GRcade

Welcome to GRcade's Game of the Decade voting!

Boy, this was a lot of work

Throughout December, forumites voted on the best Major Studio and Indie games, ranking their choices from one to ten with weighted scores.

I will be revealing the top 20 in each ranking, and their average score per voter. To rank 20th place, a game required just 20 points in the Major Studios, and just 17 points in the Indies.

In cases where the is a draw for a position, I have awarded the game with the most 10s (or next highest awarded score) the higher spot. Because of this, Uncharted 4 can consider itself the unluckiest game of the decade, having tied points wise for 20th, but lacking a point haul higher than 7 from any single voter.

Top spot in the Indies won by just 3 points, with only 8 points separating the top four.

However top spot in the Major Studios won by more than DOUBLE the second place game's score, having made its way into 18 people's lists.

The best represented year in our combined top 40 is 2015 by a decent margin, with 9 games. The distribution is as follows:



Games which received rereleases during the decade across different consoles (e.g. Mario Kart 8 and The Last of Us) have been treated as a single game.

But first, some notable omissions from the voting. 106 Major Studio games and 105 Indie games receive at least one point each, but the following games and series received NO POINTS.

I've picked out games with very high Metacritic scores, or huge popularity. A few seem have suffered from their successors/predecessors pushing them out of people's minds:



INDIE GAME OF THE DECADE

20th - Overcooked (5.67)
19th - Baba is You (8.50)
18th - Shovel Knight (4.50)
17th - Minecraft (10.00 )
16th - Undertale (5.25)
15th - Hotline Miami 2 (6.00)
14th - Super Meat Boy (5.00)
13th - Disco Elysium (8.33)
12th - Axiom Verge (6.50)
11th - Ori and the Blind Forest (8.67)

NB: Minecraft is potentially controversial, as it was released to certain members of the public in late 2009. If you wish to exclude it from the list on this basis, 20th place goes to Inside.

And the top ten:



MAJOR STUDIO GAME OF THE DECADE

20th - Metal Gear Solid V (6.67)
19th - Dark Souls (7.67)
18th - Skyrim (4.80)
17th - Fallout New Vegas (6.00)
16th - Spider-Man (4.80)
15th - XCOM 2 (6.50)
14th - Red Dead Redemption 2 (6.50)
13th - Super Smash Bros Ultimate (7.50)
12th - God of War (8.00)
11th - Red Dead Redemption (6.40)

And the top ten:

Surprisingly for GRcade, that's not an awful list.

Where the strawberry float is the witness?!

Overcooked and no overcooked 2? TEH FUG!?

I didn't vote. I have no idea what my games of the decade are tbh.

Deserved for BOTW really.

Odyssey way too high, glad to see we’ve remembered how amazing Galaxy 2 was though.

Great work Clarkman, and those are decent lists! Indie especially. I need to play Shovel Knight, Axiom Verge, Disco Elysium, Ori, Dead Cells and Into the Breach.

No Life Is Strange? Maybe I should have made an effort to vote. Decent lists though.

Pretty decent list when all is said and done!

Really need to give the Yakuza series a try as it is consistently being lauded on here.

Happy Yakuza 0 made it on the list, Breath of the Wild is a deserved winner.

Rightfully crowned. Never played Hotline Miami; fairly sure Celeste was robbed though. Good to see Odyssey beating SMG2 and UGG in the top five.

Y’all are still scabs though, Ghost Trick was magnificent.

Hotline Miami is fantastic and deservedly up alongside Celeste and Hollow Knight. I'd easily accept any ranking between them as personal taste.

BOTW crushing it.

Surprised Alien Isolation didn’t make the top 20 it seemed to feature in a lot of people’s lists. Also where did Resi 2 come?

Captain Kinopio wrote:Surprised Alien Isolation didn’t make the top 20 it seemed to feature in a lot of people’s lists. Also where did Resi 2 come?

Alien Isolation on four people's lists but only came 28th. Resi 2 also on four lists and came 24th.

Thanks for the thread Clarkman - must have been a lot of effort.

Looks like good lists too. Theres a bunch of indie game I hadn't heard but now want to try.

No Cities Skylines, pity.

I played and loved a bunch of games in the Indie Top 20. But I must admit I've never heard of hotline miami.

Having only seen the trailer (admitedly a trailer isn't much to go on), it doesn't seem that great! But a bundle of 1 and 2 is on eshop for £6 so I definetely want to see what all the fuss is about

Well done Clarkman!

Good lists. Hotline:Miami is deservedly the cream of the indie crop, it was a genuinely fantastic game, one of my all time favourites.

I vote for The Witness