The Best PC Games (2024 Update)

[@IGN]

This list covers the best PC games from the last 10 years. Which games make your top 25?

[@milanaleksandrov6917]

You didn't say that in the video.

[@jGz-e8f]

This list is a breath of fresh air, thank you. Also perhaps consider adding Metal Gear Solid V.

[@Vex7eX]

Maybe you should cover the top 250 games in list

[@trash1933]

Maybe you should delete your channel

[@5ATH1]

❤

[@pedromarberger4709]

Do you guys make this list just to make people angry?

[@markwilkinson294]

It's IGN, they're not a PC-Gaming knowledgeable company.

[@tiamat_023]

307 likes suggests: yes

[@nc630]

this list was made by a console player

[@christonchev9762]

y cause there are 0 pure PC games and am not talking about RTS games

[@chazz3167]

This comment was made by a PC player

[@yanhutajulu5674]

Huh???

[@osricen]

Care to share your list here? I'm genuinely curious.

[@jmz2144]

PC has no games but console ports 😂

[@CJM305]

They gave Doom 2016 a 7.1 and Doom Eternal a 9, yet only Doom 2016 is on the list? I’m so confused

[@mattjereza6541]

different reviewers make different lists

[@abrock2]

Welcome to IGN

[@Asymmetrical-Saggin]

Normal IGN

[@AuGTN01]

- talks about Best *PC* games - looks inside - its all console based games and no PC exclusives

[@JustxLiving909]

Is that a problem

[@spraynardkruger6426]

​​@@JustxLiving909read the title of the video, dummy

[@meesert]

Having The Witcher 3 below Cyberpunk is criminal

[@criticalhit148]

Nope, if you prefer sci-fi.

[@bronzin1445]

They’re on par with each other, it just depends if you’re into fantasy or sci-fi

[@albert2006xp]

Maybe if your view of Witcher 3 is through the unreliable memory of having played it many years ago. If they were released in switched order I'm sure Witcher would be better but Cyberpunk 2.0 with expac is better. There's a lot of really dated systems in Witcher and it's not as immersive.

[@melonystove7]

Nah cyberpunk is better

[@yanhutajulu5674]

It's because of roach

[@joshnizzle]

Baldurs gate 3 is one of the best games ever made. Period. It’s astoundingly free with so much player choice and an amazing story

[@anab0lic]

nope

[@joshnizzle]

@@anab0licyes. Unless you’re a brain dead moron. They put it first because they know. Maybe you’re too simple for it

[@joshnizzle]

@@anab0liccry much? Wants some cheese and crackers with your whine? lol

[@decd]

hell nah

[@DevilishTay]

Cant stand the combat

[@ombroso1000]

Not a single RTS game? The genre PCs are known for? Great list lol

[@dFdd-vg3zr]

Not even a single ARPG and barely any crpgs 😭

[@MobikSaysStuff]

RTS is a niche genre. Cope.

[@xenopug4822]

RTS is so niche, StarCraft 2 sold 6 million and is one of the best selling PC games.

[@DungAnhify]

@@xenopug4822 That's a lot less than Stardew Valley you know, and Stardew Valley wasn't even in this list

[@shinrugal]

Nier Automata would like a word ​@@dFdd-vg3zr

[@bayramgur6382]

Wors list ever. Where are the real pc games Age of Empires, Portal, Half life, Mafia, Crysis .......

[@windmillin-in-the-dirt2489]

0:10

[@criticalhit148]

In the 25+ list, obviously.

[@chief679]

Lost me at crysis and mafia

[@shubhamagarwal2586]

counter strike condition zero,csgo also

[@jeanniemaycrawford4466]

​@@chief679crysis is better than Wolfenstein 2.... Hell, Wolfenstein 1 is better than 2

[@albertovalecillos2573]

A review of my backlog.... 😂

[@TravisRiver]

If this is your backlog you're in for a treat

[@Bakon_101]

Actually forgot half life 2, l4d, portal 2, the last of us part 1

[@NeonT3tra25]

He said the best pc games from the last 10 years

[@mattvjmeasures]

As the other comment pointed out, this is a list of games from the last TEN years !

[@ontariog0thic_]

crazy how the last of us is an exclusive console game until a year ago lmao

[@sophieedel6324]

portal is lame

[@McGeezle]

​@@sophieedel6324 smoothbrain

[@nabilsyed4347]

Can you do make a list for only PC exclusives?

[@markwilkinson294]

That would involve someone at the staff of IGN being a PC-Gamer only. They don't hire those.

[@jessejacobs8992]

Where is Skyrim?

[@bronzin1445]

Appropriately omitted because Oblivion is better in almost every way imaginable

[@ExodiumTM]

​@@bronzin1445 except for graphics, translation and voice acting, bugs, scale, impact on gaming, combat, UI. Oblivion has better story and characters, but TES elitists really need to understand there's more to it

[@bronzin1445]

@@ExodiumTM My point exactly. Skyrim was 1 step forward, two steps backwards. Almost everything was a downgrade. Combat was worse, UI is insultingly dumbed down, the roleplaying is practically nonexistent.

[@David.77]

​@@bronzin1445 No one hates Bethesda games more than Bethesda fans. They say hate comes from a place of love (in video games)

[@bronzin1445]

@@David.77 precisely my point. The last legitimate Roleplaying Game Bethesda made was Oblivion

[@Nick-bn6ch]

In no particular order Balder's Gate 3 Factorio StarCraft 2 Minecraft Java Disco Elysium Civilization 5 Dwarf Fortress Half Life 2 Microsoft Flight Simulator And a racing sim of your choice You know, things that are actually better experienced on a PC

[@V3ntilator]

Would be better with a list of the best PC exclusives.

[@boltpaper3791]

pretty much no games are pc exclusives nowadays

[@Optim121]

Games play better on PC, exclusivity is not needed

[@V3ntilator]

@@boltpaper3791 Yes, there is. Another 5 year old PC exclusive were just ported to console. "Hyberboxed". Starship Troopers from PC are coming to consoles 2 years later. Sega's Total War series. 100% PC exclusive. UBI have released at least 6 PC exclusives last 2 years. The list goes on. Steam alone got 4 times more new games than all consoles combined in 2023.

[@V3ntilator]

@@Optim121 True. There is no such thing as 30 FPS on PC unless you are stuck with a museum potato PC.

[@delacroixx]

@@boltpaper3791 CS2, LoL/Dota, Tarkov, WoW and pretty much every other MMORPG, popular indies such as Sons of the Forest, Lethal company and Dark and darker. There's actually way more PC exclusives nowadays than Sony and Microsoft have.

[@PlaneetRuk]

Wait... you pit Slay the Spire before Elden Ring?

[@user-fh1qx5fb5w]

Didn’t even show A20 play, prolly stuck at A0. But even then Elden ring should mostly be deeper than slay the spire. This list is sad

[@tomisac7444]

GTA SA, Portal, Civilization,Skyrim,Crysis,Oblivion,AOE 2,HL 2, Dragon age 1....Missed a whole lot

[@nima.j.m]

How much under table money did you get for this list!? I'm actually curious!!!

[@Ali-lm7uw]

Factorio, StarCraft 2, Halo 2, COD MW 2, Ori, Forza Horizon 5, Skyrim, Cuphead, Sekiro, Ghosts of Tsushima, Stardew Valley, Road Rash, Quake, Duke Nukem, Gta SA, Persona 5, CS Go, Arkham Knight....

[@user-fh1qx5fb5w]

IGN employee can’t mostly beat sekiro

[@pavanraj698]

Bluds sneaked spiderman in there💀

[@joshnicholson6194]

Skyrim changed modding, a huge part of PC gaming. Crazy to put GOW on, but not Skyrim.

[@toasted_waffle2179]

the list was for the last ten years...

[@AbsolAhm]

Its amazing how IGN didn't put the last of us in one of these lists for once 😅😅

[@parksgaming2108]

Anyone else getting this recommended in 2027?

[@theandroidking8337]

Me

[@vexxioo6101]

its 2024

[@felicelovenapoli93]

I'm getting this recommended in 2028

[@MattLazzara]

Bro it’s 2036

[@girarkyus]

Since we are talking about the fact that games last a long time lately and given the little time most have, this top will be more useful to people in said year

[@saso-nt8sh]

The list aint bad

[@JKLauderdale]

Glad to see "Slay the Spire" and "Dishonored" on the list but the original "Thief:Dark Project" and "Vampire:Bloodlines" deserve a spot

[@frenchtoastenjoyer]

Cyberpunk 2077 and Elden Ring were the most fun I’d had amongst all open world games.

[@dr.sivavignesh664]

No ori games , no racing games at all( forza horizon , burnout paradise ) , no batman Arkham games ( Arkham knight looks spectacular on pc ) , list feels too incomplete.

[@zen4167]

Thank you for putting Disco Elysium on the list, truly one of the best story mode games out there!

[@easyj]

2024 year a fantastic year for gaming? Automatically closes the video

[@GameCritiqueIndia-y1f]

Ghost of tsushima came out this year for pc, great year for me bud

[@easyj]

@@GameCritiqueIndia-y1f I’ve already 100% it on ps5 😁 Great game

[@B3K97]

Any RTS game??

[@ragestaff]

This list feels so off-balance. It’s like it’s written by a person who got into gaming a year ago.

[@ReYsiRiDLeY]

My list will definitely be like this ; Tekken 8 , AC Odyssey, SW BF 2(2017) , CP 2077, Far Cry 6

[@menacedelish5127]

These are all playable on console...

[@kellinquinn013]

Agree with baldurs gate 3. I bought it after release and played for a bit then benched it since it didn't appeal to me at first and find it rather boring that time. Now im on my 3rd playthrough pumping 300 hrs in it. I'm never going for the sharran Shadowheart even on my evil playthrough.

[@blackburn1489]

where is Detroit? Mass Effect LE? Stalker gamma? Left4Dead? Helldivers2? Soma?

[@iROHxo]

You literally forgot like 30 games LMAO

[@xWaxxy]

it’s almost like some games need to be cut to make it into their top 25 list. wild hey.

[@rafialam6577]

So, 2024 is another great year for games.

[@wen8592]

Dam, played through most of it already. Give me some more new games man xD

[@0bliviongaming454]

touch some grass man lol

[@wen8592]

@@0bliviongaming454 Don’t wanna hear that from someone with “gaming” in their name. Stick to your FPS games buddy, pouring countless hours into one is way worst than playing multiple games with lesser timing.

[@0bliviongaming454]

@@wen8592 Don't even play fps games much anymore lmao

[@arox2962]

BG3, best game ever made

[@michaelgreibich2078]

xcom 2 in top 10? You're goddamn right

[@AmeyaShikhare_RR]

Not including divinity OS2 is absolutely criminal

[@owusu-ansahyaw3471]

Where is Skyrim?

[@aminemon5312]

They didnt put shekiro, ghost of tsushima or arma 3. Im disappointed.

[@BookOwl60]

Plague Tale Requiem Is awesome too .

[@mmpsp693]

Recency bias, barely any game over 10 years old.

[@bronzin1445]

Which is moronic to say the least. BG3 is one of the very few games that is even worth a damn in the last decade or so

[@David.77]

Yeah this list is also pure survivorship bias, crazy huh

[@albert2006xp]

That's not really a bias. Games ARE better now than they could be over 10 years ago. Please go back and actually try to play those old games. Nothing before 2010 really stands the test of time. Even stuff like Mass Effect 2 with Legendary edition remaster feels so bad when it comes to combat. Game design evolves and builds upon previous games. Trying to replay Dragon Age: Origins is rough even if the game doesn't crash. You basically have to make an adjustment for release date when ranking those games, like adjusting for inflation. This list has other issues, feels very made by a console player like the top comment says.

[@bronzin1445]

@@albert2006xp that’s objectively incorrect.

[@albert2006xp]

@@bronzin1445 Then you need to play more games.

[@reaperpunkxter]

FF14 is on Dawntrail expansion, so you're a bit off on the actual game current info and its way to low on the list.

[@TheiAdz90]

There is clearly favouritism going on in this video

[@piercecosmo]

It’s an inherently subjective question.

[@yunawarii]

Props to IGN for putting AC6 on the list.

[@bxfguif]

3:34 rolls eyes

[@Cassious675]

lol triggered. he wasn't wrong though.

[@gazmo6070]

The fact cyberpunk is still 90 bucks is wild

[@chief679]

You put cyberpunk in front of Witcher?

[@markwilkinson294]

If you're going to make a Best PC Games list, how about not including games that are cross-platform.

[@jacqueslouw2167]

Is this an out of season April Fools joke? The Stanley Parable??? THE STANLEY PARABLE???

[@noobestofdamall]

Have you played it? It's subversive and interesting.

[@igorcosta5482]

1- elden ring 2- baldurs gate 3- skyrim 4- the Witcher 3 5- the sims 4 😂

[@klutch1139]

Dishonored 2 such a based pick. One of the greatest games of all time

[@xavierbaylor106]

Bro Minecraft and rust definitely belong somewhere on that list

[@Hashama]

The spider man remastered footage with ray tracing and 60fps looks sick.

[@byronbarrientos8471]

GTA 5 the ps3 port is best PC game? Crazy. What a list of all time honestly.

[@mrbrightside2937]

As a pure pc gamer, I'd take skyrim with mods, age of empires 2, medieval total war 2, and football manager (you read that right) over half of these games

[@sotruem8]

no one cares

[@mrbrightside2937]

@@sotruem8 ya you do. You replied

[@sotruem8]

@@mrbrightside2937 nice toddler comeback

[@mrbrightside2937]

@@sotruem8 doesn't make it any less accurate 😂

[@nfals6134]

@@mrbrightside2937 He's a dumbass lmao

[@gigaeteria]

Witcher 3 is 8th???🤦‍♂️

[@GobarshevZanus]

Is hades worth it ?

[@abrock2]

Absolutely

[@Meitary]

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. That's it, that's my comment.

[@maomao180]

Ghost of Tsushima...

[@santoj84923]

GOT is mediocre

[@OllieGrigg]

Most overrated game I’ve ever played

[@fdg-oi3pc]

Where's world of Warcraft

[@HarmfulMorgy]

Slay the Spire over Elder Scrolls or Cities Skylines?

[@joshnizzle]

To all the crybabies who don’t agree, you’ve clearly never ACTUALLY played BG3 or you’d agree. A game that gives you the freedom to approach everything in any way you want and usually if you think it might work it will, deserves to be first. The story and gameplay are also amazingly well crafted. You can get a huge enemy to drink himself to death or another to literally kill himself just by talking him into it. No other games on this list give you that level of freedom. Haters just hush. You. Are. Wrong.

[@sensationalrebel9459]

Player Freedom doesn't justify it's shitty writting, horrible dice roll rng system and over the top edgy characters.

[@joshnizzle]

@@sensationalrebel9459 everyone that reviews lt says it has fantastic writing like all larian games. The dice roll system works like DnD does ya know that table top game it’s based on, dipstick! Edgy? That says more about you than it does the game if that is the only adjective you can come up with to describe deeply written and layered characters. You’re a nincompoop. How does it feel to have nearly the entire gaming public think one thing and you think something else? That should show you that you’re probably incorrect. Its popularity may be subjective but subjectively everyone agrees with me more than you 😉

[@DaRkLoRd-rc5yu]

​​@@sensationalrebel9459lol it's just DnD bro. It's the same systems people have been using since the 70's and that gave us every video game RPG ever made.

[@sensationalrebel9459]

@@DaRkLoRd-rc5yu "It's the same systems people have been using since the 70's and that gave us every video game RPG ever made." No major critical acclaimed RPG has ever used RNG dice rolls to dictate what happens in their games apart from this one. You're lying.

[@DaRkLoRd-rc5yu]

@@sensationalrebel9459 lol alot of early games did. Fallout 1&2, baldurs gate 1,2 , every final fantasy works out it's crit chance and damage numbers with rng and stat calculations. All Elder scrolls games up until morrowind did. Heroes of might and magic. Heck any RPG that has damage numbers and stats includes a mix of math and rng, largely built on the principles made in dungeons and dragons.

[@Xraided89]

So are people still playing helldivers 2 seriously is there alot to do after playing for a bit

[@vijaykarthikeyan5794]

Only if Bloodborne released to PC, it sure be in that list

[@Dbeastlygamer95]

Wouldn't be an IGN video without forgetting something like the new FF14 Expansion that literally launched 2 days after this video posted.

[@ThunderBlake]

GTA5 on list? Nah

[@gabbablaster2944]

The fact you stated helldivers 2 doesn’t make the list but your first game you have put on is hollowman is disgusting. Inleast you saved me 22 mins of looking at a ridiculous tip 25

[@KingofWhey]

Don’t forget Days Gone

[@WanderingCommentator]

Is a list for ps5 players or pc?

[@nfals6134]

Swap Elden Ring with Either Sekiro or Bloodborne and it's settled

[@Michiho.]

Should have included Skyrim although for external reason, "Mods", Skyrim's Mod community still keep the rank 1 largest mod community over a decade and no game ever have close the number, it release 13years ago and no game has ever beat its mod community size or come close.

[@im-_-dubz2707]

Why would you name this "Best PC games" and not "Best games to play on PC" ??? Its almost like IGN is making the greatest effort to get troll comments.

[@lesegomotshaisa9939]

2024 and we still can't get 2160p? Come on IGN

[@pedromarberger4709]

Do you guys make these types of lists just to get people angry? What’s up with this “one game per franchise” rule you seem to have? Here’s a list of a few games IGN forgot to put in the list: -Minecraft -Terraria -Deus Ex -Mass Effect 2 -The last of us part 1 -Bioshock -Undertale -Half-Life 2 -Team Fortress 2 -Portal 2 -The witness -Skyrim -Fallout New Vegas -Batman Arkham City -Forza -Braid -Baba is You -What remains of Edith Fintch -Gone Home -Papers Please -Civilization V -Spore -The sims -Sim City -Factorio -Don’t Starve -Battlefield 1 -Call of Duty Black Ops -World of Warcraft -StarCraft 2 -Super Meat Boy -Braid -Planescape Torment -Gta 4 -Plague Inc. -Metal Gear Solid 5 -Doom 1 -Dwarf Fortress -The binding of Isaac -Dying Light -Mirrors Edge -Spec Ops the line -Prey -All Lucas arts games -Myst -The walking dead season 1

[@saso-nt8sh]

Ptfff even your list pisses me of

[@pedromarberger4709]

@@saso-nt8sh every list will piss people off, is an attempt at applying objective values to subjective thing

[@saso-nt8sh]

@@pedromarberger4709 you are right

[@glozwellvonzergelflerven7405]

The problem with waiting to consider a game like Helldivers 2 in later years is that it's not clear the community will still be present in the same way in later years so 2024 might really be the best time to play it.

[@MatiasSempai]

Slay the Spire is one of my fav

[@Cochino52]

No Skyrim lol

[@icecoldop4579]

Some people can't fathom that you can have different opinions

[@Scrappyotool]

this man never played in a red dead online lobby before

[@eriolsito]

Batman Arkham City Yakuza 0 Yakuza Like a Dragon Persona 5 Royal Forza Horizon 4 Dead Space 1&2 Divinity Original Sin 2 Bloodstained Ritual of the Night Kingdom two crowns Mass Effect Legendary Edition Skyrim Deus Ex Human Revolution Hitman World of Assassination Resident Evil 2 Remake Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut (PC version) Rise of the Tomb Raider Two point Hospital The sims 4 Watch Dogs 2 Assassin's Creed 2 Alan Wake Devil May Cry 5 GTA 4 Bully Half-Life for crist sake

[@Gav3rs]

There should be more pc exclusive games like ready or not

[@purpleacegaming]

This must be a sponsored list because no way

[@waterforgizmo3232]

Who made this list??

[@bonquaviusdingle5720]

Elden Ring is 2024 game of the year

[@Crashed131963]

BDG3 won in 2024 . Eldin Ring is older than 2024 .

[@AAIZEKK]

everyone forgets about Battlefield 4/1

[@Elibbb-sx3kg]

Number 1 is the day before

[@tiapoegaming3688]

where is Ghost of Tsushima??

[@Adramelech71]

W no. 1 choice IGN.

[@r.jauregui9950]

Love this

[@anab0lic]

Mostly terrible list, but ok.

[@erikouwehand]

It should be PC only games in the list.

[@papi-sauce]

BG3 gonna be top 1 till GB4 comes out

[@MikkiZHskDK]

MOST of these games didnt come out 2024????????

[@MrAmazYnGaMiNg]

V Rising ia so slept on

[@alanzinhocraft]

Well they did include Outer Wilds and Disco Elysium so yeah

[@brianabel4733]

No Diablo 4 or Last Epoch!?

[@kollatiujvalpragath6130]

Where is BOTW??