Four cooks, ingredients thrown across the gaps, and online play added for the 2018 sequel.
FIFA under its new name; Ultimate Team and the eleven-versus-eleven.
Two puzzle games swap boards mid-match; Sega's crossover.
Ninety-nine players on one screen, sending garbage lines at whoever is closest to topping out.
MyCareer and the City; the basketball game.
Jelly men wrestle each other off buildings; the physics party game.
Arc System Works' anime fighter with rock music and the best-looking 2D in the genre.
Fencing tug-of-war in pixels; one hit, one death, run for the worm.
Quiplash and Fibbage with phones as controllers; the party game of every gathering.
Four archers, one arrow each; the best local multiplayer game of its decade.
Fatalities in 4K and a time-travel story; NetherRealm's best.
Turf war, Salmon Run and the Splatfests; Nintendo's shooter at its best.
The Forbidden Lands and a Seikret to ride; the 2025 hunt.
Spread managed democracy with friendly fire and stratagems; the co-op hit of 2024.
Raid, loot, extract or lose everything; the hardcore shooter.
Pokemon with guns and factories; the 2024 phenomenon.
The hunt goes mainstream on consoles; Anjanath in the Ancient Forest.
Wake naked on a beach, build, get raided at 3 a.m.; the survival game about other people.
Space ninjas and a decade of free updates; the co-op looter that outlived Destiny's rivals.
Sixty beans through obstacle courses; the friendliest battle royale.
Four dwarves mine an alien planet and shout Rock and Stone; the best co-op shooter.
An open-world Mario Kart with 24 racers; the Switch 2 launch title.
Five attackers, five defenders, destructible walls; the tactical shooter esport.
Four ghost hunters with a spirit box in a dark house; scream and it hears you.
Anti-gravity tracks and 48 courses; the best-selling Switch game.
Crew a pirate ship with friends and sing shanties; Rare's shared world.
Counter-Strike with abilities; Riot's tactical shooter.
Tame dinosaurs and build a tribe; survival with a T. rex.
Guardians, raids and the loot loop; Bungie after Halo.
Catch Pokemon on the street with a phone; the summer of 2016 outside.
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