The calendar is nearing the end of January, but here I am sifting through yet another “Best Games of the Decade” list. This time around, the Launcher team at The Washington Post gets their time in the sun, as they chose ten games to stand tall as “The Most Influential Games of the Decade“:
Gaming is now humanity’s favorite form of entertainment, and the medium’s legacy was cemented this past decade. While the early 2000s saw video games honing their ability to tell stories and build worlds in 3-D, this last decade built off those nuts and bolts of game making and propelled the medium toward bigger ambitions like open-world design, virtual and augmented reality and an influx of new genres such as battle-royale multiplayer.
The chronological list begins with 2010’s Amnesia: The Dark Descent, continues through the middle of the decade with 2014’s Destiny, and ends with 2017’s Fortnite. In between, you’ll find a few other familiar titles, as well as a more unusual choice in King’s Candy Crush Saga:
The Washington Post’s Launcher – The Most Influential Games of the Decade
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- Candy Crush Saga
- Dark Souls
- Destiny
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Fortnite
- Minecraft
- Pokemon Go
- The Walking Dead
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Apologies to all the games from 2018 and 2019 that didn’t make the cut for The Washington Post’s list.