Ranking of video games released in 2010-2019
Back in December 2019, I undertook the unreasonable and misguided task of trying to identify every single video game I played that was released in the 2010s, and rank them all. The rules I set for myself were as follows:
- Don't dwell on each position for too long.
- If I spent enough time with it to have an opinion about it, it's fair game. If I don’t have at least some thoughts about it, it doesn’t belong on the list.
- Games I watched in streams/let’s plays count, if I feel I got enough of the experience (those games are marked with a †)
At some point, I hope to write some actual thoughts about some of the games on these list. Without further ado, here it is:
1. Dark Souls
2. Crypt of the Necrodancer
3. Dark Souls III
4. Super Hexagon
5. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
6. Puyo Puyo Tetris
7. Dark Souls II
8. Hitman + Hitman 2
9. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
10. NieR:Automata
11. Cuphead
12. Yakuza 0 †
13. Resident Evil 2: Remake
14. XCOM: Enemy Unknown
15. Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward †
16. Resident Evil 7
17. DOOM
18. FTL: Faster Than Light
19. Papers, Please
20. Undertale
21. Yakuza Kiwami
22. The Talos Principle
23. Deadly Premonition †
24. Downwell
25. Baba Is You
26. Celeste
27. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction
28. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
29. Sleeping Dogs
30. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist
31. Gunpoint
32. PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS
33. Stellaris
34. Into the Breach
35. Portal 2
36. The Witness
37. Deltarune
38. Frog Fractions
39. Forza Horizon 4
40. Dead Space 2
41. ABZÛ
42. A Good Snowman is Hard to Build
43. Wolfenstein: The New Order
44. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
45. Kero Blaster
46. Super Mario Maker 2
47. Timespinner
48. Soulcalibur VI
49. What Remains of Edith Finch
50. Hollow Knight
51. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night †
52. Oxenfree
53. Axiom Verge
54. Alien: Isolation
55. Untitled Goose Game
56. Furi
57. Just Cause 2: Multiplayer Mod
58. Odallus: The Dark Call
59. Heat Signature
60. Dishonored
61. Sid Meier’s Civilization V
62. SUPERHOT
63. Legend of Grimrock
64. Super Mario Odyssey
65. Grow Home
66. Hotline Miami
67. Ape Out
68. Steamworld Dig 2
69. Invisible Inc.
70. Legend of Grimrock 2
71. Contradiction †
72. Slay the Spire
73. Dust: An Elysian Tail
74. Pikuniku
75. Devil May Cry 5
76. Cities: Skylines
77. The MISSING: JJ Macfield and the Island of Memories †
78. Unavowed
79. Dustforce
80. The Walking Dead: Season 1
81. Firewatch
82. Shovel Knight
83. Metal Gear Solid V
84. Until Dawn †
85. Mass Effect 2
86. Dragon’s Dogma
87. Saints Row: The Third
88. Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to)
89. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies
90. Gone Home
91. Uncharted 4 †
92. Opus Magnum
93. Transistor
94. Cook, Serve, Delicious!
95. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
96. Assassin’s Creed 2
97. Sid Meier’s Civilization VI
98. Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
99. Volgarr the Viking
100. klocki
101. Cheap Golf
102. DmC: Devil May Cry
103. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
104. Mark of the Ninja
105. VVVVVV
106. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
107. Snipperclips
108. D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die
109. Sokobond
110. Tomb Raider
111. Don’t Starve
112. Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
113. Aragami
114. A Story About My Uncle
115. English Country Tune
116. Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective
117. Thumper
118. nium
119. Space Funeral †
120. Limbo
121. League of Legends
122. AER: Memories of Old
123. Luftrausers
124. Nidhogg
125. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
126. Sublevel Zero
127. Roundabout
128. Cosmic Express
129. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
130. Hexcells
131. Batman: Arkham City
132. Mass Effect 3
133. Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
134. Assassin’s Creed 3
135. L.A. Noire
136. Doki Doki Literature Club
137. Beat Hazard
138. Gone Wandering
139. Semblance
140. Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception †
141. Vampyr
142. Magicka
143. The Banner Saga
144. Risk of Rain
145. Proteus
146. Euro Truck Simulator 2
147. Besiege
148. Guacamelee!
149. Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
150. DreadOut †
151. The Surge
152. Jamestown
153. Middle-earth: Shadow of War
154. Hotline Miami 2
155. Ready Player Fuck
156. Please, Don’t Touch Anything
157. Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist
158. Hitman GO
159. And Yet It Moves
160. Torchlight II
161. Race the Sun
162. No One Has To Die †
163. Environmental Station Alpha
164. Sniper Elite 3
165. 100ft Robot Golf
166. Spec Ops: The Line
167. Thirty Flights of Loving
168. TumbleSeed
169. Westerado: Double Barreled
170. Hitman: Absolution
171. Rebel Galaxy
172. Borderlands 2
173. Human: Fall Flat
174. Golden Sun: Dark Dawn
175. Serious Sam 3: BFE
176. Retro City Rampage
177. Dota 2
178. Watch_Dogs †
179. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
180. Thief
181. Starseed Pilgrim
182. Styx: Master of Shadows
183. Year Walk
184. The Stanley Parable
185. Shadwen
186. The Quiet Man †
187. Titan Souls
188. Jazzpunk
189. Zero Time Dilemma †
190. Lords of the Fallen
191. Lichdom: Battlemage
192. Antichamber
193. Afterfall: InSanity †
The list is unedited, as I wrote it in December. Certain big games were missing from the list for various reasons, ranging from "I haven't finished it yet" to "I literally worked on the game, so my perspective is skewed".
The games I enjoyed at least somewhat range from 1 to 161-ish, with the games I consider great starting at around 92. The games I did not have a good time with start at around 178.
While making this list, I was surprised by how many games I found at least some value in, and by how few games I thought were genuinely bad. I’m pretty sure the answer is as simply that I usually avoid games I don't think I'd like.
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