Based On Video Game's Greatest Years, Ranked

When was the golden age of Based On Video Game? We ranked every year by the accumulated weighted rating of its best Based On Video Game titles — a year rises when it delivered many strongly-rated entries, not just a lone classic. Data from 3eyedraven's catalog.

  1. #1 2023 16 great titles Best: The Last of Us
  2. #2 2016 16 great titles Best: Pokémon Generations
  3. #3 2022 14 great titles Best: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
  4. #4 2021 14 great titles Best: Arcane
  5. #5 2020 12 great titles Best: Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge
  6. #6 2018 11 great titles Best: Angels of Death
  7. #7 2019 11 great titles Best: Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia
  8. #8 2014 11 great titles Best: Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works]
  9. #9 2024 9 great titles Best: Fallout
  10. #10 2009 9 great titles Best: Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
  11. #11 2017 8 great titles Best: Castlevania
  12. #12 2013 8 great titles Best: Danganronpa: The Animation
  13. #13 2025 8 great titles Best: Devil May Cry
  14. #14 2011 8 great titles Best: Carnival Phantasm
  15. #15 2010 8 great titles Best: Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic
  16. #16 2007 7 great titles Best: Dinosaur King
  17. #17 2015 7 great titles Best: God Eater
  18. #18 2026 6 great titles Best: Among Us
  19. #19 2008 6 great titles Best: Inazuma Eleven
  20. #20 2005 7 great titles Best: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
  21. #21 2012 6 great titles Best: Wreck-It Ralph
  22. #22 2006 6 great titles Best: Utawarerumono
  23. #23 2002 5 great titles Best: Pokémon Chronicles
  24. #24 1993 5 great titles Best: Sonic the Hedgehog
  25. #25 2003 5 great titles Best: Sonic X