2010s
11 games
Grand Theft Auto V
Three switchable protagonists, a satirical Los Santos and GTA Online became the fastest entertainment product to a billi...
The Last of Us
Joel and Ellie crossing a fungal collapsed America set a new bar for performance capture and writing in games. The 2023 ...
Journey
Wordless cooperative wandering with anonymous strangers over desert dunes moved players like few games before. Its sound...
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Dragon shouts, mod support and a decade of re-releases turned the fifth Elder Scrolls into a permanent platform. It ship...
Dark Souls
Hidetaka Miyazaki interlocking world, bonfire checkpoints and refusal to explain created a genre named after it. The sou...
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Geralt of Rivia hunting monsters in a war torn continent set the modern bar for side quest writing and expansion packs. ...
Stardew Valley
Eric Barone alone coded, drew, wrote and composed a farm life answer to Harvest Moon over four years. One developer, mor...
Minecraft
Markus Notch Persson block sandbox grew from indie forums into the best selling game in history at over 300 million copi...
Fortnite
The battle royale went free to play in 2017 and became a social network with shotguns, building and live events. A Travi...
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Released for the Wii U and as a launch title for the Nintendo Switch, it opened Hyrule as a vast landscape that can be e...
Red Dead Redemption 2
Arthur Morgan rides with the Van der Linde gang in the dying days of the American frontier. Painstaking detail in its wo...