Games

Hmm... Katamari Damacy, Braid, Portal 1 2 combo. Subnautica.

Path of Exile
Echo
Enter The Gungeon

Deep rock galactic

Europa Universallis 4 (with the dlc)

Space station 14

San Andreas

Wolfenstein ET

Tetris

Dark Souls II

WARFRAME

Battlefield 4

Mobile: vampire hunters

Psvr: skyrim

Playstation: horizon

Dark souls, dishonored, Zelda (probably lttp or oot).

Also probably minecraft

Final Fantasy Tactics, Valkyrie Profile, and Suikoden 2!

Still waiting for all of these to someday port to Steam. 😅

Halo, Arkham Asylum, KOTOR. Honorable mentions (so hard to pick just a few) - Assassin's Creed II, Ocarina of time, Dark Forces

Pokémon Red/Blue, Stardew Valley, and then Borderlands games. Honorable mentions: The Witcher games, Fallout series, some of the Assassins Creed games, and Baldur’s Gate 3.

I've played through so many that it's hard to remember, but of the recent ones I really like Control. Its combat was great and the approach to physics felt revolutionary, while I also liked the idea of an extremely powerful woman as its protagonist.

Final Fantasy VIII, Dishonored, and Xenogears. They all tend to stick in the back of my head long after playing them. Special mentions are Final Fantasy VI, FTL, and Bastion.

The Colonel’s Bequest

Dune 2

Phantasy Star IV

Warframe

Skyrim (Okay, maybe the Modding Community of Skyrim, really)

A Narrative Game (Okay, so, there's a number of games with narratives that have managed to make me really feel and really think. Whereas Skyrim and Warframe are easy to decide upon because I love Warframe's gameplay and Skyrim's modding, there's no shortage of narrative games that have impacted me in a way that makes them all irreplaceable and as equally 'top' in my own mind. Undertale, Persona 4, Bastion, very recently there was Slay the Princess... I cannot possibly say any is above the other.)

FTL

Astroneer

Anno1404 (now Anno1800)

I have only played FTL for ~100 hours but I can still remember most of it. FTL is a roguelike space game where you assume the role of captain. I really feel connected to my crew and never abandon hopeless runs. I always go down with my crew. This is the one game (and Magicite and Into the breach) where I really enjoy the ironman no save scum mechanics. Making it out of bad situations feels so rewarding. 🤩

1. Hollow knight
2. Fallout 3

Don't think I can choose a 3rd place there's too many to pick from. FF7 was the first that came to mind.

Max Payne, UFO Enemy unknown, PUBG

Counter Strike

Work of Warcraft

Witcher 3

Ocarina of time, metal gear solid, minecraft

Total Annihilation

Enter the Matrix

Battlefield 3

Elden ring, Witcher 3, hollow knight

Honorable mentions: Sekiro, Hades, Earlier versions of Wow. DotA 2 before ranked was a thing.

• Another World
• The Longest Journey
• EF2000

FTL: Faster Than Light

Nova Drift

Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition

DotA 2 is definitely at the top

For the other two slots it would be something between Portal, Witcher 3 and NieR Automata.

• Team Fortress 2
• CSGO/CS2
• Witcher 3

Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Day of the Tentacle

• Magic: the Gathering
• World of Warcraft
• Outer Wilds

I don't think I can rank things that way any more. I think of my "best games of all time" category as "absolute masterpieces".

So here are my "absolute masterpieces" in the order in which they come to mind, which is as good an indicator as any, I suppose.

• Daggerfall
• Fallout 1 & 2
• Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
• Sekiro
• Bloodborne
• Alpha Centauri
• Disco Elysium
• The Longest Journey
• The Journeyman Project 2
• Asheron's Call (the original)
• The Witcher 3
• Horizon: Zero Dawn
• Close Combat series
• The Outer Wilds
• Crysis (ONLY the original)
• Far Cry (ONLY the original)
• Planescape: Torment
• Ghost of Tsushima
• Alien: Isolation
• Shadow of the Colossus
• Baldur's Gate (the entire OG saga)
• Planetside (ONLY the original)
• Arx Fatalis

Half life, Portal, Ace Attorney Trilogy.

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Skyrim

Resident Evil 4

Minecraft

Krunker.io

Doom

Ultima 6

Squarez Deluxe

Quake

I hope I'm not being contrary by picking card games, but there's this game we called Blackjack in school, which is different to Twenty-One, with similar rules to Uno or the Dutch game Pesten. Ridiculously good game, just a bit of a pain in the arse to teach because it's all trick cards. Then the easy answer is The Binding of Isaac and all its remake and expansions. I thought the other might honestly be Spider-man 2 on the PS2, but now I think about it, it's Tekken 3. We had it on an arcade cabinet at an old job of mine and I used to rinse it on my break.