Live ranking

The full ranking.

5,110 video games face off in duels and 438,961 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 1,894
  2. 2 Batman: Arkham City 2011 · Action-adventure 1,885
  3. 3 Resident Evil 7: Biohazard 2017 · Horror 1,885
  4. 4 Metro Exodus 2019 · FPS 1,881
  5. 5 Red Dead Redemption 2 2018 · Action-adventure 1,871
  6. 6 Hitman 3 2021 · TPS 1,867
  7. 7 Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game 1997 · RPG 1,866
  8. 8 Batman: Arkham Asylum 2009 · Action-adventure 1,851
  9. 9 Hitman 2016 · TPS 1,851
  10. 10 The Secret of Monkey Island 1990 · Point-and-click 1,844
  11. 11 Baldur's Gate III 2023 · RPG 1,836
  12. 12 Resident Evil Village 2021 · Horror 1,831
  13. 13 Resident Evil 4 2005 · Horror 1,823
  14. 14 Little Nightmares 2017 · Platformer 1,811
  15. 15 Hitman 2 2018 · TPS 1,809
  16. 16 Tetris Effect 2018 · Puzzle 1,801
  17. 17 Celeste 2018 · Platformer 1,800
  18. 18 Quake II 1997 · FPS 1,797
  19. 19 Risk of Rain 2 2020 · Roguelite 1,795
  20. 20 Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon 2013 · FPS 1,794
  21. 21 Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2018 · Action RPG 1,790
  22. 22 Control 2019 · TPS 1,789
  23. 23 SuperHot 2016 · FPS 1,787
  24. 24 Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 2019 · Action-adventure 1,783
  25. 25 Into the Breach 2018 · Strategy 1,780

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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.

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