Any platform(s).
Rimworld
Mount and Blade Warband (/Bannerlord)
Crusader Kings 3
Slay The Spire
Stellaris
Darkest Dungeon
Civilization V
Fallout New Vegas
Borderlands 2
Kerbal Space Program
Borderlands <3
In no particular order:
- Elden Ring
- Team Fortress 2
- Day of the Tentacle
- Freelancer
- FTL
- System Shock 2
- Duck Game
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Rome: Total War
- Diablo 2
Have you played Wing Commander: Privateer? It predates Freelancer by a bit but it hit a lot of the same notes for me.
Day of the Tentacle is one of my first PC gaming memories. My friend’s brother had a PC that could play it, and I was in awe. I remember he had to uninstall it to make room for Duke Nukem 3d…
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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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
R360
Operation wolf
GTI club
VideoPoker
Coin pushers
Fussball
Bar billiards
Darts
Bowling
Paintball
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
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)
- Street Fighter 2 Turbo (Arcade)
- Chrono Trigger (SNES)
- Contra (NES)
- Dark Souls
- Warcrat 3 TFT (non remaster)
- OpenXCom with X-COM data
- XCom
- Slay the Spire
- OlliOlli
- Mark of the Ninja
- Yakuza0
- Horizon Chase Turbo
(No order, might be not exactly 10 :-P)
Crazy how I can tell we’d get along just from this :D
Because we are men/gals of culture! :-P Hadouken! ;-)
Yay, another Chrono Trigger fan!
You people lack some serious games:
- Shadow of the Colossus
- Silent Hill 1-2-3
- Monkey Island 1-2-3
- Outer Wilds (happy to see it on many list)
- Alley Cat
- The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
- Monkey Island 3
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Minecraft
- Mass Effect 3
- Left 4 Dead 2
- Baldurs Gate 3
- Pokemon Silver
- Terraria
- Spider-Man 2 (the one for PS5)
Out of those probably Terraria and Minecraft take up ranks 1 and 2, just because i START playing them again every few years
- 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
- Subnautica (original and Sub Zero, plus a nod to Planet Crafter which captures some of that same vibe)
- Metroid Prime (and all the other Metroids)
- StarCraft (1 and 2, though fuck Blizzard today)
- Diablo (2 and 3, though to a lesser extent for 3, and still fuck Blizzard)
- WoW (I’m done with it now but there was a reason I was addicted for those years, but fuck Blizzard)
- Oblivion (and Skyrim)
- Factorio (and Dyson Sphere Project)
- Beat Saber (and a nod to the rhythm games that predated it, like Rock Band, Guitar Hero, and Frequency I believe it was called)
- Paradox games (HOI4, CK3, Europa (uh current?), Stellaris)
- Hades
Many others could have been listed here instead. Oxygen not included, smash Bros, DBZ kakarot, xenosaga 2, transport fever, city skylines, risk of Rain 2, King’s quest series, civ, Halo, Mario games, Zelda games, Mario Kart, Lego games, Minecraft… And I’m sure I’m missing many more that I have tried and others that I haven’t.
Oblivion I find somewhat questionable due to just how awful that leveling system was. Holy fuck did mods ever save that fucking game.
Oblivion holds a special place in my heart as the first elder scrolls game I played and as one of the few games that rewarded players that jumped everywhere they went. My mind was kinda blown the first time I saw athleticism or acrobatics level up just from jumping from one place to another.
And I have fond memories of getting into the mage’s guild and making a custom spell that increased acrobatics to a crazy level and then jumping around the roofs of that section of the town. That was the last time I played the game, actually. It came out early in my WoW addiction and interrupted the addiction for a month or so, but then I got pulled back into WoW and ended up going pretty hardcore with the character I rolled on my return and didn’t have time for… well, anything else lol.
No Rolkercoster Tycoon???
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3
Katamari Damacy
Sims 2
Stardew Valley
Skyrim
The 101 Dalmatians Puzzle Game for Gameboy Color.
These are the games I have the fondest memories of 💜
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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
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Fallout 2 : narrative based on character build
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XCom : tactical combat with base building
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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
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Quake: playing with friend
Dat amulet of yendor doe…
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