Grand Theft Auto V’s sprawling, yet meticulously detailed map is still the high bar to which most open-world games aspire. Not only is it huge, it’s incredibly dense with excellent content – not just the driving and shooting and three-protagonist story that make up its campaign, and not limited to the numerous side activities, but all the sights, sounds, and bustling activity you'd expect to find in a city teeming with humans, seedy underbelly included. With so much to do, explore, and play with, both as a single-player PC game and Grand Theft Auto Online, plus great creative tools and mods, it’s truly amazing on multiple levels.
With so much to do, explore, and play with, both as a single-player PC game and Grand Theft Auto Online, plus great creative tools and mods, it’s truly amazing on multiple levels. Plus, with the new Ca yo, PERCO update adding a new solo heist and island to the map, not to mention the game coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X, there's no sign of GTA V going to pasture anytime soon.
Rock star has finally confirmed GTA 6 is in development.
Riving games are a long-running, important, and respected force in the story of video games, but it takes a special one to completely seize the imaginations of both the car-obsessed and the automotive illiterate so successfully. By that measure, Fora Horizon 5 is truly special. A slick and speedy smorgasbord of total driving freedom built on the back of what’s already been the open-world racing series to beat for nearly a decade, Fora Horizon 5 broke through in a way not even its excellent predecessors managed.
This massive, MMO-inspired racer is the prettiest, most varied, most feature-filled, and most customizable Fora Horizon game ever, and it’s one that’s suitable for so many types of players. Whether you want to agonize over car builds and carve away milliseconds from your race times, or just want to cruise around and crash into a cactus or two (hundred), it has you covered.
God of War
God of War made a huge impact when it launched as a PlayStation exclusive in 2018, even taking home IGN’s Game of the Year award. But its greatness didn’t hinge on its platform, and its arrival on Steam in early 2022 opened it up to a whole new audience – one that should absolutely take the opportunity to play it if they haven’t before.
This reinvention of the classic series is truly fantastic, all the way from its excellent and challenging combat to the incredibly touching story that weaves it together. It’s gorgeously presented and thorough in its detail, taking advantage of its roots while innovating on them in a way that feels fresh again. It’s a true standout from the last decade, and it absolutely deserves to be counted amongst other PC greats now that it’s here.
Red Dead Redemption 2
Arthur Morgan’s sprawling tale of loyalty, conviction, and the price of infamy is only the beginning of Red Dead Redemption 2. The marvelous PC port overhauled and further enhanced the gorgeous wild western atmosphere of Rock star's most recent open-world adventure and added even more activities, unlockable, 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.
The potential for hi jinks within its enormous sandbox of towns, outlaws, and wildlife was already nearly limitless, but the PC version factors in new missions, treasures, gear, and more layered on top of the already 60+ hours of story content in the base game. That’s not even counting all the multiplayer bells and whistles included in Red Dead Online, to say nothing of the ability to expand and customize with mods. RDR2 on PC is handily a must-play for anyone with a rig beefy enough to run it.
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