Best Games of 2016
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Uncharted 4: A Thief's EndNaughty Dog closes its blockbuster series by finally admitting what a lifetime of treasure hunting costs.Read the review
Dark Souls IIIFromSoftware's fastest Souls game and its most reverent, a farewell tour that knows what it is quoting.
Dishonored 2The Clockwork Mansion and A Crack in the Slab are the two best levels Arkane has ever built, and possibly anyone has.
Titanfall 2The best first-person shooter level design of its decade, buried by a release date nobody at Respawn chose.
Battlefield 1The boldest setting choice in shooter history, rendered with the best audiovisual craft DICE ever mustered.
DoomA reboot that threw out cover, regenerating health and every other modern habit, and ran faster for it.
Stardew ValleyOne person spent four years rebuilding Harvest Moon better than the studio that invented Harvest Moon.
Sid Meier's Civilization VIFiraxis pulls the city apart across the map and turns six thousand years of turns into an argument about zoning.
HitmanSapienza is one of the great video game levels, wrapped in a release model and a plot that both actively hurt it.
OverwatchBlizzard turned the wreckage of a cancelled MMO into the most legible team shooter anyone has made.