Best Adventure Games of the 2020s
Elden Ringon 21 of 54 rankings2
The Last of Us Part IIon 8 of 54 rankings3
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomon 6 of 54 rankings4
The Last of Us Part Ion 4 of 54 rankings5
Omorion 3 of 54 rankings6
Hadeson 3 of 54 rankings7
Hollow Knight: Silksongon 2 of 54 rankings8
It Takes Twoon 2 of 54 rankings9
Deep Rock Galacticon 2 of 54 rankings10
Resident Evil 4on 3 of 54 rankings11
God of War Ragnarökon 2 of 54 rankings12
Xenoblade Chronicles 3on 2 of 54 rankings13
Coffee Talkon 1 of 54 rankings14
Horizon Forbidden Weston 1 of 54 rankings15
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxeon 1 of 54 rankings16
Baldur's Gate IIIon 1 of 54 rankings17
Half-Life: Alyxon 1 of 54 rankings18
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteouson 1 of 54 rankings19
A Plague Tale: Requiemon 1 of 54 rankings20
Metroid Dreadon 1 of 54 rankings21
Astlibra Revisionon 1 of 54 rankings22
Honkai: Star Railon 1 of 54 rankings23
Where Winds Meeton 1 of 54 rankings24
Kingdom Come: Deliverance IIon 1 of 54 rankings25
Keeperon 1 of 54 rankings26
Resident Evil Villageon 1 of 54 rankings27
Black Myth: Wukongon 1 of 54 rankings28
Ghost of Tsushimaon 2 of 54 rankings29
Dead Spaceon 2 of 54 rankings30
Wuchang: Fallen Featherson 1 of 54 rankings31
Until Thenon 1 of 54 rankings32
Pikmin 3 Deluxeon 1 of 54 rankings33
Death's Dooron 1 of 54 rankingsHow this ranking is made
According to Made the Cut's census of 54 independent rankings, recounted 16 October 2026, the best Adventure game of the 2020s is Elden Ring, followed by The Last of Us Part II and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
How this is counted
This chart counts 54 ranking sources, one voice each: the published ranking of games from that source with the most titles whose genre is Adventure and released in the 2020s, 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 54 published rankings of games this counts, in the order they were published.