With Rolling Stone’s new Best Games list in the books, I was able to look back at a list I missed from 2024… Dexerto’s “These Are the 100 Best Games of All Time“.
Published in August, it’s a very list as it skews very modern, including the selection of From Software’s Elden Ring at #1. In fact, the remainder of the Top 5 (including Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 at #2, Atlus’s Persona 5 at #3, Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us at #4, and Valve’s Portal 2 at #5) is comprised of games from the last 15 years.
This pattern continues the further down the list you go, including with all the games that Dexerto picked that have yet to appear on any Best Games lists. These first-time selections include Baldur’s Gate 3 (#8), Cyberpunk 2077 (#33), Sea of Thieves (#70), Doom Eternal (#81), 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (#84), Diablo IV (#86), and WWE Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain (#100).
The rest of Dexerto’s “These Are the 100 Best Games of All Time” is certainly worth a look and the list will be added to the Video Game Canon as part of the next update.