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
Might and magic III
F19
Submarine Commander (Atari computer game)
B17 (intellivision)
Counterstrike.1.6
Half-life
Castle Wolfenstein
WOW
WoT
Witcher 3
Cyberpunk 2077
Half-life.
Sim city.
Smb3.
I know you don’t mean super monkey ball 3, but, there is the smallest chance you do. :)
In no particular order:
- Star Craft: Brood War
- Diablo II
- Half Life
- Counter Strike
- Homeworld
- Heretic
- GTA Vice City
- Quake 2 (and 3)
- Star Wars Battlefront
- Battlefield 2
I bet our birthdays are pretty close to one another’s.
Youngins. Did you never even meet Wirt?
Yeah I’m showing my age here. lol
Metal Gear Solid 1
Cyberpunk 2077
Civilization V
Gods Will Be Watching
Portal
Splinter Cell Blacklist
Dead Cells
Sniper Elite 3
Dirt Rally
Ghost of Tsushima
I was so close to putting Dead Cells on my list, but I opted for Hades instead. Dead Cells is so damned good, though.
- Outer Wilds
- Hollow Knight
- Elden Ring
- Baldurs Gate 3
- Metroid Prime
- Mass Effect 2
- Tetris
- Shadow of The Colossus
- Mother 3
- Fallout: New Vegas
Based on an incomplete sampling.
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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Chrono Trigger
Earthbound
Xenogears
Nier: Automata
Vagrant Story
Super Mario World
Hades
Elden Ring
Horizon: Zero Dawn
Final Fantasy XIV
Kind of in order, kinda not. They all deserve 1st place, really, and I’m sure there are many others that could be up there with them that didn’t spring to mind as fast.
- Yars revenge on Atari 2600.
- Kaboom on 2600.
- Pitfall on 2600.
- Myst on classic Mac.
- Dark Castle classic Mac.
- Diablo 1.
- Star Wars Dark Forces.
- That weird Ayn Rand utopia in the sky Bioshock sequel on any platform.
- The Star Wars Battlefront game that came out around rogue one on Xbox until the developer started tweaking with it and it became a griefer’s paradise.
- Gauntlet arcade and home versions. So fun to play as co-op.
- Ms Pac Man arcade.
- Tempest arcade.
And a shout out to Arashi, which was a great classic mac homage to Tempest.
I find helldivers has that gauntlet vibe.
I had a 7800 with custom bios and ram cart and would play a kaboom hack that started at max difficulty and ramped from there
a lot of early 2000s 2600 homebrews would probably make my list but Thrust+ is the GOAT
Atari 2600 gamez! Very cool. I still have my 2600 and the TV I used when I was a kid. Both still work.
Also, so glad someone put arcade games on their list.
- Hollow Knight
- Hi-Fi Rush
- Morrowind
- Megaman Zero
- Final Fantasy X
- Marvel vs Capcom 2
- Overwatch (circa 2019)
- Megaman Battle Network 2
- Kingdom Hearts 2
- Final Fantasy Tactics
Overwatch (circa 2019)
I feel that so much. The game sadly got a lot worse over the years.
In my playtime order. (I know OP asked best game of all time. But, this list is according to games which I think is best.)
- Minecraft
- Geometry Dash
- Brutal Doom
- Brotato
- Ultrakill
- Balatro
- Zortch
- Rythia or Sound Space Plus
- Stardew Valley
- Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
In no particular order:
- Mass Effect 2
- Pokémon Colosseum
- Kingdom Hearts 2
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Super Smash Brothers Melee
- Ocarina of Time
- Ratchet and Clank
- Uncharted 2
- inFamous 2
I realize I included a lot of games that were sequels or part of a series, but these are my favorite of the series in general.
Honorable Mentions:
- Pokémon Emerald
- Mariokart 8
- Super Mario Sunshine
- Mario Galaxy
- Sonic Adventure 2
- Splintercell
- Final Fantasy 7
- Halo ODST
- Halo 2
Dwarf Fortress
Factorio
CS 1.6
Dunno after that - probably one of the civilizations, I’m partial to Test of Time personally.
The factory must grow.
Satisfactory RDR2 Cyberpunk2077 Mass Effect trilogy Cities Skylines, GTA 5 Halo series then probably a bunch of simulators
Roughly in order, I think:
- StarCraft: Brood War
- Subnautica
- FTL: Faster than Light
- Spec Ops: The Line
- Risk of Rain Returns
- Portal
- Dead Cells
- Team Fortress 2
- Borderlands 2
- Unreal Tournament 2004
- TLoZ: Link’s Awakening
Honorable mention:
- The first two Golden Sun games
- Soma
- Diablo II
Spec ops is amazing
Funny story about that one: my first time playing it, I actually found it a bit too… visceral, and had to stop after getting a couple hours in - I only came back to play it all the way through several years later.
In the intervening time, I learned that one of the developers, when asked whether the game had a “good ending”, said something along the lines of “that’s when the player stops playing in disgust”.
Guess I got the good ending.
Its a great anti war message marketed to the quasi pro war gamers.
It’s also just an incredible deconstruction of the “modern warfare” shooter genre. It screams at the player, “hey, hold up a sec, think about those people you’re shooting”.
I think it’s part of why the only other shooters I like are TF2 and the Borderlands series, both of which frame the violence with a distinctly fantastical, escapist setting, intentionally distancing the game from reality.
Can’t stop playing FTL years later.
Weirdly Monster Train has a similar flavor to me in play style.
