When the term exclusive comes up in video game banter, you likely think of the big three, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony. However, there are plenty of exclusive titles that are available on PC. We’re still early in the 2016 year and already we know of plenty of video games that are exclusive to the PC master race. Determining a top ten best PC exclusive list for 2016 is hard, practically impossible because of how many excellent titles are set to release this year.
With that said, we tried our best to narrow them down and while it’s all perspective, we hope this list does well with PC gamers. If not, let us know what you would place on the list and why. We’ll make sure to update the list as more games release throughout the year, but we want to hear your thoughts by leaving a comment down below.
15. Grim Dawn
Grim Dawn by developers Crate Entertainment released on February 25, 2016. This is an action role-playing hack-and-slash video game which puts players into the role of a warrior during a massive war between two dark forces. Both forces seek to claim humanity, one to use resources the other looking to wipe humanity out completely.
A neat aspect tossed into the game is the class system where Grim Dawn offers players a choice to pick two classes in order to combine them and offer their particular attributes such as the combination of a shaman and a soldier.
14. Black Desert Online
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6rmBCMBJWs
Black Desert Online is an upcoming South Korean MMO that puts players in a war between two nations, the Republic of Calpheon and the Kingdom of Valencia. Focusing on fast action-based combat, developers Pearl Abyss decided to toss away a healing-based class making players to quickly take out enemies and avoid their attacks.
However, one of the main reasons Black Desert Online became a game that PC gamers are eager in playing is simply because of the in-game visuals. The world is appealing and the character creation is astonishing allowing players to create a truly unique character.
13. Fortnite
Fortnite is a video game currently in development by both Epic Games and People Can Fly. The game focuses on cooperative multiplayer with a simple goal, survive the night. Within Fortnite, players are tasked with two tasks, during the day construct a defensive structure that will be able to hold up against the swarm of monsters that players will have to fight off during the night.
Much like a sandbox based video game, players are able to explore and scavenge items which would be used to construct and modify a base. The game also features a number of different classes that will come with their own unique ability. While, players are tasked with fighting off waves of enemies at night, there is a player versus player mode that will also be featured in the game. As of right now, the game is slated to release at some point this year.
12. 8-Bit Armies
8-Bit Armies offers gameplay that’s been rolled back to the glory days of RTS, while maintaining some of the modern conveniences we’ve picked up along the way since then. It’s fast-paced, lightweight, and simple to learn. With a voxel-style look reminiscent of Hipster Whale’s mobile hit Crossy Road (it’s not really 8-Bit), it feels like a perkier version of Command & Conquer, which several key staff at Petroglyph worked on at the now-defunct Westwood Studios.
11. Star Citizen
Star Citizen has been a highly anticipated space simulation video game that features space combat, mining, exploration, and trading. Essentially, you probably won’t find a better space simulation title as this game has been anticipated by gamers since its announcement. Developers even spoke of making a very immersive video game allowing players to go and do what they like with just a very little bits of scripted content tossed into the game. Additionally, Star Citizen also supports Oculus Rift though it’s unknown quite yet when the game will release this year from developers Cloud Imperium Games.
10. Civilization VI
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The latest entry in the long-running series of 4X strategy games, Civilization VI offers new ways to engage with the world: cities physically expand across the map. In previous games, cities took up a single tile. Active research in certain forms of technology and culture is said to “unlock new potential,” and competing leaders will now pursue their own agendas based on their historical traits.
9. Stellaris
Stellaris is Paradox Interactive and Paradox Development Studio’s new 4X game set in space. Best known for their work on Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron, Stellaris’ devs take to the final frontier in this real-time (with pause) strategy title. Players will begin a civilization of their own creation in a randomly generated universe, exploring new worlds, encountering aliens, and facing the challenges of running an intergalactic civilization replete with war, diplomacy, and everything else.
8. Routine
Developed by indie game development team Lunar Software comes the upcoming first-person horror title Routine. Set in the future, players take the role of an employee on their first day on the Lunar Research Station, the only problem is that the station is completely empty. Players become tasked with collecting data to find out what happened to everyone.
Routine comes equipped with a roguelike system as players begin to search through the randomly generated hazards in search for answers and items. Failing will result in permadeath which will start players over fresh from any collected items. Additionally, the development team behind the game promises players multiple endings which will be triggered depending on the player’s actions through the game.
7. Ashes of the Singularity
Ashes of the Singularity is real-time strategy on a grand scale, with large-scale battles taking place across enormous tracts of land. Players build gigantic bases and control hundreds of units and send them to war against each other. It’s like everything 8-year-old me imagined while playing with toy soldiers.
6. Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord
Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord an action role-playing game, is a prequel to Mount & Blade: Warband, more specifically, the game is set over two hundred years before the events of Warband during the fall of the Calradian Empire. When TaleWorlds Entertainment first released Mount & Blade: Warband, the game was praised for its gameplay with players capable of replaying the game continuously. We’re expecting the prequel to bring in that same charm its predecessor brought when it released, but with updated visuals and inspirations for weapons, armor, and architecture from the 600 to 1200 A.D.
5. Factorio
Factorio is a game in which you build, manage, and organize automated factories within an infinite 2D world. The factories you construct are of increasing complexity, requiring more and varied resources to produce an equally diverse set of items. These items, in turn, allow you to produce even more stuff. Players are invited to use their imagination to design their own factories, combining simple elements into complex structures–and protecting all of it from the monsters that want to destroy it all.
4. Total War: Warhammer
Total War: Warhammer is Creative Assembly’s take on the Warhammer fantasy universe. Offering both the real-time and turn-based strategy mechanics that made the long-running Total War series popular, the new strategy game invites gamers to participate in the grimdark fantasy world created by Games Workshop, putting them in command of the medieval and fantasy-inspired factions like The Empire, Vampire Counts, and Chaos Warriors.
3. Stardew Valley
Stardew Valley lands in the same genre as games like Animal Crossing and Rune Factory. In fact, it plays like a combination of the two with innovations and riffs of its own. This farming simulator is a pixelated love-letter to some of our fondest childhood memories in those console games, and it’s equally as charming as the games its creator took inspiration from. You’ve got to play it.
2. Tyranny
Tyranny is Obsidian’s next game. You might’ve heard of the little known developer–they’ve only made some of the best RPGs of all time, including Knights of the Old Republic 2, Pillars of Eternity, and Fallout: New Vegas. They’re back this year with an all new RPG hot on the heels of their last success. This time around, the game is set in a world where evil has already won, and you were one of the people who made that happen. As a kind of Judge Dredd-like character in Tyranny, you’ll determine how and who to dispense the law to. It’s all up to you.
1. XCOM 2
XCOM 2 takes place in a world where the commander lost in the first XCOM. Things didn’t go out as planned, and the aliens conquered planet Earth. They took over human governments and eliminated almost all resistance to their invasion–except for a few remaining members of XCOM. XCOM 2 offers players a chance to strike back at the aliens, operating in secret and performing the kind of guerilla attacks that the aliens would’ve done during their invasion. The tables have turned.
