PC Best old 90s/2000s pc game?

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Some of my favorites from childhood
 
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Two games stand out for me. Both still with active multiplayer communities 20+ years after release which speaks volumes.

Civilization III. Less than a $1 on Steam currently.
The best dollar/euro you will ever spend. Update to version 1.22 of Conquests and you can play online.

Neverwinter Nights is the other one. The only game I am aware of where people fully roleplay what their characters say and do, so you get immersed in characters personal story just before an orc chops their head off. Currently 700 concurrent players across dozens of servers. Nothing else really like it for proper online roleplay.
 
For me, the two best games from the early 2000s are definitely Max Payne 1 and Wolfenstein: Return to Castle. I remember playing them when I was about 10 years old, and they felt absolutely amazing on PC. As a kid, I actually hated the nightmare levels in Max Payne 😅, but aside from that I loved it , especially the sequel, Max Payne 2. On the other hand, I really couldn’t stand the third game.

For Wolfenstein: Return to Castle, it was my very first FPS on PC, and it has aged incredibly well , I still have a blast replaying it today. 🔥
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Wolfenstein 3D is a classic, shootin' Nazis never gets old.

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An excellent 90s game that I discovered late, I never thought about it, but Wolfenstein 3D is the same age as me 😲
 
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Star Trek Borg was remastered from a super rare Japanese DVD release of the game and is fully playable in the browser.
 
Another excellent FPS from the year 2000—and in my opinion, the best one of that year—is KISS: Psycho Circus.

It’s a PC FPS that’s now abandonware, which makes it much easier to play.

The game is actually pretty solid.You’re basically the band, saving the world in full 3D.it’s good—though I don’t really see much connection to the band’s universe. Strip away the name and characters, and it could’ve been just another random FPS but it’s definitely worth giving a try. I ended up enjoying it quite a bit. A hidden gem,for me, it was the best FPS of the year 2000.
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Grim Fandango, blade runner, small soldiers strategy game, duke nukem 3d, command and conquer, the old 2d duke nukem games. There was a few others but those are what I remember enjoying at the time.

There wasn't much I could play because whether a game would run or not was kind of hit or miss on that mid 90's office computer. I mostly avoided gaming on PC till more recently after the stint of playing some games back then, largely due to the fact that not many games I wanted to play were released on PC and of those that were it wasn't worth the investment at the time. I was interested in warhammer 40k dawn of war and Tron 2.0 from their release early 2000's but I have not played them yet. I do plan to though, been wanting to play them for a while to say the least ::cirnoshrug
 

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