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This is a good list. It's across all platforms, not just PC, and includes a nice mix of indie , mid-budget and AAA titles, with lots of different genres, and lots of games I've never heard of until now ("Thumper"?).

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/10/best-videogames-of-the-decade.html

100. Metro: Last Light
99. L.A. Noire
98. Fez
97. Dying Light
96. Dragon’s Dogma
95. Spec Ops: The Line
94. Holedown
93. Fire Pro Wrestling World
92. The Disney Infinity Series
91. Year Walk
90. Super Hexagon
89. Transistor
88. Tetris Effect
87. Guitar Hero Live
86. Spider-Man
85. Sound Shapes
84. Downwell
83. Tearaway
82. Gris
81. Dandara
80. Saints Row IV
79. Rock Band 3
78. The Long Dark
77. Dance Central
76. Oxenfree
75. Ridiculous Fishing
74. Fantasia: Music Evolved
73. Ori and the Blind Forest
72. Everything
71. Old Man’s Journey
70. Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds
69. Deadly Premonition
68. Xenoblade Chronicles
67. Superhot
66. Dear Esther
65. Super Meat Boy
64. Celeste
63. Limbo
62. Super Mario Galaxy 2
61. Rayman Legends
60. Monument Valley
59. Dishonored 2
58. Heaven’s Vault
57. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
56. Mario Kart 8
55. Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
54. FTL
53. VVVVVV
52. Nidhogg
51. Threes
50. Proteus
49. Horizon Zero Dawn
48. The Binding of Isaac
47. Dyad
46. Life Is Strange
45. Gorogoa
44. Bloodborne
43. Pokémon GO
42. XCOM: Enemy Unknown
41. Minit
40. El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
39. Pac-Man Championship Edition DX
38. Fire Emblem: Three Houses
37. A Plague Tale: Innocence
36. Fallout: New Vegas
35. Splatoon
34. Into the Breach
33. Super Mario Maker
32. Firewatch
31. The Walking Dead Season One
30. Journey
29. The Last Guardian
28. Night in the Woods
27. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
26. Overwatch
25. Titanfall 2
24. Cuphead
23. Animal Crossing: New Leaf
22. Stardew Valley
21. Nier: Automata
20. No Man’s Sky
19. Florence
18. Return of the Obra Dinn
17. Undertale
16. Alan Wake
15. Minecraft
14. Outer Wilds
13. Papers, Please
12. The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
11. Bastion
10. Gone Home
9. Portal 2
8. Super Mario Odyssey
7. Dark Souls
6. Control
5. Mass Effect 2
4. Spelunky
3. Kentucky Route Zero
2. Thumper
1. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Post edited October 17, 2019 by servobeupstry
I must say i would pretty much change the whole list, for me it's just BAD and Zelda on 1st place hmm.

Then we have games like Superhot, Deadly Premonition which is fun for 15 mins then crap, NMS at 20th place, Bastion too high, Undertale, Gone Home, ME 2 so high and list goes on but each to their own.
Post edited October 17, 2019 by ChrisGamer300
crazy to think 2010 was almost a decade ago, but yup.
We really are spoiled for choice. I count 6 that I've played.

Find the absence of Kerbal Space Program and Terraria a bit disturbing though
It kinda feels ackward to see Hollow Knight and Dead Cells out of that list, after so many good reviews...

Glad to see Ori and the blind forest on the list, as well as Spelunky, Super meat Boy, Minecraft, Limbo, Cuphead and Into the Breach, wich are often forgot as amazing games. Minecraft is debateble though, since its first iteration was not very good and only by being popular, was made better...

So many games on that list I would like to play. Is Return of the Obra Dinn so good to be in a top list? If yes I´ll play it sooner or later.
Post edited October 17, 2019 by Dark_art_
Many good games but in very questionable order, some big omissions, and a strong recency bias (yeah, I'm sure Control was really the sixth best game of the decade :p). Typical of such lists.
Wait, isn't Fortnite the best one actually?
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Dark_art_: It kinda feels ackward to see Hollow Knight and Dead Cells out of that list, after so many good reviews...
There are lot's of games out of that list. Civilization V, Stellaris, and some other 4X games. Darkest Dungeon. BioShock Infinite is better than many entries, etc.

The guy, apparently, just wrote down personal favourite games and nothing more.
Is Kentucky Route Zero even finished yet? As far as I know there's still one act missing (for years now). How can an uncompleted game be the third best in a whole decade?
Post edited October 17, 2019 by PaterAlf
I've played 23 of them.

I can't say it's a bad just, but there's lots on there I'd take off and lots of add.

I thought Papers, Please was a an interesting game, but not "good."

I agree with a previous poster, Kerbal Space Program belongs on the list.

My top are (in no particular order) (note: I generally have bad taste):

Kerbal space program
Skyrim
Tales of berseria
Thief
Dragons Dogma
All of the dnd enhanced editions (even if they did a lot wrong, they're great games still and technically came out this decade :)
Maybe pubg belongs on it. I won't play it again, but it was a blast for a while.
Regency Solitaire ( it kept my wife busy enough for me to catch up on some TV)
Battlefront
Driver San Francisco
Minecraft
Alan Wake
Witcher 3 and 2 (if it makes it in the decade - I can't remember release date but I played it this decade)
All of the new tomb raiders
All of the far crys
And all the Batman games
Injustice 2
Pillars of Eternity
Her Story
Rogue Legacy
FTL (never could beat it though)
Demonicon (told you my taste is bad :D)
Walking dead chapter 1
Brothers a tale of 2 sons

I have yet to play Spiderman or zelda, but they look up my alley. And I'm sure I'll missing lots of others I enjoyed, but I have to make list. It's important.
To be frank, even with the huge number of games nowadays, especially coming from indies, I still find displaced any kind of 100 rankings. I could keep this kind of rankings for the whole time period since the very first video game, but not for a decade. A top 25 would be the very least I could see.
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PaterAlf: Is Kentucky Route Zero even finished yet? As far as I know there's still one act missing (for years now). How can an uncompleted game be the third best in a whole decade?
Yeah, it's more of a 2020s game, if we're lucky. ;P
How is that a good list? Even with subjectivity of being “good” there are some really crap games on there.
I mean, if it’s a good list for you, all well and good. That looks like a list of games I would want to be avoiding (apart from Skyrim, black sails and dying light).
I haven't played it myself, yet, but from what I've heard, Witcher 3 should be pretty high, but it's not even in there? How is that possible?
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nightcraw1er.488: How is that a good list? Even with subjectivity of being “good” there are some really crap games on there.
"crap" is just as subjective as "good". What you consider "crap games" doesn't mean anything to me - just an opinion like a billion others in the world.

OT: The only top 100s that had some kind of meaning for me were the PC Gamer (UK) ones in the 90s.
Post edited October 17, 2019 by teceem