"The Video Game Canon is a statistical meta-analysis of 70 Best Games lists that were published between 1995 and 2021. To qualify for inclusion, each list must include at least 50 titles, some form of editorial oversight (lists made up solely of reader polls or fan voting were excluded), and no restrictions on release dates or platforms.
After feeding each Best Games list into the Video Game Canon machine, the games were ranked against each other using the C-Score, a formula that adds together a game's Average Ranking across all lists with the complementary percentage of its Appearance Frequency.
This means that a lower C-Score results in a higher ranking on the Video Game Canon."
