mZuzek on 10 November 2022
This year, I will be posting a list of my 50 favorite games of all time. I think. It's a little weird because I haven't got much new to list this time, and many of the games near the bottom are on borrowed time at this point, but I still had a hard time settling on a ranking. It feels a bit like a list of my 35 favorite games of all time, but in an order I'm unsure about and with 15 bonus entries at the end. Anyway.
(edit: That was kinda edgy, sorry about that. I'm actually pretty happy with how the list turned out, all in all.)
Top 50:
| Rank | Game | Developer | Platform(s) | Year | YoY |
| #50 | No Man's Sky | Hello Games | PC | 2016 | H.M. |
| #49 | Persona 5 Strikers | Atlus / Omega Force | Switch | 2020 | -10 |
| #48 | Night in the Woods | Infinite Fall | Switch | 2017 | -8 |
| #47 | Mass Effect | BioWare | PC | 2007 | -1 |
| #46 | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | Sega | Mega Drive | 1992 | H.M. |
| #45 | Super Meat Boy | Team Meat | PC | 2010 | 0 |
| #44 | Football Manager 2020 | Sports Interactive | PC | 2019 | -1 |
| #43 | Castlevania: Symphony of the Night | Konami | PlayStation | 1997 | -7 |
| #42 | Metroid: Zero Mission | Nintendo | Game Boy Advance | 2004 | -4 |
| #41 | The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess | Nintendo | GC, Wii, Wii U | 2006 | -10 |
| #40 | Death's Door | Acid Nerve | PC | 2021 | New! |
| #39 | Metroid: Samus Returns | MercurySteam | 3DS | 2017 | -7 |
| #38 | Cyberpunk 2077 | CD Projekt Red | PC | 2020 | -4 |
| #37 | Persona 3 | Atlus | PlayStation 2 | 2006 | -2 |
| #36 | Pokémon Black 2 & White 2 | Game Freak | DS | 2012 | -3 |
| #35 | Splatoon 2 | Nintendo | Switch | 2017 | -7 |
| #34 | Splatoon | Nintendo | Wii U | 2015 | H.M. |
| #33 | Splatoon 3 | Nintendo | Switch | 2022 | New! |
| #32 | Metroid Prime 3: Corruption | Retro Studios | Wii | 2007 | -2 |
| #31 | Portal | Valve | PC | 2007 | -2 |
| #30 | Hades | Supergiant Games | Switch | 2020 | New! |
| #29 | Super Smash Bros. for Wii U | Sora Ltd. / Bandai Namco | Wii U | 2014 | -3 |
| #28 | Star Fox 64 | Nintendo | N64, 3DS | 1997 | -6 |
| #27 | The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker | Nintendo | GC, Wii U | 2002 | -1 |
| #26 | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time | Nintendo | N64, 3DS | 1998 | +1 |
| #25 | Metroid Prime 2: Echoes | Retro Studios | Wii | 2004 | -4 |
| #24 | The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask | Nintendo | N64, 3DS | 2000 | +13 |
| #23 | Pokémon Gold & Silver | Game Freak | Game Boy Color | 1999 | -2 |
| #22 | Metroid Fusion | Nintendo | Game Boy Advance | 2002 | -3 |
| #21 | Ori and the Blind Forest | Moon Studios | PC, Switch | 2015 | -2 |
| #20 | Alien: Isolation | Creative Assembly | PC | 2014 | New! |
| #19 | Thumper | Drool | PS4, Switch | 2016 | +5 |
| #18 | Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze | Retro Studios | Wii U, Switch | 2014 | +5 |
| #17 | Pokémon Black & White | Game Freak | DS | 2010 | -1 |
| #16 | Astral Chain | PlatinumGames | Switch | 2019 | -2 |
| #15 | Nier: Automata | PlatinumGames | PC | 2017 | +2 |
| #14 | The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past | Nintendo | SNES | 1991 | +1 |
| #13 | Portal 2 | Valve | X360, PC | 2011 | 0 |
| #12 | Metroid Prime | Retro Studios | GC, Wii | 2002 | 0 |
| #11 | Metroid Dread | MercurySteam | Switch | 2021 | 0 |
| #10 | Pokémon X & Y | Game Freak | 3DS | 2013 | 0 |
| #9 | Super Metroid | Nintendo | SNES | 1994 | 0 |
| #8 | Hollow Knight | Team Cherry | Switch, PC | 2017 | -1 |
| #7 | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | Nintendo | Wii U, Switch | 2017 | +1 |
| #6 | Shadow of the Colossus | Team Ico | PS2, PS3 | 2005 | 0 |
| #5 | The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword | Nintendo | Wii, Switch | 2011 | -2 |
| #4 | Persona 5 | Atlus | PS3, PS4 | 2016 | +1 |
| #3 | Ori and the Will of the Wisps | Moon Studios | Switch, PC | 2020 | +1 |
| #2 | Ōkami | Clover Studio | Wii, Switch | 2006 | 0 |
| #1 | Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy | Eidos-Montréal | PC | 2021 | 0 |
