Best video games of all time
by GlarkCable | created - 14 Jan 2021 | updated - 11 May 2021 | PublicVideo games with a rating above 8.5
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1. Red Dead Redemption II (2018 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Crime
Amidst the decline of the Wild West at the turn of the 20th century, outlaw Arthur Morgan and his gang struggle to cope with the loss of their way of life.
Stars: Benjamin Byron Davis, Roger Clark, Rob Wiethoff, Cali Elizabeth Moore
Votes: 54,375
2. BioShock Infinite (2013 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
A man is sent to the flying city of Columbia to find a missing girl. However, upon arrival he discovers that the city, its people, and his objective are all not what they seem.
Director: Ken Levine | Stars: Troy Baker, Courtnee Draper, Kiff VandenHeuvel, Laura Bailey
Votes: 22,134
3. The Last of Us (2013 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
In a hostile, post-pandemic world, Joel and Ellie, brought together by desperate circumstances, must rely on each other to survive a brutal journey across what remains of the United States.
Directors: Neil Druckmann, Bruce Straley | Stars: Troy Baker, Ashley Johnson, Hana Hayes, Jeffrey Pierce
Votes: 76,083
4. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, History
A video game where you play as sailor, privateer and assassin Edward Kenway exploring on and around the islands in the Caribbean Sea during the early 17th century.
Director: Ashraf Ismail | Stars: Stuart Martin, Ralph Ineson, Kate Fleetwood, Sarah Greene
Votes: 19,693
5. Hades (2018 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Hades is a rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion and Transistor, in which you defy the god of death as you hack and slash your way out of the Underworld of Greek myth.
Stars: Logan Cunningham, Darren Korb, Avalon Penrose, Christopher Saphire
Votes: 2,547
6. Ori and the Will of the Wisps (2020 Video Game)
E | Adventure, Fantasy
Ori begins a new journey that goes beyond the forest of Nibel where he uncovers lost secrets, and unearths his true destiny.
Stars: Erik Braa, Boris Hiestand, Jennifer Losi, Tiana Camacho
Votes: 1,591
7. Ori and the Blind Forest (2015 Video Game)
E | Adventure, Fantasy
Ori fell from the Spirit Tree in the forest of Nibel during a storm and was adopted by a bear-like creature named Naru, who raised Ori as her own.
Director: Thomas Mahler | Stars: Erik Braa, Aeralie Brighton, Andrew Lackey
Votes: 2,535
8. Hollow Knight (2017 Video Game)
E10+ | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In a world of insects, a diminutive knight descends into an ancient and crazed kingdom to restore its fallen king's order.
Votes: 3,303
9. Batman: Return to Arkham (2016 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Crime
Batman: Return to Arkham thrusts players back into the environments of Arkham Asylum and Arkham City with a remastered graphics engine and all DLC.
Director: Sefton Hill | Stars: Mark Hamill, Kevin Conroy, Arleen Sorkin, Tom Kane
Votes: 2,448
10. Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009 Video Game)
T | Action, Crime, Mystery
Batman battles his archenemy, the Joker, who instigates an elaborate plot to seize control of Arkham Asylum, trap Batman inside with many of his incarcerated foes, and threaten Gotham City with hidden bombs.
Director: Sefton Hill | Stars: Mark Hamill, Kevin Conroy, Arleen Sorkin, Tom Kane
Votes: 31,463
11. Batman: Arkham City (2011 Video Game)
T | Action, Crime, Mystery
When part of Gotham is turned into a private reserve for criminals known as Arkham City, all hell is sure to break loose, and the Dark Knight is the only one who can stop it.
Director: Sefton Hill | Stars: Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, David Kaye, Carlos Alazraqui
Votes: 34,879
12. Batman: Arkham Knight (2015 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Mystery
With his back against the wall, Batman turns to his closest allies to help him save Gotham City from the clutches of Scarecrow and the Arkham Knight's army. A familiar face also returns to give The Dark Knight a message he cannot ignore.
Director: Sefton Hill | Stars: Carlos Alazraqui, Laura Bailey, Troy Baker, Jonathan Banks
Votes: 23,918
13. Spider-Man (2018 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
When a new villain threatens New York City, Peter Parker and Spider-Man's worlds collide. To save the city and those he loves, he must rise up and be greater.
Director: Ryan Smith | Stars: Yuri Lowenthal, Tara Platt, Travis Willingham, William Salyers
Votes: 29,372
14. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (2016 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Drama
Thrown back into the dangerous underworld he'd tried to leave behind, Nathan Drake must decide what he's willing to sacrifice to save the ones he loves.
Directors: Neil Druckmann, Bruce Straley | Stars: Nolan North, Troy Baker, Richard McGonagle, Emily Rose
Votes: 36,009
15. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After being tracked down by Harry Flynn, Nathan Drake goes on a quest for Marco Polo's lost fleet. However when things take an unexpected turn for the worst, Drake must rely on those closest to him in order to find the Cintomani Stone.
Directors: Amy Hennig, Bruce Straley | Stars: Nolan North, Emily Rose, Claudia Black, Richard McGonagle
Votes: 28,250
16. Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (2011 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Treasure hunter Nathan Drake embarks on a quest in search of the Atlantis of the Sands while battling an ancient, sinister organization.
Directors: Amy Hennig, Justin Richmond | Stars: Nolan North, Richard McGonagle, Emily Rose, Claudia Black
Votes: 24,725
17. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (2007 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Treasure hunter Nathan Drake, embarks in the adventure of his life searching for the legendary treasure, El Dorado while fighting a group of mercenaries.
Director: Amy Hennig | Stars: Nolan North, Emily Rose, Richard McGonagle, Simon Templeman
Votes: 22,920
18. Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (2017 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Chloe returns in The Lost Legacy on the hunt for an ancient Indian artifact, the fabled Tusk of Ganesh. To help uncover the Tusk and keep it out of the hands of a ruthless warmonger, she enlists the help of mercenary Nadine Ross.
Directors: Shaun Escayg, Kurt Margenau | Stars: Claudia Black, Laura Bailey, Troy Baker, Usman Ally
Votes: 9,172
19. Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection (2015 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A remastered collection of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (2007), Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009), and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (2011) for PlayStation 4.
Director: Amy Hennig | Stars: Nolan North, Emily Rose, Richard McGonagle, Claudia Black
Votes: 6,302
20. The Last of Us: Left Behind (2014 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
Find out what set Ellie on her course to the life changing events in The Last of Us (2013), whilst filling in the gaps during winter with Joel.
Directors: Kevin Joelson, Satoshi Komuro, Bruce Straley | Stars: Ashley Johnson, Yaani King Mondschein, Troy Baker, Chris Jai Alex
Votes: 12,331
21. God of War (2018 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
After wiping out the gods of Mount Olympus, Kratos moves on to the frigid lands of Scandinavia, where he and his son must embark on an odyssey across a dangerous world of gods and monsters.
Director: Cory Barlog | Stars: Christopher Judge, Sunny Suljic, Jeremy Davies, Danielle Bisutti
Votes: 37,423
22. Dragon Age: Origins (2009 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After four hundred years since the last Blight, a new Archdemon seeks to destroy the land of Ferelden. It is up to the player - as one of the remaining Grey Wardens - to unite the divided armies of Ferelden and save humanity.
Director: Dan Tudge | Stars: Steve Valentine, Peter Renaday, Kate Mulgrew, Tim Curry
Votes: 8,619
23. Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
When the Conclave is destroyed, leaving only one survivor, demons are loosed up on the world. In an attempt to restore order and save the world, the survivor--now the inquisitor-- instigates the long forgotten inquisition.
Directors: Mike Laidlaw, Sam McGlynn, Pierre Michel-Estival | Stars: Harry Hadden-Paton, Alix Wilton Regan, Jon Curry, Sumalee Montano
Votes: 5,563
24. Dragon Age: Inquisition - Trespasser (2015 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
With Thedas at peace, the state of the Inquisition must be determined. There's time to take a breath, but eventually, the powers that be will grow antsy about the Inquisition's role in Thedas going forward.
Director: Mike Laidlaw | Stars: Harry Hadden-Paton, Alix Wilton Regan, Jon Curry, Sumalee Montano
Votes: 475
25. Mass Effect 3 (2012 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
Earth is under attack by a monstrous race of gigantic living ships known as the Reapers. Even if Commander Shepard could unite all surviving species in the galaxy, only a miracle could save them. Then again, Shepard did come back from the dead.
Director: Casey Hudson | Stars: Jennifer Hale, Mark Meer, Kimberly Brooks, Raphael Sbarge
Votes: 16,883
26. Mass Effect 2 (2010 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
After being revived from death and having to join a pro-human organization without a choice, Commander Shepard must assemble a team, battle a new threat, and make tough choices in order to save the galaxy from total annihilation once more.
Director: Casey Hudson | Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Maggie Baird, Adam Baldwin, Michael Beattie
Votes: 21,472
27. Mass Effect (2007 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
In a technologically advanced future, an elite human soldier takes command of a prototype star ship and works to defend the galaxy from danger.
Director: Casey Hudson | Stars: Steven Barr, Kimberly Brooks, Keith David, Seth Green
Votes: 19,807
28. Fallout 4 (2015 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the post-apocalyptic Boston, Massachusetts area, you play as the "Sole Survivor" of Vault 111, recently revived from centuries of forced cryostasis, determined to find your kidnapped son.
Director: Todd Howard | Stars: Brian T. Delaney, Courtenay Taylor, Stephen Russell, Courtney Ford
Votes: 15,147
29. Fallout 3 (2008 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Centuries following nuclear war, a teen leaves the safety of an underground vault in order to find their father, who left in hopes of creating a water purifier.
Director: Todd Howard | Stars: Liam Neeson, Malcolm McDowell, Ron Perlman, Odette Annable
Votes: 20,349
30. Fallout: New Vegas (2010 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
After surviving a bullet to the head, Courier Six traverses the post-apocalyptic Mojave desert in search of the men who wronged him, while making an impact on thousands in the process.
Director: Josh Sawyer | Stars: Matthew Perry, Wayne Newton, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman
Votes: 13,918
31. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After escaping execution, the last living Dragonborn must grow in strength and power to defeat the dragons that have once again begun to plague the land of Skyrim.
Director: Todd Howard | Stars: Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Joan Allen, Michael Hogan
Votes: 33,636
32. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (2002 Video Game)
M | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Over the course of two millenia, twelve men and women are linked together by an accursed book known as the Tome of Eternal Darkness.
Director: Denis Dyack | Stars: Michael Bell, Earl Boen, Cam Clarke, Neil Dickson
Votes: 835
33. Donkey Kong Country (1994 Video Game)
K-A | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Waking to find his banana hoard clean gone, Donkey Kong sets out with his nephew Diddy Kong through jungle and cavern, past temples and reef, across pine forests, factories, and mountains to rid the island of the wicked Kremlings and reclaim his bananas.
Director: Tim Stamper
Votes: 3,297
34. Dark Souls (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After narrowly escaping a doomed fate in an asylum, an undead warrior fights his way through the desolate remains of Lordran, once a sprawling utopia lead by the gods, to seek his purpose and fulfill a centuries old prophecy.
Director: Hidetaka Miyazaki | Stars: Adam Sopp, Andy Gathergood, Blake Ritson, Charlie Cameron
Votes: 6,109
35. The Last of Us: Part II (2020 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
Five years after the events of The Last of Us, Ellie embarks on another journey through a post-apocalyptic America on a mission of vengeance against a mysterious militia.
Directors: Neil Druckmann, Kurt Margenau, Anthony Newman | Stars: Ashley Johnson, Troy Baker, Derek Phillips, Jeffrey Pierce
Votes: 41,975
36. Red Dead Redemption (2010 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Crime
A former outlaw is forced by the federal government to hunt down the members of his old gang.
Stars: Rob Wiethoff, Josh Blaylock, Sophia Marzocchi, Spider Madison
Votes: 30,487
37. BioShock (2007 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Horror
In 1960, a lone survivor of a plane crash named Jack discovers an abandoned underwater utopia, only to find out that the mystery behind its creation is much more sinister than he first believed.
Director: Ken Levine | Stars: John Ahlin, Greg Baldwin, Jane Beller, Susanne Blakeslee
Votes: 21,979
38. Control (2019 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Horror
You are Jesse Faden, a young woman with a troubled past. You become the new Director of the Bureau of Control - Our frontline in researching and fighting against supernatural enemies like the Hiss threatening our very existence.
Directors: Mikael Kasurinen, Sam Lake | Stars: Courtney Hope, Sean Durrie, James McCaffrey, Matthew Porretta
Votes: 5,287
39. Grand Theft Auto V (2013 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Three very different criminals team up for a series of heists and walk into some of the most thrilling experiences in the corrupt city of Los Santos.
Stars: Shawn Fonteno, Ned Luke, Steven Ogg, Gerald 'Slink' Johnson
Votes: 71,719
40. Silent Hill 2 (2001 Video Game)
M | Drama, Horror, Mystery
After receiving a letter from his late wife, from Silent Hill, James Sunderland heads towards the town to search for her, only to come across a terrifying road of truth and redemption.
Directors: Takayuki Kobayashi, Masashi Tsuboyama | Stars: Guy Cihi, Monica Horgan, Donna Burke, David Schaufele
Votes: 7,604
41. Bully (2006 Video Game)
T | Action, Crime, Drama
A troubled teen is dropped off at the worst school in the country and must survive by rising through the rankings of the school system.
Stars: Gerry Rosenthal, Peter Vack, Matt Bush, John Lavelle
Votes: 6,233
42. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After being freed by the Emperor of Tamriel, the hero must prevent the gates of Oblivion from spreading throughout the Empire.
Director: Todd Howard | Stars: Sean Bean, Lynda Carter, Terence Stamp, Patrick Stewart
Votes: 13,072
43. Portal 2 (2011 Video Game)
E10+ | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Many years after "Portal," Chell reawakens at Aperture Science and tries to stop GLaDOS once again with the help of Wheatley, who has his own plans for the historical facility.
Stars: Ellen McLain, Stephen Merchant, J.K. Simmons, Joe Micheals
Votes: 17,713
44. Portal (2007 Video Game)
T | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A test subject wakes up in a scientific facility controlled by a sadistic artificial intelligence and must escape with the help of the only instrument she has--a gun that makes portals.
Stars: Ellen McLain, Mike Patton, Alesia Glidewell, Jeep Barnett
Votes: 14,401
45. Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (2013 Video Game)
E10+ | Action, Adventure, Comedy
As the pages of the Thievius Raccoonus change before their eyes, Sly Cooper and his gang must reunite and travel back through time in order to recover the lost pages and protect the Cooper legacy.
Directors: Roque Ballesteros, Chris Borders, Jenny Huang, Grady Hunt, Alan Lau, Brad Rau, Bill Spence, Sean Kelly, Satoshi Komuro, Michael L. Mumbauer | Stars: Kevin Miller, Matt Olsen, Chris Murphy, Grey Griffin
Votes: 869
46. Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (2002 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Sly is set on a path that tests his strength and abilities to see whether he can take the mantle of a master thief like his ancestors before him, and retrieve all pages of the Thievius Raccoonus and claim his birth right as a Cooper.
Director: Nate Fox | Stars: Kevin Miller, Matt Olsen, Chris Murphy, Roxana Ortega
Votes: 1,409
47. Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (2020 Video Game)
E10+ | Action, Adventure, Comedy
After Neo Cortex, Dr. N. Tropy and Uka Uka were last stranded on a distant planet. After decades of fruitless attempts, the trio finally make their escape, ripping an Evil-Scientist-sized ... See full summary »
Stars: Andrew Morgado, Cherise Boothe, Chris Fries, Corey Burton
Votes: 1,174
48. Spyro Reignited Trilogy (2018 Video Game)
E10+ | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Spyro's back and he's all scaled up. Same sick burns, same smoldering attitude, now all scaled up in stunning HD. Spyro is bringing the heat like never before in the Spyro Reignited Trilogy game collection.
Stars: Tom Kenny, Dave B. Mitchell, André Sogliuzzo, Richard Tatum
Votes: 1,394
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