


Among Us keeps the focus on those heated debates that take the entire room through their own personal murder-mystery as you get closer and closer to finding the truth. Things like Gmod Trouble in Terrorist Town may use it to some degree, but the focus is still on the shooting rather than mystery solving. This is one of the few games that perfectly captures the tense joy of board games like Blood on the Clocktower or Werewolf, and adds to it in a way only video games can. It unfortunately has a reputation for being “cringe” now and that often overrides the fact that Among Us is one of the best social deduction video games ever made.

Why not 101? Because we had to fire someone for constantly suggesting that Octopath Traveler made the list. There is one caveat to this list, however: If your personal favorite game isn’t here, that’s because it’s at number 102. None of us are talking to each other anymore and we all hate how it turned out, but it was worth it. We’ve batted games back and forth across the entire GLHF team, voting and voting until we settled on a shortlist, then voting again to figure out each game’s placement. Shooting games, racing games, story-based games, horror games, indie games, RPGs… Trying to capture the breadth of the entire industry is like trying to catch a fly. There are a lot of video games – maybe too many – and lots of them deserve to be put on a pedestal. It’s a daunting task, curating and ranking the 100 best video games of all time.
