The 15 Best Games on Steam
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God help me, I'm old enough to remember playing the original Call of Duty—just...Call of Duty, with no sequel number or modifier attached to it—on my dad's Windows computer, pointing, clicking, and keyboarding my way through a digitized World War Two. Who could forget the adventures of Private Martin? You went to boot camp so Gen Z could battle royale without a care in the world.
I didn't know any better, but I guess it was a hassle to stuff a CD-ROM into a computer tower every time I wanted to play—and technology answered. Enter Steam. The same year Call of Duty debuted, Steam arrived to answer a very 21st-Century question: What if my computer could hold all the games? If you snag a free subscription to Steam, the service allows you do download any title in its library to your PC and/or the cloud. (Sometimes for a fee, sometimes not. Depends on the game.) Easy, right? Right. Since there are approximately a billion games on Steam, we rounded up the best of them all. Just for you, private.
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Don't have an Xbox, or any allegiance to Microsoft? That should stop you from sinking my damn ship and stealing all my booty, you prick. Sea of Thieves is the best—and truly, the only—pirate game out there.
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Runescape is the OG MMORP, as well as my first and favorite venture into the genre. Runescape is still going strong with constant updates and a beautiful new world. You can even get some bonuses through Steam. Meet you in the wilderness, noob.
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While Elden Ring is my game of the decade so far, its PC port is far from perfect. That being said, Elden Ring is still an absolute masterpiece—and
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