Welcome to the official VGChartz's top five open world games thread! Here you can vote for your favourite open world games. Any game with a world where you can interact and explore the environment at your convenience is an open world game.
Approved by CGI-Quality.
Rules:
1. Can pick anywhere from none to five games from any open world franchise, your picks for the best in the genre need not be limited to one per franchise.
2. Vote for five of your favourite open world games. Cannot be any less or it wouldn't count. If its more, only the top five games would count. Only one game at each position from one to five, no ties or it wouldn't be valid.
Points are based on your ranking as follows:
1 - 50
2 - 40
3 - 30
4 - 20
5 - 10
Results:
1. Individual Games
| Rank | Game | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Points |
| 1 | The Witcher 3 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 870 | |
| 2 | Red Dead Redemption | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 590 | |
| 3 | GTA V | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 450 |
| 4 | The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 420 |
| 5 | Fallout: New Vegas | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 350 |
| 6 | Assassin's Creed 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 300 |
| 7 | Infamous 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 290 | |
| 8 | Xenoblade Chronicles X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 270 |
| 9 | Batman: Arkham City | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 210 | |
| 10 | Infamous: Second Son | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 210 |
| 11 | Bloodborne | 3 | 1 | 2 | 190 | ||
| 12 | The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 190 | |
| 13 | Fallout 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 190 | |
| 14 | Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain | 1 | 3 | 1 | 140 | ||
| 15 | Fallout 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 130 | |
| 16 | Sleeping Dogs | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 120 | |
| 17 | Far Cry 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 90 | ||
| 18 | Dark Souls | 1 | 2 | 90 | |||
| 19 | Saint's Row: The Third | 2 | 1 | 1 | 90 | ||
| 20 | The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker | 1 | 1 | 90 | |||
| 21 | GTA Vice City | 1 | 2 | 2 | 90 | ||
| 22 | Gothic 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 90 | ||
| 23 | Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag | 2 | 2 | 80 | |||
| 24 | Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood | 2 | 2 | 80 | |||
| 25 | GTA San Andreas | 1 | 1 | 80 | |||
| 26 | Just Cause 3 | 1 | 1 | 80 | |||
| 27 | Borderlands 2 | 2 | 80 | ||||
| 28 | The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind | 2 | 80 | ||||
| 29 | Gothic 3 | 1 | 1 | 80 | |||
| 30 | Assassin's Creed 3 | 1 | 1 | 70 | |||
| 31 | Infamous | 2 | 1 | 70 | |||
| 32 | Yakuza 5 | 1 | 1 | 70 | |||
| 33 | Just Cause 2 | 2 | 60 | ||||
| 34 | Saint's Row 4 | 1 | 2 | 60 | |||
| 35 | Might and Magic 6 | 1 | 1 | 60 | |||
| 36 | Might and Magic 7 | 1 | 1 | 60 | |||
| 37 | Far Cry 3 | 1 | 1 | 50 | |||
| 38 | Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor | 1 | 1 | 50 | |||
| 39 | Chrono Trigger | 1 | 50 | ||||
| 40 | Dead Island | 1 | 50 | ||||
| 41 | Dragon Quest 7 | 1 | 50 | ||||
| 42 | Starbound | 1 | 50 | ||||
| 43 | Sexy Premium Beach Resort | 1 | 50 | ||||
| 44 | Gothic | 1 | 50 | ||||
| 45 | Batman: Arkham Knight | 1 | 40 | ||||
| 46 | Dying Light | 2 | 40 | ||||
| 47 | Mafia | 1 | 40 | ||||
| 48 | Spiderman 2 | 1 | 40 | ||||
| 49 | Burnout: Paradise | 1 | 30 | ||||
| 50 | Watch Dogs | 1 | 1 | 30 | |||
| 51 | Borderlands | 1 | 1 | 30 | |||
| 52 | Phantasy Star | 1 | 30 | ||||
| 53 | Terraria | 1 | 30 | ||||
| 54 | Dink Smallworld | 1 | 30 | ||||
| 55 | Gun | 1 | 30 | ||||
| 56 | Destiny | 1 | 20 | ||||
| 57 | Dragon Quest 6 | 1 | 20 | ||||
| 58 | Dead Rising 3 | 1 | 10 | ||||
| 59 | GTA IV | 1 | 10 | ||||
| 60 | Dragon Age: Inquisition | 1 | 10 | ||||
| 61 | Far Cry: Primal | 1 | 10 | ||||
| 62 | Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning | 1 | 10 | ||||
| 63 | Saints Row 2 | 1 | 10 | ||||
| 64 | The Saboteur | 1 | 10 | ||||
| 65 | Minecraft | 1 | 10 |
2. Series
Total: based on total points of a series
| Rank | Series | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Points |
| 1 | The Witcher | 8 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 870 | |
| 2 | The Elder Scrolls | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 690 |
| 3 | Fallout | 4 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 640 |
| 4 | GTA | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 620 |
| 5 | Red Dead | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 590 |
Average: based on average points of games in a series.
| Rank | Series | Points |
| 1 | The Witcher | 290 |
| 2 | Red Dead | 245 |
| 3 | Infamous | 190 |
| 4 | The Elder Scrolls | 138 |
| 5 | Fallout | 128 |
3. Developers
| Rank | Series | Points |
| 1 | Bethesda | 1010 |
| 2 | CD Projekt Red | 870 |
| 3 | Rockstar North | 640 |
| 4 | Rockstar San Diego | 590 |
| 5 | Sucker Punch Productions | 570 |
Voters:
| GOWTLOZ | axumblade |
| snyps | Sixteenvolt420 |
| raulbalarezo | Angelus |
| Captain_Yuri | Nymeria |
| Acevil | Chazore |
| alternine | m0ney |
| Darwinianevolution | vivster |
| Azuren | pokoko |
| MTZehvor | Hiku |
| WagnerPaiva | SolidSnack |
| Jpcc86 | CWegzz |
| globalisateur | daredevil.shark |
| Slimebeast | LudicrousSpeed |
| Hynad | BasilZero |
| Nemesis1993 | Fei-Hung |
| Ka-pi96 | Dr.Vita |
| Augen | Neoarc |
| Ariakon | Scoobes |
| HoloDust | COKTOE |
| pastro243 | busbfran |
| antigin | ThaMagicMax |
| Neodegenerate | ParryWinkle |
| Kagerow | |
| zealen | |
| collint0101 | |
| VAMatt | |
| SanAndreasX |
Updated to page ten.
