New to PC gaming game ideas

So most of my life I have been playing games on PlayStation and will always love their consoles. I recently upgrade my PC so I will be able to play games that either were never released on consol or was Xbox exclusively.

I am asking what are some good games that never went to PlayStation? Example I am thinking of is civilization V. I am not looking for games that look/play better on PC if it also came out on PlayStation just stuff I am missing out on.

Thanks

I would check out Starcraft 2 (RTS), Orcs Must Die 1/2 (Wave defense) , Faster Than Light (Fuckin' hard), Papers Please (bureaucratic simulator), Total War: Rome 2 (RTS mass combat and turn based management world conquer sim). Dota 2, LoL, Smite for MOBAs. If you don't mind old graphics and wonky control schemes the RPG Gothic I think is fantastic.

• Alan Wake (Never on PS) Incredible Lighting
• Left 4 Dead (Never on Playstation)
• Left 4 Dead 2
• Bastion (Never on Playstation)

The Witcher 1 and 2 and great and are only on PC......Actually, I believe 2 did eventually end up on 360 and was actually a pretty good looking port, but play it on PC anyway.

Don't play Alan Wake, it's a terribly boring game.

I'm only kidding bigjeffrey.....kinda.

Magicka: Cast spells by combining 8 elelments....pretty fun solo or co-op

Dust An Elesian Tale:

Super Meat Boy: Best 2d platformer around

Torchlight 2:

The Witcher 2

Alan Wake: Its worth playing, combat can be tedious but its wrapping is great

Orcs Must Die 1/2: A million times this....so fun and addictive

Hard Reset!

- DCS World

- Falcon BMS

- Euro Truck Simulator 2

- Shogun 2: Total War

- Company of Heroes

- Wargame series

- Team Fortress 2

- Counter Strike

- Chivalry

- Insurgency

- Europa Universalis 4

- Portal series

- Arma 2

- Bethesda games with mods

- Jagged Alliance 2

- Garry's mod

- Guild Wars 2

All I can think of right now.

Paper Sorcerer is a fun little RPG dungeon crawler.

Dungeons of Dredmor is a rougelike dungeon crawler that is one of my favorite games

Banished is a town builder with resource management (and reasonably difficult)

Binding of Isaac is a Zelda-like with perma-death

Antichamber is a mindfuck of a first person puzzle platformer

If you like point and click adventure games the Blackwell games are fun and decently well written, and there are a wealth of opder P&C titles from the 90's that are enjoyable.

I'm just going to mention The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim in here. I know it was a game you had access to on PS3, but considering that version had significant issues, plus the impact the mod community has had on the PC version of the game, transforming it into a far better game than it ever was before, earns it a mention here.

That said, I'd also recommend this mishmash, hodgepodge of games:

• Alan Wake
• Antichamber
• Aquaria
• Bastion
• The Binding of Isaac
• Broforce
• Broken Age
• Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
• Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
• Dust: An Elysian Tail
• FTL
• Gone Home
• Guild Wars 2
• Gunpoint
• Iron Brigade
• Kerbal Space Program
• Mark of the Ninja
• McPixel
• Orcs Must Die! 2
• Papers, Please
• Path of Exile
• Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
• Risk of Rain
• Samurai Gunn
• Sanctum
• Savant Ascent
• Shadow Warrior
• Skulls of the Shogun
• The Stanley Parable
• State of Decay
• Super Meat Boy
• The Swapper
• Teslagrad
• Titanfall
• Total War: Shogun 2
• Vessel
• War Thunder

I'd also give Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare a look once it comes to PC in June. I've been having a blast playing it, and it's shown itself to have a surprising amount of depth despite its cartoony, family-friend aesthetic.

Keep in mind these reflect my personal taste and habits. There are many classics I don't mention largely because I'm not the person to recommend them. I tried to stick as closely to non-Playstation as possible but man are a lot of games really best played on PC.

Point and Click Adventure Games:

• Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
• Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revent Special Edition
• Broken Age
• Puzzle Agent 1 + 2
• Sam & Max Save the World (+ Beyond Time and Space and The Devil's Playhouse)
• Machinarium
• Botanicula
• Time Gentlemen, Please! (included with Ben There, Dan That!)
• The Wavy Tube Man Chronicles (good enough without a dedicated lightgun category)

First Person Action, Classic and Otherwise

• Doom 1 + 3
• Quake 1 + 2 + 3
• Wolfenstein 3D
• Half-Life + Opposing Force
• Counter-Strike 1.6 + Source + Go
• Unreal Tournament + UT2004
• Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
• Metro 2033
• The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
• Zeno Clash
• F.E.A.R.
• Left 4 Dead 1 + 2
• Killing Floor
• Star Wars: Republic Commando
• Team Fortress 2
• Cryostasis

First Person Exploration/Puzzle

• Gone Home
• Proteus
• Amnesia: The Dark Descent
• Antichamber
• Miasmata
• Jazzpunk
• The Stanley Parable

Third Person Action/Adventure

• Max Payne 1 + 2 + 3
• Alan Wake + Alan Wake's American Nightmare
• Bully: Scholarship Edition

Platformers + 2D Action/Adventure

• Super Meat Boy
• And Yet It Moves
• Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers
• VVVVVV
• Mark of the Ninja
• Super House of Dead Ninjas
• Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
• Risk of Rain

RPG

• The Witcher 1 + 2
• Elder Scrolls: Oblivion + Skyrim (mods really make this a recommend)
• STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl
• STALKER: Call of Pripyat
• The Legend of Grimrock
• Knights of the Old Republic
• Diablo 2 or 3 + expansions
• Bastion
• Torchlight 1 or 2

Puzzle

• Peggle
• Bejeweled 3
• Audiosurf
• Puzzle Quest
• Osmos
• World of Goo
• Cook, Serve, Delicious!
• Icarus Proudbottom Teaches Typing + World of Typing Weekly
• Octodad: Dadliest Catch (assuming you don't have a PS4)
• Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine

Tower Defense

• Iron Brigade
• Orcs Must Die 1 + 2
• Sanctum
• Defense Grid: The Awakening

Strategy/Tactics

• Civ 5 + expansions
• StarCraft II + expansions
• Darwinia
• Tropico 3 or 4
• World In Conflict
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II + expansions
• Endless Space
• Crusader Kings II

Simulators and "Simulators"

• Surgeon Simulator 2013
• Goat Simulator
• Euro Truck Simulator 2013

Great lists here, i will test few of them for sure!

+1 For

• Tropico 3 or 4

Is boring! Have we had this conversation before?

OK, seriously, if you're looking for a shooter that looks fantastic and you like Blade Runner, then Hard Reset is worth playing. I just didn't like it much.

PC gaming's first and foremost strength isn't really the extra power behind it, it's all the fun crazy games that wouldn't be published on other platforms. There's no better place to play Minecraft, for instance.

• Antichamber and The Stanley Parable have been given quite a bit of praise.
• Shadow Warrior took what I liked about Hard Reset (e.g. it's fucking gorgeous) and fixed what I didn't like (e.g. it's actually quite fun).
• Might and Magic X: Legacy is a really accessible version of first person dungeon crawlers, a genre that practically died in the West. Legend of Grimrock is a real-time, more dungeon-y version of that worth checking out, it's the game that kick-started the genre back to something resembling life.
• QUBE is another fun bite-sized first person puzzle game.
• FEZ, Dust, The Swapper, and Rogue Legacy are all some very impressive 2D indie games.
• STALKER is worth a shot, thought it's pretty buggy and has some problems
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic never appeared on a Sony platform
• The Witcher 1 and 2 aren't on Playstation
• Torchlight 2 if you like Diablo
• Diablo 3 if you like loot

...and I could keep thinking of stuff if I didn't need to turn this computer off. Just search, you're guaranteed to find something fun on Steam if you like video games or have a beating heart.

Thanks duders lots of games I never even heard of. Keep them coming!

@jamin724: Even though Skyrim came out on PS3 and you may have played it already, I'd highly recommend buying it on Steam for all the amazing mods in Steam Workshop. That PS3 port was the absolute worst.

Also, it could help give you some experience in .ini editing if at all interested. That in it's self is like a meta game, trying to make games look better than intended.

What GPU do you have?

Holy balls, those are some extensive responses. I just want to say Arcanum again... always does and alway will. And dive into the deepest pits of PC hell why dont'ya, EVE online, Dwarf Fortress and Euro Truck Simulator. The kind of strange beings that made me go from console to PC in the first place.

@pimblycharles: Sorry I do not know anything about .ini editing at all or even know what that is or any kind of moding knowledge I just started on PC. I have this for a GPU.

Good choice for a GPU! You'll be able to run most modern and upcoming games maxed out, graphics wise, with at least a steady 30-60fps.

I think modding is the real advantage to PC gaming. Steam makes it really easy to mod certain games that use Steam Workshop. If the game supports it, just subscribe to whatever mod you want and play the game. Steam will automatically install the files needed.

.INI editing is usually used to adjust certain settings (variables) to make the game look better than intended. It's for graphic snobs or to make the game run better.

Here's some more suggestions for games:

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

Just Cause 2 (especially with the multiplayer mod)

Metro Last Light

Some excellent lists there guys!! :D

Don't forget about Emulators though too, now you have a PC you can also emulate Amiga/Atari/Nes/Xbox/PS games too, give you another 1000 games to play or so :D

Halo 1 & 2 are good.