20 Best Video Games Of The Decade

2. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

There is no better RPG. Period.

What Bethesda achieved with Skyrim was a constantly-surprising rollout of excellent quest design, endless character customisation, an incredibly responsive world that takes into everything into account, and an all-round production quality that adds to whatever you're doing.

Because of this "digital world" feel, millions of players are still living in Skyrim to this day, the game having been ported to everything from Switch to the Amazon Echo.

At the end of the day, Skyrim's success comes from realising the fantasy head-canon we've all had at one point or another. The notion of stepping into an epic world of knights, dragons and sorcerers, learning how to be one ourselves, then just seeing what happens.

The game is pure adventure, with a lore and sense of life you can't get anywhere else. 300 hours later, it still doesn't feel like I've seen everything Bethesda have tucked away.