I am just curious about people’s taste here, since this community looks sane compared to other “loony-toons” gaming subs or forums online.
You don’t need to explain yourself just name them.
Thanks
Half-life 2 Full Throttle Day of the Tentacle Broforce Assassin’s Creed 2
Chrono Trigger
Outer Wilds
Subnautica
Deus Ex
Ocarina of Time
Mass Effect 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, Starcraft: Brood War, Witcher 3, Natural Selection 2
- The Lord of the rings online
- Guild Wars 2
- Valheim
- Civilization 5
- Ascendency
resident evil 4
portal
Metroid prime
metal gear solid
god of war (ps2)
Pokemon crystal
Dwarf fortress
Valhiem
Factorio
Starsector
Half life 1+2
Slightly different take, these are games that for one reason or another were pivotal moments in my life.
Final Fantasy / Final Fantasy II (IV) - NES & SNES
The OG X-Com - PC
Asherons Call - PC
Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim - PC
Guild Wars 2 - PC
I don’t have the mental capacity right now to put together a list, but one that I haven’t seen listed that would definitely be in my top 5 would be Star Control 2.
The game has a lot of “really good…for its time” to it but it’s still one of my favorites.
The order would probably change each time I need to think of this:
- Stalker GAMMA
- System Shock 2
- Prey (2016)
- Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2 (2009)
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Other ones up there:
- Final Fantasy X
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
- Balatro
- Resident Evil 2 (1998)
- The shareware version of Commander Keen on my grandfather’s PC when I was a child
Organized chronologically and with the system that I played them on listed:
- Dragon Warrior IV (NES, 1990)
- Final Fantasy Tactics (PS1, 1997)
- Portal (PC, 2007)
- Sid Meier’s Civilization 6 (PC, 2016)
- Marvel’s Spider-Man (PS4, 2018)
honorable mentions:
- Mega Man X (SNES, 1993)
- Final Fantasy VII (PX1, 1997)
- Rock Band (X360, 2007)
- Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor (NDS, 2009)
- Enter the Gungeon (PC, 2016)
- Hades 1 (Switch, 2020) & Hades 2 (PC, 2025)
- Dishonored (Even more specifically the knife of dunwall dlc)
- Mass effect trilogy
- Signalis
- Star Wars Republic Commando
- Half life 2
Making this list was hard I went by games I’m mostly likely complete for the millionth time
- Witcher 3
- Koudelka
- Parasite Eve
- WoW
- KOTOR
I guess I’d point to some of the most formative games for me.
- Half-Life 2
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
- Trails in the Sky (FC+SC basically one game)
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Elite Beat Agents
It’s funny that most of those are Japanese games, but I still think of Source and all of Valve’s work as being so key to me. I worked a lot with machinima tools, which were far more available in moddable games than anything Japanese.
- Marvel’s Spider-Man
- Ghost of Tsushima
- Uncharted 4
- Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada
- Hi-Fi Rush
- Portal 1 and 2
- Life is Strange
- RDR2
- Mecca Chameleon
- Mad Max



