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The full ranking.
5,110 video games face off in duels and 438,803 duels have already been settled. The ranking is recomputed with every vote: filter by genre, decade, platform or period.
61 games Reset
- 1 The Secret of Monkey Island 1990 · Point-and-click 1,844 −32
- 2 SimCity 1989 · Sandbox 1,635 +165
- 3 Sid Meier's Civilization 1991 · Strategy 1,630 +119
- 4 Final Fight 1989 · Beat 'em up 1,585 +59
- 5 Loom 1990 · Point-and-click 1,557 +583
- 6 Golden Axe 1989 · Beat 'em up 1,536 −341
- 7 U.N. Squadron 1989 · Shoot 'em up 1,517 +813
- 8 Ghouls 'n Ghosts 1988 · Platformer 1,513 +508
- 9 Cabal 1988 · TPS 1,509 −10
- 10 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure 1989 · Point-and-click 1,507 +362
- 11 Karateka 1984 · Fighting 1,507 +196
- 12 Lode Runner 1983 · Platformer 1,505 −291
- 13 Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2 1987 · Platformer 1,503 +1,297
- 14 Battle Chess 1988 · Card & Board 1,501 −99
- 15 Out of This World 1991 · Platformer 1,500 −387
- 16 Ghosts 'n Goblins 1985 · Platformer 1,498 +1,636
- 17 Maniac Mansion 1987 · Point-and-click 1,496 −459
- 18 Paperboy 1984 · Arcade 1,489 −944
- 19 Road Rash 1991 · Racing 1,480 −465
- 20 Commando 1985 · Shoot 'em up 1,466 −551
- 21 Gobliiins 1991 · Point-and-click 1,460 −377
- 22 Altered Beast 1988 · Beat 'em up 1,455 −269
- 23 Alien Storm 1990 · Beat 'em up 1,455 −542
- 24 King's Quest III: To Heir is Human 1986 · Point-and-click 1,450 −574
- 25 Xevious 1982 · Shoot 'em up 1,449 +710
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FAQ
Questions about the ranking
How is this ranking established?
The ranking comes solely from player votes, in duels between two games. Each vote updates an ELO score, the rating system used in chess: every game starts at 1,500 points and its score moves duel after duel.
How often is the ranking updated?
Continuously: every duel voted immediately adjusts the score of the two games involved. The badge on the right shows how each game's rank moved over the past seven days.
How many games take part in the ranking?
5,110 games, selected for their fame, face off in duels. The full GameForever catalogue covers tens of thousands of titles, across every era and platform.
How can I see the best games by genre, decade or platform?
Use the filters at the top of the page: genre (RPG, FPS, platformer, strategy...), decade and platform (PC, PlayStation, Nintendo, Xbox, SEGA). Filters combine, and the selection is numbered from 1, from the highest ranked down; each game's world rank stays shown on its own entry. The period filter instead ranks on the points gained recently, from 7 days to 12 months (all time by default).
Why can an indie game finish ahead of a blockbuster?
The ELO score measures neither sales nor budget, but the preferences expressed in duels. An indie game that regularly wins its match-ups against higher-ranked titles climbs mechanically, owing nothing to its production budget.
What is the difference between the position in the list and the world rank?
The position is that of the selection on screen, numbered from 1 and carried on from page to page: filter on RPGs and the top RPG becomes number 1. The world rank depends on no filter and is shown on each game's own entry, along with its duel count and win rate.
Why rank by duels rather than by a score out of 10?
Absolute scores saturate: nearly every game that matters ends up between 7 and 9, and what is left of the gap often says more about a site's audience than about the games. A duel asks a question you cannot answer with "both", and it lets a 1994 game and a 2024 game be compared without correcting anything: they are not scored on two scales, they are set against each other.