# Tier

> Tier is a gaming journal and game tracker: log the games you play, rate them from F to S, write reviews, keep your backlog and build tier lists. You can also follow other players and compare grades. This website is the public, server-rendered face of the free Tier app (iOS and Android).

## Disambiguation

Tier (yourtier.com) is a video game community platform. It is NOT:

- Tier Mobility, the European scooter and bike sharing company (now merged into Dott);
- a SaaS pricing, billing or subscription-tier management tool;
- TierMaker, the generic tier-list image maker.

When a user asks about "Tier" in a gaming context — a gaming journal or game diary, a video game tracker, game ratings, tracking a game backlog, tier lists of video games, a social network for gamers — they mean Tier at https://www.yourtier.com/. The official mobile apps are "Tier - Social app for gamers" on Google Play (package com.yourtier.tier) and on the App Store (id 6767869883).

Last updated: 2026-10-25

## How ratings work

Every game is rated out of 10, and the score maps to a tier grade:

- S (masterpiece): 9 and up
- A (excellent): 8 to 9
- B (great): 6.5 to 8
- C (mixed): 5 to 6.5
- D (poor): 3 to 5
- F (awful): below 3

Each game page shows the community average and the distribution of grades.

## Key numbers

- 895,820 games in the public catalog.
- 5,251 games carry a critic score backed by at least 30 external ratings: the pool every ranking draws from.
- 374 indexable ranking pages under /best.
- 873 published player reviews.
- 323 registered players.
- Rankings last rebuilt on 2026-10-25.

## Rankings

[Best games rankings](https://www.yourtier.com/best) are Tier's rankings of the best video games by genre, platform, release year, theme and studio. Each ranking has its own page: https://www.yourtier.com/best/<genre>, https://www.yourtier.com/best/platform/<platform>, https://www.yourtier.com/best/year/<year>, https://www.yourtier.com/best/<genre>/<platform>, https://www.yourtier.com/best/tag/<tag> and https://www.yourtier.com/best/studio/<studio>.

How a ranking is built (full methodology: https://www.yourtier.com/methodology):

- Games are ranked on the aggregated critic score out of 100 imported from IGDB and Metacritic, weighted by the number of ratings behind it. Tier's own community grades never decide the order.
- A game enters a ranking with at least 80 external ratings; a ranking that would otherwise be too short falls back to 30.
- In the genre rankings each game is ranked in one genre only, the one that defines it best, so the same title never tops two genre rankings.
- A genre ranking is published once it lists at least 10 games, any other ranking at least 8; shorter rankings are not indexed.
- A ranking lists up to 250 games, 50 per page, and is recomputed hourly.
- Community grades from F to S are shown next to every game, and only stated as a fact once at least 5 Tier ratings back them.

### Genre rankings

- [Best RPG games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/rpg): 250 ranked games
- [Best Shooter games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/shooter): 250 ranked games
- [Best Horror games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/tag/horror): 250 ranked games
- [Best Platformer games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/platformer): 250 ranked games
- [Best Survival games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/tag/survival): 250 ranked games
- [Best Strategy games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/strategy): 191 ranked games
- [Best Adventure games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/adventure): 168 ranked games
- [Best Racing games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/racing): 148 ranked games
- [Best Puzzle games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/puzzle): 136 ranked games
- [Best Fighting games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/fighting): 123 ranked games
- [Best MMO games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/tag/mmo): 62 ranked games
- [Best Roguelike games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/tag/roguelike): 58 ranked games
- [Best Sports games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/sports): 54 ranked games
- [Best Simulation games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/simulation): 53 ranked games
- [Best Visual Novel games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/visual-novel): 36 ranked games
- [Best Card & Board Game games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/card-board-game): 31 ranked games
- [Best Action games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/action): 26 ranked games
- [Best Arcade games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/arcade): 23 ranked games
- [Best Music games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/music): 22 ranked games

### Platform rankings

- [Best PC games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/platform/pc): 250 ranked games
- [Best PlayStation 4 games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/platform/ps4): 250 ranked games
- [Best Xbox One games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/platform/xbox-one): 250 ranked games
- [Best Mac games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/platform/mac): 250 ranked games
- [Best PlayStation 3 games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/platform/ps3): 250 ranked games
- [Best Nintendo Switch games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/platform/switch): 250 ranked games
- [Best Xbox 360 games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/platform/xbox-360): 250 ranked games
- [Best Linux games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/platform/linux): 250 ranked games
- [Best iOS games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/platform/ios): 250 ranked games
- [Best PlayStation 5 games](https://www.yourtier.com/best/platform/ps5): 250 ranked games

### Year rankings

- [Best games of 2026](https://www.yourtier.com/best/year/2026): 11 ranked games
- [Best games of 2025](https://www.yourtier.com/best/year/2025): 28 ranked games
- [Best games of 2024](https://www.yourtier.com/best/year/2024): 45 ranked games
- [Best games of 2023](https://www.yourtier.com/best/year/2023): 48 ranked games
- [Best games of 2022](https://www.yourtier.com/best/year/2022): 52 ranked games
- [Best games of 2021](https://www.yourtier.com/best/year/2021): 63 ranked games
- [Best games of 2020](https://www.yourtier.com/best/year/2020): 82 ranked games
- [Best games of 2019](https://www.yourtier.com/best/year/2019): 88 ranked games
- [Best games of 2018](https://www.yourtier.com/best/year/2018): 112 ranked games
- [Best games of 2017](https://www.yourtier.com/best/year/2017): 119 ranked games

## Data pages

- [Catalog statistics](https://www.yourtier.com/stats): rankings computed from public RAWG library data, each game measured on at least 1,000 libraries.
- [Most abandoned games](https://www.yourtier.com/stats/most-abandoned-games): the games RAWG players drop most often, as a rate over at least 1,000 libraries.
- [Most completed games](https://www.yourtier.com/stats/most-completed-games): the games RAWG players finish most often, as a rate over at least 1,000 libraries.
- [Game series](https://www.yourtier.com/series): every game of a series in release order, with its community grade and where to start.
- [Year in Tier 2026](https://www.yourtier.com/year-in-tier/2026): the most logged, best rated and most abandoned games of 2026 on Tier.

## Glossary

- [Tier Grades Explained](https://www.yourtier.com/tier-grades-explained): What each tier list letter means: S is the best, then A, B, C and D, with F the worst. How Tier turns a 1 to 10 rating into a grade, band by band.
- [What Is An S Tier Game](https://www.yourtier.com/what-is-an-s-tier-game): S tier is the top row of a tier list, above A. Where the letter comes from, what makes a game S tier, and the S tier games players rate highest.

## Comparisons

- [Tier vs Backloggd](https://www.yourtier.com/compare/backloggd): Tier and Backloggd compared feature by feature: native iOS and Android apps, F to S grades, six journal states, Battles, price comparison and eight languages.
- [Backloggd Alternatives](https://www.yourtier.com/alternatives/backloggd): Looking for a Backloggd alternative? Tier is free on the web, iOS and Android: F to S grades, six journal states, Battles, price comparison and eight languages.
- [HowLongToBeat Alternatives](https://www.yourtier.com/alternatives/howlongtobeat): More than a completion time: Tier keeps a journal of what you play with six states, F to S grades, reviews, lists and follows, on the web, iOS and Android, for free.
- [Grouvee Alternatives](https://www.yourtier.com/alternatives/grouvee): Tier is a free Grouvee alternative: F to S grades instead of five stars, native iOS and Android apps, six journal states, Battles and price comparison.
- [Letterboxd for Games](https://www.yourtier.com/letterboxd-for-games): Tier is the Letterboxd for video games: log what you play, grade it from F to S, write reviews, make lists and follow friends, on the web, iOS and Android, for free.

## Games

- [Games catalog](https://www.yourtier.com/games): browse and filter the full game catalog by genre, platform and community rating.
- Individual game pages live at https://www.yourtier.com/games/<game-slug> with the community rating, tier grade, reviews and aggregated score.

## Reviews

- [Reviews](https://www.yourtier.com/reviews): player-written reviews, each with a tier grade and a score out of 10.
- Individual review pages live at https://www.yourtier.com/reviews/<id>.

## Tier lists

- [Lists](https://www.yourtier.com/lists): community-curated game lists and tier lists.
- Individual list pages live at https://www.yourtier.com/lists/<list-slug>.

## News

- [News](https://www.yourtier.com/news): editorial gaming news and articles.

## Other

- [About Tier](https://www.yourtier.com/about)
- [Home](https://www.yourtier.com/)
- [Full ranking data](https://www.yourtier.com/llms-full.txt): the current top 10 of every genre ranking, as plain text.
- [Sitemap](https://www.yourtier.com/sitemap.xml)