# IGN's best games of the decade: 2010 to 2013

The games from 2010 to 2013 that IGN picked in its list of the best games of the decade, published on 31 December 2019: from Red Dead Redemption and Minecraft to The Last of Us.

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## Top 40

1. **Amnesia: The Dark Descent** (153 · ▲162 ▼9) — 2010. Frictional's horror game where you cannot fight back, only hide.
2. **Civilization V** (120 · ▲128 ▼8) — 2010. Firaxis's turn-based strategy with hexagonal tiles.
3. **Fallout: New Vegas** (94 · ▲104 ▼10) — 2010. Obsidian's role-playing game in the Mojave wasteland.
4. **Call of Duty: Black Ops** (84 · ▲102 ▼18) — 2010. Cold War espionage campaign and the foundation of modern Zombies mode.
5. **NBA 2K11** (76 · ▲84 ▼8) — 2010. Basketball simulation with the Jordan Challenge.
6. **Minecraft** (76 · ▲81 ▼5) — 2010. The block-building sandbox that became the best-selling game ever.
7. **Mass Effect 2** (67 · ▲82 ▼15) — 2010. BioWare's space opera and its unforgettable suicide mission.
8. **StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty** (63 · ▲67 ▼4) — 2010. Blizzard's real-time strategy, king of esports.
9. **Red Dead Redemption** (60 · ▲65 ▼5) — 2010. John Marston's western, from Fort Mercer to that ending.
10. **Super Mario Galaxy 2** (57 · ▲65 ▼8) — 2010. Mario's second gravity-defying trip through space, with Yoshi.
11. **Batman: Arkham City** (49 · ▲55 ▼6) — 2011. Rocksteady's open-world Batman.
12. **Marvel vs. Capcom 3** (47 · ▲50 ▼3) — 2011. The tag-team fighting crossover (and its Ultimate edition).
13. **Terraria** (43 · ▲51 ▼8) — 2011. Dig, build and fight in 2D.
14. **Dark Souls** (42 · ▲53 ▼11) — 2011. FromSoftware's interconnected world that created a genre.
15. **Super Meat Boy** (41 · ▲47 ▼6) — 2010. The merciless, precise platformer that set the bar for indies.
16. **Portal 2** (39 · ▲49 ▼10) — 2011. Valve's puzzles with portals, GLaDOS and Wheatley.
17. **Borderlands 2** (33 · ▲39 ▼6) — 2012. Loot shooter with Handsome Jack as villain.
18. **Fire Emblem: Awakening** (31 · ▲33 ▼2) — 2012. The tactics game that saved the Fire Emblem series.
19. **Diablo III** (30 · ▲36 ▼6) — 2012. Blizzard's action RPG of endless loot.
20. **Saints Row: The Third** (27 · ▲41 ▼14) — 2011. The goofiest sandbox action of its time, in Steelport.
21. **The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim** (27 · ▲38 ▼11) — 2011. Bethesda's open world of dragons and Nordic mountains.
22. **FTL: Faster Than Light** (27 · ▲36 ▼9) — 2012. A roguelike at the helm of a spaceship.
23. **Spec Ops: The Line** (27 · ▲33 ▼6) — 2012. The military shooter that questions the player.
24. **Fez** (24 · ▲30 ▼6) — 2012. A 2D world that rotates in 3D.
25. **Kentucky Route Zero** (22 · ▲31 ▼9) — 2013. Magical-realist adventure along a hidden highway.
26. **Far Cry 3** (22 · ▲30 ▼8) — 2012. A tropical island and the villain Vaas.
27. **The Last of Us** (22 · ▲26 ▼4) — 2013. Joel and Ellie, Naughty Dog's storytelling triumph.
28. **Animal Crossing: New Leaf** (21 · ▲37 ▼16) — 2012. Becoming mayor of your own village on 3DS.
29. **Mark of the Ninja** (21 · ▲32 ▼11) — 2012. Klei's 2D stealth.
30. **Pokémon Black 2 and White 2** (20 · ▲32 ▼12) — 2012. The rare direct Pokémon sequels, with the Pokémon World Tournament.
31. **Grand Theft Auto V** (20 · ▲28 ▼8) — 2013. Three protagonists in Los Santos and the endless GTA Online.
32. **Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag** (20 · ▲26 ▼6) — 2013. Pirates and naval battles in the Caribbean.
33. **Spelunky** (18 · ▲24 ▼6) — 2013. The cave-diving roguelike (in its Enhanced Edition).
34. **The Walking Dead: Season One** (17 · ▲27 ▼10) — 2012. Telltale's story of Lee and Clementine.
35. **Hotline Miami** (16 · ▲22 ▼6) — 2012. Ultra-violent top-down action with a neon soundtrack.
36. **Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn** (15 · ▲24 ▼9) — 2013. The MMO that was rebuilt from scratch and triumphed.
37. **Gone Home** (14 · ▲23 ▼9) — 2013. Exploring an empty house to uncover a family story.
38. **Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen** (13 · ▲22 ▼9) — 2013. Capcom's action RPG with pawns and giant monsters.
39. **Dota 2** (13 · ▲21 ▼8) — 2013. Valve's MOBA and its record-breaking tournaments.
40. **Papers, Please** (11 · ▲18 ▼7) — 2013. Border inspector in a fictional communist state.

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