Here are the nominees for PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted
In less than a month, we’ll air the next edition of the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted.
If you missed it last year, this end-of-year edition of the PC Gaming Show has a slightly different format: it presents a countdown of the 25 Most Wanted games as selected by a special panel of voters called The Council. This special group includes high-profile game developers like Brenda Romero, John Romero, David Gaider, Tanya X. Short, Soren Johnson, and Brian Fargo, as well as some of our favorite content creators—CohhCarnage, Esfand, Missmikkaa, AnnieFuchsia, DansGaming, and others—who lend their opinions to the process. Likewise, the entire PC Gamer team adds its votes to the pile.
If you’ve seen those “most anticipated” lists, Most Wanted is like if one of those turned into a big-budget, goofy TV show hosted by the delightful Frankie Ward, who’s been one of the faces of the PC Gaming Show since 2018. As we prepare to turn the calendar into 2025, we hope this broadcast helps you filter through the constant avalanche of games coming to PC and pick out what’s truly wishlist worthy.
To watch the countdown as it airs, tune into the broadcast on the PC Gamer Twitch channel, YouTube, Twitch Gaming, Steam, or Bilibili at 12 pm PST / 8 pm GMT on December 5.
How we selected the nominees
The long list of more than 100 unreleased games below are selected by the PC Gamer team based on our collective interest in these projects. We take into consideration everything from that game’s profile, premise, initial reception, the number of wishlists it’s garnered, and its creative direction, among other factors. It’s important to us that the Most Wanted list is not simply a popularity contest, however—we make a point of putting a wide range of projects that haven’t been widely noticed in front of our voting panel, to make sure a spectrum of games that represent the breadth, weirdness, and experimental nature of PC gaming are represented.
Games releasing before January 1, 2025 or that are already released in Early Access are not eligible for voting (though there is an exception or two, like Arma Reforger, which is a precursor to what will become Arma 4).
The long list is limited to around 100 games; as capable as The Council is, we can’t ask this group of people to vote on every game in existence (especially in a year when an average of 39 new games per day release on Steam). Although the list necessarily excludes many of the hundreds of unreleased games coming to PC, all voters also have the opportunity to nominate any game that they feel should be voted on by the wider group.
How the final Most Wanted list is selected
Voters vote on a 1-5 scale, using the following criteria:
5 • Maximum hype. Intense, obsessive interest in this game.
4 • This game looks excellent to me.
3 • I think this game looks really good.
2 • This game looks promising and captures your interest.
1 • Mildly optimistic. You’re curious about this game, but not more than that.
0 • (Abstain / no vote)
- We use a consideration called Release Certainty to weight the score of each game relative to how certain we are of that game hitting its announced release date. If a game has a nebulous release date or none at all, its score is weighted lower—it’s difficult to fully anticipate a game when it’s unclear when it’ll actually be available.
- The number of votes a game received is an additional weighting factor
The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted 2024 nominees
Path of Exile 2
Deltarune
Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
DOOM: The Dark Ages
Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater
Project 007 (working title)
ARK 2
The Thing: Remastered
Citizen Sleeper 2
Big Walk
PVKK
Wolverine
Blade
Wonder Woman
Tenjutsu
Kingmakers
Crescent County
Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra
Menace
s&box
Nivalis
Monaco 2
Killing Floor 3
Little Nightmares 3
Arma 4
D.O.R.F. Real-Time Strategic Conflict
Judas
Sumerian Six
Avowed
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Titan Quest 2
Mariachi Legends
Atomfall
Witchbrook
Den of Wolves
Light No Fire
Streets of Fortuna
Beautiful Light
Borderlands 4
Dying Light: The Beast
Mafia: The Old Country
Haunted Chocolatier
Grand Theft Auto 6
Slay the Spire 2
Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
Monster Hunter Wilds
Skate
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Perfect Dark
Dune: Awakening
Sid Meier’s Civilization VII
Masters of Albion
Goat Simulator Remastered
darkwebSTREAMER
Marathon
Wrekless
State of Decay 3
Blight: Survival
2XKO
Among the Wild
Generation Exile
Gears of War: E-Day
ARC Raiders
Sand
Fable
Battle Aces
Exodus
Eclipsium
Dungeonborne
Gothic 1 Remake
Eternal Strands
Quartermaster
Fairgame$
Exoborne
Dread Dawn
Marvel Rivals
Project C
Cairn
Wanderstop
Project DOSA
Hyper Light Breaker
Usual June
Nightmare Operator
Twisted Tower
Kiborg
Miegakure
Canyons
The Sinking City 2
The Looter
Skin Deep
Mixtape
Cruel
Paperhead
Subnautica 2
Wreckfest 2
Splitgate 2
Aquametsis
Descenders Next
All Systems Dance
The Outer Worlds 2
South of Midnight
FUMES
Truckful
Super Fantasy Kingdom
Heart of the Machine
God Save Birmingham
