Best Games of 2023
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Baldur's Gate 3A tabletop campaign simulated so completely that breaking the plot becomes a feature rather than a bug.Read the review
Star Wars Jedi: SurvivorFive lightsaber stances, one enormous frontier planet, and the best Star Wars story anyone has told in a decade.
Resident Evil 4 (2023 Remake)The remake that dared to rewrite a perfect game's combat and came out ahead.
Alan Wake 2Remedy stops apologising for being weird and delivers the most formally daring big-budget horror game in years.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the KingdomUltrahand turns a physics engine into a design language, and Hyrule bends to whatever nonsense you build.
Dead Space (2023 Remake)A remake that keeps the original's silences and rebuilds the Ishimura into one continuous ship you can walk end to end.
Hitman: World of AssassinationThree games of clockwork murder folded into one, and the most complete stealth sandbox a player can buy.
Armored Core VI: Fires of RubiconFromSoftware builds a mech that answers to your thumbs and a boss wall that answers to your garage.
Marvel's Spider-Man 2The web swinging is still the best traversal in games, and the wing suit somehow improves it.
Hi-Fi RushEverything in the world moves on the beat, so you are keeping time whether or not you realise you are.