On the eve of the next generation, we invite you to celebrate the very best of one coming to a close. And we do mean the best: while we dedicated E339’s Games Of The Decade feature to the defining titles of the last ten years, our Games Of The Generation awards go to the crème de la crème - those Edge has judged to represent the pinnacle of game design as we know it today.
A few rules to begin with: we judged only games from November 2013 onwards, taking PS4 and Xbox One’s release month as our starting point. Alongside the two major consoles, we chose our other platforms of note to be PC, mobile, VR and Switch (apologies, Wii U, but your younger sibling rather outshone you this gen). And as we’re putting forward only the magazine’s most revered, suffice it to say the double-digit scoring games of the last seven years get one last lap of honour - although due to the recency of its release, we’ve decided to reserve one [10], Media Molecule’s Dreams, for consideration in our imminent Game Of The Year awards instead.
So, yes - you won’t be surprised to see many of the games on this list (although one of them Edge never even officially reviewed). But the sheer range of artistry on show here is overwhelming, a testament to just how far we’ve come as an industry of creatives in seven short years. A fond farewell, then, to an irreplicable generation of true one-offs that pushed the boundaries of game design to brilliant effect. Here’s to the next.