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, as chosen by their editorial staffs.
Publications
The reference numbers in the notes section show which of the 50 selected publications list the game.
- 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die – 2013[2]
- The Age – 2005[69]
- Collider – 2020[25]
- Digital Trends – 2023[52]
- Digitally Downloaded – 2016[36]
- Electric Playground Network – 2013[71]
- Edge – 2000,[39] 2009,[59] 2015,[90] 2017[48]
- Electronic Fun with Computers & Games - 1984[43]
- Empire – 2009[63]
- Entertainment Weekly – 2003[40]
- Esquire – 2018,[74] 2020[75]
- FHM – 2010[34]
- Flux – 1995[10]
- G4 – 2012[16]
- GamesMaster - 1994,[9] 1996[42]
- Gamecenter - 2000[12]
- Game Informer – 2009,[20] 2018[24]
- Game On! From Pong to Oblivion – 2006[15]
- GameSpot – 2000,[13] 2007[1]
- GameSpy – 2001[27]
- Gamereactor – 2011,[70] 2017,[72] 2022[76]
- GamesRadar+ – 2011,[56] 2012,[57] 2013,[82] 2014,[83] 2015,[58] 2021[38]
- GamesTM – 2010,[31] 2015,[35] 2018[5]
- Gameswelt – 2012,[17] 2016[80]
- GamingBolt – 2013,[18] 2022,[88] 2023,[87] 2024[89]
- GQ – 2013,[49] 2023[68]
- The Greatest Games – 1985[26]
- Hardcore Gaming 101 – 2015,[55] 2020[61]
- Hyper – 1995,[11] 1997,[62] 1999[46]
- IGN – 2003,[41] 2005,[60] 2007,[32] 2015,[28] 2018,[6] 2019,[53] 2021[54]
- The Independent – 1999[84]
- The Irish Times – 2013[33]
- Jeuxvideo.com – 2011,[64] 2017[67]
- Mashable – 2020[86]
- Next Generation – 1996,[21] 1999[22]
- Parade - 2023[50]
- Polygon – 2017[7]
- Popular Mechanics – 2014,[29] 2019[8]
- Power Unlimited – 2015[37]
- PPE – 2021[85]
- Slant Magazine – 2014,[65] 2018,[44] 2020[45]
- Stuff – 2008,[19] 2014,[66] 2017[73]
- Super GamePower - 2001[81]
- Sydney Morning Herald – 2002[14]
- The Times - 2023[51]
- Time – 2012,[4] 2016[3]
- Total Games Network - 1999[47]
- USA Today / Sports Illustrated - 2022,[77] 2023,[78] 2024[79]
- TheWrap – 2017[30]
- Yahoo! – 2005[23]
