Best of the Year

Polygon’s Best of 2021

Board games heavily influenced some of 2021’s best video games

By Charlie Theel December 21, 2021

Inscryption is the best video game of 2021

By Mike Mahardy December 19, 2021

Nix Umbra is this year’s scariest and most enigmatic game

By Ewan Wilson December 17, 2021

Chicory: A Colorful Tale showed us how to color outside the lines

By Ana Diaz December 17, 2021

Halo Infinite fulfills promises that were two decades in the making

By Austen Goslin December 16, 2021

Metroid Dread gives Samus new power — and new humanity

By Maddy Myers December 16, 2021

Resident Evil Village is a greatest hits of video game horror

By Ryan Gilliam December 15, 2021

Hitman 3 is absurd and hilarious, like trying to return a dead parrot

By Russ Frushtick December 15, 2021

Polygon’s Best of 2021

The 10 (or 11) best documentaries of 2021

By Noel Murray December 14, 2021

Death’s Door balances a grim world with never-ending charm

By Nicole Carpenter December 14, 2021

Wildermyth is the video game miracle of 2021

By Chris Plante December 14, 2021

Polygon’s Best of 2021

The best tabletop games that we played in 2021

By Charlie Hall December 13, 2021

Psychonauts 2 tells one of the best stories games have ever told

By Matt Leone December 13, 2021

Unsighted is an exquisite fight for survival

By Nicole Clark December 13, 2021

Polygon’s Best of 2021

The best science fiction and fantasy books of 2021

By Nicole Clark, Sadie Gennis, and 1 more December 12, 2021

The 50 best video games of 2021

By Polygon Staff December 10, 2021

Polygon’s Best of 2021

The best anime of 2021

By Toussaint Egan December 9, 2021

Polygon’s Best of 2021

The best movies of 2021

By Tasha Robinson, Joshua Rivera, and 3 more December 9, 2021

The astounding, unsettling end of Immortal Hulk

By Oliver Sava December 9, 2021

The best DC comic of 2021 was Rorschach

By Graeme McMillan December 9, 2021

Polygon’s Best of 2021

The extremely specific content creators we discovered this year

By Nicole Clark and Polygon Staff December 9, 2021

Polygon’s Best of 2021

Our best movie experiences of 2021

By Tasha Robinson and Polygon Staff December 8, 2021

The Horse Girl canon

By Polygon Staff November 23, 2020

Cyberpunk Red RPG is a funhouse mirror version of our troubled, modern world

By Charlie Hall November 13, 2020

One of the best platformers of the year is in … first person?

By Austen Goslin October 26, 2020

Jesse standing at the threshold of Control’s Ashtray Maze

Video game architecture is full of secrets

By Simone de Rochefort October 19, 2020

Modern Crash Bandicoot and Brian David Gilbert stand in front of a CRT TV that shows an image of ‘90s Crash Bandicoot and Brian wearing a ful denim outfit .

I made a ’90s dimension to fully understand Crash Bandicoot

By Brian Gilbert October 5, 2020

Fall damage is bullshit

By Karen Han October 3, 2020

Brie Larson’s laid-back YouTube channel is a surprising act of anti-troll defiance

By Kyndall Cunningham September 24, 2020

Several Bruce Lee look-alikes from video games pose dramatically

Street Fighter and basically every fighting game exist because of Bruce Lee

By Patrick Gill September 24, 2020

Hades is a near-flawless romp through hell after two years of early access

By Ryan Gilliam September 24, 2020

Two decades after Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, I finally got on a skateboard

By Nicole Carpenter September 14, 2020

The next level of puzzles.

Take a break from your day by playing a puzzle or two! We’ve got SpellTower, Typeshift, crosswords, and more.