Choosing the best games of the year is not easy. BASETOP annually publishes game ratings. But the Metacritic portal swung for more, and decided to name the best games of the past decade.
In this he was helped by a readership vote, the results of which we present to your attention.
10. Dark Souls
Release Date - 2011
Platform: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PS4, XOne
The top ten games of the decade are opened by a project that is extremely demanding on the player's skills.
Only a person with a mongoose reaction can call fighting in Dark Souls easy. But this project is liked by many players who want to exert all their strength, receiving true pleasure from defeating a difficult opponent.
During the gameplay, the player will have to explore the world, find objects important for the development of the plot, and die over and over again, honing his skills and learning from his own mistakes.
Much of the inspiration for the dark, bloody and tough Souls series was the Berserk manga, for which there are many visual references.
9. Grand Theft Auto V
Release Date - 2013
Platform: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
The action of one of the best games of the past 10 years takes place in Los Santos, a sun-drenched metropolis full of entertainment and temptations. For the first time in the history of the Grand Theft Auto series, players are given characters with special skills that increase the chances of survival and mission success:
- Franklin is a fraudster who is looking for material opportunities and serious money. He copes with a difficult ride.
- Michael, a former professional burglar whose retirement was less rosy than he thought. His talent is time dilation, which is very useful during shooting.
- Trevor is a former military pilot with bouts of rage, driven by a desire to hit the big jackpot. These seizures make Trevor a real berserker, capable of inflicting huge damage to the enemy.
This trinity goes for bold and dangerous thefts, which could provide them for life.
8. God of War
Release Date - 2018
Platform: PlayStation 4
Kratos and his revenge on the gods of Olympus remained far behind him, now the turn of the characters of Scandinavian mythology has come. It is in the harsh, implacable world in which the Scandinavian gods walked the earth that Kratos must fight to survive ... and teach his son to do the same.
Fulfilling the last will of his wife, Kratos and his son, and with them the player, will go on a journey through the wild forests, mountains and other places inhabited by countless hordes of magic creatures and monsters.
7. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Release Date - 2011
Platform: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
The next chapter in the Bethesda Game Studios Elder Scrolls saga sends players to an open fantasy world with dragons and magic.
As a result of the non-linearity of what is happening, the lack of plot frames and a huge number of skills, puzzles and Easter eggs, this virtual world feels huge, vibrant and holistic.
6. Bloodborne
Release Date - 2015
Platform: PlayStation 4
Bloody themes, gothic and monsters are the main components of this Japanese exclusive in the Action / RPG genre, released for the best game console (at least until PC5).
This game does not lead the player by the hand, explaining the plot directly. Want to find out what's what, go ahead - read item descriptions, explore locations and kill bosses! And the battles here are fast, dynamic, the locations are well-designed and wandering around them is a pleasure.
And no wonder, after all, the game design work was supervised by Hidetaki Miyazaki, known to gamers on such projects as Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and the Dark Souls series.
5. Mass Effect 2
Release Date - 2010
Platform: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
The Mass Effect trilogy has given science fiction lovers a huge universe full of dangerous alien life forms and mysterious uncharted planets.
The main character - Captain Shepard - has already left his mark on the space scene of the confrontation with the Reapers. In the second part, he will face new tests and even greater dangers in clashes with the mysterious insectoid race of the Collectors.
By the way, Mass Effect owed its birth to Star Wars. After Knights of the Old Republic, Bioware wished for more creative freedom and abandoned plans for a new game about a distant, distant galaxy for the sake of the story of Captain Shepard and his team.
4. Red Dead Redemption 2
Release Date - 2018
Platform: Xbox One, PlayStation 4
This game is famous for its vast and atmospheric world. Events unfold in America in 1899, when the era of the wild West was drawing to a close.
Arthur Morgan, one of the members of the Van der Linde gang, is forced to flee with his accomplices, and federal agents and the best bounty hunter in the country follow him.
Arthur will make his way through the American outback, doing hunting, horse racing, skirmishes and other exciting things to survive. And he will make a choice between his own ideals and loyalty to those who once sheltered him.
3. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Release Date - 2015
Platform: PC, Xbox One
The Witcher series taught us not only to kill monsters, choose lesser evil and play a gwent, but also what a high-quality game adaptation of the story of Geralt from Rivia should be.
And “Wild Hunt” is the best part of all three games, it is very beautiful, pleases with well-thought-out missions and an unusual soundtrack, gives players great freedom of choice in the hero’s actions, and is full of charismatic characters who won’t get into a pocket with a strong word. And you will hardly be surprised that Geralt is one of the best game heroes of all time.
2. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Release Date - 2017
Platform: Wii U, Switch
This breath of fresh air compared to the usual games in the Zelda series. Breath of the Wild is an open-world action-adventure game that sends players on a journey through fields, forests, and mountain peaks. Explore the wilds of Hyrul at the pace and sequence in which you like.
And also in Breath of the Wild it is not so difficult to find recipes with which you can cook something tasty in the real world. And this is the first game in the Zelda series that explains why Link doesn't talk.
1. The Last of Us / The Last of Us Remastered
Release Date - 2014
Platform: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4
Twenty years have passed since the pandemic that wiped out the familiar civilization from the face of the Earth. Those who are fortunate enough not to get infected with a strange fungus are killed with each other for food and weapons.
And through this world full of violence and panic, Joel travels, a smuggler and a mercenary who is hired to transport the fourteen-year-old girl Ellie from the quarantine zone to the outside world. But what Joel begins as a simple job quickly turns into the most dangerous adventure of his life.
The Last of Us was on the first place in the list of the best games of the decade not only on Metacritic, but also according to the version of the audience of Sony. The top 10 also included many of the games that were voted on by Metacritic, such as The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Grand Theft Auto V, Bloodborne, and God of War.
