Top 10 Games: Fantasy

The highest-graded fantasy games we have reviewed, best first.

  1. The Legend of Zelda1986A battery in the cartridge, a map with no arrows, and the first game that trusts you to get lost.Read the review
  2. Hollow Knight: Silksong2025Six years of waiting answered with a faster, meaner game that assumes you already mastered the last one.
  3. Dishonored 22016The Clockwork Mansion and A Crack in the Slab are the two best levels Arkane has ever built, and possibly anyone has.
  4. Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave2026Four campaigns, one autosaved file, and the best Fire Emblem since Three Houses by a comfortable distance.
  5. Hades II2025Supergiant follows a modern classic with a bigger, stranger and deeper roguelike, and only the rushed ending lets Melinoë down
  6. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind2002An alien island hands you a map, a rumor and no marker, then trusts you to find the rest of it yourself.
  7. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown2024The best feeling two dimensional action game in years, sold to almost nobody, made by a team that no longer exists.
  8. Hogwarts Legacy2023The castle is the achievement; almost everything the open world asks you to do outside it is ordinary.
  9. Dragon Age: Origins2009Six different openings, one darkspawn invasion, and a party that tells you exactly what it thinks of your ruling.
  10. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom2024Zelda finally leads her own adventure, and her power to copy almost anything makes this the most freely inventive top down Zelda in years

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  3. MultiplayerNo. 1: Grand Theft Auto V
  4. RPGsNo. 1: Elden Ring
  5. Open WorldNo. 1: Red Dead Redemption 2
  6. FPSNo. 1: Half-Life 2
  7. PlatformersNo. 1: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
  8. ActionNo. 1: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3
  9. HorrorNo. 1: Resident Evil 4 (2023 Remake)
  10. StrategyNo. 1: Baldur's Gate 3