Best Adventure Games of 2012
Persona 4 Goldenon 4 of 11 rankings2
Guild Wars 2on 2 of 11 rankings3
The Cat Ladyon 1 of 11 rankings4
Diablo IIIon 1 of 11 rankings5
Sleeping Dogson 1 of 11 rankings6
Darksiders IIon 1 of 11 rankings7
Dragon's Dogmaon 1 of 11 rankingsHow this ranking is made
According to Made the Cut's census of 11 independent rankings, recounted 16 October 2026, the best Adventure game of 2012 is Persona 4 Golden, followed by Guild Wars 2 and The Cat Lady.
How this is counted
This chart counts 11 ranking sources, one voice each: the published ranking of games from that source with the most titles whose genre is Adventure and released in 2012, cut down to those titles, in the order that source listed them. A title's place is its average position across all sources counted: a title someone left off their ranking counts as tied with their last place (here, that source ranked titles of this kind and left this one out). A small pull toward the middle keeps one enthusiastic list from crowning a #1. Every title in the computed chart has a numbered position, with its source count shown beside it. It is recounted whenever a ranking is published, changed or removed, last on 16 October 2026. Member rankings and attributed external lists use the same calculation. Multiple lists from one member or external author count once; linked slices add no extra vote. Frozen links, private or unlisted lists and unmatched titles are never counted. The full method.