The best video games of 2023
The top 3 according to 150 votes from people: Baldur's Gate 3 · The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom · Super Mario Bros. Wonder. (Updated Mar 17, 2024.)
2023's best-reviewed games on Metacritic, plus the year's Game Awards picture. Remakes count; DLC and expansions don't.
Top 15
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Baldur's Gate 3
Larian's D&D RPG; Metascore 96 and Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2023.
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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Metascore 96; BotW's sequel with sky islands, the Depths and Ultrahand building.
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Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Metascore 92; 2D Mario reinvented with the transforming Wonder Flowers.
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Jack Jeanne
Metascore 90; a Japanese visual novel about a girl disguised as a boy at an all-male theatre school.
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Street Fighter 6
Metascore 92; the fighting series' fresh start, with the open-world World Tour mode.
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Marvel's Spider-Man 2
Metascore 90; Peter Parker and Miles Morales together against Venom in New York.
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Resident Evil 4
Metascore 93; Capcom's remake of the 2005 survival-horror landmark.
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Videoverse
Metascore 90; a narrative game set inside a fictional early-2000s online community.
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9
Alan Wake 2
Metascore 89; Remedy's survival horror; best direction, narrative and art direction at The Game Awards 2023.
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10
Against the Storm
Metascore 91; a roguelite city builder about rebuilding settlements in a world of endless rain.
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Pizza Tower
Metascore 89; a frantic Wario Land-inspired platformer starring pizza chef Peppino.
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Dead Space
Metascore 89; Motive's remake of the 2008 sci-fi horror classic aboard the USG Ishimura.
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13
The Talos Principle 2
Metascore 88; philosophical first-person puzzles in a world of robots.
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Dave the Diver
Metascore 90; Mintrocket's mix of deep-sea diving and running a sushi restaurant.
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Cocoon
Metascore 88; Jeppe Carlsen's puzzle game about carrying worlds inside orbs.
Candidates
They don't make it into the top 15… yet. Vote for them to move them up.
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Metroid Prime Remastered
Metascore 94; the 2002 GameCube classic rebuilt for Switch and shadow-dropped in February.
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Slay the Princess
Metascore 90; a horror visual novel about a cabin, a princess and a lot of choices.
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Sea of Stars
Metascore 87; Sabotage Studio's retro-inspired turn-based RPG.
How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.
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Comments (3)
Tears of the Kingdom, the building mechanic is insane.
Baldur's Gate 3 first, the GOTY.
Baldur's Gate 3 at #1 was the easiest call of the decade. What a year 2023 was for games.