really amazing storytelling like in The Witcher 3, or a truly original game mechanic, or did it pioneer something)? Does it have something special about it (i.e.did it impact other games' design/storytelling, or the 'Dark Souls Metric')? Is it fondly remembered or still talked about today?.Did it appear on one of our Top 20 lists, or as a Game of the Year?.We broadly tried to ensure the games we picked fit at least two items from the following list of criteria: The games you see below were chosen over the course of several months worth of nominations, voting, and bitter arguments. But first, a word on how we compiled this list. In the meantime though, it's worth looking back on the best of the previous decade, which gave us so many incredible games. In 2030 we may very well look back and say to ourselves, 'Wow, remember when people still had consoles?' It was in 2010 that FarmVille reached its peak, sending publishers scrambling to make browser games of their own.Īs a new decade begins, we can look forward to the continued rise of VR, AR, streaming, and machine learning, as well as to the growing dominance of subscription gaming. In early 2010, we were still playing games with plastic instruments free-to-play had yet to become truly popular, and it was still theoretically possible to cover every single game that came out in a given year. The games industry is almost unrecognizable compared to how it was at the beginning of the decade. It was the decade of streamers and indie developers Netflix and smartphones. It was a decade in which social media exploded, bringing with it demagogues, white supremacists, and Instagram models. Nobody could really know the turbulence that was in store for them in the 2010s. If you'd rather skip to #25-1, you can do that too. You can find #50-26, the second part of our Top 100 Games of the Decade list, here.

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