2015 has been an astonishingly
good year for PC games. Whether you’ve been looking for a top-notch RPG
to sink a hundred hours into, or a quick lunchtime blast of multiplayer
brawling, PC games have offered something for every taste on a silver
platter this year. And there’s still more to come.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the amount of great games out there,
let PCGamesN help out. This is our guide to the best new and upcoming
games on PC. What's more, we’ve even rounded up the best games that came out in 2014, too.
The Best Released Games of 2015
Heroes of the Storm
It wasn’t going to be long until Blizzard entered the MOBA fray, and
Heroes of the Storm is their stab at taking on Dota and League of
Legends. Yet this 5v5 arena game isn’t just another Dota clone. Instead
Blizzard have made a game that is vastly more accessible than your
regular MOBA, whilst still tightly holding on to the core
characteristics of the genre such as complex heroes and memorising skill
sets.
The heroes in question are favourites chosen from Blizzard’s IPs
- Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft - and bring their unique approaches
to battle arenas that not only ask teams to defeat each other, but also
complete side-quests. Heroes of the Storm has multiple maps, each with
unique themes and quests built in to divide up your attention. One
requires you to power up a golem that can rampage through your enemy’s
base, whilst another allows you to transform into an unstoppable Dragon
Knight if you capture a shrine. Not only does this provide variety, but
it’s intensely fun.
Hearthstone
Blizzard’s incredibly popular card game took itself to another level in 2015 thanks to the impact of last year’s Goblins vs Gnomes expansion pack and the new Black Rock Spire adventure.
With a meta-game that’s constantly evolving and a buzzing community of
over 30 million players, Hearthstone is the liveliest game on PC.
Hearthstone isn’t interested in your capacity for trash talking
opponents, or flipping tables, or building card pyramids. It’s only
interested in your brain, and what it does when presented with part of a
deck at the start of a new turn. As a result, you know when you sit
down to play 15 minutes of Hearthstone that you’ll get a proper game in -
because it only does proper games. And that when you win, it’ll be a
real, cerebral victory. Your brain will have championed over somebody
else’s, simple as - and you’ll get to feel quietly smug for at least an
hour. Hearthstone is the best of you.
