Best Adventure Games of 2018
Red Dead Redemption 2on 23 of 33 rankings2
Celesteon 2 of 33 rankings3
Subnauticaon 2 of 33 rankings4
Assassin's Creed Odysseyon 1 of 33 rankings5
Conan Exileson 1 of 33 rankings6
Kenshion 1 of 33 rankings7
Monster Hunter: Worldon 1 of 33 rankings8
Shadow of the Tomb Raideron 1 of 33 rankings9
Dragon Quest Builders 2on 1 of 33 rankings10
Warhammer: Vermintide 2on 1 of 33 rankings11
Far Cry 5on 1 of 33 rankingsHow this ranking is made
According to Made the Cut's census of 33 independent rankings, recounted 16 October 2026, the best Adventure game of 2018 is Red Dead Redemption 2, followed by Celeste and Subnautica.
How this is counted
This chart counts 33 ranking sources, one voice each: the published ranking of games from that source with the most titles whose genre is Adventure and released in 2018, 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.
12 of the 33 published rankings of games this counts, in the order they were published.