My two young sons (ages 8 & 13) enjoy the PS5 that they got this past Christmas. However, there are several games that are not offered on PlayStation.
Most, if not all, of these games are exclusively Windows-based.
With that in mind, what gaming PC (build?) would you recommend? My budget is $800-$1000 but I’d appreciate the lower end if possible.
Given that most current PCs have around 16 Gb Ram and a 2 Gb GPU, they offer for a price of around $500, enough power to run almost all of the current games. I have a humble laptop for €350, AMD 8Gb and 2Gb GPU and almost all Steam games work reasonably well for me. Some games like The Dark Mod (OpenSource, Win, Linux, Mac) a beautiful first person stealth/adventure game, worked fine for me even on my old laptop with 4 Gb RAM and 1 Gb GPU without problems. The only thing that is recommended is that the PC has a separate graphics card, apart from the CPU. It can be perfectly from AMD, which is cheaper than an nVidia with similar features. I therefore think that a current mid-range PC for around $500-600 is enough.
The Dark Mod trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brJqHnXmpgE