10 Highest-Rated Video Games Of The Decade - Ranked Worst To Best

1. Red Dead Redemption 2

Metacritic: 97

The second Red Dead Redemption here and the third Rockstar game, Arthur Morgan’s western adventure is the most recent game to make the top ten, saddling up at number 8 on the all time Metacritic list.

There could be legitimate criticism that the game isn’t as much fun as it might have been, but that hasn’t dented its ranking. It sounds strange to say it of a video game, but fun never felt like it was the point.

Exemplified by the cutting of the game into Chapters, Red Dead Redemption 2 was much more about the story and the journey. Arthur’s open world was one of the most realistic and reactive ever put to gaming, with his story a moving, gut wrenching saga.

He begins as a fairly stock Western hero with a taste for violence, and evolves into one of the most well rounded, strong and sensitive characters ever in the medium.

There’s so much to explore in the open world, with Rockstar’s typically eccentric side characters written into the game seamlessly. A critical runaway success, and one of the most deeply affecting experiences in modern gaming.