# The best video games of 2023

2023's best-reviewed games on Metacritic, plus the year's Game Awards picture. Remakes count; DLC and expansions don't.

- 150 votes · 18 items
- Mar 17, 2024 · Leah Grant
- https://even.best/en/l/48/the-best-video-games-of-2023

## Top 15

1. **Baldur's Gate 3** (18 · ▲21 ▼3) — Larian's D&D RPG; Metascore 96 and Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2023.
2. **The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom** (14 · ▲15 ▼1) — Metascore 96; BotW's sequel with sky islands, the Depths and Ultrahand building.
3. **Super Mario Bros. Wonder** (11 · ▲12 ▼1) — Metascore 92; 2D Mario reinvented with the transforming Wonder Flowers.
4. **Jack Jeanne** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — Metascore 90; a Japanese visual novel about a girl disguised as a boy at an all-male theatre school.
5. **Street Fighter 6** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Metascore 92; the fighting series' fresh start, with the open-world World Tour mode.
6. **Marvel's Spider-Man 2** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Metascore 90; Peter Parker and Miles Morales together against Venom in New York.
7. **Resident Evil 4** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Metascore 93; Capcom's remake of the 2005 survival-horror landmark.
8. **Videoverse** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Metascore 90; a narrative game set inside a fictional early-2000s online community.
9. **Alan Wake 2** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Metascore 89; Remedy's survival horror; best direction, narrative and art direction at The Game Awards 2023.
10. **Against the Storm** (4 · ▲7 ▼3) — Metascore 91; a roguelite city builder about rebuilding settlements in a world of endless rain.
11. **Pizza Tower** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Metascore 89; a frantic Wario Land-inspired platformer starring pizza chef Peppino.
12. **Dead Space** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Metascore 89; Motive's remake of the 2008 sci-fi horror classic aboard the USG Ishimura.
13. **The Talos Principle 2** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Metascore 88; philosophical first-person puzzles in a world of robots.
14. **Dave the Diver** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Metascore 90; Mintrocket's mix of deep-sea diving and running a sushi restaurant.
15. **Cocoon** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Metascore 88; Jeppe Carlsen's puzzle game about carrying worlds inside orbs.
16. **Metroid Prime Remastered** (2 · ▲6 ▼4) — Metascore 94; the 2002 GameCube classic rebuilt for Switch and shadow-dropped in February.
17. **Slay the Princess** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — Metascore 90; a horror visual novel about a cabin, a princess and a lot of choices.
18. **Sea of Stars** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — Metascore 87; Sabotage Studio's retro-inspired turn-based RPG.

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