The competitive mass online PC gaming market has exploded in the last ten or twenty years thanks to games like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Apex Legends, Starcraft and dear old Fortnite, but there’s far more to PC gaming than having your butt handed to you at PUBG by a Korean 12-year-old.įew things absorb you like the pleasure of a good single-player PC game. That’s the effect the best single-player PC games can have on a developing and impressionable brain. Many formative gaming memories have been made while plugged into this magic box of fun, so much so that many full-grown adults will see the ‘W’ key not as a letter but as a symbol representing ‘forward’, or else think that the space bar’s primary function is simply to make your character jump. Even now, many gamers’ first foray into the wonderful world of pixelated adventure was not via the Xbox, the PlayStation or any number of Nintendo’s child-friendly consoles, but instead through the humble personal computer.

Best free single player games.