The 2010s were an absolutely incredible decade for video games, but as we take our first baby steps into 2020 (and new hardware from Microsoft and Sony sometime this year) some publications are still interested in looking back.
Wired UK understands the futility of trying to rank ten years worth of games, which is why they’ve used “The Best Games of the Decade, Ranked For Your Displeasure” as the title of their retrospective.
But while Wired UK’s contributors were quick to temper expectations, they ultimately made the uncontroversial choice of naming The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as the best game from 2010 to 2019. Nintendo’s Pokemon Go also landed near the top of the list at #3.
Wired UK – The Best Games of the Decade, Ranked For Your Displeasure
- 1. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- 2. The Last of Us
- 3. Pokemon Go
- 4. Red Dead Redemption 2
- 5. What Remains of Edith Finch
- 6. FIFA 17
- 7. Minecraft
- 8. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
- 9. Return of the Obra Dinn
- 10. Dark Souls
- 11. Spider-Man
Sony was the only other publisher to place two games on Wired UK’s list, with Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us (#2) and Insomniac’s Spider-Man (#11) both making the cut.
Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 (#4), Giant Sparrow’s What Remains of Edith Finch (#5), EA Sports’s FIFA 17 (#6), Mojang’s Minecraft (#7), PUBG Corporation’s PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (#8), Lucas Pope’s Return of the Obra Dinn (#9), and From Software’s Dark Souls (#10) made up the rest of Wired UK’s list.
You know, that’s not really a displeasing selection of titles at all.