Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

It's been an eventful decade for PC games, and it would be hard for you to summarise everything that's happened in the medium across the past ten years. Hard for you, but a day's work for us. Below you'll find our picks for the 50 best games released on PC across the past decade.

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The usually remote and mysterious Nate visited the RPS treehouse on Monday, and almost immediately work ground to a halt. Why? Because Nate challenged us with a question: what bits of modern technology could a person from the past figure out the workings of, just by observing and having a good think for a while? This immediately led to the counter-question "when and where in…

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Read this article about the very best free PC games and watch as capitalism collapses around you. There are enough that there's no reason you should ever spend money again.

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It wouldn't be a post-apocalypse without a diary piece. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is an old-fashioned roguelike that drops you into a crumbling world full of grumpy walking corpses. These zombies may be represented by a shambling ‘Z’, in keeping with the game’s ASCII origins. But they can also be rendered in gooey sprite form for ASCII-phobes. This is a cleaner-looking version that makes grass…

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The best free games are on PC, and if you want to know what the best 50 are then you've come to the right place.

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I don't like roguelikes and, like all real people, I was sick of zombies years ago. Plus, somehow in just a few years we've gone from having next to no survival games to having so many of the godforsaken things that you can barely move without tripping over a hunger bar. All this and the keyboard-heavy ASCII affectation would, you'd think, make for my nightmare…

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