Red Dead Redemption 2

Developer Rockstar Studios Publisher Rockstar Games Format PC, PS4, Xbox One Release 2018

With perfect timing, Rockstar announced the PC version of its western masterpiece as we were mulling over building a new PC, and the thought of making the best-looking games ever made even prettier is all the incentive we need to get our wallets out, and our anti-static wristbands on.

Yet Rockstar’s games are a curse on PC. Built not just for today but for the future, and with a sprawling settings menu letting us tinker with everything from water physics to tree fidelity, shadow resolution and three different types of anti-aliasing, this is either a tinkerer’s wet dream or a perfectionist’s nightmare. We lock the framerate to 30, slide almost everything up to the highest setting, and try to forget about it.