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The method

How to read the ranking of the best video games

This ranking is not an editorial pick. It is computed continuously from the 367,979 duels players have settled since the site opened: two games drawn at random, one click, and both scores move at once. No jury deliberates, no press score enters the calculation, and neither do sales figures. What you are reading above is the state of a balance of power between 5,035 video games, as of September 18, 2026.

Position in the list, world rank and trend: three figures not to be confused

The left-hand column gives the position in the list on screen, numbered from 1 and carried on from page to page. It follows your selection: filter on RPGs and the top RPG becomes number 1. The world rank depends on no filter; it lives on each game's entry, next to its duel count and win rate. The badge on the right compares today's position with the one seven days ago: it is the only column that speaks of movement, and the one that tells an established game from a climbing one.

What the ELO score measures, and what it does not

Every duel transfers points from the loser to the winner, and the stake depends on the gap between the two scores: beating a higher-ranked game pays a lot, crushing an outsider pays almost nothing, and beyond a certain gap the transfer is nil. A game therefore does not climb because people vote for it often, it climbs because it wins against stronger opponents.

What the score does not measure: not sales, not budget, not the reception in the press, not stated nostalgia. A player who loves both games on the bill still has to pick one, and it is that choice, repeated 367,979 times, that the ranking aggregates.

Why duels rather than a score out of 10

Absolute scores saturate. On most sites, nearly every game that matters sits between 7 and 9, and what is left of the gap often comes down to a community's mood on a given day. A duel leaves no such way out: it asks a question you cannot answer with "both". Repeated hundreds of thousands of times on ever-changing pairs, it produces an order where averages produce a pack.

It is also what allows a 1994 game and a 2024 game to be compared without correcting anything. They are not scored on the same scale by different audiences: they are set against each other, and the same player decides.

The leading game in every genre

The world ranking mixes every family of games. Here is, genre by genre, the one that leads all the others.

Every genre has its own full ranking, opened by the links above.

What moved this week

The ranking does not change with an editorial update, it changes with every duel. Over the past seven days, 11,350 votes were counted and the score of 99 games in the top 100 moved.

The most contested match-ups

Some pairs of games come up often in the draw, and players then settle them hundreds of times over. Here are the most played match-ups, and the way they turn out.

The limits of this ranking

A game has to be known to enter the duels: the pool is built on fame, which leaves out excellent but confidential titles. The full catalogue holds 26,914 of them and stays browsable from A to Z.

A recent game starts at 1,500 points like every other, and it needs several hundred duels before its score means anything. The ranking is therefore firmer at the top, where games have faced each other a lot, than in the middle of the list.

Finally, voting needs no account, which would open the door to anyone wanting to push a title. Duels served are signed and expire, the same visitor cannot vote twice on the same bill within 24 hours, reflex votes are left out of the calculation, and the whole ranking stays replayable from the votes table: a campaign can be undone afterwards, it never sets into a score.

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