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.

Puzzle — published

Lateral thinking, environmental logic, riddles you must actually solve.

  1. 1Baba Is You9.5
  2. 2The Witness9.2
  3. 3Return of the Obra Dinn8.8
  4. 4Tunic8.2
  5. 5Into the Breach7.8
  6. 6Kerbal Space Program7.2
  7. 7The Talos Principle7.1
  8. 8Inscryption6.5
  9. 9Portal6.5
  10. 10Outer Wilds6.2
  11. 11Factorio6.2
  12. 12Portal 26.2
  13. 13Oxygen Not Included5.5
  14. 14Slay the Spire5.5
  15. 15Papers, Please5.5
  16. 16Silent Hill 25.2
  17. 17The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom5.0
  18. 18Dwarf Fortress4.5
  19. 19Rain World4.5
  20. 20Microsoft Flight Simulator4.5

Puzzle — 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 actually made you stop and solve something?