The best new PC games 2021

What are the best new PC games 2021? Perhaps you have just been paid, bank account fat with virtual dosh, or you simply want to get caught up with the latest PC games because they are, well, new and shiny.

It is all well and good starting another daring round of PUBG, taking on a new 100-hour Football Manager save, or yet another The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim adventure but, as much as we love setting mammoths ablaze, there are plenty of the latest PC games that will more than supply your gaming fix. You don’t want to be the person who isn’t In The Know now, do you?

These days, new PC games pour onto Steam at a frankly dizzying rate, making it impossible to keep up with them all. Thankfully, us kind folk at PCGamesN have separated the wheat from the chaff when it comes to recent PC releases. So, below you will find every new PC games for which you should be saving up your pennies. This list is updated regularly to include the latest releases.

The best new PC games of 2021 are

CYBERPUNK 2077

We’ve waited patiently(ish) for so long – and now Cyberpunk 2077 is finally here. In CD Projekt Red’s open-world RPG game, you play as ‘V’; an up-and-coming mercenary looking to stamp their name on the crime-ridden, tech-soaked streets of Night City. The story, like many cyberpunk games before it, addresses the rampant acceleration of technology and the diminishing of humanity – and as Rich explains in our Cyberpunk 2077 review, “the main storyline is the best of them all, and appropriately enough, explores what it proposes as capitalism’s ultimate profanity: the appropriation of the soul itself.” Plus, Keanu Reeves’ performance as Johnny Silverhand is… no, we’re not going to say it.

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You can buy Cyberpunk 2077 at the Humble store here – and before you get started, we recommend checking out our Cyberpunk 2077 build guide, and brushing up on the Cyberpunk 2077 life paths you can choose from in the Cyberpunk 2077 character customisation.

IMMORTALS FENYX RISING

Ubisoft Quebec’s latest offering may exist in the same Grecian space as 2018’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, but Immortals Fenyx Rising leans further into the zanier elements of Greek mythology. The game sees the new winged demigod Fenyx set out on an adventure to rescue the gods from Typhon – the most powerful Titan of them all – after a doomed voyage sees their friends turned to stone, and their brother go missing.

This new title appears to draw a certain amount of inspiration from The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild, with Iain noting in his Immortals Fenyx Rising review that it incorporates “physics-based puzzles, a sprawling, natural open world, horses to tame, and a stamina bar that depletes as you run or climb a mountain.” If you do snatch up Breath of Olympus, but require a small nudge in the right direction when getting started, then you may want to take a peek at how to increase your stamina in Immortals Fenyx Rising.

CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS – COLD WAR

The most recent game in the annual Call of Duty series takes us back to the early 80s during the height of the Cold War – plot-wise, it’s a direct sequel to the first Call of Duty Black Ops game. The Call of Duty Cold War missions follow Russel Adler, a CIA officer in pursuit of a soviet spy called Perseus – and the campaign will take you to Turkey, Cuba, and even inside the KGB Headquarters.

Cold War also sees the return of the Zombies gamemode, plus a ton of new Call of Duty Cold War weapons to be refined in the Gunsmith so you can reign supreme in multiplayer. The guns will also cross over to Warzone from December 10, when the battle royale game’s new season arrives.

ASSASSIN’S CREED VALHALLA

Thanks to Ubisoft’s new Assassin’s Creed game, you’re now able to live out your wildest dreams of viking glory, as you sail on your cool longship from Norway to England and rampage through various Anglo-Saxon landscapes, developing your settlement, hunting Assassin’s Creed Valhalla legendary animals, and even indulging in a spot of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla romance if you find someone who sets your furs aflutter.