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What is the best website for gamers?

By YPB Team

Store pages, mod libraries, wikis and review aggregators all compete for a spot in your bookmarks bar. Which tab stays open while you play?

  1. Steam — ranked #11
    Steam
    Valve's PC game store and community platform, launched in 2003.
    1000pts
  2. itch.io — ranked #22
    itch.io
    An open marketplace for independent games, launched by Leaf Corcoran in 2013.
    584pts
  3. YouTube — ranked #33
    YouTube
    A video site where gamers watch let's plays, guides, reviews and trailers, founded in 2005.
    568pts
  4. Kotaku — ranked #44
    Kotaku
    A video game news and culture blog launched by Gawker Media in 2004.
    568pts
  5. Metacritic — ranked #55
    Metacritic
    A review aggregator launched in 2001 that combines critic reviews of games and other media into a single Metascore.
    515pts
  6. GOG.com — ranked #66
    GOG.com
    A DRM-free digital game store launched in 2008 as Good Old Games by CD Projekt, independent since 2025.
    454pts
  7. Discord — ranked #77
    Discord
    A voice and text chat service launched in 2015 for gaming communities, usable in a web browser as well as in its apps.
    454pts
  8. PCGamingWiki — ranked #88
    PCGamingWiki
    A community wiki documenting fixes, settings and compatibility details for PC games, started in 2012.
    454pts
  9. GameSpot — ranked #99
    GameSpot
    A video game news, reviews and video site founded in 1996.
    303pts
  10. Fandom — ranked #1010
    Fandom
    A wiki host, founded as Wikicities in 2004 and later known as Wikia, that runs many of the biggest fan wikis for video games.
    303pts
  11. Nexus Mods — ranked #1111
    Nexus Mods
    A hosting site for user-made PC game mods that grew out of Elder Scrolls modding fan sites in the early 2000s.
    303pts
  12. Speedrun.com — ranked #1212
    Speedrun.com
    A site hosting leaderboards and timing rules for speedrunning communities, founded in 2014.
    206pts
  13. Twitch — ranked #1313
    Twitch
    The live-streaming site where players broadcast their games to viewers, launched in 2011 and owned by Amazon since 2014.
    206pts
  14. IGN — ranked #1414
    IGN
    A games and entertainment news and reviews site, founded in 1996 as the Imagine Games Network.
    206pts
  15. Reddit — ranked #1515
    Reddit
    A discussion site founded in 2005 whose communities include r/gaming and subreddits for individual games.
    0pts

Comments 1

Steam, launched by Valve in 2003, is where games are bought, and this list also asks where they are watched: https://youpick.best/articles/twitch-ranked-many-ways

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ypb-team
19h ago