Best computer games of the last 5 years

GTA V campaign Just Cause Homefront - The Revolution. It's on game pass and being thrashed by the console plebes in reviews. It is better than DA:I.

CptCabbit Limp Gawd. Joined Jun 15, Messages Just gonna mention those that haven't been said yet. Joined Mar 2, Messages 1, Hello kitty Island Adventure is too old to list! Great lists, thanks for the suggestions. I've played some of these Divinity series, Witcher, Fallout 4 already, but many I haven't. Went on a recommendation here ane I picked up Titanfall 2 earlier today and it's the best single player FPS I've played in a good while. Totally unexpected for what I thought was going to be another half-assed single player campaign in a multiplayer shooter.

Also, picked up Prey enjoyed the first one. Neir Automata is next on my list. Krenum Fully [H]. Joined Apr 29, Messages 18, My top 5 of the past 5. I don't know that it's that extreme KazeoHin [H]F Junkie. Joined Sep 7, Messages 8, Mad Max: great couch game. DOOM probably the best single player shooter this decade.

The Witcher 3: don't worry about playing the first two, this game is in another league. KazeoHin said:. Aireoth Supreme [H]ardness. Joined Oct 12, Messages 5, Witcher 3. Joined Feb 20, Messages I thought "life is strange" was really good.

WarriorX 2[H]4U. Joined Nov 18, Messages 2, Very fun if you enjoy the genre. Has a moderate learning curve that will slow down your character progression if you mess up on your character build.

Set in within the Kingdom of Bohemia, the old king has passed leaving his heir to struggle in maintaining order within the lands. As mentioned, developers Warhorse Studios has taken great care in presenting a game that would show an accurate depiction of the period with various armor, clothing, combat techniques, and real-world castles.

Dontnod Entertainment has crafted up some popular titles already. Following up the release of Life is Strange is Vampyr, a vastly different IP then what the developers have worked on before. Vampyr takes place during the Spanish flu pandemic in London where players step into the role of a doctor named Jonathan Reid. Accessible to anyone, or as realistic as you want, this is open-world at its most literal.

Free-flying around the globe, participating in landing challenges at some of the world's most famously difficult airports, or just sightseeing, Microsoft Flight Simulator is an unparalleled achievement.

Don't forget to grab one of the best PC joysticks to make this flight-sim experience that more immersive. The marvelous PC port overhauled and further enhanced the gorgeous wild western atmosphere of Rockstar's most recent open-world adventure and added even more activities, unlockables, and impossibly fine details to its expansive map.

It's possibly one of the biggest and best single-player PC games ever and it has an extensive multiplayer mode too. RDR2 on PC is handily a must-play for anyone with a rig beefy enough to run it.

Through its relaunch and subsequent three expansions FFXIV has slowly morphed from a relatively generic good-versus-evil plot into a sprawling, political, and fantastical thriller. Story missions are intended to be tackled solo, and even instanced dungeons now have an option for you to enter with computer-controlled party members instead of forcing you into a group with strangers.

Square Enix had to temporarily stop selling FF14 upon its release, as the expansion's popularity exceeded the company's server capacity. As well as transplanting the dice-rolls and deep dialogue options from Dungeons and Dragons into a lesser-seen noir-detective setting, it offers entirely original ways to play, such as such as debating against 24 different sections of your own brain, each representative of a different skill or trait. Your down-and-out detective is thrust into circumstances where you must solve a murder, but with all great stories its not the conclusion that is solely gratifying, but the journey you took to get there as its ludicrously detailed world and cast of characters drive it along, supported by some of the best writing seen in a game.

Nier: Automata is, by all accounts, a game that shouldn't exist. Director Yoko Taro's original Nier flopped back in , but it nevertheless developed a ravenous fanbase — and for good reason. To put it simply: Nier: Automata does what the original sought to do, learning from its failures and building on its successes to create a blend of hardcore and fluid combat, bullet-hell shoot 'em up segments, and visual novel stylings. It all coalesces into something entirely new.

Despite a frustrating PC port that the fanbase had to fix themselves with the all-but-mandatory FAR mod, Nier: Automata's staying power is etched somewhere within its philosophical musings of humanity, pain of existence, and ability to find the humor in between.

Each of its big story moments is punctuated with a haunting soundtrack courtesy of composer Keiichi Okabe. All of that makes Nier: Automata a game that needs to be experienced from beginning to end — and not just ending A, but endings B, C, D, and E as well. Those multiple endings build to something no other game has ever dared to attempt with apologies to the original Nier.

But this one just hits a little different, you know? It has the same tension of going from a technologically inferior underdog to powerful war machine, with the constant threat of the permanent death of your customized soldiers looming over every decision. However, it turns the formula of defending Earth from alien invaders on its head by boldly recasting XCOM as a guerrilla force attempting to liberate the planet from alien occupation, making the situation feel even more desperate than ever.

This bigger, deeper sequel adds not just complexity in the form of new and more powerful soldier classes, equipment, and aliens, but also a huge focus on replayability. Procedurally generated maps keep you from falling into a repeatable pattern in tactical missions, frequent random events on the strategic map shake up your build and research orders, and of course mods galore. Next up for Firaxis is Marvel's Midnight Suns , which will be released in the second half of The free update follows Franklin and his new "celebrity solutions agency" years after the events of GTA V.

Dre composed new music for the game and will be featured as a character. It masterfully mixes pieces of classic cRPGs with more modern mechanics and designs, feeling old and new at the same time.

The sequel has improved upon its predecessor's already incredible combat by deepening its systems while simultaneously simplifying and smoothing out its clunkier bits - not to mention it introduced some brutally smart new AI.

There's also an overwhelming amount of game here to play. With six different origin characters, custom tags to make your own, and over 74, lines of fully voiced dialogue, this massive RPG has more than enough to keep you coming back to it. Insomniac Games was the perfect developer for the project and the studio's initial Peter Parker open-world adventure garnered astounding praise, earning a Metacritic score of Guerrilla Games is a PlayStation first-party studio that was known for years as the team behind the technically impressive but inconsistently reviewed Killzone titles.

That's why when Horizon Zero Dawn , an open-world adventure game, was revealed as the studio's next release, the gaming world was cautiously optimistic. Thanks to Sony's faith in the talented developer, the world was able to experience Aloy's incredible journey. Critics fell in love with the game as its aggregate score among reviewers settled on an This entry is technically focused on the remake of Team Ico's instant classic, Shadow of the Colossus.

In , Bluepoint Games, masters of remastering beloved games, released a complete remake of the original title and managed to deliver the experience fans loved, just with a fresh coat of paint.

It should come as no surprise that both the original game and the remake are highly regarded as excellent examples of masterful craftsmanship. They were both rewarded with the same Metacritic score, a It's hard for a video game to end up with a Metacritic score above 90, especially with so many varied perspectives reviewing the game.

For all intents and purposes, the game was never finished and most critics will tell audiences that.