Many games pop up on Steam that never make it to console, and many more are on PCs for months or even years before they make the jump to the Xbox or PlayStation.
There are many advantages to computer gaming beyond just the ability to adapt and upgrade them.
You probably didn’t need a top-of-the-line machine to play our favorite PC games of 2017, thankfully. Yeah, you might have to upgrade every several months or so if you want to stay on the bleeding edge, but if you know what you’re doing, and can swing the dough, and just love games that damn much, you’ll probably get more out of it than you put in. When that PC is finally humming you can rest comfortably, knowing that for at least a few months you’ll have the most powerful home gaming device on the market. Building a PC that can handle the newest games at the top settings can be an expensive and time-consuming process, but if you do it right, it’s more than worth it. If a publication has published multiple lists (e.g., by genre or platform), we have attempted to select the most generalized list.With great power comes great responsibility, or, in the case of souped up gaming PCs, a whole lot of busy work. We are only including one list per publication. Some publications may list titles without ranking them such lists are displayed below, without numbers, in alphabetical order. ▣ The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017)īelow are the 50 individual top ten lists used to calculate the standings above. Games Mentioned on Most Best of the Decade Top 10 Lists No points for titles included on unranked lists of more than 20 games (or for games ranked worse than 20th).0.5 points for being included on an unranked list of 11-20 titles.1 point for being ranked 3rd - 10th, or for being included on an unranked list of 10 or fewer titles.Individual lists are displayed at the bottom of the page, but in the table below, the most frequently mentioned titles are ranked according to our points system (which gives bonus points for being ranked at the top of a list): While the list above reflects reviews published at the time of each game's original release, we have also aggregated best-of-the-decade lists published by a variety of game and entertainment publications in late 2019. This section will be updated as new lists are published throughout the end of the year. IOS games are excluded due to the limited number of reviews available for those games. Titles are ranked by Metascore prior to rounding.
The Metascore is a weighted average of scores from top professional critics, on a scale from 0 (bad) to 100 (good). Games released between Januand Decemwith 15 or more reviews in Metacritic's database were eligible for inclusion. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine (PC, 2016)įinal Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers (PC, 2019) The ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection (PlayStation 3, 2011) The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (PlayStation 4, 2015)ĭivinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition (PlayStation 4, 2018) Super Street Fighter IV (PlayStation 3, 2010) Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (PlayStation 3, 2011) Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (PlayStation 4, 2016) The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii, 2011) Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (PlayStation 4, 2015) Persona 4 Golden (PlayStation Vita, 2012) Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty (PC, 2010) Pac-Man Championship Edition DX (Xbox 360, 2010) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (3DS, 2011) The Last of Us Remastered (PlayStation 4, 2014) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Xbox 360, 2011) Red Dead Redemption 2 (PlayStation 4, 2018) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch, 2017) If a game was released on multiple platforms, we are only including the version with the most reviews in our database. Games must have reviews from at least 15 critics to qualify for inclusion. These games have the highest Metascores out of all titles released from 2010-19. This section will be updated periodically throughout the end of the year. Part 1: Highest-scoring games of the 2010s