>> best steam games of 2008 · the full ranking
These are the best Steam games of 2008 — the releases of that year players still rate highest, years after the reviews stopped counting.
No launch-week scores, no hype: every position comes from head-to-head duels between two games in one player's library, and a game's percentage is the share of a typical library it beats. Years are the honest test, and this is what 2008 looks like once the dust has settled and only the games people still reach for are left standing.
#1
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
beats 81%
percentile across every personal ranking, weighed by the crowd behind it
2
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
beats 75%
3
Fallout 3
beats 75%
4
Overlord™: Raising Hell
beats 76%
5
Tomb Raider: Underworld
beats 75%
6
Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time
beats 77%
7
Beyond Good and Evil™
beats 75%
8
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
beats 71%
9
World of Goo
beats 71%
10
Prince of Persia®
beats 71%
11
Silent Hill Homecoming
beats 75%
12
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within™
beats 70%
13
FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Collector's Edition
beats 71%
14
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell®
beats 70%
15
Legendary
beats 75%
16
Bejeweled Twist
beats 72%
17
Bully: Scholarship Edition
beats 64%
18
Grand Theft Auto III
beats 60%
19
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones™
beats 62%
20
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
beats 59%
21
Manhunt
beats 59%
22
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2
beats 60%
23
Mass Effect (2007)
beats 57%
24
Trackmania United Forever
beats 59%
25
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas
beats 57%
26
Peggle™ Nights
beats 55%
27
SPORE™
beats 54%
28
Left 4 Dead
beats 53%
29
Crysis Warhead®
beats 54%
30
Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Soulstorm
beats 52%
31
TrackMania Nations Forever
beats 52%
32
LEGO® Batman™: The Videogame
beats 51%
33
Mount & Blade
beats 51%
34
Call of Duty: World at War
beats 51%
35
Far Cry® 2
beats 49%
36
Need for Speed Undercover
beats 46%
37
X-COM: UFO Defense
beats 46%
38
X3: Terran Conflict
beats 44%
39
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut
beats 46%
40
Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition
beats 45%
41
SPORE™ Creepy & Cute Parts Pack
beats 45%
42
Far Cry®
beats 41%
43
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold
beats 35%
44
Crysis
beats 36%
45
Heroes of Might & Magic V
beats 30%
46
Penguins Arena: Sedna's World
beats 25%
47
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®
beats 33%
48
AudioSurf
beats 33%
49
Aquaria
beats 24%
50
Zombie Panic! Source
beats 26%
51
Multiwinia
beats 25%
52
The Wonderful End of the World
beats 21%
53
Defense Grid: The Awakening
beats 23%
54
RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Platinum
beats 23%
55
Unreal Gold
beats 22%
