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The numbers in, the results crunched: these are the top 10 games of the year as voted by you.
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10. Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 (3.2 percent of the vote)
Luis Suárez in action in PES 2017
© Konami
9. Titanfall 2 (4.2 percent of the vote)
Titanfall 2
© Respawn Entertainment
8. Dishonored 2 (5.0 percent of the vote)
Empress. Assassin. Multitasker
© Arkane Studios
7. Street Fighter V (5.6 percent of the vote)
Chun-Li is back and is even easier to play with
© Capcom
6. Doom (6.4 percent of the vote)
Doom
© Bethesda
Bethesda’s second entry in our top 10 is perhaps the most surprising game on this list – at least if you were to look at it through a portal from 2015. Doom 3 was mediocre at best, so expectations weren’t high for another reboot more than a decade on. Lo and behold though, the 2016 Doom is a glorious throwback, with a fittingly silly story about Hell invading Mars, demons to frag and spattering viscera absolutely everywhere. Can we have a new single player Quake next please?
5. Firewatch (7.2 percent of the vote)
Wyoming Forest, gutted by the fires of 1988
© Campo Santo
4. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (7.5 percent of the vote)
My beard is augmented
© Eidos Montreal
Adam Jensen stealths his way into the number four spot in our poll for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. It’s been a solid year all round for Square Enix: Hitman, Rise of the Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy XV have all been rock solid, but it’s Eidos Montreal’s latest Choose Your Own Adventure game that makes it into the Top 10 in our poll. Much like Dishonored 2 (which also made the shortlist), you can chart your own route through each level, taking a stealthy or gung-ho violent route. Unlike Dishonored 2, there’s actually an interesting story as well – about the delicate ethics of a cyborg future – making this your third favourite single player game of 2016.
3. Overwatch (10.7 percent of the vote)
D.Va is Korean and awesome
© Blizzard
2. Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (11.1 percent of the vote)
Excuse me, that’s my sniper spot
© Naughty Dog / Sony
1. Dark Souls 3 (18.4 percent of the vote)
Dark Souls 3
© FromSoftware/Bandai Namco Entertainment
Crushing the competition underfoot like Champion Gundyr stepping on human bubble wrap, it’s FromSoftware’s magnum opus. That a game launched early on in the year has fought off all comers for your attention for almost twelve months is impressive enough; that it’s an unforgiving game that doesn’t so much hold your hand as cut it off and pour salt in the gaping wound for having the insolence to ask for help is all the more so.
Starting out as nothing more than a cult hit with Demon’s Souls back in the early days of the PS3, the Souls series has evolved into a mega-selling franchise, and with it, so have gamers: we don’t need reams of exposition and heavy clue dropping to get our kicks anymore. And definitely not an Easy Mode. All we need is a gripping combat system and the sense that we’re progressing as players, level stats be damned. Clearly enough of you relish the challenge of stumbling blindly about in a beautiful nightmare only Hidetaka Miyazaki could conjure up, hacking wildly at titanic bosses until you’re instantly smited and have to start all over again, to make it the clear winner in our poll. Congratulations, Miyazaki and co: Dark Souls 3 is the official RedBull.com Readers’ Game of the Year 2016.
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