15 gorgeous PC games that will punish your graphics card

I don't know how many times I've said "look at the draw distance" to people since Assassin's Creed: Origins ($60 on Amazon) released, but it's a lot. After "going back to their roots" with 2014's disastrous Assassin's Creed: Unity, Ubisoft has shaken up the series again and gone back to its...non-roots? Suffice it to say, Origins channels the spirit of Unity's predecessor, the acclaimed pirate-centric Black Flag. Origins heads to Ptolemaic Egypt instead of sailing the high seas, but the design is very similar, with an enormous map (the largest in the series) dotted with mid-size cities, small towns, oases, and so on. And if you look at screenshots, it might seem like a visual downgrade from Unity and the following year's Assassin's Creed: Syndicate.