Welcome to the 2024 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games around.

full list:

1. Valheim
1. Guild Wars 2
1. City of Heroes: Homecoming
1. Dave the Diver
1. Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
1. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2
1. Dragon Age: Origins
1. Left 4 Dead 2
1. Ghost of Tsushima
1. Dead Cells
1. Outer Wilds
1. Death Stranding
1. Pentiment
1. The Case of the Golden Idol
1. Ultrakill
1. Destiny 2
1. Inside
1. Sid Meier's Civilization 5
1. Hotline Miami
1. Kentucky Route Zero
1. Caves of Qud
1. Baldur's Gate 2
1. Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon
1. Deep Rock Galactic
1. Dishonored 2
1. Chivalry 2
1. Max Payne
1. Papers, Please
1. Cyberpunk 2077
1. Alien Isolation
1. Strange Horticulture
1. Signalis
1. Titanfall 2
1. Monster Hunter: World
1. Kerbal Space Program
1. Rust
1. Diablo 2
1. Resident Evil 4 (Remake)
1. Nier: Automata
1. Team Fortress 2
1. System Shock (Remake)
1. Unavowed
1. Fortnite
1. The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind
1. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
1. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
1. Warhammer: Vermintide 2
1. Control
1. Wildermyth
1. Spelunky
1. Hitman World of Assassination
1. Citizen Sleeper
1. Doom Eternal
1. Frostpunk
1. Into the Breach
1. Grand Theft Auto 5
1. Deus Ex
1. Animal Well
1. Prey (2017)
1. Divinity: Original Sin 2
1. Vampire Survivors
1. Return of the Obra Dinn
1. World of Warcraft
1. The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim
1. Stellaris
1. Counter-Strike 2
1. Final Fantasy 14
1. Fallout: New Vegas
1. Yakuza 0
1. StarCraft 2
1. Halo: The Master Chief Collection
1. Planescape: Torment
1. Thief Gold
1. Hunt: Showdown 1896
1. Pizza Tower
1. Crusader Kings 3
1. Portal
1. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
1. Hollow Knight
1. Alan Wake 2
1. Hades
1. Slay the Spire
1. Mass Effect Legendary Edition
1. Rimworld
1. Dwarf Fortress
1. Red Dead Redemption 2
1. Helldivers 2
1. XCOM 2
1. Total War: Warhammer 3
1. Metal Gear Solid 3
1. Doom (1993)
1. Stardew Valley
1. Balatro
1. Half-Life 2
1. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
1. Persona 5 Royal
1. Minecraft
1. Elden Ring
1. Disco Elysium
1. Baldur's Gate 3

Personal Picks:

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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Cult of the Lamb
Jagged Alliance 3
Neverwinter Nights
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
Dark Souls 3
The Sims 4
Halo Infinite
Hades 2
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
BioShock
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
Alpha Protocol

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Top 10 list to save you a click from 10 to 1

Doom 1993
Stardew Valley
Balatro
Half Life 2
The Witcher 3 : Wild Hunt
Persona 5 Royal
Minecraft
Elden Ring
Disco Elysium
Baldur's Gate 3

(Sorry btw I was too lazy to make a numbered list and order them correctly)

List is horse shit

No Factorio.

No Mount & Blade either :/

Fuck yes Dwarf Fortress came in at #16, that's 15 places too low of course... but it's pretty close to correct.

Deus Ex only at #44 :(

Kinda meh list. No mobas, either LoL or Dota2. No racing games, NFS underground or NFS Most wanted should be on that list. Not even the OG Modern Warfare which should 100% be on any top 100 games of all time list. Too many games that were released in the last 5 years.

And it's not like the list is that stacked you couldn't fit those games in. Dave the diver? Really? I enjoyed Dave the Diver but I'd put Fez higher than Dave the Diver. Ghosts of Tsushima? Even they themselves say that game does nothing revolutionary or unique. You could throw out either Morrowind or Skyrim because they 90% overlap. Armored Core is there only because they love From. I love From but I don't think that fits the 100 and I think Sekiro barely fits. I think you can also throw out Prey (2017) because you already have Deus Ex and the latter has been far more influential.

And no Terraria? I'm just going to stop. The more I think about the list the angrier I get about how bad that list is.