2017 games pc.The 10 best PC games of 2017

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

It’s a treat to play an FPS where some of the roles demand more left-hand coordination than they do mouse aim. Verdict: Nimble, graceful, and original, LawBreakers’ movement sets it apart from other FPSes despite a few aesthetic weaknesses.

Verdict: The turn-based combat isn’t the best, but it’s a delightfully written RPG absolutely packed with humor. Beautiful art direction and rich, nuanced sound design bring the deep forests, frozen lakes, and ragged mountains of the Canadian wilderness to life.

Verdict: Deep, brutal, and hauntingly atmospheric, The Long Dark is a survival game done right. Verdict: A smart and thoughtful science fiction mystery featuring a cast of believable, nuanced characters.

Your first go of Nex Machina will leave you feeling pleasantly dazed, as this exhilarating and ferociously tough twin-stick shooter sucks you in and spits you back out. Verdict: Slight in form, but deep and consistently satisfying. Nex Machina is a gem of a shooter. As a challenge, they’re fine—there are bosses I can kill without taking a hit, but who’ll still punish a lapse in concentration. But, unlike in regular play, these encounters mostly remain the same, no matter the build.

A better bow may make things quicker, but that only affects the length of the fight, not how I approach it. Despite this misstep, though, Caveblazers is an excellent procedural platformer. It’s slightly looser and less intricate than Spelunky, but it scratches the same itch—offering plenty of variety, and a difficult challenge that’s fun to unravel. Verdict: A varied, challenging platformer that’s adept at forcing improvisation and punishing mistakes.

But as someone who is heavily invested in its world and characters, it is a triumph. With automatic weapons in every hand, RS2 makes positioning, smoke grenades, and battlefield intel even more important.

The new Supremacy mode disappoints somewhat, but the linear point-by-point Territories matches remain great. Verdict: A fiery test of awareness, speed and accuracy which upholds the series’ devotion to teamwork and authenticity, but doesn’t nail the asymmetry of modern era combat. The console game finally made its way to PC, bringing us another shot of Platinum’s brand of third-person combat. It’s a dumb, brash shooter, but clever with it. Verdict: A great port of an entertainingly subversive cover shooter.

It’s short, but the core loop never gets old. A roguelike platformer that’s more forgiving than Spelunky, made great by its grappling hook. Verdict: A satisfying, moreish take on the roguelike formula, and one that’s most likely to appeal to genre naysayers. An immersive sim in the style of the classics. The combat is disappointing, but the horrible mimics, who might be a chair or a coffee mug waiting to pounce, the gorgeous, open space station, and the freeform creative problem solving make Prey not to be confused with the game it shares little in common with a great success.

It also has one of the best intros opens in new tab we’ve played in a good while. Verdict: It’s let down by lacklustre combat and some annoying enemy design, but Prey is still a compelling, beautiful immersive sim.

A series of stories about a strange, deceased family, each told with different first-person formats. The interactivity is sparse—it’s often a guided experience—but the stories themselves are fantastic. Verdict: Touching, sad, and brilliant; a story worth forgiving the limited interactivity to experience. Inhabit a cow and tumble end-over-end, or become a microbe, or a galaxy. Everything lives up to its name—though it obviously doesn’t include literally everything, it lets players become the tiniest molecules or entire islands, planets, and beyond.

Mixed in with this surreal playspace are audio recordings of philosopher Alan Watts. It’s a slow burn, but worth the silly, life-examining trip. You’re exploring a cave, but you can’t see in the dark—except with LIDAR, which paints every surface with colorful dots. It’s a unique premise that conveys space the sound design helps, too and natural beauty without rendering a single rock texture. Verdict: A beautiful but short-lived expedition that left me wanting more of its best ideas.

First-person horror at its most disgusting, Outlast 2 suffers from some confusing stealth segments, but makes up for it with pure horror.

For fans of branching paths and horrible deaths, as Andy put it , point-and-click puzzles, and philosophy lectures. A curious adventure game in which the player returns to the start of the same costume ball again and again on a quest to prevent a series of murders that take place during the evening. The beauty and cleverness of it make up for the built-in repetitiveness. Good things come to those who wait: the PC now has the best version of one of the best hack-n-slash games ever made.

Bayonetta’s fluid fighting style—combos, dodges, hair-based attacks—and absurd story deserved 4K and 60 fps support, and we’re happy it’s finally joined us. If you dodge in the middle of a combo while holding down either punch or kick, you can resume the combo out of the dodge.

This offset speaks to the fluidity of Bayonetta’s fighting style—as does the way she so smoothly transitions from dodge into attack, or from melee to guns. Verdict: A great port of what is still one of the best action games around. Bayonetta is the essential hack-‘n-slash. And who doesn’t? Stellaris’ Utopia expansion overhauls politics, adds factions to your population, and introduces Tradition trees—which are how you might blot out the sun. The add-on gives Stellaris a big push in the right direction, filling out the previously light mid-game.

Big Robot, which is headed by former PC Gamer contributor Jim Rossignol, brings us a sci-fi shooter mystery that’s two parts exploration—hopping and stomping around—and one part “crisp, satisfying combat,” as our review states.

It’s slow-paced, but smart, lean, and a step above the developer’s previous game, Sir, You Are Being Hunted. Verdict: A fascinating setting and fizzing gunplay make for a lean, thoughtful exploration-led shooter.

Manage a band of mercenaries, earn money to expand your operation and reach more distant contracts on the wide-open map, and fret over decisions in turn-based battles. A throwback to ’90s adventure games, but not a nostalgia-driven rehash—Thimbleweed Park builds on the genre and is great on its own merits.

It’s funny, and full of smart puzzles that “rarely require the absurd leaps of logic that would have you dialling the LucasArts hint line in the ’90s,” as Andy put it in his review. Verdict: A quality adventure game with challenging puzzles, oddball characters, and an intriguing, mystery-laden plot. If you aren’t turned off by the obtuse introduction and constant, crushing challenge, Rain World rewards with unforgettable gloom.

You just have to be smart about it. You have to learn—and then very vaguely know —how to survive. An office favorite, Nier: Automata is bizarre open-world RPG with PlatinumGames’ signature speed-comboing combat—but that can seamlessly transition into twin-stick shooting whenever it wants. The combination works, as does the mournful, weird story and all its quirks.

Andromeda is a contentious game, even—or maybe especially—among PC Gamer’s staff and writers: some despise it, some enjoy it. It was burdened by high expectations, and didn’t succeed at everything we hoped. But BioWare games are nearly always unmatched in certain aspects, and Andromeda is an accomplishment in scope, with some great missions and moments buried within its hours of dialogue and exploration.

Verdict: Marred by inconsistency and in need of a polish pass, this vast new sci-fi frontier nonetheless rewards dedicated exploration. Tim couldn’t help but to compare Legends to Hearthstone in his review—how could he not, given the obvious parallels—and found that its deeper, less RNG-heavy systems provide a good alternative to Blizzards’ hit CCG.

It lacks the same charm and vast playerbase, but delivers on the strategy. Verdict: A deep, and potentially rewarding alternative to Hearthstone that suffers from underwhelming art design and desperately needs an injection of players to grow the scene. A pure stealth game that stars a cynical, sweary goblin, the second Styx game is another lowkey release with a lot of good in it: “A generous game with a huge amount of stuff to do, some wonderfully realised levels, all of it augmented with an admirably flexible skill system that encourages and rewards creative thinking,” said Jon in our review.

A maximum security prison provides the stealth-action playground in this Mankind Divided DLC, and while the story isn’t brilliant, the level itself is fun to puzzle out for six to seven hours. You’re playing a text adventure, but not on your PC—on a virtual computer on a virtual desk. And as you explore, strange things start happening in your virtual room. Stories Untold is “a wonderfully creepy idea,” wrote Andy, which is told in four episodes that form a “fascinating, subversive experiment in storytelling that delights in messing with your head.

Verdict: An atmospheric collection of clever, surprising interactive short stories with a gorgeous retro aesthetic. Light platforming and incongruous Guitar Hero-style bass playing complement a funny, sad story about a young cat—well, a person who looks like a cat—returning home to her family and friends after dropping out of college. And it wrestles with difficult issues in a way that made me think about my own life and relationships.

Verdict: A beautiful, heartfelt coming of age story that says something about life, and cracks a few jokes in the process. Planescape: Torment probably wasn’t going to be outdone by any successor, but Tides of Numenera succeeds at delivering the same style of text-heavy, philosophical roleplaying in a strange new setting.

Verdict: A slow start gives way to a thought-provoking adventure in a remarkable setting. A fitting follow-up to a beloved RPG. The story can be safely ignored, but Sniper Elite 4’s big sandboxes for stealth and sniping are the series’ best. Nearly every complaint we had about the game that came before it has been addressed in some way, and Italy makes for a beautiful setting—at least until you watch a slow-mo x-ray shot of someone’s kidney exploding.

Verdict: A hearty improvement on Sniper Elite 3 that embraces freeform play, gets better in co-op, and most importantly lets us shoot things from very far away. A reset for the Resident Evil series, RE7 moves away from the action movie stylings of the last few games for a creepier, first-person horror adventure.

Verdict: Not the dramatic reinvention we expected, but this is tense and refined survival horror with a brilliantly bleak, grimy atmosphere. What makes Hollow Knight stand out, above all else, is how expansive and lush its subterranean kingdom of Hallownest is. It’s a Metroidvania you could easy spend 30 hours playing and still have more to discover.

Its bug-themed world is a wonderful mix of dark and depressing tones with adorable characters and hand drawn art. Hollow Knight is a surprise hit of , and truly one you don’t want to miss. Verdict: Hollow Knight is a new classic, with a dense and detailed world full of secrets to discover. Some online stores give us a small cut if you buy something through one of our links. One Sole Purpose. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands. Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Table Top Racing: World Tour.

Star Trek: Bridge Crew. Styx: Shards of Darkness. Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash. Mass Effect: Andromeda. Battle for Orion 2. The End of an Age: Fading Remnants.

Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey. Mario Sports Superstars. Has-Been Heroes. Kingdom Hearts HD 1. MLB The Show The Disney Afternoon Collection. Full Throttle Remastered. Micro Machines: World Series.

What Remains of Edith Finch. Wilson’s Heart. Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness. Super Rude Bear Resurrection. LocoRoco Remastered. Minecraft: Switch Edition. Operation Babel: New Tokyo Legacy. Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. Disgaea 5 Complete. Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada. Steel Division: Normandy Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception. The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind. Guardians of the Galaxy: Episode 2 – Under Pressure.

Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap. Nex Machina. Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy. Accel World VS. Sword Art Online. Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered. Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. Mega Man Legacy Collection 2. Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition. Yakuza Kiwami. Life is Strange: Before the Storm.

Rayman Legends: Definitive Edition. Dishonored: Death of the Outsider.

 
 

2017 games pc. Every game released on PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One in 2017

 

This is your super Hero. Your Journey. Your Injustice. Paradigm is a surreal adventure game set in the strange and post apocalyptic Eastern European country of Krusz.

Play as the handsome mutant, Paradigm, who’s past comes back to haunt him in the form of a genetically engineered sloth that vomits candy. Experience the unique combination of a top-down shooter with a fast-paced fighting game.

Challenge friends and others in a battle of reaction, unleashing the champion within you. With a detailed civilization builder tool for Steam workshop, espionage, revamped invasions, Galactic Citizens system, new races and civilizations, and more, Crusade adds a host of depth for Galactic Civilizations III. SteamWorld Dig is back! Dig deep, gain riches and unearth the terrors of the underworld in this platform mining adventure influenced by classic Metroidvania style games.

Thrown into the fray, you must rely on your wits, reflexes and a vast arsenal of weaponry to eliminate the robot uprising. Use creative combat tactics and skill shots to earn high scores as you teleport through city streets and rooftops in an awe-inspiring ballet of bullets. Tear apart your robot foes and use them to fend off the enemy onslaught. Unlock, customize and test weapons before taking on challenges that put your newfound skills to the test.

Welcome back to the original game and its award-winning expansion, StarCraft: Brood War. Explore the planes, survive combat alongside a party of bizarre companions, and solve puzzles unlike any ever seen in the genre.

Rakuen is a story-based adventure game about a little Boy who becomes bored with living in a hospital, and eventually asks his mother if she’ll escort him to the fantasy world from his favorite storybook.

Throughout the game, the Boy begins to learn more about the patients who live around him. They each have their own secrets and struggles that are mysteriously tied to the strange hospital. In helping those around him, the Boy deals with questions about empathy, hope, and what it means to leave behind a legacy by coming to terms with his own story.

Gorogoa is an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts. Nex Machina is an intense arcade style twin-stick shooter from Housemarque. Taking hints from both Robotron and Smash TV, Nex Machina focuses on pure action, voxel destruction and competition in the distant, cablepunk themed future.

The distant future Invaders from another world attack without warning, unleashing a new type of threat: weapons known as machine lifeforms. In the face of this insurmountable threat, mankind is driven from Earth and takes refuge on the Moon.

The Council of Humanity organizes a resistance of android soldiers in an effort to take back their planet. To break the deadlock, the Resistance deploys a new unit of android infantry: YoRHa. In the forsaken wasteland below, the war between the machines and the androids rages on.

A war that is soon to unveil the long-forgotten truth of this world Ready to die? In the age of samurai, a lone traveler lands on the shores of Japan. He must fight his way through the vicious warriors and supernatural Yokai that infest the land in order to find that which he seeks. Thimbleweed Park is the curious story of two washed up federal agents called in to investigate a dead body found in the river just outside of town, bloated and pixelated from a death come too soon.

Project CARS 2 is the next evolution in the award-winning racing series, featuring the most iconic cars racing under the most thrilling conditions to deliver the Ultimate Driver Journey. Project CARS 2 captures the essence of real racing in the most beautiful, intense, authentic, and technically-advanced racing game on the planet.

The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway. Experience a new way to fight while exploring the Great Pyramids and hidden tombs across the country of Ancient Egypt, and encounter many memorable storylines along your journey.

And discover the origin story of the Assassin’s Brotherhood. Detention is a survival horror game set in s Taiwan under martial law. Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. In Destiny 2, the last safe city on Earth has fallen and lays in ruins, occupied by a powerful new enemy and his elite army, the Red Legion.

In Destiny 2 players embark on a fresh story filled with new destinations around our solar system to explore, and an expansive amount of activities to discover. There is something for almost every type of gamer in Destiny 2, including gameplay for solo, cooperative and competitive players set within a vast, evolving and exciting universe.

The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the quite possibly occult. Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again. He and his partner are then plunged into a realm that follows an unnaturally strict set of rules and is as intent to open old wounds as it is to keep them behind closed doors. Steel Division: Normandy is a tactical real-time strategy RTS game that pits players against AI enemies in a single-player campaign — or against several opponents in massive on multiplayer battles.

Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. Powered by the RE Engine, horror reaches incredible heights of immersion as players enter a terrifyingly new world of fear as they fight to survive. Experience the epic final chapter of a dark world that could only be created by the mind of Hidetaka Miyazaki. Featuring seven cases rebuilt specifically for virtual reality, L. Fast-track your way to footballing history with the Football Manager A double-sided Management Masterclass pull-out races you through your first steps in the digital dugout and gears you up for long-term success, helping you transform your team from contenders to champions and elevating you to managerial icon.

Football Manager achieves an interactive reality in depth, emotion and control like never before, taking you places only accessible in the completely immersive game world. Quite simply, it’s the closest thing to doing the job for real. They say football is a game of opinions and everyone has theirs, but it’s only yours that counts around here.

You make the decisions now, from who you sign and who you sell, to how you manage your budget. Will you build tactics around the players at your disposal or train them in your vision of how the game should be played? Who you pick and who you bench will affect squad harmony, and its up to you to manage it. Every decision comes back to you. Get it right and youll be the star of the show, grabbing the newspaper headlines and dominating trends on social media.

Theyll write your name in footballing folklore With unparalleled choices both on and off the pitch, all within the immersive footballing world, it’s time to decide what kind of manager do you want to be? Love, Revenge, Pride. Each one of us has a reason to fight. Values are what define us and make us human, regardless of our strengths or weaknesses. There are no wrong motives, just the paths we choose to take. Experience the conclusion of the Mishima clan and unravel the reasons behind each step of their ceaseless fight.

Powered by Unreal Engine 4, Tekken 7 features story-driven cinematic battles and intense duels that can be enjoyed with friends and rivals alike through innovative fight mechanics. The stars have called you for millennia and now you walk among them. A universe of possibilities is open to your species as it takes its first fitful steps into the great unknown.

Here you can turn your back on the divisive politics of the home planet. Here you can build something new. Here you can unify your people and build that perfect society. Pyre is a party-based RPG in which you lead a band of exiles to freedom through an ancient competition spread across a vast, mystical purgatory.

Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot em up designed to offer a challenging and memorable experience, sublimating the wisdom and richness of traditional shmup classics. The game has direct action, nostalgic art and a wide variety of unique spatial content and situations.

It is hours of intense fun, alone or with your friends, to face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta Lance. Experience the thrill of motorsport at the limit. Enjoy graphics at 60fps and native 4K resolution in HDR.

Collect and race more than cars, including the largest collection of Ferraris, Porsches, and Lamborghinis ever. Challenge yourself across 30 famous destinations and ribbons, where race conditions change every time you return to the track.

User Score: 5. You awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year Best of Games Check It Out. Click To Unmute. Start at: End at: Autoplay Loop. Want us to remember this setting for all your devices? Sign up or Sign in now! Please use a html5 video capable browser to watch videos.

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Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. Verdict : Deep but accessible, Battlerite is packed with smart decisions and reliably creates great competitive moments. Flexible, intricate, demanding and deeply fulfilling, this has to be one of the very best puzzle games of the year, if not the decade.

Verdict : A beautiful exercise in freeform solutions, Zachtronics has created one of the most satisfying puzzle games ever made. Like the intro, you can skip it. But why would you want to? Verdict : Occasionally languid to the point of lethargy, Okami is a gorgeous and unforgettable adventure all the same. Some big ones. Verdict : A brilliant stealth sandbox and unconventional RPG in one very ambitious but buggy package.

In Her Majesty I pushed myself to reach the end game for the purposes of offering review judgement, but as with Reigns the enjoyment is in the journey. That’s not to say the main arc isn’t interesting—it’s unexpectedly weird and satisfying—but I recommend you take your time to enjoy being queen. Calling your chief explorer incompetent or pissing off the cardinal on purpose doesn’t really get old.

Verdict : At last: royalty I feel emotionally invested in! Reigns: Her Majesty is a smart and surprising extension of the original swipe-’em narrative game. Verdict : The quintessential football management sim is back with its most ambitious undertaking in years.

The deck-building strategy remains satisfying and the new variety of challenges adds a roguelike replayability to obtaining the gold rank for each one. If the first Hand of Fate was an interesting but flawed proof of concept, Hand of Fate 2 is a fully realized version of that deck-building dungeon-crawler. Verdict : Hand of Fate 2 is a satisfying sequel and a meatier dungeon crawler, but still somewhat hampered by limited combat.

It’s a delirious fugue state of mourning; what happens isn’t clear or consistent, what’s real isn’t always obvious. It isn’t flawless, either: breaking the fourth wall is an occasional distraction, and Caves of Al Dajjal is badly out of place.

Despite this, its unconventional narrative, a string of thematically linked images, succeeds at bringing the player into Dujanah’s life as she comes to terms with her powerlessness in the face of loss. Dujanah hurts. Her pain and anger are felt in a way many clearer, less ambiguous games can’t match.

Verdict: This journey through a dreamscape of loss and absolution is unique, if a bit uneven at times. It’s a got a dazzling and beautiful setting, lots of enjoyable systems for mischief and mayhem, and has just the right amount of diversions and distractions to keep you busy without ever feeling like busywork. The extra year Ubisoft took with Origins didn’t result in a completely new and novel experience, but it did provide one of the best games in the Assassin’s Creed series.

Verdict: A brilliant setting, new systems, and familiar features blend together for a strong prequel to the Assassin’s Creed series. The New Colossus is fun and funny—a decent successor that’s not just more of the same. Verdict: Gorgeous guns, a glittering universe, and a great port. Destiny 2 is an endgame away from true excellence. The sights and sounds of every encounter, from the death knight dragged down by skeletons to the metallic CLANG when Calibretto punched a baddie, always made me smile.

The comic’s characters translated wonderfully to a game and the old school ’90s JRPG combat is uplifted into something beautiful, complex, tense, and compelling. What you end up with is a thoughtful tool for presenting ideas around death. Verdict: An approachable and thought-provoking meditation on life’s only certainty.

You may also find everything outside of the combat a little too familiar if you played The Stick of Truth. Otherwise this is a streamlined, imaginative, and enormously entertaining game. Verdict: A slick RPG with superb tactical combat, a detailed world to explore, and a gleefully crude sense of humour. Almost everything has been improved, here, yet it still feels like a classic survival horror game, one infused with enough psychological horror to keep it feeling fresh.

Verdict: An intense and thrilling psychological survival horror sequel that improves on its forerunner in almost every way. The level design is constantly inventive, the characters are charming and memorable if very silly , and the basic act of running, jumping, climbing, and collecting colorful baubles never gets old.

An uneven drip of credits don’t make driving a ’70 Chevelle in first person on a rainy track as the sun cracks through the clouds any less stunning. It’s the songbird of cars, the sublime ocean cliffside filling the car poet with wonder and respect. Not much respect for time or skill, but respect for cars at least. Verdict: Light performance problems and a poor loot box system can’t quite distract from Forza Motorsport 7’s accommodating difficulty, stunning beauty, and lavish racing options.

Verdict: Not just for the masochists, Cuphead is a demanding but supremely rewarding modern 2D shooter that looks and sounds fantastic.

Underneath, a thumping top-down action game delivers sword-sharp combat, the familiarity of its design offset by the constant urge to simply stand still and drink everything in.

Verdict: Dazzling, dangerous, and dripping in style, Ruiner is a superb, if short, whirlwind of cyber-violence and sightseeing. Warhammer has gone in the opposite direction. Inhabit a cow and tumble end-over-end, or become a microbe, or a galaxy. Everything lives up to its name—though it obviously doesn’t include literally everything, it lets players become the tiniest molecules or entire islands, planets, and beyond.

Mixed in with this surreal playspace are audio recordings of philosopher Alan Watts. It’s a slow burn, but worth the silly, life-examining trip. You’re exploring a cave, but you can’t see in the dark—except with LIDAR, which paints every surface with colorful dots.

It’s a unique premise that conveys space the sound design helps, too and natural beauty without rendering a single rock texture. Verdict: A beautiful but short-lived expedition that left me wanting more of its best ideas. First-person horror at its most disgusting, Outlast 2 suffers from some confusing stealth segments, but makes up for it with pure horror. For fans of branching paths and horrible deaths, as Andy put it , point-and-click puzzles, and philosophy lectures.

A curious adventure game in which the player returns to the start of the same costume ball again and again on a quest to prevent a series of murders that take place during the evening.

The beauty and cleverness of it make up for the built-in repetitiveness. Good things come to those who wait: the PC now has the best version of one of the best hack-n-slash games ever made. Bayonetta’s fluid fighting style—combos, dodges, hair-based attacks—and absurd story deserved 4K and 60 fps support, and we’re happy it’s finally joined us.

If you dodge in the middle of a combo while holding down either punch or kick, you can resume the combo out of the dodge. This offset speaks to the fluidity of Bayonetta’s fighting style—as does the way she so smoothly transitions from dodge into attack, or from melee to guns. Verdict: A great port of what is still one of the best action games around. Bayonetta is the essential hack-‘n-slash. And who doesn’t? Stellaris’ Utopia expansion overhauls politics, adds factions to your population, and introduces Tradition trees—which are how you might blot out the sun.

The add-on gives Stellaris a big push in the right direction, filling out the previously light mid-game. Big Robot, which is headed by former PC Gamer contributor Jim Rossignol, brings us a sci-fi shooter mystery that’s two parts exploration—hopping and stomping around—and one part “crisp, satisfying combat,” as our review states.

It’s slow-paced, but smart, lean, and a step above the developer’s previous game, Sir, You Are Being Hunted. Verdict: A fascinating setting and fizzing gunplay make for a lean, thoughtful exploration-led shooter.

Manage a band of mercenaries, earn money to expand your operation and reach more distant contracts on the wide-open map, and fret over decisions in turn-based battles. A throwback to ’90s adventure games, but not a nostalgia-driven rehash—Thimbleweed Park builds on the genre and is great on its own merits.

It’s funny, and full of smart puzzles that “rarely require the absurd leaps of logic that would have you dialling the LucasArts hint line in the ’90s,” as Andy put it in his review. Verdict: A quality adventure game with challenging puzzles, oddball characters, and an intriguing, mystery-laden plot.

If you aren’t turned off by the obtuse introduction and constant, crushing challenge, Rain World rewards with unforgettable gloom. You just have to be smart about it. You have to learn—and then very vaguely know —how to survive. An office favorite, Nier: Automata is bizarre open-world RPG with PlatinumGames’ signature speed-comboing combat—but that can seamlessly transition into twin-stick shooting whenever it wants.

The combination works, as does the mournful, weird story and all its quirks. Andromeda is a contentious game, even—or maybe especially—among PC Gamer’s staff and writers: some despise it, some enjoy it. It was burdened by high expectations, and didn’t succeed at everything we hoped.

But BioWare games are nearly always unmatched in certain aspects, and Andromeda is an accomplishment in scope, with some great missions and moments buried within its hours of dialogue and exploration.

Verdict: Marred by inconsistency and in need of a polish pass, this vast new sci-fi frontier nonetheless rewards dedicated exploration. Tim couldn’t help but to compare Legends to Hearthstone in his review—how could he not, given the obvious parallels—and found that its deeper, less RNG-heavy systems provide a good alternative to Blizzards’ hit CCG. It lacks the same charm and vast playerbase, but delivers on the strategy.

Verdict: A deep, and potentially rewarding alternative to Hearthstone that suffers from underwhelming art design and desperately needs an injection of players to grow the scene. A pure stealth game that stars a cynical, sweary goblin, the second Styx game is another lowkey release with a lot of good in it: “A generous game with a huge amount of stuff to do, some wonderfully realised levels, all of it augmented with an admirably flexible skill system that encourages and rewards creative thinking,” said Jon in our review.

A maximum security prison provides the stealth-action playground in this Mankind Divided DLC, and while the story isn’t brilliant, the level itself is fun to puzzle out for six to seven hours. You’re playing a text adventure, but not on your PC—on a virtual computer on a virtual desk. And as you explore, strange things start happening in your virtual room. Stories Untold is “a wonderfully creepy idea,” wrote Andy, which is told in four episodes that form a “fascinating, subversive experiment in storytelling that delights in messing with your head.

Verdict: An atmospheric collection of clever, surprising interactive short stories with a gorgeous retro aesthetic. Light platforming and incongruous Guitar Hero-style bass playing complement a funny, sad story about a young cat—well, a person who looks like a cat—returning home to her family and friends after dropping out of college.

And it wrestles with difficult issues in a way that made me think about my own life and relationships.

 

2017 games pc

 
Torment: Tides of Numenera. Sniper Elite 4.

 
 

[Best PC Video Games for – Metacritic

 
 
Torment: Tides of Numenera. Every game released on PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One in · Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone (PS4) – January 10 · Rise & Shine (Xbox One. An office favorite, Nier: Automata is bizarre open-world RPG with PlatinumGames’ signature speed-comboing combat—but that can seamlessly.