Every competition
Competitions
Everything playable on Video Game Picks, in one place. Friends first, the crowd and the data second, the panel third — most of it needs no account to look at, and none of it needs you to have heard a single episode of anything.
Game Awards Picks
Pick the winners in all 25 categories at The Game Awards. Your sheet is scored against the panel's prediction sheets and the crowd's majority pick. Picks open with the nominees and lock when the show starts on December 10.
See the ballot →Private Matches
Start a match, share the invite code, and settle the Game Awards sheet against your friends on your own table instead of the public standings.
Start a match →Best Video Game Ever Bracket
The starter canon, settled head to head: 64 games, one vote per matchup, votes are final, until one game is left standing.
Open the bracket →The Canon Lists
38 ranked lists to build: the Top 10 of All Time, five decades, twelve years, five console generations, nine genres, four platform families, multiplayer and handheld.
Build a list →The Consensus Top 10
Your ten best games of 2026, ranked blind. At the reveal on January 9 your list is scored against the consensus built from the year's critics and outlets. Submissions lock December 31.
Make your Top 10 →Taste Match
Publish any list and share the link. Anyone with their own version of the same list gets a taste match against yours: a score, the shared games, and where your ranks part.
Start with the lists →The other side of the site is the house lines — Backloggd, IGDB, and OpenCritic — the field every list and the bracket draw from. See the lines.