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Tim wrote: Mon Feb 23, 2026 5:06 pm Why did not you ask us to move it up?

Well, my only argument would be that I know a lot of people who love it compared to other games

It's called acclaim among gamers criterion.

This is the current list for 2019
1. Resident Evil 2
2. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
3. Disco Elysium
4. Super Mario Maker 2
5. Death Stranding
6. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
7. Devil May Cry 5
8. Apex Legends
9. Fire Emblem: Three Houses
10. Control

Some stats for the year
AcclaimedVideoGames
1. Disco Elysium
2. Outer Wilds
3. Resident Evil 2
4. Control
5. Death Stranding
6. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
7. Fire Emblem: Three Houses
8. Slay the Spire
9. Apex Legends
10. Untitled Goose Game
11. Luigi's Mansion 3
12. The Outer Worlds
13. A Plague Tale: Innocence
14. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
15. Baba is You
16. Beat Saber
17. Mortal Kombat 11
18. Pokemon Sword/Shield
19. Sayonara Wild Hearts

Glitchwave
1. Disco Elysium
2. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
3. Outer Wilds
4. Resident Evil 2
5. Slay the Spire
6. Pathologic 2
7. Death Stranding
8. Devil May Cry 5
9. Katana ZERO
10. A Short Hike
11. 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
12. Hypnospace Outlaw
13. Baba is You
14. Fire Emblem: Three Houses
15. Super Mario Maker 2
16. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
17. Control
18. Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling
19. Blasphemous
20. Metro: Exodus

Backloggd
1. Resident Evil 2
2. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
3. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
4. Apex Legends
5. Devil May Cry 5
6. Control
7. Death Stranding
8. Outer Wilds
9. Pokemon Sword/Shield
10. Katana Zero
11. Slay the Spire
12. Fire Emblem: Three Houses
13. Borderlands 3
14. Blasphemous
15. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
16. Mortal Kombat 11
17. Untitled Goose Game
18. A Plague Tale: Innocence
19. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
20. The Outer Worlds

Best Selling Video Games (everything with 5 million+ copies that I could find)
1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare - 41 million
2. Pokemon Sword/Shield - 27.08 million
3. Borderlands 3 - 18 million
4. Resident Evil 2 - 16.871 miillion
5. Ring Fit Adventure - 15.38 million
6. Mortal Kombat 11 - 15 million
7. Luigi's Mansion 3 - 14.25 million
8. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order - 10 million
9. Tom Clancy's The Division 2 - 10 million
10. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - 10 million
11. Devil May Cry 5 - 9.9 million
12. Super Mario Maker 2 - 8.42 million
13. Days Gone - 7.32 million
14. Kingdom Hearts III - 6.7 million
15. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - 6.46 million
16. Satisfactory - 5.5 million
17. Disco Elysium - 5 million
18. Death Stranding - 5 million
19. Control - 5 million

The Game Awards
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Control
Death Stranding
The Outer Worlds
Resident Evil 2
The D.I.C.E. Awards
Untitled Goose Game
Control
Death Stranding
Disco Elysium
Outer Wilds

Based on this, I'd say:
- Super Mario Maker 2 looks high
- Control looks a bit low
- Outer Wilds should be added for sure
- Pokemon Sword/Shield should probably be added too.

Maybe... (For all the games on the decade list)
1. Resident Evil 2
2. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
3. Disco Elysium
4. Death Stranding
5. Control
6. Outer Wilds
7. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
8. Devil May Cry 5
9. Apex Legends
10. Pokemon Sword/Shield
11. Super Mario Maker 2
12. Fire Emblem: Three Houses
13. Mortal Kombat 11

Do we think Disco Elysium has enough acclaim by now to make the main list?

I could see that, though I wanna finish going through the 2010s yearly lists at least before we cross that bridge.

2025
1. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
2. Hades II
3. Hollow Knight: Silksong
4. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
5. Donkey Kong Bananza
6. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
7. Ghost of Yōtei
8. Split Fiction
9. Mario Kart World
10. Dispatch

Looks good to me. For the overall list - I was thinking E33 could be somewhere around where Bloodborne is ranked.