10 Steam Machine Games That'll Make PS4 & Xbox One Owners Jealous

10. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

You can keep your CoDs and your Battlefields, with their cut-from-the-main-game DLC map packs and paid-for weapons packs exploiting people anxious about keeping up with the fast-levelling power players; Counter-Strike: Global Offensive does away with levelling systems, making each match decided by pure skill rather than how much time you've spent grinding away at the game. Released in 2012, Global Offensive is the latest iteration of the insanely popular Counter-Strike series, featuring glossy versions of the classic maps of CS yore (de_dust, anyone?), as well as a host of new maps and weapons. It's a tense, team-based shooter with plenty of online modes to mess around with, but for the true CS experience you'll need to dive into Bomb Scenario and Hostage Scenario. Both are pretty self-explanatory, and are made all the more intense due to the fact that there are no respawns - another hallmark of the Counter-Strike games. Players earn money for kills, assists and completing objectives, and lose money for team-kills. At the beginning of each round, you can purchase better weapons and customisations using the money you earned in the previous round. But when the match is over, all your perks disappear, resetting you to zero and levelling the playing field. Some may moan that they want to see a levelling system, or some other long-term rewards for their in-game feats, but in CS: GO your reward is the knowledge that your skill level is legitimately improving, untainted by de-balancing weapons and perks. Unlike the bloated modern shooter offerings on the PS4 and XBox One, CS: GO keeps things incredibly simple, and its reliable formula has helped it maintain its status as one of the most popular online shooters in the world.