Live ranking

The full ranking.

5,110 video games face off in duels and 438,816 duels have already been settled. The ranking is recomputed with every vote: filter by genre, decade, platform or period.

143 games Reset

  1. 1 Mass Effect 2007 · Action RPG 1,897
  2. 2 BioShock 2007 · FPS 1,845
  3. 3 LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga 2007 · Platformer 1,843
  4. 4 Super Mario Galaxy 2007 · Platformer 1,826
  5. 5 Half-Life 2: Episode Two 2007 · FPS 1,820
  6. 6 Halo 3 2007 · FPS 1,817
  7. 7 Portal 2007 · Puzzle 1,804
  8. 8 S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl 2007 · FPS 1,773
  9. 9 Uncharted: Drake's Fortune 2007 · TPS 1,761
  10. 10 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2007 · Simulation 1,746
  11. 11 God of War II 2007 · Beat 'em up 1,737
  12. 12 Professor Layton and the Curious Village 2007 · Puzzle 1,720
  13. 13 Assassin's Creed 2007 · Action-adventure 1,694
  14. 14 The Witcher 2007 · Action RPG 1,691
  15. 15 Team Fortress 2 2007 · FPS 1,674
  16. 16 Crysis 2007 · FPS 1,659
  17. 17 Super Paper Mario 2007 · Platformer 1,649
  18. 18 Tomb Raider: Anniversary 2007 · Platformer 1,636
  19. 19 Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 2007 · Fighting 1,627
  20. 20 Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock 2007 · Rhythm 1,626
  21. 21 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations 2007 · Visual novel 1,615
  22. 22 Tekken 6 2007 · Fighting 1,589
  23. 23 Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness 2007 · Strategy 1,588
  24. 24 Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII 2007 · Action RPG 1,587
  25. 25 Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn 2007 · JRPG 1,582

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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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