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Top 50 Video Games

by AdrenalinDragon • Created 10 years ago • Modified 3 weeks ago
My top 50 video games of all-time (as of 2025). Compilations/Remakes are allowed on this list if they're drastically different enough from the original games to work as their own thing.
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  • Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (1993)

    1. Sonic the Hedgehog 3

    1993K-AVideo Game
    8.3 (2.2K)
    Sonic and Tails attempt to retrieve the Chaos Emeralds from Knuckles the Echidna, who is working with Doctor Robotnik after Robotnik's space station, the Death Egg, crash-lands on a mysterious floating island.
    DirectorHirokazu Yasuhara
    Sonic 3 & Knuckles

    10/10
  • Duke Nukem 3D (1996)

    2. Duke Nukem 3D

    1996MVideo Game
    8.4 (3.5K)
    Blonde action hero Duke Nukem takes on murderous aliens and mutated Los Angeles police officers that have taken over Los Angeles.
    DirectorGreg MaloneStarsLani MinellaJon St. JohnLee Jackson
    Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition

    10/10
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)

    3. Sonic the Hedgehog

    1991K-AVideo Game
    8.1 (3.9K)
    A blue hedgehog with supersonic speed must rescue animals from being turned into robots by a mad scientist.
    10/10
  • Super Mario 64 (1996)

    4. Super Mario 64

    1996K-AVideo Game
    9.1 (7.6K)
    When the evil Bowser steals 120 power stars and traps Princess Peach within the walls of her own castle, it's up to Mario to save her once again.
    DirectorShigeru MiyamotoStarsCharles MartinetLeslie Swan
    10/10
  • Half-Life (1998)

    5. Half-Life

    1998MVideo Game
    9.1 (12K)
    Dr. Gordon Freeman must fight his way out of a secret research facility after a teleportation experiment goes disastrously wrong.
    DirectorsGabe NewellRandy PitchfordStarsKathy LevinHarry S. RobinsMike Shapiro
    10/10
  • Alyson Court in Resident Evil - Code: Veronica (2000)

    6. Resident Evil - Code: Veronica

    2000MVideo Game
    8.1 (3.6K)
    Claire Redfield infiltrates an Umbrella facility in Paris, but is captured and imprisoned on Rockfort Island. She teams up with inmate Steve Burnside to escape after an outbreak of the T-Virus on the island.
    DirectorsHiroki KatôShimako SatoToshiyuki AoyamaStarsAlyson CourtBill HoustonPeter Oldring
    Original Dreamcast version

    10/10
  • Worms Armageddon (1999)

    7. Worms Armageddon

    1999EVideo Game
    8.1 (1.5K)
    Teams of worms armed to the teeth with the most advanced weaponry (including banana bombs and exploding sheep) battle in a crazy tournament.
    10/10
  • Resident Evil (1996)

    8. Resident Evil

    1996MVideo Game
    8.9 (6.2K)
    The RPD are investigating strange cannibalized corpses on the outskirts of the city. The Alpha squad, Jill and Chris, are sent to locate missing team members. While there, mutated dogs cause them to flee into a supposedly abandoned mansion.
    DirectorsShinji MikamiMitsuhisa HosokiStarsCharlie KraslavskyInez JesionowskiGreg Smith
    10/10
  • Metal Gear Solid (1998)

    9. Metal Gear Solid

    1998MVideo Game
    9.6 (14K)
    A crack government anti-terrorist squad takes over an obscure Alaskan nuclear disposal facility. Solid Snake is up for the task to infiltrate the facility, rescue the two hostages and thwart the terrorists' plans.
    DirectorHideo KojimaStarsDavid HayterPatric ZimmermanPeter Lurie
    10/10
  • Broken Sword: Circle of Blood (1996)

    10. Broken Sword: Circle of Blood

    1996Video Game
    8.9 (1.3K)
    George Stobbart, an American tourist in Paris, attempts to unravel a conspiracy when he witnesses a bomb attack on a small Parisian cafe.
    DirectorCharles CecilStarsRolf SaxonHazel EllerbyRachel Atkins
    10/10
  • Pierce Brosnan and Izabella Scorupco in GoldenEye 007 (1997)

    11. GoldenEye 007

    1997TVideo Game
    9.1 (6.3K)
    James Bond must track down agent-turned-terrorist Alec Trevelyan to stop the launch of a powerful satellite. Play the game that set the stage for the First-person shooter genre on the console.
    DirectorMartin HollisStarsKevin BaylissKen LobbScott Hochberg
    10/10
  • Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988)

    12. Super Mario Bros. 3

    1988EVideo Game
    9.2 (6.1K)
    King Koopa has kidnapped Princess Toadstool, taken over all seven kingdoms in the Mushroom World, and put his seven kids in charge of all of them. It's the Mario Brothers to the rescue.
    DirectorsShigeru MiyamotoTakashi Tezuka
    10/10
  • Quake III: Arena (1999)

    13. Quake III: Arena

    1999MVideo Game
    7.9 (2K)
    Quake III is a first-person shooter focusing exclusively on multiplayer arena fighting, adding an extensive customizability of player settings.
    StarsRichard RidingsFrances WhiteLewis Macleod
    10/10
  • Metroid Prime (2002)

    14. Metroid Prime

    2002TVideo Game
    8.8 (2.3K)
    A Space Pirate distress signal draws bounty hunter Samus Aran to Tallon IV, a world she discovers is being consumed by a terrible poison.
    DirectorMark PaciniStarsJennifer HaleVanessa Marshall
    10/10
  • Donkey Kong Country (1994)

    15. Donkey Kong Country

    1994K-AVideo Game
    8.6 (3.5K)
    Waking to find his banana hoard clean gone, Donkey Kong sets out with his nephew Diddy Kong through jungle and cavern, past temples and reef, across pine forests, factories, and mountains to rid the island of the wicked Kremlings and reclaim his bananas.
    DirectorTim Stamper
    10/10
  • Soulcalibur (1998)

    16. Soulcalibur

    1998TVideo Game
    8.1 (839)
    The mystical sword of the legends, the "Soul Edge", ended up in the hands of the dreaded pirate Cervantes de Leon of Spain. Play as one of the 19 characters on a mission to acquire the Soul Edge.
    StarsSôichirô HoshiAya HisakawaNobutoshi Canna
    10/10
  • Pokémon: Red Version (1996)

    17. Pokémon: Red Version

    1996EVideo Game
    8.8 (3.1K)
    Play as a young Pokémon trainer trying to catch all 150 Pokémon.
    DirectorSatoshi Tajiri
    + Pokemon Blue Version

    10/10
  • Pokémon Silver Version (1999)

    18. Pokémon Silver Version

    1999EVideo Game
    8.8 (1.3K)
    Role playing game for the Game Boy Color, introducing the second generation of Pokémon, where you are on a quest to master Pokémon battling.
    DirectorSatoshi Tajiri
    + Pokemon Gold Version

    10/10
  • RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999)

    19. RollerCoaster Tycoon

    1999EVideo Game
    8.3 (632)
    Complete a series of preset scenarios by successfully building and maintaining amusement parks through business ownership as a theme park entrepreneur in RollerCoaster Tycoon.
    DirectorChris SawyerStarChris Sawyer
    10/10
  • Banjo-Kazooie (1998)

    20. Banjo-Kazooie

    1998EVideo Game
    8.6 (2.1K)
    The witch Gruntilda has captured Banjo's beloved sister, intending to leech the girl's youth and beauty through black magic and mad science. Banjo and Kazooie set out across nine worlds to get her back.
    DirectorGregg MaylesStarsChris SutherlandGrant KirkhopeEveline Novakovic
    10/10
  • Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (1997)

    21. Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

    1997TVideo Game
    8.2 (1.1K)
    After Abe, a Mudokon slave worker born into captivity finds out the horrible truth that the food products being created in the factory he works in are made out of Mudokon, he sets out to save the other Mudokon's and tries to escape.
    DirectorLorne LanningStarsJosh GabrielLorne Lanning
    10/10
  • Half-Life 2 (2004)

    22. Half-Life 2

    2004MVideo Game
    9.4 (19K)
    Dr. Freeman is taken out of stasis by his "employer" to help rid the planet of invading aliens forces known as the Combine that entered through the portals he helped create.
    DirectorDavid SpeyrerStarsRobert GuillaumeRobert CulpLouis Gossett Jr.
    10/10
  • TimeSplitters 2 (2002)

    23. TimeSplitters 2

    2002TVideo Game
    8.4 (874)
    In 2401, humanity is at war with relentless aliens, TimeSplitters. Space marines Cortez and Hart travel through time to stop the aliens in various spots, including Wild West, zombie-infested Gothic church and Blade Runner-esque future.
    DirectorsDavid DoakStephen EllisStarsHeidi AndrewsJune AndrewsKevin Bullock
    10/10
  • Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (2000)

    24. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2

    2000TVideo Game
    8.2 (1.7K)
    Get more air, pull off more insane tricks and unlock new characters and levels in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2.
    StarsDave WittenbergPerry ZombolasElissa Steamer
    10/10
  • Unreal Tournament (1999)

    25. Unreal Tournament

    1999MVideo Game
    8.4 (1.8K)
    In a violent future, a professional warrior takes part in a legal public gladiatorial tournament where leagues of professional warriors battle to the death.
    10/10

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