Playlist: IGN Staff Members Share Their Personal Picks for the Top 10 Games of 2023 [IGN]

December 15, 2023 Logan Plant gaming

The votes are in, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is the winner of IGN’s 2023 Game of the Year award. Link’s latest adventure across the lands, skies, and depths of Hyrule was clearly one of 2023’s biggest standouts, but in a year full of amazing games, the vote here at IGN was extremely close.

So, we turned to IGN Playlist — our tool for rating games, tracking your backlog, making fun lists, and discovering what to play — to give IGN staff members a chance to share their personal picks for the Top 10 Games of 2023.

Read on to discover lists from 22 different staff members to see what we picked as our favorites for this year. And, make sure to sign into IGN Playlist to make a Top 10 Games of 2023 list for yourself — we may feature it on IGN in the coming days!

IGN Staff Picks Their Top 10 Games of 2023

Mitchell Saltzman – Tears of the Kingdom

The 10 Best Games of 2023

My picks for my favorite games of 2023.

IGN’s Twenty Questions – Guess the game!

Welcome to 20 questions. Can you guess the game?

Kat Bailey – Baldur’s Gate 3

Kat Bailey’s Top 10 Games of 2023

Kat’s favorite games of 2023.

Rebekah Valentine – Tears of the Kingdom

Reb’s Top Games of 2023

Peer Schneider – Tears of the Kingdom

Peer’s Top Games of 2023

My picks for best games this year so far as of early December. I also enjoyed plenty of others, including Starfield, Forza, Super Mario RPG, and more.

Nick Maillet – Final Fantasy 16

Nick’s Top 10 Games of 2023

My top 10 games of 2023

Simon Cardy – Baldur’s Gate 3

Simon Cardy’s Top 10 Games of 2023

Alan Wheeler Ayala – Alan Wake 2

Alan’s Top 10 Games of 2023

2023 bangers

Taylor Lyles – Resident Evil 4

Taylor’s Top 10 Games of 2023

A list of my favorite games I played that we’re originally released in 2023.

Mike Mamon – Baldur’s Gate 3

Mike’s Top Games of 2023

Nick Limon – Tears of the Kingdom

Limon’s Top 10 of 2023

Jada Griffin – Baldur’s Gate 3

Jada’s Top 10 Games of 2023

My 10 favorite games in 2023.

John Davison – Diablo 4

John’s Top Games of 2023

My favorite games of the year that I’ve enjoyed and spent a lot of time playing.

Logan Plant – Tears of the Kingdom

Logan Plant’s Top Ten Games of 2023

Dan Stapleton – Tears of the Kingdom

Dan’s Top Games of 2023

Brendan Graeber – Tears of the Kingdom

Brendan’s Top Games of 2023

All the games I really really really kinda sorta liked a lot this year.

Jordan Comstock – Final Fantasy 16

Jordan Comstock’s Top 10 Games of 2023

Tyler Robertson – Alan Wake 2

Top 10 for 2023

Tristan Ogilvie – Resident Evil 4

Tristan’s Top Games of 2023

My favourite games of the year so far, ranked!

Angie Harvey – Horizon: Forbidden West – Burning Shores

Angie’s Top 10 Games of 2023

These are my top 10 games from 2023.

Eric Zalewski – Baldur’s Gate 3

Eric’s Top 10 Games of 2023

Mark Medina – Alan Wake 2

Mark Medina’s Top 10 Games of 2023

What a year! How can I possibly just pick 10!!?? (Don’t tell anyone but I’m actually putting 12)

Matt Kim – Tears of the Kingdom

Matt Kim’s Top 10 2023

My top 10 games of 2023.

Those are our picks, now it’s your turn! Head on over to IGN Playlist now to make your voice heard. Whether you agree or disagree with our picks, we want to hear about your Top 10 Games of 2023.

Logan Plant is IGN’s Database Manager, Playlist Editor, and frequent Super Ninfriendo on Nintendo Voice Chat. Find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.