Hello! You might have spotted Eurogamer is 25 this week, and so alongside the first appearance of a few permanent micro-wrinkles and a sharp decline in people asking us for ID, we’re marking the occasion with something special.
Actually, it’s several things that are special, as editor-in-chief Tom Phillips explained at the start of the week, but this one warrants a bit of explanation. Today marks the launch of the Eurogamer 100, a list of the very best video games to play .
The emphasis, you might have spotted, is on that last bit. Somehow, in Eurogamer’s 25 years of publication, we’ve never actually run a list of the best video games full stop. We’ve had lists by platform, by genre, by series, by month and most prominently of course, lists of the best games released each year – with avid contribution from you to our readers’ top 50 alongside it, of course. But to our knowledge we’ve never had one, big all-timer.
Well, technically we still haven’t. Unlike most lists out there, the Eurogamer 100 isn’t a list of the greatest games of all time, but of the best games to play in this specific moment. To make it onto the list, games must be (legally) obtainable and playable on current-generation hardware, which right now means consoles such as the Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch, the various streaming and subscription services out there, mobiles, smart TVs, leftfield options like the Playdate, and of course the humble PC.