Elden Ring
9.5/10FromSoftware took the Souls formula into an open world and produced the studio's most approachable and most expansive game at the same time.
PlayStation 5PlayStation 4Xbox Series X and Series S+2 more
Online games: 849 Catalogued (2026)
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849 games, 3 reviewed in full
How this list is built. Steam lists the game under "Online Co-op", "Online PvP", "MMO" or "Cross-Platform Multiplayer". Nothing here is assigned by us, so you can check any entry against its own store page.
Halo Infinite
8.0/10A strong return to form for Halo's moment-to-moment combat, wrapped in a live-service structure that took years to stabilise.
Xbox Series X and Series SXbox OnePC
Genshin Impact
8.3/10A free-to-play open world action RPG that runs on phones, tablets, PC and PlayStation, funded entirely by randomised character pulls.
iOSAndroidiPad+4 more
Also catalogued
846 more online games, not yet reviewedWe have reviewed 3 of these in full. The rest are catalogue records: title, year, studio and platforms, sourced from Wikidata. They are not indexed by search engines, because a record is not a review.
- Half-Lifesource
- Team Fortress 2source
- Terrariasource
- Age of Empiressource
- Need for Speed: Most Wantedsource
- World of Tankssource
- Stardew Valleysource
- War Thundersource
- RuneScapesource
- Far Cry 5source
- Quakesource
- Apex Legendssource
- Battlefield 3source
- Age of Empires IIIsource
- Left 4 Dead 2source
- Spacewar!source
- Europa Universalis IVsource
- Battlefield 4source
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siegesource
- Battlefield 1source
- Garry's Modsource
- Far Cry 6source
- Dead by Daylightsource
- No Man's Skysource
- Mortal Kombat 11source
821 not shown
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