an unwise hiring policy regarding murderclowns. Others are set in suburban streets, shopping malls, hospitals, schools, or homes. I find the
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