The 19 Best PC Games of the 1990s

Beige boxes, floppy disks and games that swallowed whole weekends. Genre-defining shooters share the shelf with point-and-click oddities.

1. 1
   Half-Life

   Valve's 1998 first-person shooter that fused story and action.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Doom

   id Software's 1993 shooter that defined the genre.
   703pts
3. 3
   The Secret of Monkey Island

   1990 LucasArts pirate point-and-click adventure.
   632pts
4. 4
   StarCraft

   Blizzard's 1998 real-time strategy classic.
   534pts
5. 5
   Quake

   1996 fully 3D shooter with groundbreaking online play.
   534pts
6. 6
   SimCity 2000

   1993 city-building simulation.
   437pts
7. 7
   Grim Fandango

   1998 LucasArts noir adventure.
   437pts
8. 8
   Myst

   1993 puzzle adventure that sold millions.
   379pts
9. 9
   Fallout

   1997 post-apocalyptic isometric RPG.
   379pts
10. 10
    Planescape: Torment

    1999 story-driven RPG.
    379pts
11. 11
    Unreal Tournament

    1999 arena shooter.
    312pts
12. 12
    Command & Conquer

    1995 Westwood RTS that popularised the genre.
    312pts
13. 13
    Tomb Raider

    1996 action-adventure starring Lara Croft.
    312pts
14. 14
    X-COM: UFO Defense

    1994 turn-based alien-invasion strategy.
    235pts
15. 15
    Thief: The Dark Project

    1998 first-person stealth pioneer.
    235pts
16. 16
    Duke Nukem 3D

    1996 humorous action shooter.
    146pts
17. 17
    Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness

    1995 Blizzard RTS.
    146pts
18. 18
    Heroes of Might and Magic III

    1999 fantasy strategy.
    0pts
19. 19
    Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings

    1999 RTS across the Middle Ages.
    0pts

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