Ranking of video games released in the 2020s

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 †)

Here is a list where I do the same for the first half of the 2020s.

1. Fuser

2. Elden Ring

3. Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon

4. Wildfire

5. Mundaun

6. Northern Journey

7. Nine Sols

8. Bugsnax

9. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

10. Signalis

11. Resident Evil Village

12. Hitman 3

13. Balatro

14. Resident Evil 3

15. Rift of the Necrodancer

16. Threshold

17. Ori and the Will of the Wisps

18. Amnesia: The Bunker

19. Lethal Company

20. Hardspace Shipbreaker

21. Patrick’s Parabox

22. Noita

23. Knight’s Try

24. Prison of Husks (Prototype)

25. Wilmot’s Warehouse

26. A Monster’s Expedition

27. 1000xRESIST

28. Annalynn

29. Streets of Rage 4

30. Parking Garage Rally Circuit

31. Cult of the Lamb

32. Iron Lung

33. Murder by Numbers

34. King of the Castle

35. Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 †

36. Tormented Souls

37. Animal Crossing: New Horizons

38. Doom Eternal

39. Acid Spinner

40. Nightmare of Decay

41. Blue Fire

42. Pseudoregalia

43. Save Room

44. It’s A Block Pushing Game

45. The Good Life

46. Spiritfarer

47. Cavern of Dreams

48. Ghostrunner

49. Halo Infinite

50. Carto

51. Waterworld (the Simpsons gag game)

52. Bloodwash

53. Unpacking

54. Umurangi Generation

55. Wordle

56. Toodee and Topdee

57. Cyber Shadow

58. It's Six Random Characters and a Single Floor Dungeon, That's the Whole Game

59. Fox Tower

60. Remnant: From The Ashes

61. Skye

62. The Tower on the Borderland

63. Everhood

64. Map Friend

65. Under A Star Long Cold

66. Shark Riders

67. Adios

TBD:

• Lunacid
• Hexcraft: Harlequin Fair
• Pizza Tower
• Atama
• Deep Rock Galactic
• The Talos Principle 2
• Gloomwood
• Mech Engineer
• Fragrance Point
• Pokemon Scarlet