Counter-Strike 2
2023Counter-Strike 2
Twenty-five years of refinement into the same fundamental question: who peeks first.
Shooter
The best competitive multiplayer games
8 hand-picked games
Games with a skill ceiling worth climbing and enough people online to find a match. Some are ten-minute rounds, some will eat a year of your life.
Rocket League
2015Rocket League
Car football. Explains itself in ten seconds and takes a decade to get good at.
SportsRacing
Apex Legends
2019Apex Legends
The battle royale with the best movement, and a ping system every other game copied.
ShooterBattle Royale
Forza Horizon 5
2021Forza Horizon 5
An open-road racer you can play badly and still enjoy. Rare and underrated quality.
Racing
Mario Kart World
2025Mario Kart World
Mario Kart with the tracks joined into one open world you can just drive around.
RacingParty
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
2018Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Every fighter from every game. The definitive four-people-on-a-couch machine.
FightingParty
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
2017Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
The one game in this list your entire family will agree to play without negotiation.
RacingParty
Halo Infinite
2021Halo Infinite
The moment-to-moment shooting is the best it has been since the original trilogy.
Shooter
How this list is put together
Every game here was added to the PlayNext catalog by hand and tagged individually. The order is editorial — a popularity weight set by a person, not an aggregate review score — so the games most people are actually looking for come first rather than whichever obscure title happens to have a 9.4 average from forty ratings.
Length estimates are how long the game takes to finish, or to feel done with if it doesn't end. Use the game finder to narrow any of these lists further by time and budget.