- Disco Elysium
- Jade Empire
- Eternal Darkness
- Knights of the Old Republic
- Starcraft 2
- Quake
- Chrono Trigger
- Portal
- Resident Evil 4
- The Last of Us
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Rimworld
Mount and Blade Warband (/Bannerlord)
Crusader Kings 2/3
Slay The Spire
Stellaris
Darkest Dungeon
Civilization V
Fallout New Vegas
Borderlands 2
Kerbal Space Program
In no particular order:
- Super Mario 64
- Sonic 3 and Knuckles
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Watch Dogs
- Portal 2
- Doom (original shareware version)
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
- Half Life
- Half Life 2
Metal Gear Solid 1
Cyberpunk 2077
Civilization V
Gods Will Be Watching
Portal
Splinter Cell Blacklist
Dead Cells
Sniper Elite 3
Dirt Rally
Ghost of Tsushima
Just the ones I know, of course. In the order I fell in love with them:
- Combat
- Duke Nukem
- Herzog Zwei
- Streets of Rage 2
- Mario Kart
- Outpost
- Sim City 2000
- Warcraft 2
- Unreal Tournament 2004
- Halo
Darn thatβs ten and it only gets me up to two decades ago, when I was ending college.
My ten from after college:
- FarCry 2
- EVE Online
- Left 4 Dead 2
- Minecraft
- Grand Theft Auto V online mode
- Factorio
- Battlefield 5
- Sea of Thieves
- Space Engineers
- Overwatch 2
- Minecraft
- Factorio
- Danganronpa
- Danganronpa UDG
- Danganronpa 2
- Danganronpa V3
- Pokemon: FireRed
- SuperTuxKart (because best FOSS game β€οΈ)
- Pick any two classics from Valve
In some sort of order
- Sim City 2000, City Skylines
- Halo 1, 2, 3 , Modern Warfare 2, 3
- Civilization 4,5,6
- Kerbal Space Program
- Minecraft
- BioShock
- Final fantasy 7
- Game Dev Story
- FTL
- BG3
In Order with contender from the same gameline between brackets.
- Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
- Valkyrie Profile Lenneth
- Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones (Path of Radiance & Awakening)
- Monster Hunter Worlds (Hunter 4 Ultimate & Rise)
- Need for Speed Underground 2
- World of Warcraft
- Final Fantasy IV (IX)
- League of Legends
- Dwarf Fortress
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates (& Echoes of Times)
Honorable Mentions
- Midnight Club 2
- Sid Meier's Civilization VI
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
- Tekken 3
Satisfactory RDR2 Cyberpunk2077 Mass Effect trilogy Cities Skylines, GTA 5 Halo series then probably a bunch of simulators
Not in order:
- Farcry 5
- civilization VI
- cyberpunk 2077
- portal 2
- Minecraft
- Hitman 2
- Hearts of Iron IV
- watchdogs
- oxygen not included
- The binding of Isaac
Last time in ONI I made a massive outside area with buildings, an ocean and trees in it!
In no particular order:
- Hero's Quest (from Sierra On-line)
- Valheim
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Skyrim
- No Man's Sky
- City of Heroes (can you believe it's legally back?!?)
- Red Dead Redemption II
- Planescape: Torment
- Stardew Valley
- Starfield
(I'm sure that last one will raise some eyebrows, but I've already got over 1k hours in it since launch. For all its faults, it scratches some itch of mine just right.)
- Gothic 2
- Gothic
- The Legend of Zelda: Windwaker
- Age of Empires 2
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Guild Wars
- Minesweeper
- Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord
- Football Manager 2024 (or one of the old EA ones?)
Outer Wilds
and
Inscryption
Alphabetical Order
- TBOI Rebirth
- BTD6
- DOOM Eternal
- GMod
- Pizza Tower
- Post Void
- Super Meat Boy
- SUPERHOT
- TF2
- Titanfall 2
- Neverwinter Nights
- Kingdom of Amalur
- Warcraft III: Frozen Throne
- Battle for Middle Earth
- Deux Ex
- KOTOR I
- Morrowind - Oblivion
- Red Alert 2
- XCOM2
- WH: Total War II
Half life 2 (especially episode 2), HL: Alyx, Mario 3, Sonic 3 (with Sonic and Knuckles attached), Sonic 2, space station 13, dead by daylight, portal 2, guitar hero 3, I dunno, one of the metal gear solids or Garry's mod
In no order:
- Diablo 2
- Chrono trigger
- The incredible machine
- Loom
- Bravely default
- The secret of monkey island
- Prince of Persia
- Rampart
- Papers, please
- Zak McKracken and the alien mindbenders
Half-life.
Sim city.
Smb3.
I know you don't mean super monkey ball 3, but, there is the smallest chance you do. :)
Not in order: Dark Souls 1 Dark Souls 3 Elden Ring Witcher 3 Undertale Baldurs Gate 3 NieR: Automata Skyrim Hollow Knight Minecraft
No order in particular:
- Elder Scrolls 3-5
- KOTOR 1 & 2
- Dota 2
- Mass Effect
- Grim Dawn
- Kerbal Space Program
- Warframe
- Age Of Empires II
- Battle for Middle Earth 2
- Counter Strike
- Ultima VII
- Baldur's Gate 1
- Daggerfall
- Morrowind
- Oblivion
- Deus Ex
- Thief
- Ultima Underworld
- Kerbal Space Programme
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Honourable mentions for Baldur's Gate 3, Crusader Kings 2, and Tears of the Kingdom.
- Portal 2
- Shadow of the Colossus
- Gothic 2
- Mass Effect 2
- Uncharted 2
- Dragon Age Origins
- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
- Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines
- The Last of Us
- Max Payne 2
In no particular order:
- Wing Commander: Privateer
- Rim World
- Kotor + Kotor 2
- Any first person Elder Scrolls Game
- Europa Universalis games
- Portal + Portal 2
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Elite Dangerous
- Eve Online
- Dwarf Fortress
I'm probably a little biased but... (I'll also include my fave music track from each game as a little bonus!)
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Nethack : old school roguelike
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Tale of Maj Eyal : removing of tediousness in old school roguelike
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Baldur Gate 2 : D&D implementation
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Civilization 2 : just one more turn
-
Fallout 2 : narrative based on character build
-
XCom : tactical combat with base building
-
Jagged alliance: tactical combat with squad building
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Knight of Legend : best original turnbased combat system never done again
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Slay the Spire: For deck building
-
Quake: playing with friend
Tic tak toe,
Solitaire,
Snek,
That one with the bubbles that you just watch and you canβt do anything (I think it actually a screen saver)
Uh. Thatβs it.
Once again in no particular order: Ultimata IV - Quest of the Avatar
Sim City 2000
The Last of Us
Breath of the Wild
Trade Wars
Kingdom Hearts
Knights of the Old Republic
Civ 6
Omega - a dos game where you programmed Tanks and set them loose
And right now: Balatro
I have not kept up with gaming much for the past decade, so my list is going to be very dated. In no particular order:
- Starsiege: Tribes (Tribes 2 gets an honorable mention)
- EarthSiege 2
- EverQuest (very begrudgingly, but it did kick the era of MMORPGs into overdrive, and I was addicted to it for almost a decade)
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition (I'm counting the trilogy as a single game)
- X-Wing Vs. Tie Fighter
- Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe
- Cities: Skylines
- Star Trek Online (only because of storylines)
- Battlefield 1942
No console games on my list, because PCMR! :P
[Edit] Almost forgot Star Control 2!
I have a whole separate list for arcade games.
- Mortal Kombat (including only 1, 2, and 3. Hated 4 with a passion.)
- Virtua Fighter 2
- Killer Instinct 1 and 2
- Marvel Vs. Capcom
- Super Street Fighter II Turbo
- X-Men (1992 side scroller)
- NBA Jam
- Tekken 3
- Daytona USA (really reaching here)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (struggling to get the list to 10)
dragon age origins
mass effect 2
red dead 2
baldurs gate 3
witcher 3
cyberpunk 2077
tetris
horizon zero dawn
dragon age inquisition
resident evil 4
My top 10 in decreasing order (the first series' games I listed individually to give due credit to these masterpieces):
- Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos (Gothic universe)
- Gothic 2 + Night of the Raven
- Gothic 1
- Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 2, Fallout 1
- Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 3
- UFO Enemy Unknown (OpenXcom variant)
- Warcraft III + The Frozen Throne
- StarCraft, StarCraft II
- Unreal Tournament 2000 G.O.T.Y.
- No Man's Sky or Minecraft (contenders for 10th place)
Tekken 3
Raiden rtype
Diablo
Unreal Tournament
Blakestone
Alien vs predator
Ultimate Doom
Team fortress 2
Overwatch 1 R.I.P
Battlefront 2
Gnome Mahjongg
Ltris
Bejeweled
Gnome Tetravex
Frozen Bubble
Xye
- Suikoden 2
- Final Fantasy 7 (original)
- Dark Souls
- Resident Evil 1
- Castlevania SOTN
- D&D Warriors of the Eternal Sun
- Resident Evil 1 Remake (GC)
- Gran Turismo 4
- Road Rash 2
- Oblivion
Big shout out to SFA2, FFT:A/2, BOF series, Roadwarden.
10 feels too little to condense 40 years of games.
No particular order, but it seems I hit quite a few different genres.
- Starcraft
- Stardew Valley
- Subnautica
- Final Fantasy Tactics
- Infamous
- Hades
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Halo 2
- Super Smash Brothers Melee
- Rome: Total War