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This is a list of video games that multiple video game journalists or magazines have considered to be among the best of all time. The games listed here are included on at least six separate "best/greatest of all time" lists from different publications (inclusive of all time periods, platforms, and genres), as chosen by their editorial staffs.
A tier list is a concept originating in video game culture where playable characters or other in-game elements are subjectively ranked by their respective viability as part of a list. Characters listed high on a tier list of a specific game are considered to be powerful characters compared to lower-scoring characters, and are therefore more ...
The following lists provide information about games considered the best for various types of games and criteria: List of video games considered the best; List of Game of the Year awards (video games) List of Game of the Year awards (board games)
A collection of "Top —— of all time" and "Best —— ever" video games-related lists by various publications. You can see the actual lists by clicking on the numbers in the "ID" column. Some lists (the ones with no link in the "URL" column) aren't complete and have only the top ten.
The best-selling video game to date is Minecraft, a 2011 sandbox game released by Mojang for multiple platforms, eventually selling more than 300 million copies in 2023. Grand Theft Auto V is the only other video game known to have sold over 100 million and 200 million copies.
Video game publishers Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts managed to enter the list of ten best-selling games every single year with at least one of their games for the last fifteen years in a row. Of the twelve best-selling games released in the last thirteen years, eleven were from Call of Duty franchise and published by Activision Blizzard.
For best-selling individual video games, see the list of best-selling video games. The sales figures given below also do not include arcade video game sales, which can be found at the list of highest-grossing arcade games. The Mario franchise is the best-selling video game franchise of all time, with over 879 million units sold worldwide.
The list criteria otherwise very tight and unambiguous, requiring that the sources (which are all reliable secondary sources, there is no unreliably or unsourced content here at all) cover all video games, rather than being bounded by other limitations that might make the inclusions ambiguous (i.e. the best Xbox games, rather than best video ...