Live ranking

The full ranking.

5,035 video games face off in duels and 368,027 duels have already been settled. The ranking is recomputed with every vote: filter by genre, decade, platform or period.

451 games Reset

  1. 1 Doom Eternal 2020 · FPS 1,881
  2. 2 Doom 1993 · FPS 1,860
  3. 3 BioShock 2007 · FPS 1,856
  4. 4 Half-Life: Alyx 2020 · FPS 1,848
  5. 5 Metro Exodus 2019 · FPS 1,847
  6. 6 Half-Life 2: Episode Two 2007 · FPS 1,845
  7. 7 Doom II: Hell on Earth 1994 · FPS 1,839
  8. 8 Wolfenstein: The New Order 2014 · FPS 1,836
  9. 9 Half-Life 1998 · FPS 1,829
  10. 10 Half-Life 2: Episode One 2006 · FPS 1,824
  11. 11 GoldenEye 007 1997 · FPS 1,823
  12. 12 Star Wars: Battlefront II 2005 · FPS 1,817
  13. 13 Half-Life 2 2004 · FPS 1,811
  14. 14 Quake III Arena 1999 · FPS 1,801
  15. 15 Quake II 1997 · FPS 1,800
  16. 16 BioShock Remastered 2016 · FPS 1,793
  17. 17 F.E.A.R. 2005 · FPS 1,789
  18. 18 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 2012 · FPS 1,788
  19. 19 Halo 3 2007 · FPS 1,788
  20. 20 Left 4 Dead 2 2009 · FPS 1,785
  21. 21 Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon 2013 · FPS 1,784
  22. 22 Halo: Combat Evolved 2001 · FPS 1,779
  23. 23 Titanfall 2 2016 · FPS 1,778
  24. 24 Far Cry 3 2012 · FPS 1,777
  25. 25 Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus 2017 · FPS 1,773

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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?

5,035 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.

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