What are the games that define PC history? Civilization, perhaps. Doom. Ultima. You could go back a little further and choose Rogue and The Oregon trail, or maybe jump to the boomer shooter heyday with the likes of Half-Life and Unreal. Either way, it's a competitive field - if we're talking about the games that made the PC what it is now, and shaped perhaps the entire culture, we're talking exclusively about the stonest and coldest of classics. Inspiring the likes of Dishonored, Prey, and in fact the whole immersive sim genre - and co-created by developers who would later help build the likes of BioShock and Half-Life 2 - Thief The Dark Project, re-released as Thief Gold, is now available for just 88 cents.
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