Best PC Video Games for – Metacritic.Game Releases by User Score

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Platform: PC. Kentucky Route Zero is a magical realistic adventure game about a secret highway in the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it. Metascore: User Score: 6. User Score: 7. In OOTP 15 you guide your team to glory. Set up your roster, trade players, draft the next superstar, negotiate with free agents, discover talent in the rule-5 draft, keep an eye on your minor leaguers, scout foreign countries or other leagues, it’s all here.

On top of the GM features, OOTP sports a great baseball simulation engine with stunning statistical accuracy and extensive play-by-play. It is widely regarded as the most realistic baseball game available, by far! You call all the shots from the dugout and see the game unfold before your eyes.

Hearthstone is a free-to-play digital strategy card game that anyone can enjoy. Players choose one of nine epic Warcraft heroes to play as, and then take turns playing cards from their customizable decks to cast potent spells, use heroic weapons or abilities, or summon powerful characters to crush their opponent. User Score: 5. Set in Akihabara, the Mecca of Japanese anime culture, Steins;Gate follows a group of friends who accidentally invent a method of sending messages to the past.

Their discovery drags them into a world of conspiracy and shifting timelines where the push of a button can change the course of history. User Score: 8. In the old days man tried to catch a glimpse of the future in the strangest of ways.

Experience the ancient Swedish phenomena of year walking through a different kind of first person adventure that blurs the line between two and three dimensions, as well as reality and the supernatural.

TowerFall is an archery combat platformer for up to 4 players. It’s a local party game centering around hilarious, intense versus matches. The core mechanics are simple and accessible, but combat is fast and fierce.

It’s best played competitively with friends, cross-legged on the floor within punching distance of each other. No One Can Stop Death The lords of hell rage within the Black Soulstone, their souls screaming for vengeance and release.

Before the artifact can be sealed away forever, Malthael-Angel of Deathmanifests in the mortal realms with a deadly new purpose: to steal the Black Soulstone and bend its infernal power to his will. So begins the end of all things Gather your party and get ready for a new, back-to-the-roots RPG adventure. Discuss your decisions with companions; fight foes in turn-based combat; explore an open world and interact with everything and everyone you see.

Join up with a friend to play online in co-op and make your own adventures with the powerful RPG toolkit. To scrap with the greatest army Draenor has ever known, you will need your own forces and your own fortress. Build a mighty garrison: an enduring home base integrated seamlessly with the world, not a hiding place far from the tumult. Customize it with functional structures like farms, stables, armories, workshops and more.

Lay down trade routes and unlock new quests, gear and pets to support your war for Draenor. Tame a deadly realm, and build an unbreakable monument to victory. User Score: 4. Climb into the pilot’s seat of an otherworldly war machine and take down a genocidal alien race bent on eradicating humanity to preserve their own civilization.

Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with emphatic Roguelike elements. Crafted by one of the co-creators of Call of Duty and other key developers behind the Call of Duty franchise, Titanfall, with its advanced combat techniques, gives you the freedom to fight your way as both elite assault Pilot and fast, heavily armored Titan.

The experience combines fast-paced multiplayer action with the dramatically charged moments of a cinematic universe. In The Talos Principle, players assume the role of a sentient artificial intelligence placed within a simulation of humanity? Players are tasked with solving a series of increasingly complex puzzles woven into a metaphysical parable about intelligence and meaning in an inevitably doomed world. Legend of Grimrock 2 is a dungeon crawling RPG with a modern execution but an old-school heart.

A gaggle of 4 prisoners have shipwrecked on the secluded Isle of Nex. The island is chock full of ancient crumbled ruins, mysterious shrines and a vast underground network of dungeons. Select and lead a group of characters into harrowing battles against a myriad of enemies — from earth-shattering High Dragons to demonic forces from the otherworld of the Fade.

Go toe-to-toe in visceral, heroic combat as your acolytes engage at your side, or switch to tactical view to coordinate lethal offensives using the combined might of your party.

Observe the tangible, visible results of your journey through a living world — build structures, customize outposts, and change the landscape itself as environments are re-honed in the wake of your Inquisition.

Helm a party chosen from nine unique, fully-realized characters — each of whom react to your actions and choices differently, crafting complex relationships both with you and with each other. Create your own character from multiple races, customize their appearance, and amalgamate their powers and abilities as the game progresses. Become a change agent in a time of uncertainty and upheaval.

Shape the course of your empires, bring war or peace to factions in conflict, and drive the ultimate fate of the Inquisition. Will you bring an end to the cataclysmic anarchy gripping the Dragon Age?

South Park: The Game is an epic role-playing adventure that will allow the user to befriend Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny and explore the quiet little mountain town like never before.

Shovel Knight is a sweeping classic action adventure game with memorable characters and an 8-bit retro aesthetic created by Yacht Club Games. You play as the eponymous Shovel Knight, a small knight with a huge quest. Shovel Knight has come to this valley with two goals: to defeat the evil Enchantress and save his lost beloved.

He wields a ShovelBlade; a multipurpose weapon whose techniques have now been lost to the ages. However, between Shovel Knight and his beloved stands a cadre of villainous knights. These terrible foes, known as The Order of No Quarter, have been dispatched to prevent Shovel Knight from reaching the Enchantress at any cost. Assetto Corsa is designed to provide a very realistic driving experience, with single player and multiplayer options, officially licensed cars and tracks developed using Laser scan technology, and the highest level of accuracy possible in reproducing real world motor racing environments.

Also, Assetto Corsa allows for considerable customisation and modification, in order to satisfy the expectations of professional simracers, gamers who prefer to approach the driving experience more progressively, and hobbyists who just like to collect lots of cars and tracks.

Includes all previously released downloadable content. Set in a fictitious continent harkening back to the s, Valkyria Chronicles highlights a Europe divided in two and governed by two powers: the Empire and the Federation. The Empire has designs on invading the small neutral country of Gallia, located between the two superpowers’ territories, in an attempt to secure precious natural resources.

Amidst this struggle a hero named Welkin, and his fellow soldiers of the Federation’s Seventh Platoon, are fighting back against the invasion and the Empires attempts to unify the continent under its power. Forced to perform for an audience of cats? Wait, what?? You’ve just unlocked the door to BattleBlock Theater! There’s no turning back once you’ve started on your quest to free your imprisoned friends from evil technological cats!

Immerse yourself in this mind bending tale of treachery as you battle your way through hundreds of levels in order to discover the puzzling truth behind BattleBlock Theater. Fight your way through Mordor and reveal the truth of the spirit that compels you, discover the origins of the Rings of Power, build your legend and ultimately confront the evil of Sauron in this new story of Middle-earth. Goblins vs Gnomes delivers newly added minions and spells. Baited into danger by a Vault key and all it promises, the unlikely pair are thrown together with a common purpose and a great amount of mistrust.

Who is speaking the truth, and why is it important? That is for you to decide. Your every decision as both Rhys and Fiona will affect the people and environment around you: this is a game where YOU are the final author in a brand new Borderlands story set on the unforgiving world of Pandora. Both games have been remastered in the latest 4A Engine, and tout two unique unique play styles – Spartan and Survival – plus the legendary Ranger Mode.

The expansion allows you to create trade conflicts in secret, steal from your competitors with the use of privateers, use peace treaties to gain trade power and create a new trade capital to strengthen your grasp over trade.

The age of exploration is brought to life in this epic game of trade, diplomacy, warfare and exploration by Paradox Development Studio, the Masters of Strategy. Europa Universalis IV gives you control of a nation to rule an empire that lasts through the ages. But when hidden truths are revealed, you must decide exactly what justice means in the gripping season finale of The Wolf Among Us. Ultimate General: Gettysburg is a Tactical Battle Simulator that allows you to lead thousands of soldiers in the famous Battle of Gettysburg as commander of either the Union or Confederate army.

The game features the most accurately created map, detailed order of battle, complex morale, and innovative control mechanics. Players choose from a selection of mythical gods, join session-based arena combat, and use custom powers and team tactics against other player-controlled gods and non-player controlled minions. In This War of Mine, the focus is shifted away from military operations portrayed in most games.

Instead, it is a dark survival game where players control a gaggle of civilians attempting to stay alive in a besieged city. During the day snipers outside stop you from leaving your refuge, offering players time to craft, trade, upgrade their shelter, feed and cure their people. At night they must scavenge nearby areas in search for food, medicines, weapons and other useful items.

He cries for help. He cries for answers. Then he screams as he is torn apart like damp tissue paper. The police are powerless to stop it, so the duty falls to the only ones who can. What force could be so powerful — and so malevolent — that it would destroy the very core of a life in order to get what it wants?

Rosa Blackwell and Joey Mallone mean to find out, even if it means risking themselves in the process. Transistor is a science-fiction themed action RPG set in a futuristic city where players will take on the role of a young woman who gains control of an extraordinary weapon of unknown origin after a mysterious group of assailants nearly kills her with it.

Fight your way across the celestial world of Avalice where cats are green, motorcycles drive up walls and monster girls do most of the buttkicking! Freedom Planet is a cartoony, combat-based platform adventure that pits a spunky dragonoid and her friends against an alien attack force.

A ridiculously violent platform game about being awesome action heroes from the 80s and 90s while slaying satanic terrorists and aliens while unraveling an evil plot to destroy the planet while dealing with being awesome action heroes from the 80s and 90s. Door Kickers is a realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.

 
 

 

Best games 2014 pc free download.The 10 best PC games of 2014

 

Which games stood out? Which games have we already added to our mental canon? The rules: All 10 games had to be fully released in , meaning no Early Access games or expansions in the official list. All games had to be released on PC. Hayden : It was a great year for RPG fans, and there was none bigger than Dragon Age: Inquisition , either in terms of budget or in terms of sheer content.

Hayden : Die. Then die. Then die again. Brad : Like other Souls games, DS2 is sly in its storytelling—a corpse strategically placed here, an item with a glimpse of backstory there. Hayden : Far Cry 4 is a snow-covered retread of Far Cry 3 in nearly every way. I know that.

You know that. Brad : Yeah, Far Cry 4 is astounding. Only after I got my hands on the full game was it clear that the alien of Alien: Isolation is actually the least interesting part. Brad: No game has ever made me feel so tense, so hunted. Alien: Isolation forces you to think about every move, and punishes you mercilessly if you make the wrong one. Take your time. Bask in the terror!

And yet here we are. Wolfenstein: The New Order alternates between deadly serious and seriously dumb, and it pulls off both with aplomb. This is easily the best shooter of the year, and a strong contender for surprise best story of the year too—at least as far as big, dumb, shooty stories go. Hayden : Imagine if, instead of dying in the early s, the isometric CRPG genre had kept evolving that whole time.

But that only scratches the surface of what makes the game so special. But instead the honor goes to…. This post-apocalyptic follow-up to a year-old game has its share of weird quirks. The cries from burning Highpool still haunt me. It was like I plunged a knife into his child.

As a compromise, Transistor makes its way onto our Honorable Mention list, and my spinal cord with accompanying poor posture remains intact. Brad : Every part of Transistor is so artful, so elegantly crafted and perfectly harmonious with every other aspect of the game. The music. The haunting voiceover. The art.

The insanely customizable combat system. I mean, it is. For now, it lands on our Honorable Mention list as we try and explore more of its billion star systems. I put more time into Crypt of the Necrodancer this year than I put into some games that were actually released. Meanwhile, the Xbox One got Forza Horizon 2 which is miles and miles ahead in terms of quality arcade-style racing. Hayden : Shadowrun: Dragonfall started life as an expansion.

It later got a full release as a standalone title, but for some reason we still felt weird throwing it on the actual Game of the Year list, so we compromised and put it here instead. If you skipped the original but are a fan of CRPGs, be sure to pick up this one.