GameSense.Co Video Games

The Best Video Games Released In 2010

Video game rankings for video games that had a release in the year 2010, ranked from best to worst. This includes games that had a release. All scores are calcuated by gamer's ratings, post reactions, and more. You can affect these rankings by joining and rating video games.

Did You Mean?

Cave Story game
97.8
46.4

Cave Story

Arguably the most well-known indie game of all time, Cave Story features a completely original storyline wrapped with personality, mystery and hours of fast-paced fun. Cave Story is an action-adventure game from the critically acclaimed independent designer, Daisuke Amaya--or Pixel to his fans. Overflowing...

Playstation Plus game
89.4
17.7

Playstation Plus

PlayStation Plus, abbreviated to PS Plus, is a paid-for PlayStation Network subscription service that provides users with access to premium features. These extras include early access to upcoming games, beta trials, regular store discounts, and the ability to have system software updates and game patches...

Splatterhouse game
95.2
45.2

Splatterhouse

  • BeatEmUp

Splatterhouse is a 1988 beat 'em up slasher arcade game developed and published by Namco. Due to its violent nature as well as some questionable enemies, the TurboGrafx-16 port of Splatterhouse had a parental advisory warning printed on the front of the box that read, "The horrifying theme of this...

Grand Theft Auto III game
94.7
44.7

Grand Theft Auto III

  • racing
  • Shooter

Featuring a fully 3-D living city, a combination of narrative driven and non-linear gameplay and a completely open environment, Grand Theft Auto III represents a huge leap forward in interactive entertainment. For the first time, players are put at the heart of their very own gangster movie, and let...

Bayonetta game
93.9
43.9

Bayonetta $24.99 $7.49

  • Action
  • Action

All three games star the title character as their protagonist. The first game in the series was directed by Hideki Kamiya, who created the Devil May Cry franchise when he was working in Capcom. It was the third title in Platinum's four-game contract with Sega. Although it was Platinum's most commercially...

Nier game
93.2
43.2

Nier

  • adventure
  • RolePlaying

Our main protagonist NieR goes on a quest to discover a cure for his daughter's deadly disease known as the black scrawl. He is joined by a a talking book, a fowl mouthed intersex woman (only in the Japanese version) and a shota who gets people stoned until he's turned into a super weapon.

Yakuza 3 game
92.5
42.5

Yakuza 3

  • adventure

"Like a Dragon 3") is the third mainline installment in the Yakuza series, released for the PlayStation 3 in 2009. Skipping these scenes using the Start button can only be done after enabling the scene-skipping option in the menu, which is switched off by default. In the eastern releases, the...

Final Fantasy Ix game
90.7
38.5

Final Fantasy Ix $20.99 $8.39

  • japanese
  • adventure
  • JRPG
  • Strategy
  • TurnBased
  • RolePlaying

The ninth installment in the long-running RPG series and the final for the original PlayStation, Final Fantasy IX gives fans of the franchise the nostalgic thrill of re-experiencing the visual style, gameplay elements and overall spirit of the 16-bit Final Fantasy games of the 8/16 bit eras. The main...

Medal Of Honor game
92.2
42.2

Medal Of Honor $19.99 $2.99

  • Shooter

The medal is awarded by the President of the United States in the name of the U.S. The Medal of Honor was created as a Navy version in 1861 named the "Medal of Valor", and an Army version of the medal named the "Medal of Honor" was established in 1862 to give recognition to men who...

Mass Effect 2 game
92.1
42.1

Mass Effect 2 $29.99 $7.49

  • Shooter
  • RolePlaying

Mass Effect 2 is the second installment of the Mass Effect series and a sequel to the original Mass Effect. In contrast to the exclusive focus on the main story of the original Mass Effect, the developers opted to create a plot where optional missions had as much intensity as the main mission. Mass Effect...

Demon's Souls game
90.7
40.7

Demon's Souls

  • Action
  • RolePlaying

It was published in Japan by Sony Computer Entertainment on February 5, 2009, in North America by Atlus on October 6, 2009, and in Australia and Europe by Namco Bandai Games in June 2010. Set in a dark fantasy world, players take control of a hero who has journeyed to the fictional kingdom of Boletaria,...

Crazy Taxi game
90.2
40.2

Crazy Taxi

The game has also been re-released for the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, iOS, and is featured on the Dreamcast Collection. It became one of the few Sega All Stars on the Dreamcast, and also earned Greatest Hits and Player's Choice status on Playstation 2 and GameCube respectively. Along the...

Final Fantasy XIV game
89.5
39.5

Final Fantasy XIV

  • mmo

Set in the fantasy realm of Eorzea, players take control of a customized avatar as they explore the land and are caught up in both an invasion by the hostile Garlean Empire and the threat of the Primals, the deities of the land's Beastmen tribes. The game had been in development since 2005 under the...

Rayman 2: The Great Escape game
89.6
39.6

Rayman 2: The Great Escape

  • adventure
  • Platform

Rayman 2: The Great Escape is an action-adventure video game developed by Ubi Soft Montpellier and published by Ubi Soft in 1999. The game was critically acclaimed upon release. Ly the Fairy telepathically communicates with Rayman explaining the consequences of the damage, with the core's shattering...

Ghost Trick game
89.4
39.4

Ghost Trick

  • adventure
  • Puzzle

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is an adventure game developed by Capcom for the Nintendo DS and iOS.Ghost Trick's story centers on the recently deceased protagonist Sissel, and his ghost's struggle to discover who he was when he was alive and who killed him. The player assumes the role of this ghost,...

Gothic game
89.5
39.5

Gothic

  • Action
  • RolePlaying

Gothic is a single-player action role-playing video game for Windows developed by the German company Piranha Bytes. It was first released in Germany on March 15, 2001, followed by the English North American release eight months later on November 23, 2001, and the Polish release on March 28, 2002. Gothic...

Ys Seven game
87.9
37.9

Ys Seven $24.99 $14.99

  • RolePlaying

Ys Seven is a Japanese action role-playing game developed and published by the Nihon Falcom Corporation and the seventh installment in the Ys video game series. They are thrown into the cells but thanks to their reputation as adventurers, they get a request from the king to help him investigate some...

ESWAT: City Under Siege game
87.6
37.6

ESWAT: City Under Siege

  • Platform
  • Shooter

The city is besieged by wanted criminals, and as a police officer it is your duty to stop them. The first criminals in the wanted list can be stopped with your service weapon an some fast reactions, but once you're facing the toughest criminals in town you'll need to use the cyber suit, which provides...

Kirby's Epic Yarn game
85.6
35.6

Kirby's Epic Yarn

  • adventure
  • Platform

It is the tenth installment of the Kirby video game series and was released in October 2010 in Japan and North America and in February 2011 in Australia and Europe. He must help Prince Fluff by collecting seven pieces of magic yarn that are used to stitch Patch Land together. Before the game's release,...

Ecco The Dolphin game
85.3
35.3

Ecco The Dolphin

  • adventure

Life was an adventure for Ecco, the young dolphin. The ocean seemed endless with rolling breakers to race through! At high speed Ecco could burst through the waves leaping through the air – almost flying! Until one day, all of that changed. A freak whirlpool of air and water tore the life from...

Dig Dug game
85.2
35.2

Dig Dug

  • Arcade

Dig Dug is an arcade game developed and published by Namco in Japan in 1982. Atari also obtained the license for home versions of Dig Dug, and released it for the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Intellivision, Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, VIC-20, Commodore 64, IBM PC, and TI-99/4A. The objective...

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 game
84.4
34.4

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3

  • social
  • Simulation
  • RolePlaying

Persona 3 was originally published in 2006 on the Playstation 2 by Atlus in Japan; the North American release of the game was delayed due to issues with the publication of the official art book. In Persona 3, the player takes the role of a male high-school student who joins the Specialized Extracurricular...

Infinity Blade game
84.4
34.4

Infinity Blade

  • Action
  • Fighting
  • RolePlaying

When in battle, players swipe the screen to attack and parry, and tap the screen to dodge and block enemy attacks. Infinity Blade was intended to demonstrate the new iOS version of the Unreal Engine, and to combine the swordplay of Karateka and Prince of Persia with the loneliness of Shadow of the Colossus....