The 10 classics PC players want most.

We ranked every game on our wire by how many readers came looking for it in the last 14 days. One publisher's back catalogue took 40% of all the demand: Sony's.

The big picture

Six Sony first-party games drew 550 of the 1,390 story views in the fortnight: God of War III, Shadow of the Colossus, The Last Guardian, Bloodborne, inFAMOUS Second Son and the Uncharted trilogy. None of them has an official PC release. EA's mid-2000s catalogue came second, at 15% of demand.

The fan developers agree with the readers. The God of War III port has 3,916 stars on GitHub and the Bloodborne port has 3,419. They're two of the most-watched projects on the whole wire.

About 60% of these readers came from search engines, typing a game's name plus "PC". This isn't idle browsing: it's people looking for a way to play.

The chart ranked by reader views · links go to each story

1. God of War III

   Sony · PS3, remastered on PS4 · 290 views · 3,916 GitHub stars

   The runaway number one: more readers than the next four games combined. A fan port of the PS4 remaster now runs natively on PC. Read the story

2. Shadow of the Colossus

   Sony · PS2, remade on PS4 · 110 views across two fan projects · 1,366 stars

   Two separate fan efforts, one for the PS2 original and one for the PS4 remake, and both drew steady traffic all fortnight. Read the story

3. The Last Guardian

   Sony · PS4 · 50 views · 353 stars

   Team Ico's other classic. Sony has never brought it to PC. Read the story

4. BLACK

   EA (Criterion) · Xbox, PS2 · 50 views · 284 stars

   Criterion's 2006 shooter is EA's most-wanted game on our list. Read the story

5. Def Jam: Fight for NY

   EA · Xbox, PS2, GameCube · 50 views · 107 stars

   The cult fighter still pulls a crowd 20 years on. Its licensed soundtrack is one likely reason it has never been re-released. Read the story

6. Bloodborne

   Sony (FromSoftware) · PS4 · 40 views · 3,419 stars

   Sixth on reader views but second on developer stars: the strongest builder signal on the list after God of War III. Read the story

7. Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3

   Bandai Namco · PS2, Wii · 40 views · 552 stars

   Sparking! Zero brought the series to PC in 2024, but fans still want the original. Read the story

8. FIFA Street

   EA · Xbox 360, PS3 · 40 views · 388 stars

   EA's 2012 street football game, never released on PC. Read the story

9. WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011

   THQ (WWE licence now with 2K) · Xbox 360, PS3 · 40 views · 112 stars

   Wrestling fans keep coming back to the SvR era. Read the story

10. Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection

    Sony (Naughty Dog) · PS4 · 30 views · 1,731 stars

    Uncharted 4 and The Lost Legacy are on PC, but the original trilogy still isn't. Fans are porting it themselves. Read the story

Just missing the top 10: inFAMOUS Second Son (Sony, 792 stars) and Burnout 3: Takedown (EA, 146 stars).