Live ranking

The full ranking.

5,110 video games face off in duels and 439,079 duels have already been settled. The ranking is recomputed with every vote: filter by genre, decade, platform or period.

203 games Reset

  1. 1 Mario Kart 8 2014 · Racing 1,881
  2. 2 Wolfenstein: The New Order 2014 · FPS 1,862
  3. 3 Alien: Isolation 2014 · Horror 1,808
  4. 4 Shovel Knight 2014 · Platformer 1,803
  5. 5 Transistor 2014 · Action RPG 1,802
  6. 6 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth 2014 · Roguelite 1,795
  7. 7 The Talos Principle 2014 · Action-adventure 1,779
  8. 8 The Last of Us Remastered 2014 · TPS 1,774
  9. 9 Far Cry 4 2014 · FPS 1,765
  10. 10 Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze 2014 · Platformer 1,723
  11. 11 South Park: The Stick of Truth 2014 · Action RPG 1,709
  12. 12 Tales from the Borderlands 2014 · Point-and-click 1,703
  13. 13 This War of Mine 2014 · Survival 1,702
  14. 14 Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor 2014 · Action RPG 1,697
  15. 15 Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes 2014 · Action-adventure 1,687
  16. 16 Divinity: Original Sin 2014 · RPG 1,683
  17. 17 Pokémon Omega Ruby 2014 · JRPG 1,672
  18. 18 Titanfall 2014 · FPS 1,666
  19. 19 Dragon Age: Inquisition 2014 · Action RPG 1,663
  20. 20 Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker 2014 · Platformer 1,661
  21. 21 Resident Evil 2014 · Horror 1,658
  22. 22 Dark Souls II 2014 · Action RPG 1,657
  23. 23 The Sims 4 2014 · Simulation 1,647
  24. 24 Thief 2014 · Action-adventure 1,634
  25. 25 Metro: Last Light Redux 2014 · FPS 1,632

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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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