Every year we pick 100 games to hail as the best PC games that you can play today. It's an inherently fraught endeavor.

100 is quite a large number if you're talking about how many creepy Victorian dolls someone owns, but it's not all that many PC games. Nearly 20,000 games released on Steam last year alone, and we're picking from the entire history of the medium (albeit with a particular focus on games we recommend to today's audience).

That inevitably means that certain canon PC classics won't make the cut, but the point of the exercise is to make and justify those hard decisions, and we don't make them permanently: Our selection changes substantially year-to-year as the PC Gamer team grows, tastes change, and classics are reevaluated. In 2012, Skyrim was #1. This year, it didn't make

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