I don’t think I can rank things that way any more. I think of my “best games of all time” category as “absolute masterpieces”.

So here are my “absolute masterpieces” in the order in which they come to mind, which is as good an indicator as any, I suppose.

• Daggerfall
• Fallout 1 & 2
• Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
• Sekiro
• Bloodborne
• Alpha Centauri
• Disco Elysium
• The Longest Journey
• The Journeyman Project 2
• Asheron’s Call (the original)
• The Witcher 3
• Horizon: Zero Dawn
• Close Combat series
• The Outer Wilds
• Crysis (ONLY the original)
• Far Cry (ONLY the original)
• Planescape: Torment
• Ghost of Tsushima
• Alien: Isolation
• Shadow of the Colossus
• Baldur’s Gate (the entire OG saga)
• Planetside (ONLY the original)
• Arx Fatalis