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The full ranking.
5,046 video games face off in duels and 368,067 duels have already been settled. The ranking is recomputed with every vote: filter by genre, decade, platform or period.
43 games Reset
- 1 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 · Beat 'em up 1,752 −8
- 2 Quake 1996 · FPS 1,687 −128
- 3 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2008 · Action RPG 1,664 +112
- 4 Clannad 2004 · Visual novel 1,627 +74
- 5 Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box 2007 · Puzzle 1,608 +132
- 6 Mega Man X4 1997 · Platformer 1,587 −241
- 7 Mega Man 9 2008 · Platformer 1,587 −202
- 8 Paperboy 1984 · Arcade 1,576 +74
- 9 Klonoa: Door to Phantomile 1997 · Platformer 1,545 +424
- 10 Fire Emblem Heroes 2017 · Strategy 1,542 −425
- 11 Mega Man X3 1995 · Platformer 1,537 +53
- 12 Zuma Deluxe 2003 · Puzzle 1,528 +103
- 13 Dragon Quest 2004 · JRPG 1,517 +219
- 14 Pong 1972 · Sports 1,500 +195
- 15 Prey 2006 · FPS 1,489 −667
- 16 Zuma 2003 · Puzzle 1,477 +735
- 17 Jetpack Joyride 2011 · Platformer 1,474 +260
- 18 LocoRoco 2006 · Platformer 1,470 −972
- 19 Fruit Ninja 2010 · Arcade 1,467 +499
- 20 Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation 2009 · JRPG 1,466 +1,161
- 21 Doodle Jump 2009 · Platformer 1,465 +443
- 22 Sonic Unleashed 2008 · Platformer 1,460 −813
- 23 Space Invaders 1978 · Shoot 'em up 1,452 +1,128
- 24 Clu Clu Land 1984 · Arcade 1,451 −570
- 25 Cannon Fodder 1993 · Shoot 'em up 1,451 −1,019
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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?
5,046 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.