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

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

Kat Bailey – Baldur’s Gate 3

Rebekah Valentine – Tears of the Kingdom

Peer Schneider – Tears of the Kingdom

Nick Maillet – Final Fantasy 16

Simon Cardy – Baldur’s Gate 3

Alan Wheeler Ayala – Alan Wake 2

Taylor Lyles – Resident Evil 4

Mike Mamon – Baldur’s Gate 3

Nick Limon – Tears of the Kingdom

Jada Griffin – Baldur’s Gate 3

John Davison – Diablo 4

Logan Plant – Tears of the Kingdom

Dan Stapleton – Tears of the Kingdom

Brendan Graeber – Tears of the Kingdom

Jordan Comstock – Final Fantasy 16

Tyler Robertson – Alan Wake 2

Tristan Ogilvie – Resident Evil 4

Angie Harvey – Horizon: Forbidden West – Burning Shores

Eric Zalewski – Baldur’s Gate 3

Mark Medina – Alan Wake 2

Matt Kim – Tears of the Kingdom

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.