5 Best Video Games In 2021

First, let us begin with a simple question "What is a video game?" According to Greg Costikyan, who is an American game designer and developer, "A game is a form of art in which participants, termed players, make decisions to manage resources through game tokens in the pursuit of a goal."

A video game can be played on different paid platforms like PC, Consoles like Xbox, PLAYSTATION, NINTENDO, and Mobile. Apart from these, video games can also be distinguished based on genres. A video game genre can be defined as a category of games that share similar gameplay. These genres are Action, Adventure, sports, Racing, survival, horror, and many more. Also, here’s a link (https://techieplus.net/resource-management-games/ ) to the best resource management games online. During the year 2021, the developers have been loading the gaming industry with many new games belonging to different genres. As per my evaluation, the top 5 games of 2021 are the following-

1. Resident Evil Village

This game is a first-person horror game developed and published by Capcom. In this, the players play as Ethan Winters, who is searching for his kidnapped daughter. It was first announced at PS5 reveal event in June 2020 and was later released on 7 May 2021 for Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Stadia.

Resident Evil Village received a bunch of favorable reviews. It was praised for its gameplay. It also received a bunch of criticism for its puzzles and boss battles.

It was rated with a rating of 4.6 on google, 84% on Metacritic, and 85% by PC gamers.

2. Super Mario 3D; World Browsers Fury

It is a 2021 game bundled in with the Nintendo Switch release of Super Mario 3D World. It was released on 12 February 2021. The player can control Mario through a 3D, open-world to complete challenges. Super Mario 3D World Bowser's Fury was the best-selling game for February 2021 in the United States, which confirms the impact it created on the players' minds and senses.

It was also rated 89% by Metacritic, 4.6/5 by Gamespot

3. MOTO GP 21

Moto GP 21 is a game developed by Milestone Srl released on 22 April 2021 for Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, and others. The player manages a team of professionals, including the Personal Manager, the Chief Engineer, and the Data Analyst, which helps the player find data to develop a motorbike.

MotoGP 21 features a different season as it was initially decided to be run before the season was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw many races postponed or canceled. It was rated 77% by Metacritic, 5/5 by Amazon.IN, 9/10 on steam, and 7/10 on IGN. The game developers were appreciated for developing amazing game graphics.

4. Snow Runner

Snow Runner is an off-road simulation video game developed by Saber Interactive in 2021 and published by Focus Home Interactive. The gamer has to control off-road vehicles as they travel between locations to complete targets.

In this, the player's objective is to deliver cargo to different places while driving through rough terrain. Each of the game's maps is set after various disasters have occurred, some being natural like floods, others being artificial, and vary from places like Michigan to the Kola Peninsula. As the player progresses by doing different missions, they earn points that can be spent to buy a better vehicle, usually making it easier for the player to travel the game's rugged terrain.

It has been ranked 62 by best switch game of 2021, 8/10 on IGN, 83% by PC Gamers, 9/10 on Steam, and an average of 3.9 on google.

5. Knockout City

Knockout City is an action, multiplayer video game developed by Velan Studios and published by Electronic Arts. The player's main motive is to attack enemies from the opposing team by knocking them out with a ball. The different types of hops included in the game are the moon ball, the bomb ball, and many others. A player is also able to throw another player a ball.

The game attracted more than 2 million players within its first week of release.

It was rated a 9/10 on IGN, 90% by PC Gamers, and 9/10 by Steam, and it also bagged a rating of 4.3/5 on google.


All of the games mentioned above have successfully immersed the user (gamers) into an all-around experience that delivers quality, consistency, and ability to indulge the gamer into the game scenario as if it was to be executed in the real world.

Such consistency on various parameters of a game makes any game acceptable across many users. It hence reflects this acceptance in terms of their sales, the corresponding Revenue, and the user acceptance ratings across platforms, and the above mentioned surely deliver a fantastic experience to the end-user, i.e., the GAMER.