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THE BEST PC GAME OF 2023


CYBERPUNK 2077: PHANTOM LIBERTY, DIABLO 4, ALAN WAKE 2 AND BALDUR’S GATE 3 WERE
AMONG THE BEST PC GAMES OF THE YEAR, BUT WHICH TOOK THE TOP PRIZE?


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Posted: Dec 14, 2023 4:00 pm



In a time when just about everything (other than Nintendo games) is coming out
on PC alongside the Xbox and PlayStation (eventually), it’s become the great
intersectional platform. There are games that are only on PC, games that are on
PC and Xbox but not PlayStation, games that are on PC and PlayStation and not
Xbox, and games that are on PC and Switch but neither Xbox nor PlayStation. That
means there was a terrifically wide range of nominees in the running for PC Game
of the Year for 2023 – including quite a few that would’ve easily made this list
if they’d come out in any of the past several years instead. What stands out is
that, in a conversation that spanned all genres, RPG dominated the top of the
list almost entirely – but each of them is wildly different from the others.






THE BEST PC GAME OF 2023

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RUNNER-UP: CYBERPUNK 2077: PHANTOM LIBERTY

What a run Cyberpunk 2077 has had. When you consider its initial rocky and
divisive launch in the final days of 2020 (when it was very clearly at its best
on PC) all the way to this past September’s near-universally acclaimed
redemption thanks to its spectacular Phantom Liberty expansion – the reason it
was eligible for this award – and the accompanying 2.0 revamp patch, there are
only a handful of games that can claim to have won back gamers’ love after
letting so many down. But this spy story, which stars the likes of Idris Elba
and features the return of Keanu “No, You’re Amazing” Reeves, earned that label
by touching on the mature themes of near-future technological paranoia in its
many morally gray scenarios you must weigh in on. All of that takes place in a
brand-new section of Night City that’s loaded with environmental storytelling
and hidden quests waiting to be uncovered, and all of it makes a replay of the
entire original story – complete with a new ending exclusive to Phantom Liberty
– feel inevitable.

All of that is true no matter where you play Phantom Liberty, but CD Projekt Red
deserves special mention for fully leaning in on PC and pushing graphics
technology to make use of today’s highest-end GPUs.


RUNNER-UP: DIABLO 4

There’s never been a Diablo game that wasn’t best played on PC, and Diablo 4 is
no exception. Instead of seeking to reinvent or revolutionize the gameplay that
this hack-and-slash action series is synonymous with, Blizzard doubled down on
returning to the dark and gritty look and feel of the first two entries and
combining that with the fast, fun, and extremely polished gameplay, rewarding
loot, and synergistic class builds of a post-Diablo 3 action-roleplaying game.
Even where its post-launch support has left room to improve upon going forward,
what we got at launch was a fantastic experience that brought together old
Diablo fans and new ones to create new characters and fight our way through a
strong story campaign against Lilith and her minions.


RUNNER-UP: ALAN WAKE 2

For a long time – more than a decade – it seemed as though Alan Wake 2 would
never happen. Could never happen. The original game is, appropriately, a gaming
cult classic; an unconventional third-person action game that created a world in
which a crime-thriller writer had to battle against his own creations. The idea
that such a weird idea could get a big-budget sequel in today’s games industry
seemed improbable at best. Yet not only did it happen, as our reviewer put it,
it “delivers one of the boldest and most brain-bending survival horror
storylines this side of Silent Hill 2, presents it with uniformly immaculate art
direction and audio design, and reinvigorates the series’ signature light-based
shooting as though it’s been locked and loaded with a fresh pack of Energizers.”
Who doesn’t love an underdog story like that?




BALDUR’S GATE 3 IS OUR PICK FOR THE BEST PC GAME OF 2023. BUT WHAT IS YOUR PICK?

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WINNER: BALDUR’S GATE 3

It might’ve seemed inevitable, given that Baldur’s Gate 3 received a 10 in its
review where the other three you just read were “mere” 9s, but a review is just
the opinion of one person. To win any of IGN’s game of the year categories a
game needs to strike a chord with a broad audience and bring in the majority of
votes from the dozens of our staff who identify as PC gamers – and in 2023, it’s
fair to say that the odds of that were stacked against a turn-based fantasy CRPG
that was heavily inspired by BioWare classics of old, the likes of which had all
but disappeared after the genre’s original leaders chased more action-oriented
audiences.

But if anybody could accomplish this heroic feat, it’s Larian: a studio that,
with the extremely popular Divinity: Original Sin 2, had already proven its team
could craft the sort of epic-scale adventure that reacts to our decisions in
compelling ways that so many of us will line up to sink entire work-weeks of
hours into, even if it meant buckling down and learning the ways of a deep
turn-based combat system that rewards patience and tactical thinking. With
Baldur’s Gate 3, it proved that it was just getting started.

There simply aren’t any other RPGs out there that can match the scope and scale
of Baldur’s Gate 3 when it comes to complex, well-written characters that will
challenge you with choices that make you sweat because you’ve learned the hard
way that your choices matter, much less presenting so many of them in such an
elaborate level of cinematic detail. With this much ambition on display, it’s no
wonder that so many are willing to brave the hazards of harrowing bug reports
and forge ahead with their adventures, especially as Larian continually inspires
confidence with frequent and aggressive patches. It’s that kind of unwavering
dedication to what this type of RPG can and should accomplish that inspires the
loyalty of gamers, including those on IGN’s team of voters who – by a wide
margin – selected it as our PC game of the year for 2023.


THE 2023 IGN AWARDS

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 * Best Stunt of 2023
 * Best Anime of 2023
 * Best Action Game of 2023
 * Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movie of 2023
 * Accessibility Innovation in Games in 2023
 * Best RPG of 2023
 * Best PC Game of 2023
 * Best TV Show of 2023
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 * Biggest "Holy F**k" Moment of 2023
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