Michael Jordan's greatest games as a mode; the best basketball game.
The football game that played better than FIFA; Konami's golden year.
The football game of the PS3 generation, the last on the old engine.
Catch Pokemon on the street with a phone; the summer of 2016 outside.
Build a village, raid your neighbours, wait for the timer; Supercell's empire.
Match three sweets across thousands of levels, on five lives that refill on a timer.
Slingshot birds at pigs in wooden towers; the game that made the phone a console.
Peashooters on the lawn against a zombie horde; PopCap's tower defence.
Normandy squad by squad; the WWII RTS with cover and suppression.
Legions, elephants and the Senate; the Total War that made the series.
Sengoku Japan on the campaign map and thousands of samurai on the field; Creative Assembly's best.
Four centuries of map painting from 1444; the grand strategy game.
Rule a medieval dynasty, marry your cousin, murder your brother; Paradox's story generator.
Firaxis reboots X-COM with 95% shots that miss; the turn-based tactics revival.
Hexes, one unit per tile and city-states to court; the Civilization most people played.
Sanctuary in high definition, the auction house removed and the Reaper of Souls fix.
Warcraft as a card game with a tavern keeper; Blizzard's digital CCG.
The RTS esport of the 2010s; Wings of Liberty, Heart of the Swarm, Legacy of the Void.
Five versus five on Summoner's Rift; the biggest esport in the world.
An 8-bit knight with a shovel; the retro platformer done right.
Control both brothers with the two sticks; the ending only a controller could tell.
A delivery driver on a secret highway under Kentucky; magical realism in five acts.
An empty house in 1995 and the story left in it; the walking simulator that named the genre.
Stamp passports at the border of Arstotzka and decide whom to let through; a bureaucracy game about morality.
Survive a Tim Burton wilderness; the survival game with a look.
Randomly generated caves where everything kills you and it is always your fault; the roguelike platformer.
A 2D Minecraft with bosses and thousands of items; the game that never stopped updating.
Masks, one-hit kills and a synthwave soundtrack in 1989 Miami.
A 2D world you rotate in 3D; Phil Fish's puzzle box.
Three hundred levels of instant death and instant restart; the hard platformer.
Infobox
