![<h2>The Best Modern PC Games</h2>
<h3>(August 2020 Update)</h3>
<p>With 2020 more than halfway over, and plenty of great PC releases over the past couple of years, we thought it was high time to revisit our picks for the best PC games you can play right now.</p>
<p>To be clear, this list does not attempt to pick out the “best” or “most influential” PC games of all time, since comparing the gameplay of the original DOOM to its 2016 reboot isn’t exactly fair. Nor is it a list of the most popular games out there, or the top games in every genre. No, this is a list of games from the last decade that we at IGN – after plenty of internal debate – collectively recommend the most, based on our own tastes. Think of it as our staff’s personal recommendations to you for games we think you should play if you haven’t. To that end, these are our picks for the best modern PC games.</p>
<p>Let us know <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/best-pc-games#comments-section">in the comments</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/IGN">on Twitter</a> what made your list that didn’t make ours!” src=”https://assets-prd.ignimgs.com/2020/08/20/topmodernpcgames-slideshow-1597948371613.jpg?width=888&crop=16%3A9&quality=20&dpr=0.05″ class=”jsx-2920405963 progressive-image image jsx-28166087 expand loading”></div>
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the top five most played games on Steam are
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, New World, Halo Infinite, and Team Fortress 2. Halo Infinite surely contributed to the cause, as it is free-to-play and has been long-awaited by many around the world. Since its launch,
it has seen an all-time peak of 272,586 players on Steam alone.
Have you played Counter-Strike: Global Offensive?
Another big factor in Steam achieving this new all-time peak is that its Autumn Sale has begun, and it will offer fans big discounts on a ton of different games until December 1.
Steam’s concurrent player record has been constantly on the rise for some time now, and its new 27 million milestone is 10 million more than the 17,155,417 it was in November 2019.
Steam’s impressive 2021 is obviously built on the games that live in its store, and they have also shared in the platform’s success this year. For example, Team Fortress 2 broke its own Steam concurrent record after 14 years in 2021, and Final Fantasy 14 did the same without releasing anything new. Of course, there are many factors beyond just being on Steam that accounted for these achievements, but it’s worth applauding nonetheless.
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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.
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