It’s been a strong year for PC gaming. PC exclusives have been in great supply, console ports have been super good, and multi-platform games have been strongest on PC. All-in-all it’s a good time to be part of the PC master race (barfs uncontrollably).
But what have been your favourite games on PC this year?
I’m going to try and limit my nominations to exclusive PC games, or games that were released first on PC but feel free to go nuts with multi-platform nominations…
— Her Story
— Expand
— Grow Home
Drop your nominations in the comments below and we’ll put it to a vote next week!
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68 responses to “Nominate Your Favourite PC Games Of The Year”
Anna’s Quest
Pillars of Eternity
Life is Strange
Invisible Inc.
Seriously, I can’t sing it’s praises enough.
Though Her Story makes a really strong case from the set of PC exclusives. It may even steal myvote. Maybe.
Grow Home was cool. Think that might be all I’ve played this year. Though I’ve heard good things about Undertale.
…pre-emptive vote for Elite Dangerous: Horizons? 😛
life is strange!!
Unequivocally, Arkham Knight; it’s the POTY (Port Of The Year).
Don’t you mean POSOTY (Piece of Shit of the Year)?
The Beginners Guide
Rocket League
Refunct
Thoroughly surprised Mark didn’t nominate Rocket League. Is the love affair over?
Rocket League was released at about the same time on PC and PS4, breaking the stated rule that the PC release had to come first; essentially, it was not a PC exclusive.
Grow Home, on the other hand, was released on PC some months before it was released on PS4.
The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth has to get my vote.
Invisible Inc. is really good but i really can’t go past the obvious Fallout 4 at this point
Ark
World Of Battleships
GTA 5
nerd nomination: hacknet
Shadowrun Hong Kong
Pillars of Eternity
SOMA
And if we can include DLC/Expansions, than definitely BOI: Afterbirth
Her Story
Hatred
Rocket League.
Undertale.
ROCKET LEAGUE!
Witcher 3.
I think its the obvious choice and surprised at the lack of comments about it. Decent launch with tech wise for both console and PC, epic amount of content at launch, outstanding DLC regarded as some of the best DLC ever seen for a game in terms of content and value… and support out of this world with epic patches still being brought to gamers,
Honestly even though I personally liked some games more its no contest for me who deserves the tittle of GOTY. The Witcher 3 has almost set the bar in all aspects of a game. Art, content/story, value, DLC, sound, design, support…
Office 2016
Office just caters to the casuals more with every release.
GOTY:
Pillars of Eternity
GTA: V
Hopeful Dreams Shattered Upon The Hard Rock of Release:
Fallout 4
20 posts before FO4 gets a mention. Guess people must be busy playing it 🙂
Life is Strange
Fallout 4
Shadowrun Hong Kong
Witcher 3
Dying Light… straight up best co-op game
Hand of fate
Wasteland 2
Fallout 4 is the most fun I have had on my PC for a while. I keep going back for more, and for me that’s a good sign for a single player release.
It’s multiplatform, this is true, but surely the extra frames count for something? 😀
And the mods. The modssssssss.
Same here. My usual game process is the initial surge of excitement, generally let down around the 10-12 hour mark when the games tend to become more of a grind and less of a pleasure. Thats the tipping point for me personally, and if I get past that I usually spend plenty of time on a game. I call it the TDHAFT syndrome.
I havent gotten past that for a while, except for FO4, Destiny TKK on the PS4, and Skyforge which is a FTP MMO.
But 50 hours into FO4 and I still look forwards to turning it on when I get home. So much entertainment, so many slaves to co-ordinate.
Cities: Skylines
Sad to say that’s really the only PC title released this year that I’ve played.
Cities Skylines! :O
Shadowrun Hong Kong
Tabletop Simulator.
Only two PC games that kept me playing although I don’t know if TS counts since it’s a bunch of other games but still, nomming.
Witcher 3 overtook my life for a couple of glorious months this year. It wasn’t until I started Life Is Strange that I could get into another game.
Life is Strange
The Beginners Guide
MGS:V
StarCraft 2: LotV
It’s easy when they’re pretty much the only (new) games I’ve played all that much this year but they are both incredible and deserve a nomination.
Dying Light
Fallout 4
Tales from the Borderlands: 1st episode released November 25, 2014 and the rest in 2015, so I count it as this year.
Stasis.
If we’re just talking PC exclusives:
Her Story
Undertale
Cities Skylines
As for Grow Home, I don’t understand the love for this game. I found this to be one of the most annoying games to control that I’ve played in 20 odd years. Floaty and frustrating. Really don’t see what people liked about it (and many did), save for the aesthetic.
I agree, Grow Home felt like a tech demo for something that would be so much better after two years more development. Haha!
Satellite Reign
Fallout 4
Honorable mention to Dying Light – so much better than I expected it to be…
Agree with you on Dying Light. Was a struggle for the first hour but once I started unlocking skills, it easily surpassed both Dead Islands together.
Looking back through my Steam purchase history, I’ve only bought and played two _released_ PC exclusives in 2015. And to be honest, neither of them are the overall GOTY, but I wanted to include them.
Then there’s a bunch of ongoing Early Access titles, but since they aren’t “released” I won’t count them. None of them really count as “Game of the Year” yet either. Then there’s some great PC exclusive games that I just haven’t even had time to look at yet.
So, sorry.. but I’m going to have to include some cross platform titles, because these are my GOTY.
Fallout 4
Dragon Age Inquisition (if it wasn’t counted in last years candidates.. it released late in the year).
Pillars of Eternity.
Windward (surprisingly enjoyable, there’s got to be some category where it’s GOTY.. best sailing ship game of the year?).
SOMA
SOMA
SOMA
That last spot was equally tied with SOMA but narrowly edged it out.
You don’t know harrowing until you change into your deep-sea suit in SOMA.
SOMA.
Rocket League! Wow!
Fallout 4
Rocket League
Dota 2
Dota 2
Dota 2
The Witcher 3
Don’t care that Rocket League is PS4 as well…. Rocket League !
World of Warcraft
Pillars of Eternity
Hand of Fate
Ori and the Blind Forest
haven’t played much that came out this year.
PILLARS
Her Story is very good too
Fallout 4
WWE 2K16
Rainbow Six Siege
Halo 5
The Music Machine. Goddamn if it wasn’t fantastic.
Undertale
Pillars of Eternity
The Beginners Guide
Rocket League
Cities: Skylines
If I had to pick only one, it’d hands down be Undertale, but every other game on that list has been God damn fantastic. Probably my top 5 games for the year, yes, beating out Witcher, Fallout, and MGSV.
Undertale. It’s my favourite story of the year, It’s my favourite soundtrack of the year, it had my favourite moments of the year, it had my favourite boss fights of the year, it’s my favourite game of the year.
Laura is Away.
So many feels.
Life is strange.. my fave game of the year and my fave game ever
Pornhub – Been a great year =)
My list of new releases played this year is small but its gotta be Megaman Legacy. Maybe if I had played Oli and the Blind Forest, Undertale or Odallus then my goty would be different.
Witcher 3
Witcher 3
And Witcher 3
My nomination is StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void for sure. Haven’t played much else that’s new this year though.
I actually played a PC game this year.
ANNA’S QUEST.
1: Witcher 3 + Hearts of Stone
2: Fallout 4
3: Pillars of Eternity
Damn, I don’t think I played any other 2015 releases. Enjoyed some fantastic games from previous years in my backlog.
Anna’s Quest
I guess it’s boring to just say Witcher 3 for every platform it’s on, even though it deserves it. Off the top of my head:
Snakebird
Duck Game
Undertale
Legacy of the Void
Ori and the Blind Forest
Funny how I don’t want to nom the game I’ve spent by far the most time in: HOTS.
Fallout 4