# PC Gaming Wiki PCGamingWiki (PCGW) is a community-driven [[Wiki]] whose goal is to list fixes and workarounds for **every single PC game**. If a game crashes at launch, doesn't support your resolution, locks the frame rate at 30 FPS, or hides its save files somewhere weird, that's the place to look. It's usually a much faster answer than digging through years of forum threads and Reddit posts. It was founded on February 9, 2012 by Andrew Tsai (Andytizer), and ran a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2013. ## What you find in a game article Each game gets an article with a consistent structure. Typically: - **Availability**: which stores sell it (Steam, GOG.com, Epic, etc.), DRM, and editions - **Essential improvements**: patches, community fixes, mods, and tweaks that most players should apply - **Game data**: where configuration files and save games live on disk, and whether cloud saves are supported - **Video**: widescreen and ultrawide support, field of view, frame rate caps, V-sync, HDR, etc. - **Input**: keyboard remapping, mouse acceleration, controller support - **Audio** and **localizations** - **Network**: multiplayer, ports - **Issues fixed / unresolved**: known problems and how to work around them - **Other information**: API (DirectX, Vulkan, etc.), middleware, engine - **System requirements** Because everything follows the same template, you can compare games quickly. And there are cross-game lists too (e.g., local multiplayer games, games with microtransactions). ## Numbers As of September 2026, the wiki covers **55,395 games** across 56,247 articles, with 48,609 users and more than 1.7 million edits. That's a LOT of accumulated knowledge. ## How it works - Built on MediaWiki, with the Cargo extension to store structured game data - Anyone with an account can contribute. Anonymous edits are disabled - Content is licensed under **Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike** (CC BY-NC-SA) - Funded through Patreon, donations, ads, and affiliate links to stores (GOG.com, Humble Store, itch.io, Green Man Gaming, Gamesplanet, etc.) - Community discussions happen on the forum and a Discord server - Ongoing projects include the **GOG.com Enhancement Project** (an article for every game on GOG.com) and a catalog of microtransactions in PC games - Contributors can receive review codes through an Assignments system to document new releases ## For developers and tinkerers - **API**: the structured data is queryable through a Cargo-based API. Note that in August 2026, anonymous access to `cargoquery` was disabled and several tables and columns were renamed - **Browser extension**: shows PCGamingWiki info directly on store pages - **AppleGamingWiki**: sister site for games on macOS ## Why I like it It's a great example of what a well-structured wiki can do. The same questions about a game always come up, so instead of repeating answers in countless threads, the community captures them once, in a predictable structure, and keeps improving them over time. That's knowledge management applied to PC gaming. Structure is what makes it useful. ## References - Official website: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Home - About: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/PCGamingWiki:About ## Related - [[Wiki]] - [[Wikipedia]]