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The Best Video Games Released In 2011

Video game rankings for video games that had a release in the year 2011, 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.

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Chrono Trigger game
98.3
41.5

Chrono Trigger $14.99 $7.49

  • multipleending
  • timetravel
  • RolePlaying

Chrono Trigger is a Japanese Role Playing Game released on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and then later released on multiple other devices. It's unique in that the game has several different endings which all rely on the time travel feature of the game.

Street Fighter Alpha 3 game
98
48

Street Fighter Alpha 3

  • Arcade
  • Fighting

Since it's been a really long time to post Street Fighter Alpha 3. i wanted to share some more of that game. For now i'll post dramatic battle. But the more a game takes view, the more i play it. In the future i want to upload Tour Mode and finishing the games with other characters for any game request...

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...

Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim game
96.5
46.5

Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

  • Fantasy
  • OpenWorld

Its main story focuses on the player's character, the Dragonborn, on their quest to defeat Alduin the World-Eater, a dragon who is prophesied to destroy the world. Over the course of the game, the player completes quests and develops the character by improving skills. The game continues the open-world...

Minecraft game
77.1
27.1

Minecraft

  • indie
  • adventure
  • building

Multiple gameplay modes are available, including survival mode where the player must acquire resources to build the world and maintain health, a creative mode where players have unlimited resources to build with and the ability to fly, an adventure mode where players can play custom maps created by other...

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 game
95.7
44.9

Sonic The Hedgehog 2

  • adventure
  • Platform

The game is the second main entry in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, and the first to feature Miles "Tails" Prower, a flying two-tailed fox. The staff increased the speed of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 in comparison to its predecessor. It has sold over six million copies, making it the second-best-selling...

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City game
95.1
45.1

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

  • racing
  • Shooter

In the year 1986, Tommy Vercetti is heavily indebted to his mafia superiors after a drug deal gone awry, but his dreams of taking over Vice City (based on Miami) push him down a different path. Featuring a wide variety of vehicles, unique radio stations playing hit songs from the era and an intense atmosphere,...

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...

Beneath A Steel Sky game
93.3
43.3

Beneath A Steel Sky

  • adventure
  • PointAndClick

Set in a dystopian future, the player assumes the role of Robert Foster, who was stranded in a wasteland known as "the Gap" as a child and adopted by a group of local Aboriginals, gradually adjusting to his life in the wilderness. The game has a serious tone, but features humour-filled dialogue,...

Kirbys Adventure game
91.8
41.8

Kirbys Adventure

  • Action
  • Platform

It is the second game in the Kirby series after Kirby's Dream Land on the Game Boy and the first to include the Copy Ability, which allows the main character Kirby to gain new powers by eating certain enemies. The game centers around Kirby traveling across Dream Land to repair the Star Rod after King...

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...

Xenoblade Chronicles game
91.8
41.8

Xenoblade Chronicles

  • RolePlaying

Initially released in Japan in 2010, it later released in Europe in 2011, and was eventually released in North America in 2012. Key to the Homs' efforts in fighting the Mechon army is the Monado, a sword said to have been wielded by the Bionis. Development began that year under the title Monado: The...

Catherine game
90.9
40.9

Catherine

  • Platform
  • Puzzle

The story follows Vincent Brooks, a man who is beset by supernatural nightmares while torn between his feelings for longtime girlfriend Katherine and the similarly-named beauty Catherine. The gameplay is divided between daytime hours, where Vincent interacts with the characters, and his dreams where...

Dungeon Siege game
90.7
40.7

Dungeon Siege $6.99 $0.97

  • RolePlaying

Dungeon Siege is a role-playing video game developed by Gas Powered Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios in 2002. The player participates in a linear quest to save the kingdom of Ehb following the main character from the humble beginnings as a farmer to the ultimate destiny as a powerful hero/heroine....

Xenogears game
89.8
39.8

Xenogears

  • RolePlaying

It was released on February 11, 1998, in Japan and on October 20, 1998, in North America. Major psychological themes are the nature of identity and human memory, particularly as these relate to the phenomenon of dissociative identity disorder. Reviews particularly praised the storyline with multiple...

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,...

Mega Man X game
89
39

Mega Man X $19.99 $7.99

  • Action
  • Platform
  • Shooter

Mega Man X , known in Japan as Rockman X , is a Mega Man series of action platform games released by Capcom. X was a new type of robot with the ability to make his own decisions. Reploids were dubbed "Mavericks" , and a force called the Maverick Hunters was formed to combat them. There are...

Sonic Generations game
88.9
38.9

Sonic Generations $19.99 $4.99

The game commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, and was released in November 2011 in North America, Europe and Australia, and in Japan the following month. On July 2, 2012, the game was made available for digital download on PlayStation Network, and was made available on...

Parasite Eve game
88.9
38.9

Parasite Eve

  • adventure
  • RolePlaying

A survival horror action role-playing game and a sequel to the novel Parasite Eve written by Hideaki Sena. It is also the first game in the Parasite Eve video game series.

Mega Man 4 game
88.5
38.5

Mega Man 4

  • Platform
  • Shooter

It is the fourth game in the original Mega Man series and was originally released in Japan in 1991. Mega Man 4 carries on the same action and platforming gameplay as the first three games, in which the player completes a series of stages in any order and adds the weapon of each stage's boss to Mega Man's...

Duke Nukem Forever game
88.4
38.4

Duke Nukem Forever $39.95 $7.99

  • adventure
  • Comedy
  • Shooter

It is a sequel to the 1996 game Duke Nukem 3D as part of the long-running Duke Nukem video game series. Intended to be groundbreaking, Duke Nukem Forever became a notable example of vaporware due to its severely protracted development schedule; the game was released in 2011 after fifteen years of development....