We wanted to do what felt like a thousand years: a ranking of the top 100 games according to GameStar’s opinion. But there was always something in between: hairdressing appointments, Gamescom, Christmas, Seehofer. You know that. But now the time has finally come. Although … not quite. Because we’re not people who do things by halves and GameStar is celebrating its 250th edition this month (in stores from July 18), we thought: Everyone can do 100, but we can 250! And that’s why we’re now starting with the 250 best PC games of all time, according to the GameStar editorial team.
Annotation:GameStar has now selected the 100 best PC role-playing games of all time in a separate list.
Why our Top 250 is Bullshit: A guest comment from Christian Schiffer
First we made a pre-selection from around 500 games . Including classics that GameStar never tested because they were released long before the first edition. Of course, the games with the highest GameStar ratings, of course. But also titles that didn’t get 90, but are still outstanding. From this we then determined the best 250 games based on an extensive survey in the editorial team – including various runoffs. Now it’s done. The 250 are fixed. And we are very happy with the result. Unless we’re gossiping about our completely unsuspecting colleagues .
Spurned hits: These 25 games were missing from the ranking
Of course, our list does not claim to be universally valid, it is the purely subjective distillate of all GameStar editorial opinions – the voice of a trainee counted as much as that of the editor-in-chief. So if you miss PC games from the 80s, it’s simply because part of our team wasn’t born then. Do you have a different opinion than us? In our large reader survey of the best games, you were able to determine your own ranking list and win cool prizes: The results are surprising and worth discussing.
Community vote: These are the 250 favorite games of GameStar readers
We have presented the best games in our opinion on the following pages with sometimes smaller, sometimes larger, sometimes factual, sometimes anecdotal texts. Plus users can also look forward to lovingly produced retrospective videos with our ex-editors-in-chief Gunnar Lott and Christian Schmidt (now at Stay Forever ) for the top 10 . We hope you have as much fun reading and remembering as we do writing.
