Best Games of 2018
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Red Dead Redemption 2The most detailed world ever built for a game, in service of the medium's best character study.Read the review
Super Smash Bros. UltimateEvery fighter from every game in the series, which should have been impossible, and it runs beautifully.
God of WarOne unbroken camera from title screen to credits, which forces every conversation to happen inside the world.
Shadow of the Colossus (2018 Remake)The same sixteen fights rebuilt surface by surface, by a studio that understood it was not allowed to change them.
CelesteOne dash, one climb meter, and a thousand deaths that feel like practice instead of punishment.
Marvel's Spider-ManInsomniac solved the only problem that matters here: what your thumbs are doing between the fights.
SubnauticaA survival game with no combat worth speaking of, which is exactly why swimming into the dark is genuinely frightening.
Hitman 2Miami and Mumbai alone justify the purchase, and the entire 2016 catalog imports into it.
Assassin's Creed OdysseyThe series' most joyful sprawl: a gorgeous Greece and a star turn from Kassandra, if you forgive the padding.
Forza Horizon 4Shared seasons turned a racing game into a place, and Britain into the series' most atmospheric map.