Best Online Games

The best online games are built for competition and collaboration. Regardless of whether you're linking up with friends, or making a few new ones in open lobbies, there's something special about a great multiplayer experience. And if the last few years have proven anything, it's that the very best online games that you can play right now have a special capacity to bring us all together.

Whether you've moved conversations from WhatsApp to Fortnite, have replaced family game night with Among Us, like coming together with strangers around Monster Hunter World battles, or competing with close friends over K/D ratios in Halo Infinite and Warzone, there really is an online game out there for everybody and every situation.

If you're looking for specific lists on the best co-op games or the best MMORPGs, then you'll find those by clicking through on the links. Otherwise, you'll want to keep reading for our pick of the 25 best online games that you can play today.

Even with Blizzard's Diablo 4 looming on the horizon, the third entry in this classic action-RPG series is still one of the best online games out there. The premise is the stuff of fantasy gaming legend, hack-and-slash top down adventuring, sending the forces of evil packing with a variety of playable classes. Where Diablo 3 becomes essential is in its rich RPG detail, and the almost compulsive desire it'll drag out of you and your friends to continue leveling and collecting new loot. Diablo 3 may be over a decade old, but there's still magic to be found in its formula.