Online 2005 for PC — top best games in the Online genre

Counter-Strike: Source - a game in the Online genre

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Tactics, Online

Game released: PC → 22 December 2005

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Counter-Strike: Source is an improved version of the tactical competitive first-person shooter Counter-Strike. The game will delight you with all the beauties of...

Call of Duty 2

Action, Shooter, Online

Game released: PC → 25 October 2005

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 88/100

A first-person shooter set during World War II follows ordinary Allied soldiers through major battles across the European theater. The campaign spans varied...

Age of Empires

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Historical, Online, City Building

Game released: PC → 24 November 2005

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Age of Empires is a historical real-time strategy game with an isometric camera view. You will find 4 basic campaigns for Egypt, Greece, Babylon and the Empire of...

FlatOut (2004)

Action, Racing, First-person view, Third-person view, Sports game, Online

Game released: PC → 2 February 2007

Players: 9/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 71/100

FlatOut is a dynamic racing arcade game with a third-person view, the distinctive feature of which is the almost complete destructibility of objects (or interaction...

Call of Duty: United Offensive

Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Historical, Online

Game released: PC → 13 October 2006

Players: 8/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 87/100

An expansion for Call of Duty, set amid World War II battles involving American, British, and Soviet soldiers. Its single-player campaign spans three storylines and...

Day of Defeat: Source

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Historical, Online

Game released: PC → 17 March 2006

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Day of Defeat: Source is a multiplayer team-based shooter set in the European theatre of World War II. Players choose a role and take part in objective-based...

Age of Empires 3

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Historical, Online, City Building

Game released: PC → 5 May 2006

Players: 9/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 81/100

A real-time strategy game about the colonial empires of Europe, Asia, and the Americas competing for territory and influence. Players develop a civilization, manage...

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (2005)

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Star Wars, Online

Game released: PC → 8 July 2009

Players: 9/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This sci-fi action shooter set in the Star Wars universe follows the rise of Darth Vader’s 501st Legion of Stormtroopers. Its single-player campaign takes the...

Conflict: Desert Storm

Action, Shooter, In real time, Third-person view, Historical, Tactics, Online

Game released: PC → 13 September 2002

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 61/100

A third-person tactical shooter about a special forces squad deployed behind enemy lines. The squad must seek out and destroy enemies while sowing confusion in...

Delta Force: Black Hawk Down

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Historical, Online

Game released: PC → 18 June 2009

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 65/100

A first-person tactical shooter set during U.S. military operations in Mogadishu in late 1993. Delta Force operatives and Army Rangers are sent to capture Somali...

Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance

Simulation, Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Star Wars, Space, Online

Game released: PC → 10 January 2005

Players: 10/10

Steam: 82/100

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Iron Wrath

Shooter, Online, DLC, First-person view, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 9 June 2005

The second expansion for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, featuring a new campaign of seven missions across locations in Eastern Europe. Classic missions...

Dystopia

Free game, Online, Cyberpunk

Game released: PC → 10 September 2005

Steam: 85/100

This multiplayer cyberpunk shooter is set in a high-tech world where computer networks connect physical locations to cyberspace. Players fight for either punk...

Act of War: Direct Action

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Action, Online

Game released: PC → 12 March 2008

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 82/100

A real-time strategy game about modern military conflict amid an energy crisis, terrorist attacks and global instability. Players command Task Force TALON, a...

ROSE Online

Role-playing game, Online, MMO, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 2 December 2005

ROSE Online is a multiplayer role-playing game with a third-person view. Players will plunge into a colorful fantasy world made in Japanese style. The events of the...

Act of War: Direct Action (Collector's Edition)

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Action, Online

Game released: PC → 16 March 2005

Steam: 90/100

A real-time strategy game about a counterterrorism operation amid an energy crisis, terrorist attacks, and global instability. Players command modern military units...

Codename: Panzers - Phase Two

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Historical, Simulation, Online

Game released: PC → 14 October 2005

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 80/100

A real-time strategy game set during World War II, with battles across Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Balkans. Its three campaigns let players command the...

Dangerous Waters

Simulation, Warships / Submarines, First-person view, Third-person view, Strategy, Online

Game released: PC → 30 June 2006

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This naval simulation is set in a modern-day environment and lets players control ships, submarines, and aircraft. The player can take charge of individual crew...

Dungeon Fighter Live: Fall of Hendon Myre

Arcade, Online, Hack and slash, Isometric

Game released: PC → 11 June 2010

Players: 1/10

Metacritic: 53/100

Dungeon Fighter Live: Fall of Hendon Myre is an isometric arcade game with online and hack-and-slash elements from NeoPle. The game is published by Nexon America...

City of Heroes

Role-playing game, Online, Action, MMO, Third-person view, Comics

Game released: PC → 4 February 2005

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 85/100

City of Heroes is an exciting multiplayer action role-playing game with a third-person view. You have to play the role of a hero and go fight evil in the vastness...

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Winter Assault

Strategy, DLC, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Science fiction, Online

Game released: PC → 27 January 2006

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 85/100

An expansion for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, adding units and strategies to the real-time science-fiction warfare of the Warhammer 40,000 universe. The...

Joint Operations: Combined Arms

Collection, Action, Online

Game released: PC → 29 September 2009

Steam: 86/100

This collection brings together the first-person tactical shooters Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising and Joint Operations: Escalation, both focused on large-scale...

Rag Doll Kung Fu

Action, Fighting, Online, Indie

Game released: PC → 6 October 2006

Players: 3.2/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A fighting game with rag-doll characters, Rag Doll Kung Fu brings together a collection of single-player and multiplayer games, interspersed with cutscenes inspired...

Emergency 3

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Sandbox, Simulation, Online

Game released: PC → 4 October 2007

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 58/100

A real-time strategy and simulation game in which the player leads rescue services, firefighters and police. Specialist personnel and vehicles are available for...

Dream of Mirror Online

Role-playing game, Online, MMO, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game

Game released: PC → 12 November 2007

Steam: 59/100

This anime-styled MMORPG is set in a world of myth and legend, linked by fate to another world that mirrors the chaos engulfing mankind. Heroes join forces against...

Cotropitorii

Online, Shooter, Third-person view, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 November 2005

Steam: 83/100

A shooter about Romanian communists with multiplayer for up to 32 people. Players choose which of the two factions to...

Codename: Panzers - Phase One (Special Edition)

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Top-down view, Historical, Simulation, Online

Game released: PC → 10 February 2005

Players: 10/10

Steam: 91/100

Codename: Panzers — Phase One (Special Edition) is a third-person strategy game with historical game elements from the developers of Stormregion...

Tribal Trouble

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Online, Tactics

Game released: PC → 24 November 2005

Players: 10/10

Tribal Trouble is a third-person strategy game from developers from the Oddlabs ApS studio. The game is published by Oddlabs ApS. In some circles, Tribal Trouble is...

Minions of Mirth

Role-playing game, Online, MMO, First-person view, Free game

Game released: PC → 13 December 2005

Minions of Mirth is a first-person role-playing game with a mixture of online play, massive multiplayer and free-to-play game from developers Prairie Games. The...

Age of Empires 3 (Collector's Edition)

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Historical, Online, City Building

Game released: PC → 18 October 2005

Steam: 84/100

This real-time strategy game centers on managing historical civilizations from Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Players develop an empire, command its armies, and...

Сфера: Мир Избранных

Role-playing game, Online, MMO, DLC, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 28 October 2005

Players: 5.5/10

Sphere: World of the Chosen is a first-person role-playing game with online, massively multiplayer and fantasy elements from the masters at Nikita...

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Best Games in the Online genre of 2005 for PC (Game released)