My current Top PC playing games (as of Dec 29 2005) are (potential for "emergent" characteristics in play):
| This | Last | Weeks | |
| 1 | 5 | 5 | Battlefield 2 - Special Forces, EA Games, squad-based on-line, awesome and free server access, 95% |
| 2 | 1 | 18 | Rome Total War - Barbarian Invasion, EA Games, Creative Assembly, the standard setting RTS gets an refresh, 95% |
| 3 | 10 | 5 | The Movies, Activision, Lionhead Studios, innovative concept keeps you playing, 88% |
| 4 | 2 | 8 | Dawn of War - Winter Assault, THQ, excellent add-on, 88% |
| 5 | 3 | 16 | Quake IV, id Software, updated Doom 3 engine in quake clothes - get it! 96% |
| 6 | 6 | 10 | Black and White 2, Lionhead Studios, really Black and White 1.5 but you still can't stop playing God, 90% |
| 7 | 7 | 9 | Call of Duty 2, Activision, Really Call of Duty 1.5, 90% |
| 8 | 4 | 7 | Age of Empires III, Microsoft, latest AOE gets update, 74% |
| 9 | - | 1 | X3 - Reunion, Enlight, German space trim (trade/sim) get's a refresh, flight still a pain, 72% |
| 10 | 8 | 8 | Fear, Sierra, moody FPS, 77% |
| 11 | 11 | 13 | Cricket Captain Ashes year 2005, XPLOSIV, excellent update to the best cricket sim, 78% |
| 12 | 9 | 40 | Doom 3 - Resurrection of Evil, id Software, the master gets a new engine, 95% |
| 13 | 12 | 9 | Civilization IV, Fireaxis, latest sim of sims, 83% |
| 14 | - | 1 | Diplomacy, Atari, second recent attempt in 3 years with classic board game, 76% |
| 15 | 15 | 123 | War in the Pacific, Matrix Games, the definitive WWII strategic game, 92% |
| 16 | 13 | 20 | Domination, dreamcatcher, update to Massive Assault, best TBS, 90% |
| 17 | 14 | 22 | Football Manager 2005, Sega, latest of the best football (soccer) sim, 81% |
| 18 | 10 | 9 | Battle of Britain II, shockwave, not yet scored |
| 19 | 16 | 14 | Dragonshard, Atari, D&D goes PC, not yet scored |
| 20 | 18 | 13 | Battle for Middle Earth, EA Games, currently the best LOTR RTS, 79% |