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Zero Punctuation has reviewed hundreds of games throughout the series, many of which have their own work pages. This list is constantly being updated—if you see any games missing, please add them.

This list is alphabetical by title, not chronological by review date. Many games are grouped under their parent franchises. Listed farther below are Yahtzee's picks for Best, Blandest, and Worst games of the years, along with the honorable, ambivalent, and dishonorable mentions supplied in both his yearly rankings and Extra Punctuation column articles.

Note: A (r) by game titles represents that this game was reviewed by Yahtzee as part of a "retro review" (i.e., a review of a game originally released before Zero Punctuation started and is reviewing in the present day due to the game being remastered/remade/rebooted, and/or Yahtzee didn't get around to reviewing relatively close to or within the same year as when it first came out).

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Rankings

     2008 - 2009 
  • Saints Row 2 (Best Game of 2008)

  • Batman: Arkham Asylum (Best Game of 2009)
    • inFAMOUS (Honorable Mention)
    • [PROTOTYPE] (Honorable Mention)
    • Assassin's Creed II (Ambivalent Mention)
    • The Beatles: Rock Band (Ambivalent Mention)
    • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Ambivalent Mention)
    • The House of the Dead: Overkill (Dishonorable Mention)

     2010 - 2019 

2010

BEST OF 2010

  • 5) Limbo
  • 4) Amnesia: The Dark Descent
  • 3) Red Dead Redemption
  • 2) Dead Rising 2
  • 1) Just Cause 2

WORST OF 2010

  • 5) BioShock 2
  • 4) Final Fantasy XIII
  • 3) Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
  • 2) Metroid: Other M
  • 1) Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days

MENTIONS OF 2010

  • Alan Wake (Honorable)
  • Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Honorable)
  • Bayonetta (Honorable)
  • Dark Void (Honorable)
  • Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Honorable)
  • Super Meat Boy (Honorable; reviewed in Extra Punctuation)
  • Mass Effect 2 (Ambivalent)
  • Heavy Rain (Ambivalent)
  • Darksiders (Dishonorable)
  • Lost Planet 2 (Dishonorable; reviewed in Extra Punctuation)
  • Splinter Cell: Conviction (Dishonorable)

2011

BEST OF 2011

  • 5) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  • 4) inFAMOUS 2
  • 3) Bastion
  • 2) Driver: San Francisco
  • 1) Portal 2

WORST OF 2011

  • 5) MindJack
  • 4) Red Faction: Armageddon
  • 3) Dead Island
  • 2) Duke Nukem Forever
  • 1) Battlefield 3 / Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (tie)

MENTIONS OF 2011

  • Batman: Arkham City (Honorable)
  • L.A. Noire (Honorable)
  • Minecraft (Honorable)
  • Resistance 3 (Honorable)
  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Ambivalent)
  • Call of Juarez: The Cartel (Dishonorable)
  • Gears of War 3 (Dishonorable)

2012

BEST OF 2012

  • 5) Dishonored
  • 4) The Walking Dead (Telltale)
  • 3) Far Cry 3
  • 2) XCOM: Enemy Unknown
  • 1) Spec Ops: The Line

WORST OF 2012

  • 5) Resident Evil 6
  • 4) NeverDead
  • 3) Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor
  • 2) Medal of Honor: Warfighter
  • 1) Amy

2013

BEST OF 2013

  • 5) Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
  • 4) Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
  • 3) Saints Row IV
  • 2) Papers, Please
  • 1) BioShock Infinite

WORST OF 2013

  • 5) Star Trek: The Video Game
  • 4) SimCity
  • 3) Aliens: Colonial Marines
  • 2) Beyond: Two Souls
  • 1) Call of Duty: Ghosts

MENTIONS OF 2013

  • Gone Home (Honorable; reviewed in Extra Punctuation)
  • Gunpoint (Honorable; reviewed in Extra Punctuation)
  • Outlast (Honorable; reviewed in Extra Punctuation)
  • Rogue Legacy (Honorable; reviewed in Extra Punctuation)
  • The Stanley Parable (Honorable; reviewed in Extra Punctuation)
  • Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (Ambivalent)
  • The Last of Us (Ambivalent)
  • Tomb Raider (Ambivalent)
  • The Bureau: XCOM Declassified (Dishonorable)
  • Dark (Dishonorable)
  • Flashback Remake (Dishonorable; reviewed in Extra Punctuation)
  • Fuse (Dishonorable)
  • Paper Mario: Sticker Star (Dishonorable)
  • Ryse: Son of Rome (Dishonorable)
  • Ride to Hell: Retribution (Recipient of the "Zero Punctuation Lifetime Achievement Award for Total Abhorrence")

2014

BEST OF 2014

  • 5) Shovel Knight
  • 4) Dark Souls II
  • 3) Alien: Isolation
  • 2) Wolfenstein: The New Order
  • 1) Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

WORST OF 2014

  • 5) Sacred 3
  • 4) Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
  • 3) The Amazing Spider-Man 2
  • 2) Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
  • 1) Thief

MENTIONS OF 2014

  • South Park: The Stick of Truth (Honorable)
  • Assassin's Creed Unity (Dishonorable)
  • The Evil Within (Dishonorable)
  • Far Cry 4 (Dishonorable)
  • Watch Dogs (Dishonorable)

2015

BEST OF 2015

  • 5) Bloodborne
  • 4) SOMA
  • 3) The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
  • 2) Elite Dangerous
  • 1) Undertale

BLANDEST OF 2015

  • 5) Batman: Arkham Knight
  • 4) Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
  • 3) Rise of the Tomb Raider
  • 2) Assassin's Creed Syndicate
  • 1) Halo 5: Guardians

WORST OF 2015

  • 5) Star Wars Battlefront
  • 4) Hatred
  • 3) Godzilla
  • 2) Alone in the Dark: Illumination
  • 1) The Order: 1886

MENTIONS OF 2015

  • Evolve (Dishonorable)
  • Fallout 4 (Dishonorable)

2016

BEST OF 2016

  • 5) Salt and Sanctuary
  • 4) Titanfall 2
  • 3) Stardew Valley
  • 2) Furi
  • 1) Doom

BLANDEST OF 2016

  • 5) Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
  • 4) Quantum Break
  • 3) Paper Mario: Color Splash
  • 2) Far Cry Primal
  • 1) No Man's Sky

WORST OF 2016

  • 5) Devil's Third
  • 4) Metroid Prime: Federation Force
  • 3) The Division
  • 2) Batman: Arkham VR
  • 1) Homefront: The Revolution

MENTIONS OF 2016

  • Dishonored 2 (Dishonorable)

2017

BEST OF 2017

  • 5) Persona 5
  • 4) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  • 3) Cuphead
  • 2) A Hat in Time
  • 1) Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

BLANDEST OF 2017

  • 5) Agents of Mayhem
  • 4) Mass Effect: Andromeda
  • 3) Destiny 2
  • 2) Ghost Recon Wildlands
  • 1) Star Wars Battlefront II

WORST OF 2017

  • 5) The Surge
  • 4) Outlast II
  • 3) Dead Rising 4
  • 2) Sonic Forces
  • 1) Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3

MENTIONS OF 2017

  • Pyre (Honorable)
  • Super Mario Odyssey (Honorable)
  • Assassin's Creed Origins (Ambivalent)
  • Horizon Zero Dawn (Ambivalent)
  • Prey (Ambivalent)

2018

BEST OF 2018

  • 5) Unavowed
  • 4) Star Control: Origins
  • 3) Spider-Man
  • 2) Subnautica
  • 1) Return of the Obra Dinn

BLANDEST OF 2018

  • 5) Moonlighter
  • 4) A Way Out
  • 3) Assassin's Creed Odyssey
  • 2) Shadow of the Tomb Raider
  • 1) Conan Exiles

WORST OF 2018

  • 5) Detroit: Become Human
  • 4) We Happy Few
  • 3) Metal Gear Survive
  • 2) Agony
  • 1) Hunt Down the Freeman

MENTIONS OF 2018

  • Far Cry 5 (Honorable)
  • Not Tonight (Honorable)
  • God of War (Ambivalent)
  • Fallout 76 (Dishonorable)
  • The Inpatient (Dishonorable)
  • Just Cause 4 (Dishonorable)
  • Vampyr (Dishonorable)

2019

BEST OF 2019

  • 5) Remnant: From the Ashes
  • 4) Resident Evil 2
  • 3) Observation
  • 2) Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
  • 1) Disco Elysium

BLANDEST OF 2019

  • 5) The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
  • 4) Crackdown 3
  • 3) Days Gone
  • 2) Ghost Recon Breakpoint
  • 1) Anthem

WORST OF 2019

  • 5) Wolfenstein: Youngblood
  • 4) Blair Witch
  • 3) Shenmue III
  • 2) Left Alive
  • 1) Contra: Rogue Corps

MENTIONS OF 2019

  • Blasphemous (Honorable; reviewed as part of "2019 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")
  • Control (Honorable)
  • John Wick Hex (Honorable; reviewed as part of "2019 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")
  • Moons of Madness (Honorable; reviewed as part of "2019 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")
  • Outer Wilds (Honorable; reviewed as part of "2019 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")
  • The Outer Worlds (Honorable)
  • Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts (Honorable; reviewed as part of "2019 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")
  • The Surge 2 (Honorable; reviewed as part of "2019 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")
  • Terminator: Resistance (Honorable; reviewed as part of "2019 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Ambivalent)
  • Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Ambivalent)
  • Untitled Goose Game (Ambivalent; reviewed as part of "2019 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")
  • Code Vein (Dishonorable; reviewed as part of "2019 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")

The 2010s

The 2010s' Most Significant Games

  • The Binding of Isaac (Reviewed in Extra Punctuation)
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops series
  • Dark Souls I ("Fat, bearded dorks who unironically own swords" Game of the 2010s Decade)
  • Papers, Please
  • Return of the Obra Dinn
  • Stardew Valley
  • Undertale ("People wearing internet meme T-shirts" Game of the 2010s Decade)
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The 2010s' Games of the Year (Retrospectively Ranked)

  • 10) Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
  • 9) Just Cause 2
  • 8) BioShock Infinite
  • 7) Spec Ops: The Line
  • 6) Disco Elysium
  • 5) Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
  • 4) Doom
  • 3) Return of the Obra Dinn
  • 2) Portal 2
  • 1) Undertale

The 2010s' Worst Games (Retrospectively Ranked)

  • 10) Battlefield 3 / Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (tie)
  • 9) Thief (2014)
  • 8) Call of Duty: Ghosts
  • 7) Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3
  • 6) Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
  • 5) The Order: 1886
  • 4) Homefront: The Revolution
  • 3) Contra: Rogue Corps
  • 2) Amy
  • 1) Hunt Down the Freeman

     2020 - 2022 

2020

BEST OF 2020

  • 5) Ghost of Tsushima
  • 4) Half-Life: Alyx
  • 3) Yakuza: Like a Dragon
  • 2) BPM: Bullets Per Minute / Hades (tie)
  • 1) Spiritfarer

BLANDEST OF 2020

  • 5) Amnesia: Rebirth
  • 4) Immortals Fenyx Rising
  • 3) Serious Sam 4
  • 2) The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
  • 1) Marvel's Avengers

WORST OF 2020

  • 5) Deadly Premonition 2
  • 4) Minecraft Dungeons
  • 3) BattleToads
  • 2) Remothered: Broken Porcelain
  • 1) The Last of Us Part II

MENTIONS OF 2020

  • Boneworks (Honorable)
  • Cyberpunk 2077 (Honorable)
  • Doom Eternal (Honorable)
  • Ghostrunner (Ambivalent)
  • Watch Dogs: Legion (Ambivalent)

2021

BEST OF 2021

  • 5) The Artful Escape
  • 4) Persona 5 Strikers
  • 3) It Takes Two
  • 2) The Forgotten City
  • 1) Psychonauts 2

BLANDEST OF 2021

  • 5) Resident Evil Village
  • 4) Kena: Bridge of Spirits
  • 3) Back 4 Blood
  • 2) Outriders
  • 1) Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond

WORST OF 2021

  • 5) Twelve Minutes
  • 4) The Good Life
  • 3) Oddworld: Soulstorm
  • 2) Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Earthblood
  • 1) Balan Wonderworld

MENTIONS OF 2021

  • Before Your Eyes (Honorable; reviewed as part of "2021 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")
  • ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights (Honorable)
  • Exo One (Honorable; reviewed as part of "2021 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")
  • Metroid Dread (Honorable)
  • No More Heroes III (Honorable)
  • Unpacking (Honorable; reviewed as part of "2021 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")
  • The Ascent (Ambivalent; reviewed as part of "2021 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")
  • Chorus (Ambivalent; reviewed as part of "2021 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")
  • Deedlit In Wonder Labyrinth (Ambivalent; reviewed as part of "2021 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")
  • Eastward (Ambivalent; reviewed as part of "2021 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")
  • F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch (Ambivalent; reviewed as part of "2021 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")
  • Guardians of the Galaxy (Ambivalent)
  • Halo Infinite (Ambivalent)
  • Haven (Ambivalent; reviewed as part of "2021 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")
  • Moonglow Bay (Ambivalent; reviewed as part of "2021 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")
  • Solar Ash (Ambivalent; reviewed as part of "2021 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")
  • Tales of Arise (Ambivalent; reviewed as part of "2021 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")
  • Doctor Who The Edge Of Reality (Dishonorable; reviewed as part of "2021 Roundup of Games I Didn't Review")

2022

BEST OF 2022

  • 5) Not for Broadcast
  • 4) Hardspace: Shipbreaker
  • 3) Tunic
  • 2) Elden Ring
  • 1) Neon White

BLANDEST OF 2022

  • 5) Stray
  • 4) Dying Light 2: Stay Human
  • 3) Trek to Yomi
  • 2) Gotham Knights
  • 1) Saints Row (2022)

WORST OF 2022

  • 5) Hell Pie
  • 4) Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin
  • 3) The Callisto Protocol
  • 2) Babylon's Fall
  • 1) Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach

MENTIONS OF 2022

  • Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Honorable)
  • Fashion Police Squad (Honorable)
  • Metal: Hellsinger (Honorable)
  • Evil West (Honorable)
  • God of War Ragnarök (Ambivalent)
  • Sonic Frontiers (Ambivalent)
  • Horizon Forbidden West (Dishonorable)

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