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Forget about browsing the Steam Store- we've got the best PC games on Steam for every genre, including horror, strategy, indie, and more.

From the arcade cabinet to your home TV, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-fighting-games-ever-made" target="_blank">fighting games</a> have been around since the earliest days of gaming&nbsp;and are still going strong &mdash; for good reason.&nbsp;It can be tough finding good PC fighting games, as the genre is usually <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-playstation-fighting-games/reference" target="_blank">reserved for console players</a>. For that reason, we&#39;ve ranked the 20+ best PC fighting games on Steam, from popular titles like Injustice 2 to classics like Skullgirls.

If you&#39;re looking for a Smash Brothers clone for PC, check out Brawlhalla or Rivals of Aether. Neither are as good as the game they pay tribute to, but they&#39;re both&nbsp;definitely tons of fun. There are some good anime fighting games on Steam as well, including Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 and One Piece Pirate Warriors 3.

Their premise of easy to play hard to master gameplay has stood the test of time like no other genre, typically featuring just two fighters on a two-dimensional map destined to <a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-mma-movies" target="_blank">knock the teeth out</a> of each other. But between elaborate combos that require expert precision and memorization, flashy super moves&nbsp;that encourage newcomers to join&nbsp;the fun, and an overall sense of over-the-top competition that no other genre has, it&#39;s no surprise that fighters are here to stay.

Vote up the best Steam fighting games below that you&#39;ve played, or simply use this page as a recommendation guide for finding fighting games that are worth buying.

So you&#39;re looking for some good RPGs on Steam, but you&#39;re frustrated browsing the Steam store and seeing titles that feel like they don&#39;t belong, right? We got you. That&#39;s why&nbsp;we&#39;re ranking the best RPGs&nbsp;available on Steam, with the help of votes from gamers like you. Which PC RPGs do you think&nbsp;are worth playing?&nbsp;Games like Deus Ex, The Witcher, and more modern inclusions like Undertale continue to redefine the standards for PC RPGs, so that question is really hard to answer.

From indie role-playing games on Steam to AAA titles like Fallout: New Vegas and Skyrim, let this list be a recommendation guide for seeing which titles are considered&nbsp;the best role-playing games on Steam. It can be tough choosing a game to buy when you only have enough cash for one title, so vote up all your favorite role-playing games so other gamers can see which titles to check out next.

Don&#39;t feel like paying top dollar for new games? The best free Steam games&nbsp;offer enough variety for any and every gamer. Sure, playing video games can be a lot of fun, but when you&#39;re blazing through them faster than Sonic runs through rings, it can get expensive pretty quickly. Luckily, Steam has us covered with plenty of games that are completely free to play right now.

From first-person shooters to <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-pc-mmorpg-games-steam/ranker-games/" target="_blank">strategy games to MMORPGs</a>, there&#39;s something for anyone and everyone who wants to game on a budget. Remember, just because it&#39;s expensive doesn&#39;t always mean it&#39;s better, right? There are plenty of good steam games you can play for free right now, without having to worry about paying full price later. What do you think are the best free games on Steam?

If you&#39;re looking for some awesome games to play that won&#39;t break the bank, then take a look at all the best free-to-play games on Steam. And if you have a few bucks to spare, also be sure to also check out the best Steam games <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-steam-games-under-10-dollars/kyle-townsend" target="_blank">under $10</a> and <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-steam-games-under-20/kyle-townsend" target="_blank">under 20</a>.

From 2D puzzle platform&nbsp;games&nbsp;to full fledged 3D titles, these PC indie games on Steam are sure to tickle that indie gaming pickle.&nbsp;From small teams to single developers, indie games on PC have brought out everyone's creativity in the best way possible. There are a staggering amount of PC indie&nbsp;games on Steam right now, but hopefully&nbsp;this list can narrow it down to a select few for you to try.There are programming puzzle&nbsp;indie games on Steam like Opus Magnum or Hexcells Infinite. If story-based and atmospheric indie video games&nbsp;are more&nbsp;your thing, then try out Finding Paradise or Bastion. Investigate your suspicious neighbor and find out what's&nbsp;really going on in the Steam indie game, Hello Neighbor. Or&nbsp;attempt to make it to the top of a mountain as a naked man in an iron cauldron, only to find your dreams and hard work are crushed to dust as you watch all your progress&nbsp;pass before your eyes, in&nbsp;Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.Take a look below to see which Steam indie video games have taken the top spots. It's up to you to vote on your favorite PC indie games&nbsp;to insure they climb higher on the list!&nbsp;

Racing games are among the oldest genre in the medium, and for good reason. If you're looking for the best PC racing games on Steam, you've come to the right place. Finding the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-popular-racing-video-games-today/ranker-games?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">best racing games</a> on Steam isn't necessarily easy- even if you sort by top reviewed or most downloaded, you won't necessarily have the best idea of what you should be playing. Luckily for you, this list ranks all the PC racing games on Steam that are worth playing, from casual racers like Sonic &amp; Sega All-Stars Racing to more serious titles like Project Cars 2 and The Crew.Every title on this list will pit you against humans and AI in an insane dash to the finish line. Some will have you scuffing up mud on&nbsp;dirtbikes, others racing the circuit in Formula 1&nbsp;cars. More than one game here&nbsp;will make space itself your racetrack, while quite a few&nbsp;will allow you to explore&nbsp;iconic North American locales. Don't forget that this list of Steam racing games is ranked by gamers like you, so if a title is towards the top of the list, it's definitely worth playing.

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Looking for some great PC games on a budget? Quit paying full price for old games and check out the best games on Steam for under $10. Steam is by far the most popular place to buy games online, and to go along with its popularity, it also has one of the largest libraries you can get games from.&nbsp;

While most current games&nbsp;range from a typical $30-$60, there are some&nbsp;amazing titles for players to enjoy that only cost $10 or less. In fact, Steam is the best place to get classic PC games like Portal, Half-Life, and Left 4 Dead for cheap.

From popular games&nbsp;like Warhammer: Vermintide 2 and Terraria&nbsp;to action-adventure epics like&nbsp;Total War: Three Kingdoms, there are plenty of great PC games you can download for cheap on Steam. Vote up the best Steam games under $10, and add any that are missing. And if you have a few more bucks to spend, check out the best <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-steam-games-under-20/kyle-townsend" target="_blank">games under $20</a> while you&#39;re at it. Don&#39;t forget to check out all the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-free-steam-games/kyle-townsend" target="_blank">best free games</a> while you&#39;re at it.

There's a special genre of games for players who want total control over vast armies or fleets of spaceships, a genre for the kind of gamer yearning to lead massive forces to victory on the battlefield or guide an armada towards intergalactic conquest. We get you, which is why we've ranked the best PC strategy games on Steam that are worth playing. If you've ever tried searching Steam for strategy games, you can see how muddled their search results are. Luckily for you this list is ranked by other PC strategy game enthusiasts like yourself, ensuring that the best titles will appear towards the top of the list.From newer titles like XCOM 2 to classics like Civilization&nbsp;IV, all the best Steam strategy games are ranked below. We've included some retro PC strategy games like Rollercoaster Tycoon in case you're in a nostalgic mood.A near-infinite number of obstacles face gamers intent on exploring the strategy genre, be it the cost-effectiveness of building the ultimate rollercoaster amusement park or deciding which building projects receive federal funding. The only thing that matters is that you're in control of it all, and for that you'll need more than a bit of strategy--something each of these games&nbsp;demand in spades.&nbsp;

There are tons of <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-pc-survival-horror-games-steam/ranker-games?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">good horror games on Steam</a>, but which games are really worth buying? This list seeks to answer that question by ranking the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-popular-horror-video-games-today/ranker-games?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">best horror games</a> available right now. It seems like developers are making a lot of scary games on Steam these days, which is great in theory, but it also makes it kind of difficult to find the spookiest games Steam has to offer. What do you think are the top 10 best horror games in the Steam Store?

Below you&#39;ll find a ranked list of what other gamers believe to be the scariest horror games on Steam,&nbsp;including popular indie horror games&nbsp;like Amnesia: The Dark Descent, as well as super popular titles like Left 4 Dead 2, Resident Evil 4,&nbsp; and&nbsp;Phasmophobia. One of the newer horror games on Steam is Observer, a cyberpunk horror game&nbsp;that messes with your head through a series of puzzles and crazy flashbacks. And if you&#39;re looking for free Steam horror games, The Grounding is a solid choice.

Vote up the top PC horror games&nbsp;that had the hair on your neck standing, and vote down all the duds.

It&#39;s one of the oldest genres in gaming, so you know there are plenty of good PC platforming games available on Steam. In fact, the&nbsp;platform genre just might be the most robust on all of Steam, featuring a wide array of games from classics like Super Meat Boy and Spelunky to newer titles like Hollow Knight.

Start with some classic&nbsp;platforming games like Sonic Mania,&nbsp;or skip ahead generations and try&nbsp;newer&nbsp;Steam platform games&nbsp;like&nbsp;Cuphead&nbsp;or Iconoclasts.&nbsp;When you&#39;ve grown tired of feeling flat, you can jump into 3D platform Steam games&nbsp;like&nbsp;A Hat in Time. Head to the stars and discover planets in the crafting platform Steam game&nbsp;Starbound.

We wanted to make it easier to find the best PC platformer games on Steam, so we put together this list of the most well-received titles. From multiplayer games to RPG classics and more, vote up all your favorite games to see which popular platformers reach&nbsp;the top of the list.

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Why is it that finding a good puzzle game on the Steam store is almost as difficult as the puzzle games themselves? Luckily, we&#39;ve compiled&nbsp;this list of the best PC puzzle games on Steam, ranging from classic indie puzzle games to story-driven platform&nbsp;puzzle games and more.

If you&#39;re looking for a good PC co-op puzzle game on Steam, check out&nbsp;Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, a fun multiplayer&nbsp;game where you and a partner work together to defuse a bomb.&nbsp; No partner? No problem., Single-player Steam puzzle games&nbsp;like&nbsp;Portal or Hello Neighbor are a blast.&nbsp; We&#39;ve also included&nbsp;some story-driven artistic puzzle games like Gorogoa and Braid&nbsp;that throw&nbsp;popular puzzle game mechanics out the window.

Vote up all the best&nbsp;puzzle video games for PC below so other gamers can get some solid recommendations for what to play next. If there are any puzzle games on Steam that we forgot, go ahead and add them to the list.

If you're using Steam, you probably have the best collection of survival games at your fingertips in all of gaming. There are a plethora of amazing PC survival games on Steam, so let's rank the absolute best to determine which titles deserve to be called &quot;must-play.&quot; There are a couple of usual suspects that are talked about when Steam survival games are brought up, but there are plenty of lesser-talked about titles on this list as well.Although there aren't many shooters on this list, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is a game that must be included when talking about survival games on Steam. If you weren't playing PUBG&nbsp;in 2017, what were you even doing? Other super popular Steam survival games include Don't Starve, Terraria, and Rust, which are more traditional&nbsp;&quot;survival&quot; games than PUBG&nbsp;is.What is your favorite PC survival game? Vote up the titles you would recommend to other fans of survival games, and vote down the titles you played and didn't like.

Tired of paying full price for boring games? Save some cash and check out the best Steam games you can download for $20 or less. Hey, it&rsquo;s 2020, and there are tons of good&nbsp;games you can buy for cheap.&nbsp;

When it comes to finding the best games at the best prices, Steam always has your back. From classics like Skyrim, Final Fantasy VII, and Unreal Tournament to modern hits like Stardew Valley, Enter the Gungeon, and Into the Breach, you won&#39;t have to look very far to find the right game without spending too much cash. When you can get the some of the most well-loved games the medium has to offer at a fraction of the price a new release goes for, why look anywhere else? Sure, there are plenty of <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-free-steam-games/kyle-townsend" target="_blank">free games you can play</a>, but there are also a handful of great titles you can download for cheap.

If you&#39;re looking for some awesome games to play that won&#39;t break the bank, here are the best&nbsp;games on Steam for $20 or less.&nbsp;Also be sure to also check out the best <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-steam-games-under-10-dollars/kyle-townsend" target="_blank">Steam games under $10</a>.

Lurking in the shadows waiting for the exact moment of&nbsp;surprise to end your&nbsp;enemy is what these PC stealth&nbsp;games are all about. If avoiding combat and outsmarting your enemy with cunning and speed is your thing, then this list of stealth&nbsp;games on Steam is here to help you find what you're looking for.Stealth PC games have been around forever with classics like Thief: Deadly Shadows, where you play a master thief lurking in the shadows of an old castle. There are&nbsp;also new Steam stealth games like Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands&nbsp;and Assassin's Creed Origins. If a PC RPG stealth fantasy is what you seek, try Styx: Master of the Shadows. There are also plenty of indie&nbsp;stealth games on Steam, like the pixel-graphics strategy stealth game&nbsp;Party Hard and the turn-base&nbsp;cyber punk masterpiece, Invisible, Inc.Steam's tagging system if often inaccurate, so this list is here to help you and others find the best PC stealth games on Steam. Vote up the PC stealth games you've played on Steam and loved, and downvote any titles that didn't quite do it for you.

When you&#39;re&nbsp;browsing Steam for <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/all-hack-and-slashs-list/reference?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">hack and slash games</a>,&nbsp;it&#39;s&nbsp;easy to get lost and frustrated by their inaccurate tagging system. Fortunately, this list is here to point you to all the best PC hack and slash games that Steam has to offer, as ranked by gamers around the world.&nbsp;Whether&nbsp;you&#39;re looking to button mash your way through a game or defeat a final boss with&nbsp;intricate combos and dodges, these hack and slash games will deliver in spades.

Become a Viking, samurai, or knight, and carry your team to the top of the charts in the multiplayer&nbsp;hack and slash game&nbsp;For Honor. If you&#39;re looking for something really casual and fun, you and some buddies could team up&nbsp;and storm the gate in Castle Crashers. And if RPG hack and slash games are more your style, become one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse&nbsp;in Darksiders&nbsp;II.

Vote up all your favorite hack and slash&nbsp;PC games&nbsp;so others will know which ones are best without having to waste time with demos or reviews. If you have played any of these titles and didn&#39;t enjoy them, you can vote them down.

As a child, playing in the sandbox meant being creative and using your imagination. The same can be said of these PC sandbox games, as they all let you explore and discover what awaits in a free-roaming environment.&nbsp;From survival free-roam games to building and creation games, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-sandbox-games/reference" target="_blank">these sandbox games</a> on Steam span across all genres.&nbsp;

You can survive in the Mojave wastelands while you try to deliver your last package in&nbsp;Fallout: New Vegas. Board your space ship and discover endless worlds on which to build your settlements in the procedurally generated sandbox games&nbsp;No Man&#39;s Sky and Starbound. See what your brain can come up with&nbsp;because there&#39;s&nbsp;endless creativity when it comes to funny, creative sandbox games&nbsp;like&nbsp;Besiege and Garry&#39;s Mod.&nbsp;

What happens in the sandbox stays in the sandbox. At least, until someone clips that. Vote up all your favorite sandbox games on the PC, and vote down the ones&nbsp;you wouldn&#39;t recommend.

Every once in a while, it&#39;s nice to play a casual game on PC that&#39;s stress-free, relaxing, and overall just enjoyable. Perhaps you have a small child that wants to game with you, so you&#39;re looking for an easy PC game that you two can play together. Either way, let&#39;s take a look at some good choices for casual PC games that don&#39;t require too much thinking or muscle memory.

The original Plants vs. Zombies might just be one of the best casual PC games ever created. The balance of how much effort you put into it and the joy you get out of it is perfect. Other good casual PC games include Castle Crashers, a fun beat-em-up that will make you laugh, and Stardew Valley, a game that is extremely deep, yet super simple at the same time.

That said, just&nbsp;because these&nbsp;games are &quot;casual&quot; doesn&#39;t mean they&#39;re necessarily&nbsp;easy. Sure, there are definitely a few&nbsp;easy PC games on this list, but others can get a little bit challenging at times, despite the low amount of effort they require to be played. Vote up your favorites, and check out what others have voted on to get some solid recommendations.

When it comes to the PC platform, simulation games are king. Enabling you to try out&nbsp;every occupation, ranging from&nbsp;professional sailor to tennis player to grizzly bear, there's a simulator for all of your heart's desires. With that said, what are the best PC vote down&nbsp;any that you played and didn't enjoy.There are a lot of newer simulation games on Steam that have gotten really good reviews. Take the dad dating simulator Dream Daddy&nbsp;for example, or&nbsp;the factory simulator Factorio. If you're looking for some wackier&nbsp;PC simulation&nbsp;games on Steam, you can't go wrong with Goat Simulator or I Am Bread.Don't forget that if your favorite sim game for PC isn't already on this list, you can add it yourself for others to vote on. Skip Steam's messy tag system and learn which PC simulation games are actually worth buying!

Real-time strategy&nbsp;is one of the defining genres&nbsp;of PC gaming. If you know the pains of patiently building up an army, leading them across an unknown plain to&nbsp;surprise your enemy, only to find out they have spent that time on defenses and they effortlessly destroy&nbsp;your army in an instant, then you are probably a RTS gamer.&nbsp;You can relive those feelings all over again with this list of the best RTS&nbsp;games on Steam, and we're letting you vote on which you think&nbsp;are the best PC real-time strategy games that are worth playing.From fantasy&nbsp;real-time strategy games like Dungeons 3 to Sci-fi&nbsp;RTS&nbsp;games like Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, you should find at least one good Steam RTS game on this list that delivers what you're looking for. There are even classic RTS&nbsp;games on Steam&nbsp;like&nbsp;Age of Empires II HD, as well as brand new PC RTS games like They Are Billions.We've found the best PC real-time strategy games&nbsp;on Steam, and put them all on one list so you don't have to go through the hassle of searching the Steam store.&nbsp;If there are any real-time strategy video games on Steam that we forgot, go ahead and add them&nbsp;to the list for others to discover.

If you're looking for the best PC action games on Steam, look no further. This list ranks the best PC action games you can buy on Steam, ranging from cult classics to brand new action titles that are receiving great reviews.It's interesting that action can be such a broad category when referring to games. For example, Cuphead is an excellent PC action game on Steam, but it's far different from other Steam action games like Batman: Arkham Asylum, or Dark Souls. No matter what kind of action game you're looking for on Steam, the games on this list all offer the challenging combat and fast-paced gameplay that you're looking for in a PC&nbsp;action title.Which one's better, the beat-'em-up where you remix enemies' memories, or the desert wasteland simulator where you fight psychopaths&nbsp;in a post-apocalyptic Australia? Vote up the PC action games on this list that you feel is superior to all the others, in terms of fun and intensity.

You finally talked your friend into getting a PC, but what is the perfect PC co-op game to play together? It can be hard to find a good list of co-op games on Steam, but thankfully this list ranks the best PC co-op games on Steam to play with friends, some of which can even be <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-couch-co-op-games/ranker-games" target="_blank">couch co-ops</a>, if your computers are in the same room.

Do you want to play a co-op sports game? Rocket League, the soccer-racing hybrid game from Psyonix, might just be your best bet. How about a survival horror co-op game? Check out 7 Days to Die, or Left 4 Dead 2. If you have no idea what to play, just join the masses on PlayerUnknown&#39;s Battlegrounds and find out what the hype is all about.

Not all of these Steam games feature local co-op, but there are a few good ones that do. This list is perfect for finding two-player games on Steam to play with a buddy, but many of them support up to four players (or even more).&nbsp;Vote down any two-player PC games you have played but wouldn&#39;t recommend to others.

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It's easy to escape reality in open world games on PC, especially with graphics becoming&nbsp;more realistic every day. We can become immersed more&nbsp;than ever before with these&nbsp;open world Steam&nbsp;games, but which titles are actually worth checking out? Since Steam's tagging system is a little wonky, let's rank the best PC open world games currently available on Steam.Free roam video games seem to give you endless options when exploring them for the first time. Steam multiplayer open world games like Player Unknown's Battlegrounds and ARMA&nbsp;III let you see what your made of against real players. Cause unlimited mayhem in these destructible free roam games Just Cause 3 and Red Faction: Guerilla. If you want a PC open world game where you can take down oppressive dictators,&nbsp;Far Cry 4 and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon&nbsp;Wildlands&nbsp;are titles you should check out.Don't get caught wasting time on other games when there's a settlement&nbsp;that needs your help, or a band of raiders that need to be hunted down and killed.&nbsp;Vote below on which Steam&nbsp;open world games you think&nbsp;are worth exploring, and downvote any titles you've played but didn't enjoy.

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a 2015 action role-playing game developed and published by CD Projekt, based on The Witcher series of fantasy novels by Andrzej Sapkowski. It is the sequel to the 2011 game The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Played in an open world with a third-person perspective, players control protagonist Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter known as a witcher, who is looking for his missing adopted daughter on the run from the Wild Hunt: an otherworldly force determined to capture and use her powers.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fifth installment in The Elder Scrolls action role-playing video game series, following The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Skyrim was released on November 11, 2011, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Three downloadable content add-ons were released—Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and Dragonborn—which were repackaged into The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Edition, which released on June 4, 2013.
Skyrim's main story revolves around the player character's efforts to defeat Alduin the World-Eater, a dragon who is prophesied to destroy the world. Set two hundred years after the events of Oblivion, the game takes place in the fictional province of Skyrim. Over the course of the game, the player completes quests and develops their character by improving their skills. Unlike previous The Elder Scrolls games, Skyrim does not require the player to select a character class at the beginning of the game, negating a problem the development team felt previous entries had by forcing the player into a rigid play-style too early into the game.

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is an open world fantasy action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios, and published by Bethesda Softworks and Ubisoft. It is the third installment in The Elder Scrolls series of games, following The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, and preceding The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. It was released in North America in 2002 for Microsoft Windows and the Xbox. Well-received publicly and critically, with over four million sales and more than 60 awards, the game spawned two expansion packs for the PC: Tribunal and Bloodmoon. Both were eventually repackaged into a full set containing all three, Morrowind: Game of the Year Edition, which shipped on October 30, 2003, for both PC and Xbox.
The main story takes place on Vvardenfell, an island in the Dunmer province of Morrowind, which lies in the empire of Tamriel and is far from the more civilized lands to the west and south that typified Daggerfall and Arena. The central quests concern the deity Dagoth Ur, housed within the volcanic Red Mountain, who seeks to gain power and break Morrowind free from Imperial reign.

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Fallout: New Vegas

Fallout: New Vegas is an action role-playing video game in the Fallout video game series. The game was developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda Softworks. It released for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in October 2010. Downloadable content and expanded re-editions followed in 2010–2012.
The game is based in a post-apocalyptic, open world environment around the area of Nevada, California, and Arizona. The player takes control of the character known as the Courier, who is hired by a delivery service to take an unknown package across the Mojave Desert to the New Vegas Strip. During the delivery, the Courier is intercepted, shot in the head, and left for dead by a mysterious man who steals the package. After being found by a friendly robot, Victor, and healed by a man named Doc Mitchell, the Courier is thrust back into the desert to seek revenge and recover the stolen package. By doing this, the player becomes caught between various factions competing for control over the desert and its most valuable asset, the Hoover Dam, ultimately coming to shape the future of its inhabitants.

Grand Theft Auto V

Grand Theft Auto V is an open world, action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was released on 17 September 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. An enhanced version of the game was released on 18 November 2014 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and 14 April 2015 for Microsoft Windows. The game is the first main entry in the Grand Theft Auto series since 2008's Grand Theft Auto IV. Set within the fictional state of San Andreas, the single-player story follows three criminals and their efforts to commit heists while under pressure from a government agency. The open world design lets players freely roam San Andreas, which includes open countryside and the fictional city of Los Santos.
The game is played from either a third-person or first-person view and its world is navigated on foot or by vehicle. Players control the three lead protagonists throughout the single-player mode, switching between them both during and outside of missions. The story is centred on the heist sequences, and many of the missions involve shooting and driving gameplay.

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Dying Light

Dying Light is an open-world survival horror video game developed by Polish video game developer Techland and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. It was released in January 2015 for Microsoft Windows, Linux, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The game revolves around an undercover agent sent to infiltrate a quarantine zone in a city named Harran. It features a zombie-infested, open-world city with a dynamic day and night cycle.
At release, Dying Light received mostly positive reviews from critics, with praise mainly directed at the combat, graphics, co-operative multiplayer, navigation and the day-night cycle, while receiving criticism regarding the game's story, difficulty and technical issues. The game was the best-selling title for the month of January 2015 and broke the record of the first month sales for a new survival horror intellectual property.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is an open world action-adventure stealth video game developed by Kojima Productions and directed, co-produced and co-written by Hideo Kojima, currently in development for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. The game will serve as a sequel to Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and a continuation of the narrative established there, and will carry over the same tagline of Tactical Espionage Operations first used in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Set in 1984, the game follows the mercenary leader Venom Snake as he ventures into Africa and Afghanistan during the Soviet war to exact revenge on the people who destroyed his forces and nearly himself during the post-events of Ground Zeroes.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is a separated composite of two previously announced Kojima Productions projects, both of which formed a complex deception. The first was Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, originally revealed in a Fox Engine tech demo shown at the Metal Gear 25th Anniversary Party on August 30, 2012.

Assassin's Creed Origins

Assassin's Creed Origins is a 2017 action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the tenth major installment in the Assassin's Creed series and the successor to 2015's Assassin's Creed Syndicate.

Sleeping Dogs

Sleeping Dogs is a 2012 open world action-adventure video game developed by United Front Games and Square Enix London. It was published by Square Enix and Bandai Namco Games for Microsoft Windows and the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles. Set in contemporary Hong Kong, the single-player story follows Wei Shen, an undercover Hong Kong-American police officer on assignment to infiltrate the Sun On Yee Triad organisation.
Gameplay centres on Shen's fighting, shooting and parkour abilities, and on gadgets that can be used for combat and exploration. Players must complete missions to unlock content and continue the story, but they may instead wander the game's open world and engage in both legal and criminal activities. The latter may incite a police response, the intensity of which is controlled by a "heat" system. Actions such as fighting, driving and racing grant Shen statistical rewards and earn the player achievements.
Sleeping Dogs '​s difficult and prolonged development began in 2008. The game was announced in 2009 as part of the True Crime series but was cancelled by Activision Blizzard in 2011, as a result of the project's delays and budget issues.

Grand Theft Auto IV

Grand Theft Auto IV is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was released on 29 April 2008 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles, and on 2 December 2008 on Microsoft Windows. It is the eleventh title in the Grand Theft Auto series, and the first main entry since 2004's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Set within the fictional Liberty City, the single-player story follows a war veteran, Niko Bellic and his attempts to escape his past while under pressure from loan sharks and mob bosses. The open world design lets players freely roam Liberty City, consisting of three main islands.
The game is played from a third-person perspective and its world is navigated on-foot or by vehicle. Throughout the single player mode, players play as Niko Bellic. An online multiplayer mode is included with the game, allowing up to 32 players to engage in both co-operative and competitive gameplay in a recreation of the single-player setting.

The Forest

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands

Far Cry 4

Far Cry 4 is an open world action-adventure first-person shooter video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows. The sequel to the 2012 video game Far Cry 3, it is the fourth installment in the Far Cry series. The game was released in North America, Australia, and Europe on November 18, 2014. It was also released on January 22, 2015 in Japan.

Saints Row IV

Saints Row IV is a 2013 open world, action-adventure video game in the Saints Row series developed by Volition and published by Deep Silver. The player-character is the leader of the Saints, a street gang that has now become the world's most powerful and popular organization, and must fend off an alien invasion after becoming President of the United States and receiving superpowers. The player is free to explore the city environment while completing main and side missions at their leisure. The game and series are known for their use of over-the-top parody, and incorporate elements from science fiction video games and films. It was released on August 20, 2013, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, and was later ported to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, with a Linux release planned.
The game was Volition's first after its sale to Koch Media in early 2013. The supernatural and superpower concept for the game started in Enter the Dominatrix, then an expansion planned for Saints Row: The Third, which the team expanded into a full release.

Middle-earth: Shadow of War

Rust

Rust is a survival video game developed and published by Facepunch Studios in February 2018 for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux. The game has only a multiplayer mode. Rust was created initially as a clone of DayZ, a popular mod for ARMA 2 with crafting elements like those found in Minecraft. The objective of Rust is to survive in the wilderness using gathered or stolen materials. They must successfully manage their hunger, thirst, and health or risk dying. While there are bears and wolves, given the game is multiplayer-only, the primary threat is other players. Combat uses firearms and primitive weapons, such as bows. In addition, attack helicopters, a vehicle controlled by non-player characters, will occasionally fly around attacking heavily-armed players, though they can be taken down with persistence. The game features crafting, though initially, only limited options are offered. To stay protected, players must build bases or join clans with others to improve their survivability, with raiding being commonplace and done more frequently by large clans.

Black Desert Online

Ark: Survival Evolved

Ark: Survival Evolved (stylized as &#923;RK) is a 2017 action-adventure survival video game developed by Studio Wildcard in collaboration with Instinct Games, Efecto Studios, and Virtual Basement. In the game, players must survive being stranded on an island filled with roaming dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, natural hazards, and potentially hostile human players.

ArmA III

ARMA 3 is an open-world, realism-based, military tactical shooter video game developed and published by Bohemia Interactive. It was released for Microsoft Windows in September 2013, and later announced for macOS and Linux in August 2015. ARMA 3 takes place in the mid-2030s, on the islands of Altis and Stratis in the Aegean Sea, and the South Pacific island of Tanoa.

Red Faction: Guerrilla

Red Faction: Guerrilla is an open world third-person shooter video game developed by Volition, Inc. and published by THQ. It was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in June 2009 and for Microsoft Windows in September 2009. The game is the third installment in the Red Faction series.

Lego The Lord of the Rings

Lego The Lord of the Rings is a multi-platform action-adventure video game, developed by Traveller's Tales, that was released on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, Wii, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The OS X version of the game, published by Feral Interactive, was released on 21 February 2013.
Based on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the game follows the original storylines of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, taking players through the epic story events, "re-imagined with the humour and endless variety of Lego play". The game utilises music and voice acting taken from all three films of the film trilogy. Developer Traveller's Tales has stated they toned down the slapstick humor found in other Lego-licensed titles. The game follows the events in the films; however, like the Lego Star Wars series, some scenes from the films have been altered to become more family friendly or just provide comic relief to the player.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) is a 2017 multiplayer online battle royale game developed by PUBG Corporation. In the game, up to one hundred players parachute onto an island and scavenge for weapons and equipment to kill others while avoiding getting killed themselves

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