The 50 Best Games of All Time
Publication Region: International (UK)
Published: November 23, 2021
Cut-Off: December 31, 2020
Games Radar’s senior editorial team compiled a list of “The 50 Best Games of All Time” to supplement the shortlist from the Golden Joystick Awards’s “Ultimate Game of All Time” competition.
A reader vote was used to determine the ranking of the “Ultimate Game of All Time” competition, so all games from the shortlist are considered unranked. The remainder of the list was ranked by Games Radar’s staff and is included in the C-Score calculation as shown.
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“Ultimate Game of All Time” Shortlist
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
- Dark Souls
- Doom (1993)
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Half-Life 2
- Halo: Combat Evolved
- The Last of Us
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Metal Gear Solid
- Minecraft
- Pac-Man
- Pokemon Go
- Portal
- SimCity (1989)
- Space Invaders
- Street Fighter II
- Super Mario 64
- Super Mario Bros. 3
- Super Mario Kart
- Tetris
- 21. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- 22. BioShock
- 23. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- 24. Journey
- 25. Resident Evil 4
- 26. God of War (2018)
- 27. Mass Effect 2
- 28. Red Dead Redemption 2
- 29. Final Fantasy VII
- 30. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
- 31. Super Metroid
- 32. Stardew Valley
- 33. Dead Space 2
- 34. Dishonored 2
- 35. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
- 36. Shadow of the Colossus
- 37. Inside
- 38. Bloodborne
- 39. Bayonetta 2
- 40. Batman: Arkham Asylum
- 41. Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- 42. Destiny 2
- 43. Hades
- 44. Forza Horizon 4
- 45. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- 46. Persona 4 Golden
Ranked As: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 - 47. Fortnite
- 48. Fez
- 49. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
- 50. Animal Crossing: New Horizons