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.

Strategy — published

Planning, builds, economy and resource management, long-range decisions.

  1. 1Into the Breach9.2
  2. 2Factorio9.0
  3. 3Dwarf Fortress8.8
  4. 4Oxygen Not Included8.8
  5. 5StarCraft II8.8
  6. 6Stellaris8.8
  7. 7Divinity: Original Sin II8.8
  8. 8XCOM 28.8
  9. 9Dota 28.5
  10. 10Crusader Kings III8.5
  11. 11Hearts of Iron IV8.5
  12. 12RimWorld8.5
  13. 13Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition8.2
  14. 14Sid Meier’s Civilization VI8.2
  15. 15Total War: Warhammer III8.2
  16. 16Baldur’s Gate 38.2
  17. 17Slay the Spire8.2
  18. 18League of Legends7.8
  19. 19Darkest Dungeon7.8
  20. 20Kerbal Space Program7.8

Strategy — 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 punished a bad plan harder?