Live ranking

The full ranking.

5,046 video games face off in duels and 368,907 duels have already been settled. The ranking is recomputed with every vote: filter by genre, decade, platform or period.

259 games Reset

  1. 1 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 2017 · Racing 1,929
  2. 2 Grand Theft Auto V 2013 · Racing 1,881
  3. 3 Need for Speed: Most Wanted 2005 · Racing 1,806
  4. 4 Mario Kart: Double Dash!! 2003 · Racing 1,792
  5. 5 Mario Kart 8 2014 · Racing 1,790
  6. 6 F-Zero X 1998 · Racing 1,785
  7. 7 Mario Kart 64 1996 · Racing 1,766
  8. 8 Mario Kart Wii 2008 · Racing 1,765
  9. 9 Gran Turismo 1997 · Racing 1,761
  10. 10 Need for Speed: Underground 2003 · Racing 1,754
  11. 11 Crazy Taxi 1999 · Racing 1,741
  12. 12 Super Mario Kart 1992 · Racing 1,738
  13. 13 Mario Kart 7 2011 · Racing 1,725
  14. 14 Forza Horizon 5 2021 · Racing 1,724
  15. 15 Crash Team Racing 1999 · Racing 1,716
  16. 16 Need for Speed: Underground 2 2004 · Racing 1,715
  17. 17 Star Wars: Episode I - Racer 1999 · Racing 1,712
  18. 18 Forza Horizon 4 2018 · Racing 1,693
  19. 19 Fall Guys 2020 · Racing 1,692
  20. 20 Need for Speed: Carbon 2006 · Racing 1,680
  21. 21 Burnout Paradise 2008 · Racing 1,672
  22. 22 Need for Speed: Most Wanted 2012 · Racing 1,666
  23. 23 F-Zero 1990 · Racing 1,662
  24. 24 Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2010 · Racing 1,654
  25. 25 Gran Turismo 2 1999 · Racing 1,644

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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.

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