Metroid Dread (2021)
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
All-time
#795 of 1,295
Ranking by scope
- 2020s: #16 of 83
- 2021: #4 of 12
- Nintendo Switch: #127 of 237
Ballots (37)
All-time lists
- #64 USA Today's For The Win — The 100 best video games of all time, ranked (2022)
Decade lists
- #32 Paste — The 50 Best Games of the 2020s So Far (2024)
- Game Rant — Best Games Of The 2020s (2025)
Year lists
- #1 NME — The 20 best games of 2021 (2021)
- #1 Time — The 10 Best Video Games of 2021 (2021)
- #1 Digital Trends — The 10 best video games of 2021 (2022)
- #2 The Game Awards — Game of the Year 2021 (2021)
- #2 GamingBolt — GamingBolt’s Game of the Year – Top 25 Games of 2021 (2021)
- #2 Esquire — 35 Best Video Games 2021 (2021)
- #2 Hardcore Gamer — Top 10 Games of 2021 (Game of the Year) (2021)
- #2 Ars Technica — Ars Technica's top 20 video games of 2021 (2021)
- #2 IGN — The Best Game of the Year 2021 (2021)
- #2 USA Today — The best games of 2021 (2021)
- #3 Empire — The Best Games Of 2021 (2021)
- #3 Paste — The 30 Best Games of 2021 (2021)
- #4 Complex — The Best Video Games of 2021 (2021)
- #4 Maxim — The Best Videogames of 2021, Ranked (2021)
- #4 Polygon — The 50 best video games of 2021 (2021)
- #4 El País — Los 10 mejores videojuegos de 2021 (2021)
- #5 Game Informer — Top 10 Games Of 2021 (2021)
- #5 Eurogamer — Eurogamer's game of the year is… (2021)
- #5 Den of Geek — The Best Games of 2021 (2021)
- #6 NY Daily News — The 10 Best Video Games of 2021 (2021)
- #8 A.V. Club — The 17 best games of 2021 (2021)
- #10 Slant — The 25 Best Video Games of 2021 (2021)
- #11 CBR — Editor Picks: The 10 Best Video Games of 2021 (2021)
- #11 Vulture — The Best Video Games of 2021 (2021)
- #14 GamesRadar — The 25 best games of 2021 (2021)
- The Sydney Morning Herald — The best video games of 2021, and what to buy (2021)
- Pittsburg Post Gazette — The 10 best video games of 2021 (2021)
- Bloomberg — These Are the 10 Best Video Games We Played in 2021 (2021)
- The Daily Telegraph (UK) — The 20 best video games of 2021 (2021)
- New York Game Awards — Awards! All The Awesome Nominees - Plus, Much More New York Game Awards Info! (2022)
- CBC — Here are some of the best video games of 2021 (2021)
- GameSpot — 10 Best Games Of 2021 (2021)
- CNN — The best video games of 2021 (2021)
- Washington Post — The best video games of 2021 (2021)