Best Games of 2017
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the WildNintendo replaced thirty years of lock-and-key design with a chemistry set and got away with it completely.Read the review
Horizon Zero DawnGuerrilla traded shooters for robot dinosaurs and landed the best new franchise of its generation.
Hollow KnightThree people built the deepest 2D world since Super Metroid and charged almost nothing for it.
Persona 5The most stylish interface ever shipped in a video game, and the style is the argument rather than the decoration.
CupheadA hand-inked 1930s cartoon that hits as hard as any boss rush ever made.
Nier: AutomataThe credits roll and the game asks you to play it again as a different machine, and that is the whole argument.
Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive AgeThe most polished traditional role playing game anyone has made this century, and it never once apologises for being traditional.
Super Mario OdysseyCappy is the best new Mario verb since the wall jump, because possessing a thing means inheriting its physics.
Resident Evil 7: BiohazardA superb first act in one filthy Louisiana house, followed by a back half that hands you a shotgun and forgets the point.
Uncharted: The Lost LegacyThe leanest thing Naughty Dog has made, and the only Uncharted with a genuinely open middle chapter.