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

1. Doom
2. Doom 2
3. Doom 64
4. Doom 2016
5. Doom Dark Ages

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.

Dwarf Fortress

Elden Ring

Quake

Chrono Trigger

Metal Gear Solid 3

• Outer Wilds
• Subnautica
• Factorio
• Half-Life 2
• Blue Prince
• Baldur’s Gate 3

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:

1. Enderal
2. Ocarina of Time
3. Death Stranding
4. Horizon: Zero Dawn
5. The Witcher 3

“Best” as in can’t get enough of it and would take to a remote island:

1. Factorio
2. Kerbal Space Program
3. Civ V
4. Oxygen Not Included
5. Valheim

1. Chrono Trigger
2. Megaman X
3. Baldur’s Gate 3
4. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
5. Metal Gear Solid 3

In no particular order:

• Half Life
• Factorio
• Kerbal Space Program
• Quake
• Minecraft
• Rollercoaster Tycoon

Yes, that’s 6. Sue me.

Honorable mention: Baldur 3, Dwarf Fortress, Mario 3, Deus Ex, Day of the Tentacle

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.

Lemmings.

Wolfenstein.

Doom.

Descent.

Unreal Tournament.

• Morrowind
• Gothic 2
• Baldur’s Gate 3
• Path of Achra
• Jedi Academy

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

1. Sonic the Hedgehog
2. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
3. Sonic the Hedgehog 3
4. Sonic and Knuckles
5. Alien Isolation Sonic Spinball

Mass Effect 2

Civilization IV

Fallout 3

Super Mario World

Monster Hunter Rise

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.