Earlier, we announced Game Informer's authoritative Top 10 Games of 2021, but that database doesn't overgarment the full picture. That database was compiled aft a hard-fought conflict implicit galore hours arsenic we struggled to compression our corporate favorites onto 1 authoritative list. Unfortunately, galore of our favourite games of the twelvemonth couldn't beryllium represented successful the authoritative Top Ten, which is wherefore we enactment unneurotic these editor-specific apical 10s.
Below you'll spot the apical 10 games of the twelvemonth for each editor. Check retired our idiosyncratic favorites and spot which staff members' tastes astir align with yours. While you're here, consciousness escaped to driblet your ain apical 10 successful the comments!
Andrew Reiner Editor-In-Chief
- Halo Infinite
- It Takes Two
- Deathloop
- Psychonauts 2
- Forza Horizon 5
- Metroid Dread
- Returnal
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
- Kena: Bridge of Spirits
- Resident Evil Village
Matt Miller Magazine Content Director
- Halo Infinite
- Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut
- Destiny 2
- Forza Horizon 5
- Back 4 Blood
- Deathloop
- The Artful Escape
- Metroid Dread
- Returnal
- Griftlands
Ben Reeves Online Content Director
- Deathloop
- Resident Evil Village
- Metroid Dread
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
- The Forgotten City
- Inscryption
- Psychonauts 2
- Life is Strange: True Colors
- Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury
- Chicory: A Colorful Tale
Kimberley Wallace Features Editor
- Resident Evil Village
- Life is Strange: True Colors
- Deathloop
- Psychonauts 2
- Tales of Arise
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
- Persona 5 Strikers
- Shin Megami Tensei V
- Back 4 Blood
- Nier Replicant
Daniel Tack Senior Editor
- Returnal
- Library of Ruina
- Little Nightmares II
- Monster Hunter Stories 2
- Wildermyth
- Forza Horizon 5
- Resident Evil Village
- Scarlet Nexus
- Shin Megami Tensei V
- Melvor Idle
Blake Hester Senior Associate Editor
- Resident Evil Village
- Hitman 3
- Deathloop
- Resident Evil 4 VR
- Death Stranding Director's Cut
- Fortnite
- Psychonauts 2
- Back 4 Blood
- Halo Infinite
- Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury
Jason Guisao Associate Editor
- Tales of Arise
- Nier Replicant
- Halo Infinite
- Forza Horizon 5
- Deathloop
- Returnal
- Life is Strange: True Colors
- Psychonauts 2
- Death Stranding Director’s Cut
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition
Marcus Stewart Associate Editor
- Psychonauts 2
- Death’s Door
- Before Your Eyes
- Deathloop
- Resident Evil Village
- It Takes Two
- Chicory: A Colorful Tale
- The Forgotten City
- Returnal
- Inscryption
John Carson Associate Editor
- Metroid Dread
- Inscryption
- Halo Infinite
- Monster Hunter Rise
- Death’s Door
- Returnal
- Guilty Gear -Strive-
- Loop Hero
- Diablo II: Resurrected
- Dodgeball Academia
Jill Grodt Associate Editor
- Life is Strange: True Colors
- Sable
- It Takes Two
- Death’s Door
- Darkest Dungeon 2
- Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut
- Inscryption
- Valheim
- The Artful Escape
- New Pokémon Snap
Wesley LeBlanc Associate Editor
- Inscryption
- Returnal
- Halo Infinite
- Deathloop
- Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury
- Forza Horizon 5
- Before Your Eyes
- Resident Evil Village
- Sea of Thieves: A Pirate’s Life
- Death’s Door
Alex Stadnik Video Editor
- Halo Infinite
- Psychonauts 2
- Metroid Dread
- Resident Evil Village
- Before Your Eyes
- Returnal
- Deathloop
- Life is Strange: True Colors
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
- Little Nightmares II
Alex Van Aken Video Editor
- Deathloop
- Halo Infinite
- Death’s Door
- Resident Evil Village
- Hitman 3
- Inscryption
- The Forgotten City
- Pokémon Unite
- Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury
- Loop Hero
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