This year's list of the 100 best PC games includes several newcomers, plus a few games that have returned after being knocked off in previous years. (Welcome back, Guild Wars 2!) See the full 2022 list here:
I really think there's no game out there that has a stronger sense of its own voice than this one. Three years on from its original launch, I still regularly see people talking about its characters, riffing on its unique dialogue, and making memes about communism. That's a testament to how much its personality shines through in every line. It's all killer, no filler.
Its approach to stats and character building remains brilliantly unique—turning each of your abilities into its own voice in your head, and not so much giving you moral choices as moral traps in its quest to nail down your political standings. It's so refreshing to see a game push so hard for innovation in a genre as old-fashioned and nostalgia-driven as isometric CRPGs. How sad that I only discovered the morbid joy of this game in 2022.
Its descriptions of crime scenes bulge with evocative phrasing, the bumps on a corpse's skull are"alien landscape", while inside its mouth"teeth are budding". Your skills talk to you in styles of their own, Shivers describing the city and its inhabitants distantly while Electrochemistry shares its expertise on drugs and drinks with a pusher's eagerness, begging you to try them all.
Then there are the characters, whose voices are distinct whether you're discussing obscure philosophy with a scholar of the weird, talking political history with old soldiers, or being shouted at by the feral Artful Dodger called Cuno. And of course there's your partner, Kim Kitsuragi, whose seemingly endless patience occasionally gives way to a wry observation or snippy comment that comes across powerfully as anything Cuno screeches thanks to the contrast with his usual saintly calm.
I've played a couple of games inspired by Disco Elysium this year, but none of them measured up. If you want another RPG that does philosophical arguments about the nature of reality this well, you still have to go back 23 years to Planescape: Torment. I don't see Disco being dethroned for a while.Only 100 games? It's not enough! There are plenty of amazing games that didn't make the cut, so here are some of the PC Gamer team's personal favourites.
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