Best Game of the Decades

[Aulayna]

I tried to be as impartial as possible on this one and think of it in terms of titles that really had a significant impact on the gaming industry as a whole, rather than what my favourite game from each decade would be.

80s: Tetris - an icon of gaming at this point. Probably anyone who's played a game will have touched on some Tetris-like title at this point.
Runners-Up: The Legend of Zelda, Mario Bros.

90s: Half Life - I think that Half Life was the culmination of a lot of evolution in the FPS space in the 90s that blended shooting with story and atmosphere and set the stage for enemies behaving differently to one another. Much of what Half Life achieved set the building blocks for what would lead to the behemoth that the FPS genre is today.
Runners-Up: Super Metroid, Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid

00s: World of Warcraft - pretty much pulled an entire genre out of relative obscurity and still going fairly strong to this day, created dozens of pop culture references, and popularized game systems that would eventually stretch well outside of the MMORPG genre.
Runners-Up: Morrowind, League of Legends (although arguably this should be in the 10s section), Mass Effect

10s: Minecraft - biggest selling video game of all time, easy to pick up with so many possibilities, systems that have found their way into AAA titles, fun for the whole family, still sells a crazy amount nearly 10 years after release, has seen-off countless clones, yeah.
Runners-Up: The Witcher 3, Red Dead Redemption 2