Rankings

The hardest of the 204.

Only games whose fingerprint has been earned — hand-authored, rated, or placed by comparison — appear here. Estimated ones are still browsable; they just do not get to be ranked. Vote on a pair and you move these lists.

Obscurity — published

Cryptic systems, hidden rules, weak feedback. How much the game refuses to explain.

  1. 1Rain World9.6
  2. 2Dota 29.5
  3. 3Noita9.5
  4. 4Spelunky 29.2
  5. 5I Wanna Be the Guy8.8
  6. 6League of Legends8.8
  7. 7The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth8.8
  8. 8Tunic8.8
  9. 9Rainbow Six Siege X8.5
  10. 10The Witness8.5
  11. 11Dwarf Fortress8.5
  12. 12Microsoft Flight Simulator8.5
  13. 13Oxygen Not Included8.4
  14. 14Demon’s Souls8.4
  15. 15Terraria8.2
  16. 16Castlevania: Symphony of the Night8.2
  17. 17Hearts of Iron IV8.1
  18. 18Assetto Corsa Competizione8.0
  19. 19Stellaris7.9
  20. 20RimWorld7.8

Obscurity — head to head

No game has 8 comparisons on this axis yet — 0 have been cast across all eight. Below that the model is mostly reporting its own prior back, which would be a ladder of our assumptions rather than anyone’s answer. Which explained itself less?