--- description: Find out which Facebook game the company named "Game of the Year" title: These Are the Facebook's Best Games of 2014 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt333305e1fa47c9d5/69876db955a8593a69a84a02/cookie-jam.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # These Are the Best Facebook Games of 2014  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 9, 2014 10:21 PM CUT  SGN  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 9, 2014 10:21 PM CUT Facebook is out with its annual roundup of the year’s top Facebook games, with one game taking the ultimate crown. _Cookie Jam_, a matching game launched by SGN last May, “swept all others” to become Facebook’s Game of the Year, the company [announced Tuesday on its blog](https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2014/12/09/games-of-the-year-2014/ "undefined"). While only one game could claim the biggest title, Facebook also identified some stand-outs from the year, including a new Candy Crush game and _Kim Kardashian: Hollywood._ These are Facebook’s best new games of 2014: * [_Bubble Witch 2 Saga_](https://www.facebook.com/games/bubblewitch-two/?fbs=133 "undefined") * [_Candy Crush Soda Saga_](https://www.facebook.com/games/candycrushsoda/?fbs=133 "undefined") * [_Hero Defense_](https://www.facebook.com/games/hero-defense/?fbs=133 "undefined") * [_Kim Kardashian: Hollywood_](https://www.facebook.com/games/stardomk/?fbs=133 "undefined") * [_Klondike_](https://www.facebook.com/games/klondikegame/?fbs=133 "undefined") * [_League of Angels_](https://www.facebook.com/games/leagueofangels/?fbs=133 "undefined") * [_Old Vegas Slots_](https://www.facebook.com/games/oldvegasslots/?fbs=133 "undefined") * [_Sparta: War of Empires_](https://www.facebook.com/games/spartawarofempires/?fbs=133 "undefined") * [_SuperCity_](https://www.facebook.com/games/super%5Fcity%5Fgame/?fbs=133 "undefined") These are the Facebook staff’s favorite games of 2014: * [_Cower Defense_](https://www.facebook.com/games/cower%5Fdefense/?fbs=133 "undefined") * [_Dino Hunter: Deadly Shores_](https://www.facebook.com/games/dino%5Fhunter/?fbs=133 "undefined") * [_OMG! Fortune FREE Slots_](https://www.facebook.com/games/omgfortune/?fbs=133 "undefined") * [_Solitaire 3 Arena_](https://www.facebook.com/games/solitairethreearena/?fbs=133 "undefined") * [_Throne Rush_](https://www.facebook.com/games/thronerush/?fbs=133 "undefined") Check out [the rest of Facebook’s top games on their blog.](https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2014/12/09/games-of-the-year-2014 "undefined") ### See The 15 Best Video Game Graphics of 2014  Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Activision's futuristic first-person shooter in which players take on a rogue private military company uses a brand new engine built specifically for PCs and new-gen consoles to handle its cutting-edge lighting, animation and physics. Sledgehammer Games/Activision  Far Cry 4\. This pulled back shot of fictional Himalayan region Kyrat is in-game, believe it or not, rendered with an overhauled version of the engine Ubisoft used to design Far Cry 3. Ubisoft  The Last of Us: Remastered. Naughty Dog's meditation on the worst (and best) of humanity is built on technology that reaches back through the studio's pulp-adventure Uncharted series. The graphics are so impressive, TIME recently assigned a conflict photographer to photograph inside the game. Ashley Gilbertson for TIME  Alien: Isolation Built from scratch, the Alien: Isolation engine's outstanding deep space visuals all but replicate the set design of Alien film concept artists H.R. Giger and Ron Cobb's work. The Creative Assembly  Assassin's Creed Unity. Ubisoft says it "basically remade the whole rendering engine" in its AnvilNext design tool to handle the studio's meticulous recreation of Paris during the French Revolution. Ubisoft  Child of Light Inspired by filmmakers like Hayao Miyazaki and artist Yoshitaka Amano, Child of Light's hand-drawn artwork puts the lie to presumptions that graphical richness depends on shader support or polygon counts. Ubisoft  Destiny Built from scratch by ex-Halo studio Bungie, Destiny's game engine was designed to scale across the next decade, says the studio. Bungie  Mario Kart 8 Nintendo's kart-racer for Wii U reminds us that raw horsepower is just a facet of crafting a beautiful game world. Nintendo  Infamous Second Son Sucker Punch's freeform Seattle-based superhero adventure models all sorts of minutia, from the intricate wrinkling of an aged character's face to the way eyelids stick, slightly, before separating when characters blink. Sucker Punch Productions  Monument Valley Escher-like at first glance, Ustwo's mind-bending puzzler was also inspired by posters, bonsai plants, arabic calligraphy and filmmaker Tarsem Singh's The Fall. Ustwo  Grand Theft Auto V Rockstar's remastered crime spree opus was crafted from an in-house engine first employed in a game that simulated table tennis. Rockstar  Titanfall Respawn Entertainment  Forza Horizon 2 Turn 10's Euro-racer actually models light refracted through drops of moisture, the render tech plausibly simulating something as intangible but essential as the earth’s atmosphere. Microsoft Studios/Turn 10 Studios  80 Days Inkle's anti-colonialist vamp on Jules Verne's famous novel uses crisp art deco imagery inspired by travel posters to unfurl 80 Days' tale of intrepid globetrotters Monsieur Fogg and his valet Passepartout. Inkle  Tomb Raider Crystal Dynamics' radical reboot of its popular series about an athletic archaeologist uses a modified version of the engine that powered Tomb Raider: Legend in 2006. 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