Best games by genre
Not sure what to play next? Pick the genre you are in the mood for and you get its top 20, straight up — no "games like X" comparison, just the ones players and critics rate highest, one cross-source score per game so a small indie is not drowned by a blockbuster. 73 rankings, from the big genres down to the niches.
Main categories
Start here if you know roughly what you want — RPG, shooter, strategy. Each card shows how many games sit behind it and who is at number one right now.
RPG
#1 Baldur's Gate 3
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Shooter
#1 Portal 2
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Strategy
#1 Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Platformer
#1 Super Mario World
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Adventure
#1 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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Action
#1 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
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Simulation
#1 Forza Horizon 4
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Puzzle
#1 The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
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Fighting
#1 Super Smash Bros. Melee
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Sports
#1 Beat Saber
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Horror
#1 Half-Life: Alyx - Final Hours
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Survival
#1 Resident Evil 2
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Casual
#1 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.3 Tatarigoroshi
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Sandbox
#1 Stardew Valley
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MOBA
#1 Dota 2
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Roguelike
#1 Hades
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Subgenres and niches
This is where it gets specific. If "RPG" is too broad and what you actually want is a turn-based CRPG or a Soulslike, the ranking for exactly that is here — and the smaller the niche, the more likely you find something you had never heard of.
RPG Games
Best Action RPGs
398 games · #1 Baldur's Gate 3
Best CRPG Games
70 games · #1 Divinity: Original Sin 2
Best JRPG Games
57 games · #1 Persona 5 Royal
Best Tactical RPGs
50 games · #1 Undertale
Best MMORPG Games
26 games · #1 World of Warcraft
Best Looter Shooter Games
10 games · #1 Borderlands 2
Best Dungeon Crawler Games
7 games · #1 Dead Estate
Best Third-Person Action RPGs
187 games · #1 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Best Isometric Action RPGs
94 games · #1 Baldur's Gate 3
Best Turn-Based CRPGs
54 games · #1 Divinity: Original Sin 2
Best Soulslike Games
30 games · #1 ELDEN RING
Best Turn-Based JRPGs
29 games · #1 Persona 5 Royal
Best Action JRPGs
28 games · #1 Finding Paradise
Best First-Person Action RPGs
27 games · #1 Fallout: New Vegas
Best Theme Park MMORPGs
10 games · #1 World of Warcraft
Best Sandbox MMORPGs
10 games · #1 Albion Online
Shooter Games
Strategy Games
Best RTS Games
81 games · #1 Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
Best Tower Defense Games
45 games · #1 Plants vs. Zombies
Best Turn-Based Strategy Games
39 games · #1 Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Best City Builder Games
30 games · #1 Cult of the Lamb
Best Grand Strategy Games
16 games · #1 Sid Meier's Civilization® V
Best Colony Sim Games
8 games · #1 Satisfactory
