

In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2025, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We'll post new personal picks each day throughout the rest of the month. You can find them all here.
Supreme Commander is a wonderful artifact, a thing of clockwork precision. But I rarely feel excited to play Supreme Commander. It just doesn't have enough personality; it feels like a beautiful spreadsheet. Age of Empires has more pizazz, but even there a saminess creeps in when I go back for another game and find myself assigning jobs to peasants. StarCraft? Well, StarCraft expects me to care about the protoss and that's just never going to happen.