Talk:List of PC games (A)

List of PC games, Major project

As of right now, this page has 3000 titles or something like that. The true total for PC releases is closer to 50,000-100,000, so maybe 4000 per letter. There are just over 50,000 games on Steam alone. https://store.steampowered.com/search/?category1=998 In 2014 there was a polygon article about a Pastebin user who recruited people to help him build a database of all games and it was 44,000 titles, a good portion of those were probably on PC. https://www.polygon.com/2014/4/20/5633602/list-of-every-video-game-all-time The list is unavailable now, I think the user probably used it to create a large videogame database website, but I can't even find the site now because of Google's algorithm.

This list has 60,000 titles. https://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/windows/

I will begin adding games shortly if nobody else does. BTW, why is there no symbols page?

142.116.98.199 (talk) 03:07, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

Include emulatable games

Games that can be played on PC via emulators should be included on this list. They're not "PC games" under the hood, but the code they contain is completely playable on PC with applications that interpret it into a living game. Much like how a Flash game isn't native to PC, but flash player deciphers the gibberish inside the file into a living game. Wikinium (talk) 03:49, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

I don't think so. This list is for titles specifically made for PC. If you mean stuff like N64, SNES... Just about every old game is playable on PC via emulator, that's actually the entire point of console emulation. It would be nice however, to have a grand-master list of emulator compatibility for PC, for example combining the RPCS3 and Xenia compatibility lists. But I'm not even sure that belongs on Wikipedia at the moment.

The split

This article needs to be split, but it must be done gracefully. What kind of split can be done where the article still looks good (not all hacked up)? Wikinium (talk) 03:50, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

Emulatable games are to be included

There are many already added to the page. It's understandable that some would want them excluded since they weren't originally created to run on Windows, Linux, or OSX via emulation, but by that logic it would make sense to exclude any DOSBox games as well. As long as a game can be emulated, it shouldn't matter what console or retro computer it originally came from. Wikinium (talk) 03:05, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Including games originating on console is wrong, it will only cog the list and make it more useless and pointless. It can create the wrong impression on where the game originally came form. Super Mario 64 for example is not a PC game in any sense of the word. Nintendo never gave premison for Super Mario 64 to be butchered through emulation on PC. Emulators are probably considered by Nintendo and probably rightly so a copyright violation. DoctorHver (talk) 06:01, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Agree with DoctorHver. This is clearly something we should not be doing. — TPX 19:39, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Add new column "digital distribution platform"?

We should be able to know where the game can be obtained from, like Steam.

Preview

Name	Developer	Publisher	Genre(s)	Operating System(s)	Digital distribution platform	Exclusive?	Date Released	MetaScore
Borderlands 2	Gearbox Software, Iron Galaxy Studios	2K Games	Action role-playing , first-person shooter	Windows, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, OS X, Linux	Steam	N	September 18, 2012
Overwatch	Blizzard Entertainment	Blizzard Entertainment	Action	Windows, Xbox One, Playstation 4	Battle.net	N	May 24, 2016

Rukario-sama ^ㅈ^ -(...) 02:57, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

References

Windows Games

There is already a list of Windows games, should the list of PC games also include windows games also? StarStorm10 (talk) 13:12, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

PC games would include Windows, Linux and OS X/macOS as well. -- ferret (talk) 18:08, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

@Ferret: If we are going to have a list of PC games (which personally I think is a mistake btw), do we really need lists of Windows, Mac, Linux and DOS games too? As each of those lists will just end up being a subset of this one, and this list will tell you the relevant OS in the "Operating system(s)" column. It seems like just duplication and I don't understand the purpose of it? Can't we just retire Index of Windows games, List of Windows 3.x games, Index of DOS games, List of Linux games and List of Macintosh games and merge all their contents into this list? Kidburla (talk) 17:01, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Probably a topic for the broader WT:VG project. I don't like this list at all. For one, it's not simply incomplete. It's woefully horribly incomplete, like, probably less than 50%. It's a mammoth undertaking. -- ferret (talk) 17:18, 8 June 2022 (UTC)