{"id":29828,"date":"2011-12-23T11:24:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T09:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=29828"},"modified":"2011-12-24T11:58:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T09:58:14","slug":"top-10-rated-pc-exclusives-of-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/29828-top-10-rated-pc-exclusives-of-2011","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 rated PC exclusives of 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

In recent years consoles have dominated game sales charts, and as a result, there has been a significant shift in development and marketing spend toward Xbox 360, Wii and PS3 games.<\/p>\n

However, that\u2019s not to say that PC gamers aren\u2019t still treated with some outstanding games.<\/p>\n

There are still developers out there that despite market trends remain committed to the keyboard-mouse combo, and in honour of those developers, we have rounded up the 10 best received PC exclusive games of 2011.<\/p>\n

The scores are taken from Metacritic.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Minecraft – 94\/100<\/h3>\n

Although many of its fans were playing Minecraft alpha and beta in 2010, the game only got its version 1.0 release in November 2011. Over 4 million people have purchased Minecraft making it one of the most successful PC games ever.<\/p>\n

\"Minecraft<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Total War: Shogun 2 – 90\/100<\/h3>\n

Shogun 2 took everything that is great about the Total War franchise and refined it. A fitting sequel to the very first Total War game, Shogun 2 was our favourite strategy game of 2011.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings – 88\/100<\/h3>\n

One of 2011\u2019s best RPGs, The Witcher 2 played to the strengths of PC gaming and was one of the year\u2019s best looking games. It\u2019s mature narrative and compelling combat system made it one of the year\u2019s standout games.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Witcher 2<\/p><\/div>\n

4.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0DCS: A-10C Warthog – 87\/100<\/h3>\n

Nobody in the MyGaming offices has actually played DCF: A-10C Warthog, but according to critics it is a very sold military aircraft simulator that you should probably check out if you\u2019re into that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Frozen Synapse – 85\/100<\/h3>\n

Frozen Synapse blends real-time and turn-based strategy, and allows players to plan moves, test them out and then hit the \u201cexecute button\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Frozen<\/a>

Frozen Synapse screenshot<\/p><\/div>\n

6.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0SpaceChem – 84\/100<\/h3>\n

SpaceChem is a complex and addictive puzzle solver that will appeal to gamers of the more cerebral variety.<\/p>\n

\"Spacechem\"<\/a>

Spacechem<\/p><\/div>\n

7.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Rift – 84\/100<\/h3>\n

The year\u2019s most anticipated fantasy themed MMORPG was fairly well received, but failed to make any significant inroads into the WoW-dominated MMO market.<\/p>\n

8 tied. Anno 2070 and Terraria – 83\/100<\/h3>\n

In an eighth place tie we have Ubisoft\u2019s modern revision of its iconic city management franchise, and the indie phenom Terraria, which similar to Minecraft, allows player to explore, gather resources, and craft items.<\/p>\n

\"Anno<\/a>

Anno 2070<\/p><\/div>\n

10.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0To the Moon – 81\/100<\/h3>\n

One of the year\u2019s most interesting games, To the Moon has is a \u201cstory-driven adventure game\u201d that makes use of some interesting narrative devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We roundup the best PC\u2013only games released this year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":29665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[949,1708,1707,21,333,1497,1705,1291,1709,1706,1710],"class_list":["post-29828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-pc","tag-anno-2070","tag-dcf-a-10c-warthog","tag-frozen-synapse","tag-headline","tag-minecraft","tag-rift","tag-spacechem","tag-terraria","tag-the-witcher-2-assassins-of-kings","tag-to-the-moon","tag-total-war-shogun-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29831,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29828\/revisions\/29831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}