🏆 Game of the Year 2022: The Best Games
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2022 delivered one of the strongest gaming years in recent memory. These are the highest-rated releases of the year, ranked by combined critic and player scores.
This list is ranked by combined critic and player scores. Who actually collected the most Game of the Year awards in 2022 is a different question — Meta Awards counted them across thousands of outlets, and Elden Ring came out on top.
How selective is this list?
12 of 79 games meet the criteria
- Release span
- 2022–2022
- Median year
- 2022
- from 2015 or later
- 100%
- Median rating
- 80/100
Counted live in the IGDB games database on this page’s last build.
- 1
Elden Ring2022
95 / 100Role-playing (RPG)Adventure - 2
God of War Ragnarök2022
93 / 100Role-playing (RPG)Hack and slash/Beat 'em upAdventure - 3
Sunflower Land2022
92 / 100Simulator - 4
Horizon Forbidden West2022
89 / 100Role-playing (RPG)Adventure - 5
Xenoblade Chronicles 32022
88 / 100Role-playing (RPG)Adventure - 6
The Case of the Golden Idol2022
88 / 100Point-and-clickPuzzleAdventure - 7
Tunic2022
87 / 100PuzzleRole-playing (RPG)Adventure - 8
Immortality2022
87 / 100Point-and-clickSimulatorIndie - 9
Vampire Survivors2022
86 / 100Role-playing (RPG)AdventureIndie - 10
Return to Monkey Island2022
86 / 100Point-and-clickPuzzleAdventure - 11
Pentiment2022
86 / 100PuzzleRole-playing (RPG)Adventure - 12
AI: The Somnium Files - Nirvana Initiative2022
86 / 100PuzzleAdventureVisual Novel