🏅 Game of the Year 2023: The Best Games
Published · updated · list data as of
2023 delivered so much so quickly that plenty of excellent games got buried under the giants. These are the year's highest-rated releases, ranked by combined critic and player scores — a good place to find what you missed.
This list is ranked by combined critic and player scores. Who actually collected the most Game of the Year awards in 2023 is a different question — Meta Awards counted them across thousands of outlets, and Baldur’s Gate 3 came out on top.
How selective is this list?
12 of 69 games meet the criteria
- Release span
- 2023–2023
- Median year
- 2023
- from 2015 or later
- 100%
- Median rating
- 80/100
Counted live in the IGDB games database on this page’s last build.
- 1
Baldur's Gate III2023
95 / 100Role-playing (RPG)StrategyTurn-based strategy (TBS)🛋️ Split-screen up to 2 - 2
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom2023
94 / 100PuzzleAdventure - 3
Super Mario Bros. Wonder2023
91 / 100Platform - 4
Alan Wake II2023
90 / 100ShooterAdventure - 5
The Talos Principle II2023
89 / 100PuzzleAdventureIndie - 6
Final Fantasy XVI2023
87 / 100Role-playing (RPG)Adventure - 7
Dave the Diver2023
87 / 100Role-playing (RPG)SimulatorAdventure - 8
Against the Storm2023
87 / 100Real Time Strategy (RTS)SimulatorStrategy - 9
Blasphemous II2023
87 / 100PlatformRole-playing (RPG)Hack and slash/Beat 'em up - 10
Pizza Tower2023
87 / 100PlatformAdventureIndie - 11
Street Fighter 62023
86 / 100FightingArcade - 12
Cocoon2023
86 / 100PuzzleAdventureIndie