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PC games from 1998 to 2000

By this point in time, every major competitor to the IBM standard had died off. Commodore had gone out of business years ago due to shoddy business decisions. Acorn and ARM were dead in the desktop space. The 8-bit micros were woefully out of date. Windows and x86 won. Macintosh was the only competitor left, but just barely. And *nix was still just for servers and what not.

By this point Gaming wise, DOS was being slowly phased out in favor of Windows. In no small part due to DirectX taking off and the explosion of 3D Accelator Cards. Some of these games do run in DOS mode, but most don't.

A lot of the games listed below are remastered versions. Some include the original game while others don't.

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The List

Cover	Title	Genre	Description	Where To Buy	Screenshot
	Age of Empires II	RTS	The sequel takes you through the next 500 (actually, 1000 - from the fall of Rome, which was the 5th century CE, to about the fall of Constantinople, or 1453 CE) years or so, from the decline of the Roman civilization to the invention of guns. AOE III takes over from here, but it just doesn't have the charm of the first two. More detail, more customization, pretty much awesome all around, as long as you're into the RTS genre. Getting this with the expansion is recommended. Note: If you want play to play it online nowadays either play over Hamachi with some Bros or use Gameranger. If you want play to play it online nowadays either play over Hamachi with some Bros or use Voobly. There's also fan patches that include a NoCD, some bug fixes, and Widescreen support. The versions on-sale digitally are the 2013 HD edition or the 2019 Definitive Edition. The Definitive Edition includes some new graphical options and whatnot (4k rendering / support). Both these versions include two new expansion packs.	Humble: HD/Def Steam: HD/Def
	American McGee's Alice	Action	Remember Alice in Wonderland? Well, take that, and run it through the mind of psychotic killer on a bad acid trip while high on steroids, and you've got American McGee's "Alice".Lots of dark, weird, twisted imagery and gameplay, with surprisingly enjoyable twists on all your favourite characters from the classic story. Haunting soundtrack by Chris Vrenna (Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Tweaker). Be sure to get OmriKoresh's awesome high-definition texture mod, which brings the game's visuals closer to those seem in Madness Returns. Here.
	Baldur's Gate	RPG	Role playing game based on the D&D universe; great story and characters, you have control over a party up to six heroes, and well, it's one of the best RPGs of all time. The version on-sale digitally is the enhanced release, which someone people don't like. The GOG version does come with the OG release.	Epic GOG Humble Steam
	Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn	RPG	You control a party of 6 characters, each with their own extensive personalities. If you carry both Good and Evil NPCs in the same group, or if you heckle them, they will often leave or try to kill you/each other. High charisma generally avoids more extreme reactions, however. D&D rules are in effect, giving you the option to choose from almost any fantasy class or multi-class. A pause feature allows for perfect management of the 6 (or fewer) characters in your control. There are well over 100 different spells and 20 levels in the original, and more in the expansion. The version on-sale digitally is the enhanced release, which someone people don't like. The GOG version does come with the OG release.	Epic GOG Humble Steam
	Battlezone	FPS/RTS	The game has two campaigns, the American NSDF campaign (Stars and Stripes Missions) and the Russian CCA campaign (Red Brigade Missions). The game takes place in an alternate version of the 1960s in which the United States and the Soviet Union use alien technology to wage a secret war across the solar system, fighting for control of a rare resource known as "bio-metal". The version on sale digitally is the "98 Redux". Probably not compatible with 98/XP systems.	GOG Humble Steam
	Commandos (series)	Stealth, Real Time Tactics	Commandos is a successful stealth-oriented real-time tactics game series, available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. The game is set in the Second World War and follows the escapades of a fictional British Commandos section. It leans heavily (though not always accurately) on historical events during WWII to carry the plot. The series was developed by the Spanish company Pyro Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. Behind Enemy Lines and Beyond The Call Of Duty were known for it's challenging difficulty. However, Commandos 2 is considered the strongest of the trilogy; Excellent missions and maps, varying from Burma and the Pacific to German cruisers on the North Pole, but easier than the previous games. Commandos 3 focused more on action than Commandos 2 and is considered harder, but inferior due to the lack of game length. Strike Force is a generic FPS spin-off that was received poorly, but has some unique elements that make it better. Made by a Spanish team so double awesomeness.	GOG Humble Steam
	Counter-Strike	FPS	Competitive multiplayer FPS with huge numbers of players, servers and mods of all kinds. May cause rage due to most of the servers being configured incorrectly while running a terrible game. Not quite as fun or lulzy, since the AWP was nerfed. Two remakes/modernizations, Counter-Strike: Source and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, have been released - but the original is still considered one of the best and remains very popular.	Steam
	Daikatana	FPS	Be a future swordmaster, wield a magical katana and travel through four different time periods alongside two AI sidekicks to defeat the tyrant Mishima who now rules the world by rewriting history. Also, witness the great redemption arc: a game released as a completely broken mess, pretty much sinking John Romero's career, gets a community patch over a decade later to become a pretty darn enjoyable experience (in a corny, janky, '90s way). Seriously, it's fun, but getting through the first episode is tough as it's easily the worst part of the game.	GOG Humble Steam
	Deus Ex	FPS/RPG	The year is 2052, and rebels have just stolen this month's shipment of the only treatment for a deadly plague. As an UN anti-terrorist cyborg agent, it's your job to catch them! But things may not be so simple, as you start to suspect there's something shady about your own higher-ups. Awesome cyberpunk shootan/RPG/stealth/adventure with a brilliant story based on various conspiracy theories, and a design that allows multiple tactics, ranging from stealthy pacifism (sort of) to blowing everything up. Note: there are several "modernizing" mods, check the PCGW page for them.	GOG Humble Steam
	Diablo II	RPG	Sort of like a roguelike with a very easy to use interface, Diablo and Diablo 2 are rpg dungeon crawlers that use random generation of maps and items to provide a lot of variety to players. Specially Fun playing with friends. And if you've worn yourself out on vanilla Diablo, there are some very professionally done mods out there, like Eastern Sun.	Blizzard Store
	Dungeon Keeper 2	RTS	Another old RTS, this one with a focus on playing evil. Has a wicked sense of humour, like torturing masochist girls to increase their happiness level. Recommended for lan play as it's still fun, but not a lot of people play it anymore. Warning: Even the GOG version is not fully fixed for modern systems. You can try this: run in Windows 2000 compatibility mode, disable hardware acceleration.	GOG Steam
	Elifoot	Simulation	A management sim game where the player is on the role of a football manager (as in, REAL football, not that bastardized rugby that Americans call football). You control a team, hiring and selling players, pickng on the team's tactics and other bureaucratic management duties which will reflect on your team's performance.	Official site
	Escape from Monkey Island	Adventure	The continuation of the Monkey Island series. The graphics look real shitty and the Monkey Kombat is a real shit storm as well, but if you can get past that it is a really good Monkey Island game like any other. Not the best of the series, but humorous and adventurous as it's brethren.	GOG Humble Steam
	Fallout 2	RPG	Developed by Black Isle Studios and released by Interplay in 1998. Both this and the original Fallout are isometric RPGs with tons of choices regarding character development and general gameplay. Like its predecessor, it features turn-based combat, but it's bigger and has a lot more content.	Epic GOG Humble Steam
	Final Fantasy VII	RPG	A massively successful game that popularized JRPGs and launched SquareSoft to stardom overseas. Final Fantasy VII was a hit because of its state-of-the-art graphics (for the time) and FMV scenes, great soundtrack, exciting fantasy-steampunk setting and story, which featured massive corporations draining the planet of its life force. Its cast and important scenes are ingrained in JRPG fans' memory. It has aged quite decently, and while not the be-all end-all of its genre, it's still a really good game. Avoid the physical copies, only download from Steam. Trailer. Also available on PlayStation, iOS, Android, Switch, Xbone, and PS4. Do note this is different from the Remake trilogy that is in progress. The first game (Remake) is also on PS4, with a next-gen upgrade on PS5 and PC (subtitled "Intergrade"), as well as a Switch 2 port coming soon. The second game (Rebirth) is on PS5 and PC. Both games collectively cover the entirety of Disc 1 of the original game. The in-development third and final game will cover Discs 2 and 3.	Humble Steam
	Freespace 2	Space Action/Sim	Excellent 3d space shooter boasting epic battles with enormous capital ships, a decent plot and great dogfighting gameplay. Quite possibly the best game of its genre. The devs released the source code years ago. Fans created the Source Code Project to keep the engine modern. There's a a lot mods to the game and you can download a port of the first game's campaign.	GOG Steam
	FreeSpace – The Great War	Combat/Sim	The story places the player in the role of a human pilot in the Galactic Terran Alliance, as it engages in war with the alien Parliamentary Vasudan Empire. This war is interrupted by the appearance of the enigmatic and militant Shivans, who begin slaughtering Terrans and Vasudans alike. Putting aside their differences, the Terrans and Vasudans form an alliance, and the player is assigned to missions to stop the Shivans' genocidal advance. The player pilots a starfighter, and alongside competent AI wingmen, completes these missions to determine the fate of two races. Important battles in the story feature capital ships, which dwarf the fighters piloted by the player, and explode spectacularly on destruction. This game's campagin has been ported over to the sequel's engine since its open source and has been kept up to date. When the game released in the US, it was slapped with the Descent name. It has nothing to do with the series other than sharing some of the same devs and publisher.	GOG Steam
	Fur Fighters	TPS	Fluff is gonna fly as a team of animal heroes saves their families from a bond-esque villain who seeks to take over the world. Port of the awesome Dreamcast cult classic with tons of improvements.
	Future Cop LAPD	TPS	The year is 2098 and crime is rampant, good thing you're a cop with a badass transforming mecha. Spun off the Desert Strike series, but more action-oriented, its online mode is pretty much the first MOBA ever. May be tricky to run on modern systems, check PCGW for a fix (or just emulate the PS1 version).
	Giants: Citizen Kabuto	Action	3rd-person shooter vidya game with real-time strategy elements. Good blend of the genres, lots of humour one damn fine game! Get this unofficial update to make it run properly on Win10.	GOG Steam
	Grim Fandango	Adventure	Set in a day of the dead themed afterlife, Grim Fandango involves a Film-Noir style plot revolving around a salesman and a conspiracy in the Department of Death, an organization that helps guide souls from death to their eternal rest. Well known for its excellent in story, art style, music, characters, and dialog, this 3D adventure game is considered one of the finest in the genre. The version on sale digitally is the remastered edition. Not compatible with Win98/XP.	GOG Humble Steam
	Ground Control	RTS	RTS based only in combat and tactics, forget about building a base and gathering resources, the only thing that counts here is your ability to command your units. Now free to download.	Fileplanet GOG Steam
	Half-Life	FPS	Experiment goes wrong, portal to alien world opens, deadly creatures all around. Excellent sci-fi shooter that's aged decently. Interesting story and combat featuring a variety of military, scientific, and box opening weapons. Varied maps make for a must-play multiplayer experience. A metric fuckton of mods exist for this (get HD2 Pack and ReSrced for improved visuals). There are two expansions: Opposing Force and Blue Shift. Also, Decay is a co-op scenario originally from the PS2 version but fans have ported it to the PC. If you want more, there's also Uplink, a demo of the game that uses cut content not in the original. Alternatively, get Black Mesa for a modernized remake. Be sure to avoid Half-Life: Source, it's super buggy.	Steam
	Hardwar	Flight/Simulation	Most people have never heard of it, but this is a very cool flight simulator. The game is set in a colony called "Misplaced Optimism" on Saturn's moon Titan. You fly around vehicles called "moths" and can play many roles such as trader, dealer, crooked cop, and so on. The people of Misplaced Optimism have been abandoned on Titan so trading valuable resources is a huge part of the game. The soundtrack is another strong point, with music from Autechre, LFO, Squarepusher, and The Black Dog. Very cool game, shame it never took off in the States like it could have. gameplay vid	Steam
	Heart Of Darkness	Platformer	A brilliant platformer from the maker of Another World. You play as a boy who enters a land where darkness rules over all to save his captured dog, Whiskey. Even if it is a bit hard and sometimes unforgiving, it's a classic to have if you love late 90s platformers.
	Heavy Gear 2	Sim/Combat	Set in a alternative world where two opposing factions fight for control using mechs, they now have to unite to fight a common enemy (eh). Awesome customization, good quantity of mechs and weapons for you to use, and pretty fun side missions. Mandatory for any /m/an.Nearly impossible to run on anything this side of the year 2000. Like, seriously.
	Homeworld	RTS	Probably the first strategy game of its kind. Homeworld places you in control of a space armada in three-dimensional space, which makes for more strategic opportunities (like attacking your enemy's Mothership from two separate points on the z-axis). Gather resources from nearby asteroids, dust clouds, and nebulae, develop awesome technologies ranging from fast-tracking turrets to gravity well generators, and build space craft ranging from the fast but weak Scout, to the lumbering Heavy Cruiser. The game's single-player campaign places you in the control of a race of Exiles from the desert world of Kharak as they journey through the galaxy to find their once and future Homeworld, Hiigara, and reveal the past they have long forgotten.	Epic GOG Steam
	Homeworld: Cataclysm Homeworld: Emergence	RTS	Awesome game, despite not being made by Relic I it's one of the stronger entries in the series. You play a mining sect of the heroes from the first game who encounter a malevolent space virus that can infect both organisms and machinery! Uh oh, spaghettios! Familiar to the first with lots of new ships and upgrades not found in either part 1 or 2. Stuff like multibeam frigates, hive frigates, siege cannons, shields (actual FUCKING shields) and infected cruise missiles will make you jizz rainbows. None of this stuff makes it into part 2 for some stupid reason. Note: Homeworld: Cataclysm was renamed to Homeworld: Emergence once owned by Gearbox due to Blizzard owning the original trademark. Otherwise, it's the same game.	GOG
	Icewind Dale	RPG	(See Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn and PlaneScape: Torment) You have the ability to custom create your entire party. While this makes for a fun combat group, it takes away the unique character personalities that are present in other Black Isle games. The Icewind Dale series are purely combat oriented, forget about a memorable story or great dialogs, what counts here is to clean the dungeons of hundreds of beasts. The version on-sale digitally is the enhanced release, which someone people don't like. The GOG version does come with the OG release.	Epic GOG Humble Steam
	Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business	TBS/RPG	A turn-based, squad-level strategy game with a roleplaying aspect, excellent mechanics, and good storyline. High initial learning curve, but very solid gameplay once you're familiar with it. Its prequel, Jagged Alliance 2 has also an active community and a very popular unofficial JA2 v1.13 patch, which refurbishes the game with a fuckton of weapons and improvements. Great for satiating your inner /k/. It's the best in this genre. A unique jewel.	GOG Steam
	Jazz Jackrabbit 2	Run-and-Gun Platformer	The sequel to the classic DOS game. One of the highlights of PC platforming. Still maintains an active community today thanks to its adrenaline-packed multiplayer and flexible level editor.	GOG
	Jurassic Park: Trespasser	FPS, action-adventure, kusoge	Good news: you just survived a plane crash. Bad news: you're stranded on a remote island full of genetically engineered dinosaurs. Some call this the greatest game ever made, some call it a complete piece of crap. Fact is, it was insanely ambitious for the time. It had things like vast natural environments, a realistic physics engine, and complex enemy artificial intelligence, back when that was all new. But not only the devs had to figure out how to make all of that work, executive meddling forced them to release when it needed at least one more year in the oven. So it came out as a broken unfinished mess that flopped hard. And yet, its innovative features served as inspiration for games like Half-Life 2, Portal, Doom 3, Halo, and Far Cry. It has amassed quite the cult following, with a large modding community and fanbase attempting to bring the game's original vision to light so that the devs might be honored. Make of it what you will.
	King of Dragon Pass	Strategy	You've got the responsibility of your own village in Dragon Pass and your goal is to become the king of it. To your disposal you have a council that give you advice and a large quantity of options of how to control your village. It's all done using a text-based interface. Every time time passes it will occur an event which you will have to deal with. This can go from dealing with a duel-dispute to having your male villagers being kidnapped by females, then them being released after being raped, then the females coming back with the children.	GOG Humble Steam
	MDK2	Third person shooter / action-adventure	Space janitor Kurt Hectic has saved the world from the aliens... and five minutes later, another invasion begins. Fun 3rd Person Shooter with huge environments and 3 different player characters: Kurt brings back the sniping/gliding action, robot dog Max adds pure shooting, and mad scientist Doctor Hawkins adds puzzle stages. Humour and satire all throughout, great graphics and excellent music. It's also much, much more difficult than the first game. There's also an HD remake, but it got lots of complaints of glitches, so beware.	GOG Steam
	Mech Commander Gold	RTT, RTS	Yet another game based in the BattleTech universe. Can't say if the campaign was inspiring or not, but what beautiful luscious designs! If your mechs walk over trees, the trees tumble over. There are detailed tiny cities with cars that your mechs can wreak havoc upon. And the mulitplayer in this game was fantastic. In it's heyday, you could play on GameSpy or Microsoft's own online servers for control over each team's base. All this with non 3d-accelerated graphics that could run on your grandma's Pentium 133! In Mech Commander, you assume the role of a strategian who guides his predeployed mechs to victory. Unlike RTSes like Starcraft and Age of Empires, you do not mine for any resources. If you lose a mech, you hope that its pilot has ejected safely. Hence why 'Real-time Tactics' is more accurate than calling it RTS. Some mechs are better at sensing enemies in undiscovered territory versus other mechs. Some mechs can carry more weapons. You've got scouting mechs that are weak but fast, like the raven. A more defensive mech that's slow but packs a punch would be something like the Masakari, the Awesome, or the Atlas. Then you've got the always versatile Mad Cats that are obligatory in every Battletech game. There is quite a lot of variety to the weapons too: short range, mid range, long range, cannons, missiles, lasers, and more. Some have ammo limits, others have cooldown times. Mechs equipped with jump jets can climb over terrain that other mechs could not, much like reapers can in Starcraft 2. It is a very painstakingly detailed game with much depth. And it sure is a captivating foray into the Battletech world. TL:DR -- watch the intro and be mesmerized. "Don't think mech warrior. Find out." Note: Mech Commander Gold was an expansion to Mech Commander which added more mechs and a few extra levels.	Free
	Messiah	Action, Adventure, TPS	Messiah and Sacrifice, the last good games released by Dave Perry and his Shiny Ent. This game emanates some pretty weird vibrations. You play as a little cherub sent by God to clean up the corruption and sin on Earth. You are absolutely harmless and cannot harm a fly. You can easily be killed. Even flying is a bit of a problem, your tiny weak wings can't hold you for a long periods of time. Everything changes when you find a stronger and more dangerous body to possess. And you can invade and control the body of almost every NPC in the game. And that's where the fun part begins. Grimdark cyberpunk future setting, OST by Jesper Kyd and Fear Factory, fun puzzles and the Satan himself as the final boss of course. Recently, it was revealed that a certain ripoff lego game stole its death sound from the ending cutscene in Messiah. Here's a video. No editing.	GOG Steam
	Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor	RPG	First person RPG, party based. The mechanics are a bit outdated and teh graphcis are really ugly, but if you're a fan of the genre it offers a huge world to explore and gigantic dungeons filled with all kind of beasts.	GOG
	Motorhead: High Velocity Entertainment	Racing	A pretty cool futuristic arcade-style racer by DICE before they got Battlefield-famous. Warning: the Steam release is actually the inferior PS1 port under emulation.
	Myth II: Soulblighter	RTS	Like previous the installment, Myth II is a real-time tactics where players are given a pre-determined selection of units with their own strengths and weakness, without the option to recruit any further units later in battle, emphasizing the strategy aspect of the gameplay.
	Nocturne	Survival Horror	A survival horror game in the vein of Resident Evil/Silent Hill. Great atmosphere and genuine chills. Controls are a bit clunky but work well enough once you get used to them. The first Blair Witch game is a psudo-sequel to this if you want more.
	Nox	Action RPG	Very good Diablo clone, character class making a large difference to the game experience. Multiplayer is spiced up with customisable magic traps and co-op scenario levels. Quirky art and story that will stick with you. Also, you have 360 degrees of movement (instead of 8 directions like Diablo), ability to jump, and a field of vision effect that is better than Diablo as well. Includes a cool soccer multiplayer mode, a drag and drop hot-key system that makes multiplayer quick and furious, and a nifty quest expansion that is free but you have to download seperately. Official servers are dead, so you'll have to lan or go to one of several online communities. Use the OpenNox engine to run better on modern systems.	GOG
	Omikron - The Nomad Soul	Adventure	Go around a futuristic city possessing people to stop a serial killer. Features David Bowie (and his wife). From the designer who would later do Indigo Prophecy and Heavy Rain.	GOG Steam
	Outcast	Action/Adventure	The US government sent a probe to a parallel universe, but an accident created a phenomenon that threatens Earth. Now you must escort three scientists to the alien world to recover the probe and fix things. Awesome voxel engine, awesome soundtrack by Lennie Moore and The Moscow Symphony Orchestra, pretty solid plot with a twist, a large and beautiful world to explore, lots of quests. The latest unofficial patch fixes the Twon-ha riding and mud-slowdown bugs (works on both CD and DVD versions). You can find all you need at OpenOutcast and Planet-Adelpha.net. There's also a community patch that lets you play the game at resolutions up to 1280 by 1024 pixels, including regular HD, and claims to fix a few bugs. Grab it here (working download link on page 15).	GOG: Classic Remaster
	Pharaoh	City building	Ancient egyptian city building game. You lead a family to build cities all over ancient Egypt. Involves the usual quarry of providing services and goods to people of varying wealth along with some wild animals. Also includes custom missions with the expansion containing a mission editor. Fairly historically accurate.	GOG Steam
	Planescape: Torment	RPG	Widely regarded as THE BEST RPG ever made. This is a very dark, story driven game. D&D rules are present, using the Planescape setting, with an amazing multiverse world where Good verse Evil blended with Law verse Chaos: featuring philosophy, existentialism, demons, angels, order and chaos beings, etc. (See Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn and Icewind Dale for more game style details.)Although this game focuses more on the RPG/dialogue part and a bit less on the Action/Combat, the combat sections are still awesome like in BG I&II, featuring even "cutscene spells" ala FF summons. Features a wide varied cast of colorful and unique companions even for a D&D adventure. The music, writing and story in this game are objectively THE BEST of any other RPG. Period. Must Play for any D&D/RPG fan. Also recommended for Fallout fans. (same team) The version on-sale digitally is the enhanced release, which someone people don't like. The GOG version does come with the OG release.	Epic GOG Humble Steam
	Quake III Arena	FPS	Arena combat improved, populated, and perfected. Fast paced combat that demands mastering movement, spatial awareness, and every single weapon in the game. You'll need good hand-eye coordination, inhuman reflexes, the ability to read your opponent's mind, and yes, even a little bit of strategy. And that's just to get a 1:1 kill/death ratio. If you think you're hot shit at Team Fortress 2 or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, you need to test your mettle in Quake. You could play this game for a decade and still be mediocre. Still has a thriving competitive and pro scene today. Quake 3 was re-released as f2p Quake Live, with slightly watered down weapon balance and a skill matchmaking system to make sure your butt and ego are still intact after your first few games, but that was changed back into a paid game so it's pointless now. If you start to get good, try the Quake 3 mod CPMA (Pro-Mode. Basically Quake 3 on crack). There's a few source ports since the source code was released a while ago. check out ioquake3 or quake3e.	GOG Humble Steam
	Rayman 2: The Great Escape	Platformer	The Glade of Dreams was invaded, and our magical limbless hero Rayman must awaken a long-asleep deity to kick the evil Robo-Pirates back to their planet. No doubt one of the best 3D platformers out there, with very colorful graphics, a sweet jazzy soundtrack, fun gameplay, and tons of exploring to do. Note: this is a souped-up port from the Nintendo 64 version, so it lacks the extras from the Dreamcast or the improved visuals from the PS2.	GOG
	Recoil	Vehicular Combat / Arcade	You control a flying tank. If that doesn't tickle your fancy, maybe this video will. Made by Zipper Interactive, the guys behind the SOCOM series of shooters, and based Westwood.
	RollerCoaster Tycoon	Sim	You own a crappy theme park, it's up to you to add new attractions and build awesome roller coasters, while (usually) managing money, to make the park better. While a sandbox would've been nice, there are a lot of scenarios to triumph over, so this one will last a long time. (Pick the Scenario "Arid Heights" for a money free, pretty much sandbox mode.) RCT2 has more ride options and custom scenarios. However the default scenarios suck ass. All the RCT1 scenarios for RCT2 can be found online with some searching. The RTC1 scenarios can be imported into OpenRCT2.	GOG Humble Steam
	Rune	Action	You are a viking warrior, seeking revenge against the evil god Loki, who killed all your friends and is trying to bring forth the end of the world. A gritty fantasy-themed 3D hack and slash with some platforming and much exploration, a style that was quite popular at the time (similar games come to mind: Dark Vengeance, Die by the Sword, and Severance: Blade of Darkness). While it starts slow, it soon gets pretty intense, the levels are large, and the game really does not hold your hand. From the makers of Prey. Was ported to the PS2, but is a bit strip down compared to the PC release.	GOG Steam
	Sacrifice	RTS/Action	Sacrifice provides a truly fresh approach in the 3-D RTS genre, allowing players to act as both commander and combatant over huge, real-time, generated landscapes in single or multiplayer modes. Wizards will not be disappointed as Sacrifice serves up over 50 spells and creatures. Multiplayer can be played via LAN, TCP/IP, or private server. There is a manual patch (includes all fixes in Patch 3) which fixes the lobby bug and is required to play on the private multiplayer server. http://sacrifice.kicks-ass.net/	GOG Steam
	Sanitarium	Point 'n' click adventure	A point and click adventure game about a man who wakes up in an asylum, and must figure out what around him is real, and what exists only in his mind.	GOG Steam
	Shadow Man	Platformer, Action-adventure	Game based on an obscure comic book series of the same name. Think of it as a darker, scarier and gorier version of Mario 64 where you get to kill Jack the Ripper. Supports gamepads and works on XP/Vista and Win 7. The only modding you can do with this game is changing the texture, music and SFX files. Also available on PS1, N64 and Dreamcast. This and the DC version are the best, N64 is passable providing you have the expansion pak, PS1 version is slow and ugly and should be avoided. Has a sequel on PS2, but it's crap.	Epic GOG Humble Steam
	Shogo: Mobile Armor Division	FPS	An anime-styled game from Monolith's early days. Half the missions take place on foot; the other half have you stomping around cities in your mech.	GOG Steam
	Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri	TBS	Same folks who made the Civ. games. essentially Civ 2 in space, with a nice little story to it for the hardcore fans. A single player campaign follows the initial colonization up to different endings depending on what victory you go for. Play as one of a variety of factions (12 humans and 2 aliens, with 5 humans and the aliens coming in the expansion). You will be playing the game for quite some time depending on map size since it has a very expansive tech tree. Hell, you could probably make the tech tree into a good Asimov novel. Read through the descriptions and watch the animations--it'll change your perspective on reality.	GOG Steam
	Silver	Action/RPG	There's a bad guy called Silver who's kidnapped your wife right in front of you, and it's your job to get her back, and what better way than to kill every bad guy in sight using swords and magic? This isn't your average Action RPG. The controls based on mouse movements and button combinations makes it just that much better. As you can tell it isn't the story that is the drawing-point but rather the lovely characters, Fat Bob, and the enjoyable gameplay. Also on the Dreamcast.	GOG Steam
	Soldier of Fortune	FPS	Neo-Nazi terrorists stole four Russian nukes, it's up to a mercenary group to get them back. Incredibly violent, with realistic dismemberment effects. Recommended to get the Community Edition, as it adds new features and optimizes multiplayer.	GOG
	Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force	FPS	The year is 2376, a starship is stranded 70,000 light-years from home, and your job is protect the crew from the many unfriendly aliens on the way back. A great shootan from Raven (Hexen, Soldier of Fortune) with all the cast from the series, running on Quake III's engine. Be sure to check PCGW for fixes and improvements.	GOG
	Starcraft	RTS	Well-balanced RTS with probably the most challenging online/competitive scene of any game ever. This game is the national sport of South Korea. Despite its reputation as a hardcore RTS, Starcraft is relatively accessible for newcomers to the genre, featuring a great campaign. Fun turret defense and other scenario maps popular online. The community is, of course, still massive and very active. With the release of an HD remaster, the original version was made free.	Link
	Starsiege: Tribes	FPS	A overall great FPS featuring jetpacks and massive maps. Pretty much every weapon requires that you predict your enemy's movement in one way or another, and this combines with an ability to build up crazy speed, by skiing down hills and jetting to the next one, to make a plump and very rewarding learning curve. It's also free now, go download it!	Link
	System Shock 2	FPS/RPG	Survival Horror FPS-RPG Hybrid. Considered very scary and atmospheric. The game allows you to customize your character's stats and skills in various ways, allowing different game styles. For example playing the game like a "normal" fps without focusing on firearm-skills won't get you far, and you will most likely miss some areas/features accesable only to those with technical skills.  Those who find this too hard/scary/dated should look to Bioshock. If you're a fan of Deus Ex, and scary shit, you may love this game.	GOG Humble Steam
	The Longest Journey	Adventure	What Funcom was known for BEFORE the atrocity that was Age of Conan. The sequel, called Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, is tarnished by subpar combat mechanics, but both have incredibly amazing stories with snappy, and often hilarious, dialogue to boot (Mostly in the first game). To argue that these games are as tragic as Mother 3 and MGS3 would not be unreasonable.	GOG Humble Steam
	The Sims (series)	Sim	Holocaust: The Game. If you have ovaries, you will love this game.
	The Typing of the Dead	Typing	Actually, screw guns and shotguns. The keyboard is your gun and letters are your bullets. Yes, you heard me. Words come up in front of the zombies and you have to type them out with your keyboard in order to kill enemies. The Chariot fight is somehow even more intense now that you're paying attention to a story about bedwetting. Also on the Dreamcast.
	The Wheel of Time	Action, RPG, Strategy	Finally (for the time) a good action with RPG elements, and most importantly a really good story from the fantasy universe of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time book series; the game was made with the Unreal engine so expect a lot of good effect and atmospheric graphic even now.	GOG
	Thief: The Dark Project	Stealth	This is the game that made stealth games a viable genre. Play as cynical wisecracker Garrett as he goes around stealing shit from rich assholes and getting involved in big conspiracies. Great stealth mechanics. Made by the same folks who brought you Ultima Underworld I and the System Shock series, so you know its real good shit. Check out the PCGamingWiki's article if you want to enhance the game.	GOG Humble Steam
	Thief 2: The Metal Age	Stealth	Garrett continues his work through the city, trying to earn enough money to finally retire. Unfortunately for him, he keeps getting involved against his will in larger-than-life plots involving the corrupt police, crazy religious zealots and hippies. Graphics-wise, it's only marginally better than Thief 1 and the rest is almost the same. Where this game shines is in its level design: all the levels are very well designed, some of them are HUGE. All of them offer interesting challenges. It's arguably the best stealth game ever.	GOG Humble Steam
	Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation	Action-adventure	Lara explores Egyptian ruins and accidentally releases a long-imprisoned evil god. A return to form after the excessive difficulty of TR III.	GOG Humble Steam
	Turok 2: Seeds of Evil	FPS	You play as a new Turok, Joshua Fireseed. You gotta stop the praying mantis looking Primagen, who wants to destroy the entire goddamn universe. Holy shit. Less dinos this time around, but they're still there. Known for its fun gore, great enemy AI, and long ass sprawling levels. It gets real fucking bad by the time you get to the Primagen's lightship. The PC version includes a new soundtrack (same tunes, different instruments / arrangements), higher frame rates (though still capped at 30fps), and PC controls. Also on the Nintendo 64. The original PC version was released around the same time as the n64 version. The version on sale digitally is the 2017 remaster by Night Dive Studios. Its the definitive version of the game in pretty much every way. Includes a number of Quality-of-life improvements, tons of graphical options (including removing the fog), and some anti-frustration features like level warps and objective markers.	GOG Steam
	Unreal	FPS	A prison starship crash-lands on an unknown planet, and the sole survivor finds herself in the middle of the conflict between two alien races, one of brutal slavers and the other its rebelling subjects. Unreal looked stunning at the time, easily surpassing brown-tinted rival Quake II, and it still holds amazingly well. Its open levels truly give a sense of grandeur and alienation, unlike the typical cramped corridors of most older FPS titles (and many recent ones too). The tracker-based music is also renowned for its high quality. Be sure to get the free community patch featuring improved renderer and compatibility, along with Kentie's renderer and the S3TC textures. Also check the Unreal Evolution mod, which greatly tweaks the gameplay. NOTE: the game has been delisted from online stores, but authorized to be freely distributed. Use OldUnreal's masterserver guide for online play.	Link Link
	Unreal Tournament	FPS	On par with Quake 3 as one of the greatest online shooters ever to be created. Helped define the arena shooter genre to the masses with a large variety of weapons, imaginative maps that reached beyond Quake's cybergoth aesthetic. Also, lens flare errywhere. Despite its age, it still has an active online community, and a fuckton of maps and mods made by people over the years. There also may or may not be a /v/ server running at the time of writing this. Certainly overshadowed by its sequel, UT2004, but definitely something you need to play at least once. Modern Warfare and Halo kiddies, beware. Be sure to use Kentie's renderer and the S3TC textures. NOTE: the game has been delisted from online stores, but authorized to be freely distributed. Use OldUnreal's masterserver guide for online play.	Link Link
	Warhammer: Dark Omen	RTS	There's an eclipse that has awakened some bad motherfuckin' undead all over the warhammer fantasy universe. You're a mercenary out after some cash so you lead your army throughout the country chopping up the undead, goblins and bandits on your way to unravel the mystery for the emperor. The gameplay is similar to the Total War series but there is more focus on smaller amounts of units with special abilities. Be wary, though, this game is merciless, extremely fun, and hard. If you're a strategy enthusiast, then play this.
	Worms: Armageddon	Combat/TBS	You play as a team of worms with lots of guns, grappling hooks, etc., taking turns to blow the hell out of the enemy team of worms, similarly armed. Probably the best game in the series. Lots of fun, especially with someone else to play with.Online community plays a wealth of creative and fun gametypes. Still gets updates to this day.	GOG Humble Steam
	Yoot Tower / The Tower II	Simulation	Build and manage a high-rise. See if you can make a profit while keeping your tenants happy. Sequel to SimTower, from the same crazy guy who created Seaman and Odama. The MacOS release is the definite version, at least the English version. The Windows version has some glitches, less refined graphics, menus, and animations. The Kegon Falls maps is pretty much unplayable on Windows since there's glitch that crashes the game when a save file on for that map is loaded. This is regardless of any combination of Windows versions and hardware, real or virtual. No patch for the English version, official or fanmade, exists. If you know moonrunes, the Japanese version has additional maps and tons of in game addons that never made it over to the states. Including a tie-in with Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris. 99% of the content isn't compatible with the English release. For a modern spiritual successor, check Project Highrise.
	Zeus: Master of Olympus	Sim	Sierra goodness. Build a city in ancient Greece, protect the inhabitants from diseases, enemy armies and obtain the favour of the gods. Call in heroes to kill mythical creatures that estabilished on your land, and stuff like that. The "Zeus Gold" edition and the GOG release include the expansion Poseidon: Master of Atlantis.	GOG Steam