Arc System Works' anime fighter with rock music and the best-looking 2D in the genre.
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.
Four archers, one arrow each; the best local multiplayer game of its decade.
Five attackers, five defenders, destructible walls; the tactical shooter esport.
Crew a pirate ship with friends and sing shanties; Rare's shared world.
An open-world Mario Kart with 24 racers; the Switch 2 launch title.
Scrap the moons for a company quota and die to a coilhead; the co-op horror comedy of 2023.
The hunt goes mainstream on consoles; Anjanath in the Ancient Forest.
Raid, loot, extract or lose everything; the hardcore shooter.
Space ninjas and a decade of free updates; the co-op looter that outlived Destiny's rivals.
Spread managed democracy with friendly fire and stratagems; the co-op hit of 2024.
Guardians, raids and the loot loop; Bungie after Halo.
Tame dinosaurs and build a tribe; survival with a T. rex.
Counter-Strike with abilities; Riot's tactical shooter.
The MMORPG rebuilt from a failure; A Realm Reborn to Dawntrail with the best story in the series.
Four ghost hunters with a spirit box in a dark house; scream and it hears you.
The Forbidden Lands and a Seikret to ride; the 2025 hunt.
Pokemon with guns and factories; the 2024 phenomenon.
Wake naked on a beach, build, get raided at 3 a.m.; the survival game about other people.
Ten crewmates, two impostors, emergency meetings; the pandemic's party game.
Four dwarves mine an alien planet and shout Rock and Stone; the best co-op shooter.
Turf war, Salmon Run and the Splatfests; Nintendo's shooter at its best.
Sixty beans through obstacle courses; the friendliest battle royale.
Anti-gravity tracks and 48 courses; the best-selling Switch game.
Hunt, carve, craft, hunt again with three friends; the 3DS entry that broke the West.
The King of Iron Fist Tournament, Heihachi and Kazuya into a volcano; the 3D fighter.
Five versus five on Summoner's Rift; the biggest esport in the world.
Sanctuary in high definition, the auction house removed and the Reaper of Souls fix.
A 2D Minecraft with bosses and thousands of items; the game that never stopped updating.
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