Witcher 3 (93.9), Baldur s Gate III (96.0), and Elden Ring (94.0) lead. FromSoftware appears 3 times. 2023 was the best year in a decade.
There are over 44,000 games in our database. Spanning four decades of releases, every genre, every platform, every studio from solo indie devs to AAA powerhouses.
We ranked them all by player rating. Then filtered to the last 10 years — 2015 to 2025. Then filtered again for games with at least 100 ratings to cut the noise from niche titles with five perfect scores from the developer’s friends.
Here are the 10 that survived.
1. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015) — 93.9
The Witcher 3 from CD Projekt sits at a 93.9 rating across 5,081 votes. A decade later, it still holds the crown. Its Game of the Year Edition pushed even higher to 98.0 across 563 votes — the single highest-rated release in the entire dataset.
The Blood and Wine expansion alone (96.4, 470 votes) rates higher than most standalone games on this list. CD Projekt didn’t just make one great game. They made three.
2. Baldur’s Gate III (2023) — 96.0
Baldur’s Gate III from Larian Studios launched in 2023 and immediately became the highest single-release rating in the dataset at 96.0 across 1,293 votes. No DLC boost. No complete edition padding. Just the base game.
Larian proved that a 150-hour CRPG with turn-based combat could outscore every open-world action game released in the same decade.
3. Elden Ring (2022) — 94.0
Elden Ring from FromSoftware pulled 1,949 votes at a 94.0 average. The most-voted game in the top 5, which means the score isn’t inflated by a small enthusiast base — nearly two thousand people agreed this is a 94.
FromSoftware appears three times in the top 10 when you count Bloodborne. No other studio comes close to that consistency.
4. Persona 5 Royal (2019) — 94.3
Persona 5 Royal from Atlus rates 94.3 across 641 votes. The original Persona 5 (2016) already scored 92.7 with over 1,000 votes. Royal took a 92 and turned it into a 94 — one of the rare cases where a re-release meaningfully improved an already excellent game.
5. Disco Elysium: The Final Cut (2021) — 94.3
Disco Elysium matched Persona 5 Royal at 94.3. An RPG with no combat. No loot. No skill trees in the traditional sense. Just writing so good that 201 voters rated it among the best games ever made. The studio behind it, ZA/UM, has since imploded — making this score feel less like a rating and more like a eulogy.
6. Bloodborne (2015) — 97.1
Bloodborne from FromSoftware scores 97.1 in its GOTY Edition across 108 votes. Its Old Hunters expansion sits at 94.0 with 160 votes. FromSoftware’s second entry on this list, and arguably their most beloved — still PlayStation-exclusive a decade later, still generating remaster petitions weekly.
7. Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018) — 93.3
Red Dead Redemption 2 from Rockstar Games holds 93.3 across 3,377 votes — the second most-voted game in the top 10. When three thousand people agree something is a 93, that’s not a rating. That’s a consensus.
Rockstar hasn’t released a new game since. Seven years of silence from the studio behind the second most-voted masterpiece of the decade.
8. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023) — 93.1
Tears of the Kingdom from Nintendo scores 93.1 across 789 votes. Nintendo’s only entry in the top 10 — and they got there by building a physics sandbox inside a Zelda game. The sequel to Breath of the Wild managed to not just meet impossible expectations but exceed them.
9. Half-Life: Alyx (2020) — 93.1
Half-Life: Alyx from Valve matches Zelda at 93.1 with 219 votes. The catch: you need a VR headset to play it. Valve made the best VR game ever and one of the best games of the decade, then gated it behind hardware most people don’t own. Peak Valve energy.
10. The Last of Us Part I (2022) — 92.9
The Last of Us Part I from Naughty Dog rounds out the top 10 at 92.9 across 746 votes. A remake of a 2013 game that scored high enough to compete with original releases from the same era. The story hasn’t aged. The visuals finally caught up.
What the Data Actually Says
Three patterns stand out from 44,000 games:
FromSoftware owns the decade. Three entries (Elden Ring, Bloodborne, Bloodborne DLC) from one studio. No other developer appears more than once with a different franchise.
2023 was the best year for games in a decade. Baldur’s Gate III and Tears of the Kingdom both cracked the top 10 from the same year. The data backs what everyone felt: 2023 was special.
Vote count matters more than score. Red Dead Redemption 2 at 93.3 with 3,377 votes is arguably more impressive than Bloodborne at 97.1 with 108. Scale validates quality. Niche scores flatter.
The full dataset — all 44,000 games, ratings, genres, studios — is browsable on DropThe.