Soma
Deus Ex
Hotline Miami
Fallout New Vegas
Outer Wilds
Edit: Since you guys liked it so much, lemme add 5 more. Its cheating but they really deserve the attention
Disco Elysium
Stanley Parable
The Talos Principle
Return of the Obra Dinn
Spec Ops: The Line
Dwarf Fortress
Elden Ring
Quake
Chrono Trigger
Metal Gear Solid 3
The Outer Wilds (obviously)
The Talos Principle
Dark Souls
Factorio
Dwarf Fortress (This last one is tough and I don't know if this is the right choice. The other four are correct.)
An honorable mention to Death Stranding. It isn't in my top games, but I think it deserves to be more influential. It takes the boring part of most games, which is traversal, and builds the entire game around it. It'd be higher if it didn't become so trivial by the end, but also designing your network that makes it trivial is part of the fun. More open world games should take more lessons from it and it'd solve some of the biggest issues of open world game: traversal just being a waste of time and boring.
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Zelda: A Link to the Past
Minecraft
Stardew Valley
Metal Gear Solid
In no particular order:
Glad to see a lot of Chrono Trigger! Playing through that now and it is impressive for such an old title.
Lemmings.
Wolfenstein.
Doom.
Descent.
Unreal Tournament.
In no particular order:
Yes, that's 6. Sue me.
Honorable mention: Baldur 3, Dwarf Fortress, Mario 3, Deus Ex, Day of the Tentacle
Quake
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
Unreal Tournament
Outer Wilds
Half-Life
Would be two lists for me. One for "best", as in they were great, gave me joy or strong emotional responses, but their replay value is not great:
"Best" as in can't get enough of it and would take to a remote island:
Twisted Metal
Starsiege: Tribes
Half Life 2
Fallout New Vegas
Skyrim
Honorable mention to old school WoW. It was the people I played with who made it great.
Half-Life 2
Minecraft
Mario 64
OG WoW
Final Fantasy VI (FF3 in NA, 1994, SNES)
Team Fortress 2
Portal 2
Deus ex
Prey
Tony Hawk pro skater 2
Terraria
Lost Kingdoms 2
Rengoku 2
Dark Souls 2
Underrail
I just realized I like sequel games and Underrail 2 is in the works and I know I'm getting it.
Heroes of Might and Magic III
World of Warcraft vanilla (2005)
Europa Universalis IV
Path of Exile
Path of Exile 2
Ocarina of Time
Chrono Trigger
Smash Bros. Melee
Crash Bandicoot 2
Pokemon Red/Blue
I couldn't do 5, so I did 7. The top 3 are solid, I think, in terms of games I thought about a lot while I wasn't playing them and couldn't wait to get back to. They constitute the best time I've had in games.
Then the next three were formative experiences, I think, but I haven't played them since they came out. They probably don't hold up, but that's okay because they were landmarks in the past.
And then Overcooked is exactly the kind of structured chaos I love in a multiplayer experience. I would never play it solo, but I have a lot of great memories playing it with friends. It was fun with my chaos friends that are just trying to make it through the level as best they can while things are on fire, but it also had enough meat that my process friends and I could optimize and figure out runs to "crack" the levels and get maximum orders through. Delightful.
Honorable mentions:
EverQuest (PC)
Final Fantasy 7 (PS1)
GoldenEye 007 (N64)
Phantasy Star Online (Dreamcast)
Super Mario World (SNES)
Seems i am one of the ImSim-Minority here :-D
(Not in a specific order):
Super Metroid
Zelda Twilight Princess
Fallout New Vegas
Doom Eternal
Metroid Prime
(stopped gaming for 10 years)
Final fantasy tactics
Bloodborne
System shock 2
Silent hill 2 (the original)
Metal gear solid 3 subsistance
I'm missing a metroidvania in there, which is my favorite genre, but i have played so many it is hard to pick 5.
Mass Effect 2
Civilization IV
Fallout 3
Super Mario World
Monster Hunter Rise
The exact 1-5 order will vary based on mood, but here are my general top 5:
The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind
Journey
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Spiritfarer
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
No particular order, also I'm grouping some of them together because no one can stop me:
Half Life series (yes, even Blue Shift)
Monster Hunter series (but mostly World)
Abiotic Factor
Prey 2017 and the Dishonored series
Fallout 1, 2, New Vegas, and kiiinda 4 (with some mods installed)
Honorable mentions: Songs of Conquest, Path of Exile 2, Neo Scavenger, Team Fortress 2, Dark Souls 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series
Dark Souls
Super Smash Brothers: Melee
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Guitar Hero 3
Fallout: New Vegas
Morrowind
project zomboid
Startcraft 2
stormgate (during the beta only)
factorio
Theres also a game called drift wars which is an rts made by literally 1 guy but we'll see where that goes.
Coincidentally I started playing my top three for the first time starting this year. Its been great finally playing these titles everyone else has been enjoying for years.
Battle for wesnoth
Divinity
Divinity 2
Witcher 3
Baldur's Gate 3
Super Mario RPG
Disco Elysium
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Sly Cooper and the Thevius Racoonus
Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past
SMRPG is just an all around great game - second runner up being Chrono Trigger. 30ish hours for a full run, minimal filler.
Disco Elysium is just such an amazing game that I restarted it the second I beat it. I played. I cried. I tell everyone to play it.
MGSV isn't my favorite MGS story (that goes to 3) but the gameplay loop was satisfying and I just enjoyed playing it.
Sly just has a lot of nostalgia for me and it was overall my favorite game in the PS2 trilogy.
ALTTP is a similar combo of a great game with a lot of personal meaning to me. It's just one of those games I can mindlessly play but for some reason I've never got into randomizers for it.
In no particular order
Chrono Trigger
Splatoon
Ocarina of Time
StarCraft Brood War
Dragon Age: Origins
Honorable mentions: Mario 3, mass effect (1 and/or 2), tales of graces, Diablo II, tetris
In no specific order:
Mass effect 2
Skyrim
Civilization 5
Portal 2
The witcher 3
Uhh, that's hard... I guess I would say, in no particular order:
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