Best PC Games of 2009
2009 was a pretty memorable year for many reasons. The pet pig craze made everyone want to go out and replace their pooch or pussy with a pig small enough to fit into a teacup. Undeniably adorable when babies, little did these new pig parents know that they would grow up to be pretty big and quite problematic house guests.
This is the year when Taylor Swift’s MTV Video Music Awards speech was rudely interrupted when Kanye West butted in to declare Beyoncé more deserving of the award. Unable to finish her speech, Swift got another opportunity later in the night when invited up on stage by Beyoncé.
Other memorable events includes the death of Michael Jackson only weeks before his big comeback at the O2 in London, and the break-up of Brit-Pop royalty Oasis. Sexting also became kind of a big deal, with people finally able to succinctly describe the act of sending saucy text messages.</p><p>2009 was also a pretty good year for PC games, the best of which you’ll see in the list below.
- All Genres Action Action Adventure Action RPG Adventure Arcade Battle Royale Beat 'em Up Board Games Card Casual City Builder Collection Combat Dance Educational Family Fantasy Fighting First Person First-Person Shooter Fitness Flight Football Horror Indie Management Massively Multiplayer Massively Multiplayer Online Metroidvania Mini Game MOBA Multiplayer Music Open World Party Pinball Platformer Puzzle Quiz Racing Real-time Retro Roguelike Roguelite RPG Science Fiction Shoot 'em Up Shooter Side-scroller Simulation Singing Soccer Space Sport Sports Stealth Strategy Survival Survival Horror Tactical Third Person Turn Based Virtual Pet Virtual Reality Visual Novel Wrestling
- All Platforms 3DO Android Apple II Atari 2600 Atari 5200 Atari 7800 Atari 8-bit Atari Lynx Atari ST Atari XEGS Classic Macintosh Commodore / Amiga Dreamcast Game Boy Game Boy Advance Game Boy Color Game Gear Gameboy Advance GameCube Genesis Google Stadia iOS Jaguar Linux macOS Neo Geo NES Nintendo 3DS Nintendo 64 Nintendo DS Nintendo DSi Nintendo Switch PC PlayStation PlayStation 2 PlayStation 3 PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 PS Vita PSP SEGA 32X SEGA CD SEGA Master System SEGA Saturn SNES Test Platform Web Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One Xbox Series S Xbox Series S/X Xbox Series X
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Infinity Ward continues its Killstreak.Reviewed on: 11 November 2009
Platforms: macOS, PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One
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Plants vs. Zombies
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Platforms: Android, iOS, Nintendo DS, PC, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, Xbox 360, Xbox One
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Need for Speed: Undercover
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Platforms: iOS, Nintendo DS, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
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95
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony
Cements Rockstar's status as King of the DLC.Reviewed on: 03 November 2009
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
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Empire: Total War
The biggest, grandest Total War yet.Reviewed on: 12 March 2009
Platforms: Linux, macOS, PC
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910
Colin McRae: DiRT 2
You'll want to get dirty.Reviewed on: 03 September 2009
Platforms: Nintendo DS, PC, PlayStation 3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
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Red Faction: Guerrilla
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Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
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912
PixelJunk Shooter
More than a shooter.Reviewed on: 27 November 2009
Platforms: Linux, macOS, PC, PlayStation 3
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915
Football Manager Live
The natural evolution of Football Manager.Reviewed on: 20 January 2009
Platforms: PC
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916
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
Supernatural FPS horror at its finest.Reviewed on: 10 February 2009
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
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Fallout 3: Broken Steel
War never ends.Reviewed on: 06 May 2009
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
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919
Shadow Complex
Super Metroid for the Gears of War generation.Reviewed on: 17 August 2009
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
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920
Minecraft
4J Studios has played its part in one of gaming's grandest success story with affable competence, allowing console owners to grab their tools and build something in Mojang's intricate and lovable world.Reviewed on: 07 May 2012
Platforms: Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One
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Batman: Arkham Asylum
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Platforms: macOS, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned
We'll never look at DLC the same way again.Reviewed on: 20 February 2009
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
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Resident Evil 5
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Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
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924
Fallout 3: The Pitt
Definitely NOT the pits.Reviewed on: 31 March 2009
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
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DEFCON: Global Thermonuclear War
Nuking your mates in the face has never been so strategic.Reviewed on: 15 June 2007
Platforms: Nintendo DS, PC
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