Best exclusive PC games?

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classic and nostalgia

Basically everything RTS / strategy.

eg. Age of Empires -series, Civilization series.

Europa Universalis IV, Warhammer total war II, Legend of Grimrock, Gothic. Lots of great PC only strategy games & RPGs out there.

Factorio.

Additional based option: 100% Orange Juice

The best PC exclusives make enough money that they can port their games to consoles and then they no longer qualify as PC exclusives. RTS and Point & Click games often don't translate well to console. Games with excessive amounts of sex and violence often can't get approved for release on consoles but these also tend to not be very good. Nobody is paying money to keep a game exclusive to PC so most games worth playing either are not PC exclusives or they won't be for long. Early access, beta testing, and demos might be more readily available on PC for what that's worth.

As others said, many, many point and click adventure games and real time strategy games were inherently exclusive, many "AA" games from the past~2 decade as well.

Plus, any "ism" is just sick.

Yeah, down with tourism, fuck 'em >:D stupid drunk bachelor/ette parties.
We can also throw out altruism, positivism, humanism, pacifism and abolitionism.

Are all "ism" still just sick?

edit: Age of Mythology is really cool and afaik PC only. Same with Warlords Battlecry 3, they are both fun and unique strategy games.

Please, no "PCist" comments

Limiting to only PC exclusives is "PCist" by itself.

Ballistic NG and Distance for sure in my case, still get new content montly and have 400+hours on both games.

Command and Conquer series.

Years ago PC games were vastly superior because of the hardware. One example is Need for Speed 5: Porsche Unleashed. Now, we have genres that are superior because of mouse/keyboard. I played Sniper Elite 5 recently on Xbox Cloud Gaming and it sucks to play with a controller.

Original WH40K Dawn of War series, which is so cheap now for full series
Price comparison on GGDeals

Like others have mentioned before, good PC exclusives that are reasonably successful usually also make the jump to other platforms.

From the games I’ve played Apsulov: End of Gods, DiRT Rally, Wreckfest and The Forest are some examples I can recall. They all started on PC, sometimes in Early Access, but are also available on different consoles by now. Elderborn is supposed to release on consoles as well sometime in the future.

The Standalone Expansion Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Aiko's Choice is PC exclusive and Black Mesa will most likely also stay PC / Steam exclusive.

Half Life: Alyx

• New World
• GTFO
• Raft
• The Cycle
• Valheim
• Satisfactory
• V Rising
• Second Extinction
• Battletech
• Volcanoids
• Deadside
• Phasmophobia
• Icarus
• Total War series
• Ready or Not
• Barotrauma
• SCUM
• Big Foot
• Hardspace Shipbreaker
• Age of Empires 4
• Dread Hunger
• Mount & Blade: Bannerlord

Escape from Tarkov

StarCraft

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (2007)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky (2008)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (2009 CIS / 2010 World)

csgo lol nah joking but black mesa is really good , i dont think they ported it to ps and xbox
its the remake of hl1 and its for sale 5$ worth it <3

AOE II, maybe

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines and of course Project Zomboid

I think Driver:San Francisco...(However,for Driv3r,its predecessor,PS2 was the best platform).I think games that allow RayTracing might be played best on PC.GTAO is(was) a game that can/could be played better on PC as you can use controller for races and mouse+keyboard for the missions and stuff.

Sub Rosa game is a Steam exclusive.

Project Zomboid is pretty good, also pretty much all good strategy/tactical games are pc exclusives