Best Games of 2020
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Cyberpunk 2077The disaster that finished becoming a masterpiece: Night City is the densest place ever rendered.Read the review
The Last of Us Part IITechnically staggering, mechanically superb, and structurally determined to make you resent it.
Half-Life: AlyxThe first virtual reality game built like a real Valve game, and it makes everything before it look like a tech demo.
Demon's Souls (2020 Remake)A launch showpiece with the sense to rebuild every wall in Boletaria and leave every fight exactly where it was.
Ghost of TsushimaThe most beautiful open world Sony has shipped, wrapped around a duel system with real teeth.
HadesThe roguelike that solved narrative repetition by making every death advance the plot.
Final Fantasy VII RemakeForty minutes of Midgar stretched into forty hours, and the combat system makes the case for it.
Doom EternalA shooter reconfigured into a resource puzzle you solve at two hundred miles an hour.
Crusader Kings IIIA strategy game that is really a machine for generating family disasters, and the best one Paradox has built.
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles MoralesA shorter, warmer, better focused Spider-Man that knows exactly how long it wants to be.