Any platform(s).
- Disco Elysium
- Jade Empire
- Eternal Darkness
- Knights of the Old Republic
- Starcraft 2
- Quake
- Chrono Trigger
- Portal
- Resident Evil 4
- The Last of Us
My favorites:
- Breath of the Wild
- Tears of the Kingdom
- A Link to the Past
- Chrono Trigger
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Sim Park
- Donkey Kong Country
- Mario All Stars
- Mario Paint
- Super Mario World
Context: I’m pushing 40 and didn’t play video games between SNES and Switch.
I read “I’m pushing 40” and was like, “oh, I guess we have different sensibilities.” But then I remembered I’m pushing 40 myself.
All older games as I can’t fit games into adult life:
- Starcraft I and II
- Max Payne
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
- Thief I
- Red Faction
- The Sims I and III
- Ski Free
- Worms Armageddon
- Chips Challenge
- Doom original
And honourable mention of the only game I recently play, which is Cooking Fever.
Good choices!
The original Thief is such an incredibly atmospheric experience. Nothing quite like slinking around in the shadows watching that visibility meter…
In no particular order:
- Diablo II
- World of Warcraft classic
- Path of Exile
- Baldurs Gate 3
- Yoshi’s Island
- Banjo Kazooie
- TES V: Skyrim
- Counter Strike 1.6
- Pokémon Crystal
- Battle Brothers
Solid list
Not in order:
- Outer Wilds
- Return of the Obra Dinn
- Metal Gear Solid
- Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Super Metroid
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Stardew Valley
- Undertale
- Starcraft
Dang. This is almost my list as well, and the ones that are different I can totally see why they could be on someone else’s list. I like your taste in games.
Probably incomplete list that I may update after a nap.
- Outer Wilds The most sublime game I’ve ever played. I can’t begin to describe how this game made me feel. It’s also an excellently designed game. If you’ve never played it before, go in blind, because even the smallest spoilers risk diminishing your experience. It’s an open world, exploration adventure game, which involves space travel, a quaint setting and fun physics
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- Disco Elysium Another game that made me feel things. One of my favourites
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- Tetris Played it on a Gameboy back in’ day. It’s a great game
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- Rollercoaster Tycoon 2
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- Halo Reach I don’t even know if I believe this was the best Halo game, I was just indecisive and I’m biased because I like the DMR and the SWAT multiplayer game mode (no shields, so a headshot kills in 1)
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- Deep Rock Galactic Feel like it’s the peak of the four person squad based kind of game. I’ve literally got hundreds of hours in this game.
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- Stardew Valley I didn’t actually vibe with this too much personally, but I’ve got to respect it for how accessible it is to many different kinds of gamer. It executes what it set out to do perfectly.
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- Faster than Light
- I don’t even like rogue likes generally. The soundtrack is great.
(Edit 1: formatting)
Please play Tunic if you haven’t already - your praise for Outer Wilds leads me to believe you’d adore it