What makes a video game “the best”? Technical prowess? A moving plot? A huge amount of features? It’s a difficult concept to nail down for an entertainment medium as young and as all over the place as gaming. But we tried our best — even so, you will definitely not agree with us.
30. “Roller Coaster Tycoon 3” (2004)
It wasn’t the first game to let you design a roller coaster and then ride it, but it was definitely the best and most robust example. You could build whatever you wanted, and it was one of the few games to make that claim and actually deliver something legitimately compelling.