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What to Play

What to Play

Many games are huge. Others are endless. Some are so exciting that they swallow our news feeds whole. That’s where Polygon’s What to Play comes in: We curate the best, most innovative, and most intriguing games on every platform, so you can spend less time searching, and more time playing.

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The 50 best video games of 2022

By Mike Mahardy and Polygon Staff

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The 14 best PlayStation 5 games

By Polygon Staff and Oli Welsh

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The 22 best Xbox games

By Polygon Staff

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The 28 best PlayStation 4 games

By Ryan Gilliam and Mike Mahardy

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Best Nintendo Switch games for grown-ups

By Toussaint Egan, Joshua Rivera, and 2 more
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The 22 best Nintendo Switch games

By Toussaint Egan, Maddy Myers, and 2 more

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The 25 best games on Game Pass

By Ryan Gilliam, Mike Mahardy, and 3 more

The 22 best Xbox One games

By Dave Tach, Ben Kuchera, and 1 more

The 13 best games on PC

By Ryan Gilliam and Polygon Staff

The best games that are fun for the whole family

By Nicole Carpenter, Michael McWhertor, and 1 more
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The 10 best board games of 2023 so far

By Charlie Theel
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22 games we love on Steam Deck

By Toussaint Egan, Chris Plante, and 1 more

The 24 best roguelikes

By Cian Maher and Polygon Staff

The 16 best games on PC

By Polygon Staff, Ryan Gilliam, and 2 more
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The best video games of the year so far

By Mike Mahardy, Nicole Carpenter, and 6 more
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The 25 best games in PlayStation Plus’ Game Catalog

By Ryan Gilliam and Michael McWhertor

5 short horror games to play this Halloween season

By Toussaint Egan
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The 36 best couch co-op games for Nintendo Switch

By Nicole Clark

The 13 best fighting games

By Axel Bosso
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3 games to play while waiting for Diablo 4

By Mike Mahardy
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Pivot your D&D group to a different system — something built with combat in mind

By James D'Amato
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The 11 best Zelda-likes to play after Tears of the Kingdom

By Mike Mahardy, Nicole Clark, and 2 more

Pivot your D&D group to a different system built with role-play — not combat — in mind

By James D'Amato

The best games for PlayStation VR 2

By Russ Frushtick

The 19 best retro games for Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscribers

By Ryan Gilliam and Mike Mahardy

The 8 best video games to get you into Warhammer 40K

By Cole Henry and Mike Mahardy

The best anime of 2022

By Toussaint Egan, Petrana Radulovic, and 2 more

The 13 best horror games (and one honorable mention)

By Diego Nicolás Argüello

The 13 best co-op management games to sink hours and hours into

By Nicole Clark

Ranking the 9 best stealth games

By Cole Henry

The best Pokémon-likes to play while you wait for Scarlet and Violet

By Cian Maher

Ranking the 7 best Warhammer fantasy video games

By Cole Henry

Zine Quest 4: Tiny indie games about outlaws, outer space, and an animal drag race

By Chase Carter

The 22 best board games

By Charlie Hall, Sarah Johnson, and 1 more

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14 exciting video games we’re anticipating this summer

By Cian Maher

Ascension Tactics leads our list of the best new board games of March

By Sarah Johnson

Control leaves Game Pass later this month, so you should start playing now

By Austen Goslin

Obsessed with Wordle? Here are 6 games to kill time between rounds

By Nicole Carpenter

The best D&D campaigns

By Emma Partlow

The Nintendo Switch OLED is perfect for these 10 games

By Russ Frushtick