Project CARS

Another crowdfunding success story, Project CARS offers a sandbox experience for racing enthusiasts. Pick your preferred racing style and attempt to make a career out of it. From small, nimble karts to high-performance F1 cars, there’s a multitude of different motorsport paths to pursue, with realistically recreated tracks to compete on. 
Built on the Need for Speed: Shift engine, developer Slightly Mad Studios has worked with motorsport veterans such as Top Gear’s ex-Stig Ben Collins and Touring Car Cup winner Nicolas Hamilton (brother of Lewis) to ensure their simulation is as painstakingly accurate as possible. Systems to ensure tires behave as they should and how weather affects car handling are all implemented to make sure Project CARS is a key event on the racing game calendar. 

Cities: Skylines

After the disappointment that was SimCity, we've all been waiting for the essential city builder to come our way. It finally came in the form of Cities: Skylines, Paradox's superbly wonderful mayor manager game. Covering everything from minor systems such as what buildings adorn the footpaths of your streets, to the major complexities of sewerage pumping and transportation networks, Cities: Skylines manages to make every mechanic work together in absolute harmony. 

Order of Battle: Pacific

Grand strategy games have, typically, always failed to get naval forces right. Order of Battle: Pacific hits it crack on the head, making just the act of transporting from island to island in the pacific a tactical joy. And that's just the start. It's a Panzer General-like serious wargame, but with an unprecedented level of approach that combines detail, pace, and challenge to create a compelling battle against Japanese forces.

Rob found it a history buff's paradise when playing it for review, and the best wargame he's played all year. 

Grand Theft Auto V

We’ve been forced to wait over a year for it to arrive, but now Grand Theft Auto V is here on PC we've got the best version possible: huge resolution textures, heavier traffic, more wildlife to hunt, a first-person view, and framerates that don't bog you down. GTA’s satirical Los Angeles is huge, and it looks phenomenal on PC.

It’s also a great game too, perhaps the best GTA Rockstar have made. Three distinctly different protagonists that you can swap between at any point drive the action, and the missions on offer never fail to entertain. And then there’s GTA Online that will become your weekend multiplayer go-to; a sandbox to get together with friends in and run amok, rob every bank in the state, and buy a sweet penthouse.

Matt thinks it's the best Grand Theft Auto has ever been, showering it with praise in his review.

The Best Released Games

Heroes of the Storm

It wasn’t going to be long until Blizzard entered the MOBA fray, and Heroes of the Storm is their stab at taking on Dota and League of Legends. Yet this 5v5 arena game isn’t just another Dota clone. Instead Blizzard have made a game that is vastly more accessible than your regular MOBA, whilst still tightly holding on to the core characteristics of the genre such as complex heroes and memorising skill sets. 
The heroes in question are favourites chosen from Blizzard’s IPs - Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft - and bring their unique approaches to battle arenas that not only ask teams to defeat each other, but also complete side-quests. Heroes of the Storm has multiple maps, each with unique themes and quests built in to divide up your attention. One requires you to power up a golem that can rampage through your enemy’s base, whilst another allows you to transform into an unstoppable Dragon Knight if you capture a shrine. Not only does this provide variety, but it’s intensely fun. 

The best PC games

Whether you’ve been looking for a top-notch RPG to sink a hundred hours into, or a quick lunchtime blast of multiplayer brawling, PC games have offered something for every taste on a silver platter this year. And there’s still more to come. 
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the amount of great games out there, let PCGamesN help out. This is our guide to the best new and upcoming games on PC. What's more, 

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