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

Dwarf Fortress

Elden Ring

Quake

Chrono Trigger

Metal Gear Solid 3

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

• Subnautica
• Outer Wilds
• Xcom 2 (+WOTC)
• Dark Souls
• Factorio (+ Space Age)

• Half-Life: Alyx (less story, more just an a outstanding VR experience)
• God of War 4
• Disco Elysium (inarguably my all time fave)
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Bioshock

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:

• 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

Quake

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars

Unreal Tournament

Outer Wilds

Half-Life

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.

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

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

Half-Life 2

Minecraft

Mario 64

OG WoW

Final Fantasy VI (FF3 in NA, 1994, SNES)

1. Tetris.
2. Planescape: Torment.
3. Wing Commander 1 and 2, plus Secret Missions.
4. The Secret of Monkey Island.
5. This is a hard one, but let's go with Crusader Kings II with all main expansions, as long as you can get it on sale; SIm City 2000 otherwise, though there are many contenders.

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.

Team Fortress 2

Portal 2

Deus ex

Prey

Tony Hawk pro skater 2

Ocarina of Time

Chrono Trigger

Smash Bros. Melee

Crash Bandicoot 2

Pokemon Red/Blue

EverQuest (PC)

Final Fantasy 7 (PS1)

GoldenEye 007 (N64)

Phantasy Star Online (Dreamcast)

Super Mario World (SNES)

• Outer Wilds
• Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (but not Tears of the Kingdom which I didn't like)
• Factorio
• Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
• Shadow of the Colossus
• Spyro the Dragon
• Overcooked 2

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.

• Expedition 33
• TLOZ: Windwaker
• Skyrim
• Animal Crossing
• Stardew Valley

Heroes of Might and Magic III

World of Warcraft vanilla (2005)

Europa Universalis IV

Path of Exile

Path of Exile 2

• Prey (2017)
• Fallout New Vegas
• System Shock 2
• Grim Dawn
• Terraria

Seems i am one of the ImSim-Minority here :-D

• Outer Wilds
• SOMA
• Red Dead 2
• Factorio
• Half-Life 2

Honorable mentions:

• Warframe should be the example by which live service games are designed and operated.
• Crimson Desert... is such a paradox of game design. In almost all aspects, 70% of the game is fantastic, but the remaining 30% is a shocking display of incompetence and/or indifference. The exception is player training, which is consistently horrible.

• fallout
• fallout 2
• deus ex

(stopped gaming for 10 years)

• disco elysium
• baldur's gate 3

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

(Not in a specific order):

Super Metroid

Zelda Twilight Princess

Fallout New Vegas

Doom Eternal

Metroid Prime

Mass Effect 2

Civilization IV

Fallout 3

Super Mario World

Monster Hunter Rise

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

Dark Souls

Super Smash Brothers: Melee

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Guitar Hero 3

Fallout: New Vegas

• The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
• Super Smash Bros. Melee
• Super Metroid
• Phantasy Star Online: Episodes I & II
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

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.

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

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.

Uhh, that's hard... I guess I would say, in no particular order:

• Dead Cells
• Factorio
• Outer wilds
• Dwarf Fortress
• SOMA

In no specific order:

Mass effect 2

Skyrim

Civilization 5

Portal 2

The witcher 3

• Terraria
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (exclusively for the zombies mode, couldn't care less about the rest of the game)
• Rimworld
• Barony
• Portal 2

None of these are in any particular order besides Terraria, which is easily #1. Aside from Portal 2, these are games I can play more or less endlessly. Replayability is very important to me.

Battle for wesnoth

Divinity

Divinity 2

Witcher 3

Baldur's Gate 3

Satisfactory

Factorio

Subnautica

Slay the Spire

Mechabellum

Half life 2
Portal 2
Super Metroid
Witcher 3
Mario Kart 64

Chrono Trigger

Outer Wilds

Subnautica

Deus Ex

Ocarina of Time

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

Resident Evil 4

Bayonetta

Bloodborne

Breathe Of The Wild

Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri

1. Hollow Knight
2. Hollow Knight: Silksong
3. Fallout: New Vegas
4. Helldivers 2
5. Terraria

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.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - pick one

Rimworld

Dwarf Fortress

Space Station 13

The Witcher 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.

• Smash melee
• Left for dead
• Oblivion
• Hunt showdown
• Valheim

osu!

Need for Speed Most Wanted 2005

Chrono Trigger

Trackmania2 (if i had to pick an env it'd be Valley, but all environments are cool)

Team Fortress 2

1. World of Warcraft (Vanilla)
2. FTL
3. Terraria
4. Beat Saber
5. Chrono Trigger

1. World of Warcraft
2. Terraria
3. Civilization V
4. Dragon Quest XI
5. Forza Horizon 4

Yoshis Island Silent Hill Shadow of the colossus Majoras Mask Outer Wilds

There are a lot of games I played a lot of times but maybe because I had no others and had a ton of time. Nowadays I would only replay Yoshis Island and Shadow of the colossus. I dont know if would replay SH but I played it a ton when young and it cemented my love for survival horror games. I only went through Majoras Mask once or twice, I was more of a Playstation kid than a Nintendo one. I recently played Outer Wilds and it was an awesome unexpected experience.

1. Shadow of the Colossus
2. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
3. Saints Row: The Third
4. Sekiro
5. Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap

Off the top of my head really quickly. Ask me tomorrow and it might be five entirely different games.

In no particular order

1. Half Life 2
2. Outer Wilds
3. Hollow Knight
4. Pokemon Gold/Silver
5. Tunic

Dune (boardgame reprint). Battle Star Galactica (boardgame with some of the expansions). Game of Thrones (boardgame). Civilization 5 (PC). Age of Empires 2 (PC, any version, DE is good).

I love the mind fucks in the boardgames; there are a lot of good PC games.

Disco Elysium Outer Wilds Deus Ex Return of the Obra Dinn Heavens Vault

Demons' Souls (PS3)

Tie Fighter

Outer Wilds

Master of Orion 2

Shenzhen I/O

• Factorio
• Dominions (from dom3 onwards)
• Age of Empires 2
• Alpha Centauri
• Xcom Apocalyse

In no particular order

• Animal Well
• Outer Wilds
• Disco Elysium
• The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
• Return of the Obra Dinn

1. Rollercoaster Tycoon
2. Euro Truck Simulator 2
3. OpenTTD
4. Age of Empires II
5. Cities Skylines (only the first)

1. Minecraft

2. Half-Life 2 & Portal 2

3. Hollow Knight

4. Undertale & Deltarune (cant separate them)

5. Disco Elysium

Other good games: rimworld, silksong, stellaris, ori 1+2, little nightmares 2, tetris, factorio, openTTD, cubyz(potential minecraft 2?), plants vs zombies, slime rancher, postal 2, world of goo 1+2, KSP

Super Mario World (SNES)

Outer Wilds

League of Legends

The Last of Us

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

1. Chrono Trigger
2. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
3. Xenogears
4. Final Fantasy VI
5. Metal Gear Solid

Honorable Mentions (no particular order): GTA: San Andreas, Star Ocean: The 2nd Story, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Chrono Cross, Street Fighter 6, Project Zomboid, Cyberpunk 2077, Cairn (very recent).

I lost the ability to have top 5 games lists anymore. But I can list 5 games that meant everything to me, in the sense that they are kind of my favorite games of all time. But that does not mean they are the best games.

• Legend of Zelda: A Link To the Past (Super Nintendo, 1991/92)
• Final Fantasy 6 (Super Nintendo, 1994)
• Final Fantasy 7 (Playstation, 1997)
• Metal Gear Solid (Playstation, 1998/99)
• Overwatch (PC, 2016)

My experience goes back to the 80s, so choosing 5 would be mostly the impactful ones. These games mean a lot to me. I have deep connection to them through my youth, besides Overwatch, the only modern game in this list. I also played ton of fighting games with my local friends, and there are special games to me too (such as Dead or Alive 2, Garou: Mark of the Wolve), but that does not mean they are the best games of all time.

Pyre

Void Stranger

Warframe

Rimworld

F-Zero GX

1. Baldur's Gate 3
2. Stardew Valley
3. Skyrim
4. Chronotrigger
5. Rocksmith 2014

• Elden Ring
• Final Fantasy 9
• Medieval 2: Total War
• The Witcher 3
• GTA Vice City

1. KOTOR
2. Majora's Mask
3. Shadow of the Collosus
4. Fable, with the DLC
5. Pokemon Emerald

Skyrim.

/s

Counter Strike 1.6

Dark Souls

Civilization 5

Slay the Spire

World of Warcraft before the first Addon

In no particular order, here's some games I absolutely adore, some of which absolutely have deep flaws.

Undertale

Gotcha Force

Dragon's Dogma

Kenshi

F-Zero GX

I feel like I'm deeply undercutting some loves, especially story driven games (such as the popular in this thread disco elysium) because I simply haven't poured dozens of hours of them individually and they don't spring to mind as easily. Devil May Cry 5, World War Z, Death Road to Canada, Mass Effect (yes, one), there are so many greats, and I want to enjoy them all. But when I think facorites, I end up thinking of games that let me go fast and explore a cool world

Factorio

Civilization 5

Roller Coaster Tycoon

Baldur's Gate 3

Forza Horizon 4

HM: Slay the Spire, Portal 2

Shared 1st place: What Remains of Edith Finch & Kentucky Route Zero

3rd: Scarlet Hollow

4th: Life is Strange

5th: Baldur's Gate 3

Ys VII: The Lacrimosa of Dana Fallout New Vegas MechWarrior 3 Rollercoaster Tycoon Battlezone II: Combat Commander

Blue Prince

Shadow of the Colossus

Kirby Super Star

Brave Fencer Musashi

Morrowind

Xenogears
Wip3out 3
Cyberpunk 2077
EVE Online
Quake 3 Arena

Elite Dangerous Conan Exiles S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Life Force Heroes of Might and Magic III

• Counter-Strike 1.6
• Assetto Corsa Competizione
• Steam World Dig 2
• Tetris
• MS Freelancer

Incredibly difficult to limit it to five, ask me tomorrow and I'll probably come up with 5 others. Anyway

1. Left 4 Dead 2
2. Portal 2
3. Metro Exodus
4. Life is Strange 2
5. DayZ

Ghost n Goblins (C64)
Super pipelines II (C64)
Giana sisters (C64)
Spy hunter (C64)
Diablo II (PC)

Well, it's always tough for me to pick something "best" for me. At least there's top 5, but it still feels too limiting to my weird braincells. So here's current top 5, thinking it could be different by tomorrow's taste.

• Fallout
• Morrowind
• Gothic
• Heroes of Might & Magic 3
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

botw

a short hike

elden ring

skate

silksong

honorable mentions:

animal well

inscryption

1. X-Com 2
2. Endless Space 2
3. Euro Truck Simulator 2
4. Into the Breach
5. Cyberpunk 2077

Chrono trigger Ocarina of time Portal 2 Final fantasy 6 Kingdom hearts

1. Silksong

2. Dead Cells or Hades.... Can't decide

3. Final Fantasy 10 (I'm expecting Expedition 33 to replace this as top RPG when I get round to making time to play it)

4. StarCraft 2

5. Control

1. Cyberpunk 2077
2. Civilization III with Balancer Reloaded
3. GTA IV and V
4. Factorio
5. Age of Empires II

Half-life 2

Full Throttle

Day of the Tentacle

Broforce

Assassin's Creed 2

Cyber punk 2077
Planescape tournament (original)
Witcher 3
Dyson sphere project
Half life Alyx

Now caveat my number 2 I never want to pay again, it was a time and a place (maybe same for Witcher) but one of my best gaming experiences. Other notables quake 2, unreal tournament, civ 4, factorio

• Disco Elysium
• Outer Wilds
• Morrowind
• Rimworld
• Subnautica

Elden Ring

Sekiro

Dark Souls III

Oblivion

Hitman: World of Assassination

That's tough. Lot of choices. Are we filtering by "most impactful" or "most likely to replay" or something else? I'll go games that made a big impression on me. There's some boss towards older games.

• Diablo
• Final Fantasy 7
• Baldur's Gate
• Dark Souls
• Guild Wars 2

It's a very difficult question to answer. Best of all time what? RPG's? Sandboxes? MMO's? They're not comparable at all. For example, I have SO MANY fucking hours in Rimworld, but I would never say it's a 'better' game than Disco Elysium, where my hours played are very limited indeed (it's not a game you play for weeks on end, of even replay very often). They're both good games, but I would still say Disco Elysium is a 'better' game, even though I would never pick it in a "you're only allowed to play 5 games for the rest of your life, which do you choose?'-situation.

So let's see, I guess any 5 of these would do (Mass Effect + 4 of these anyway)?

Mass Effect
Disco Elysium
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Path of Exile *
Deus Ex
Rimworld *
Terraria *
The Witcher
Baldur's Gate
Dishonored
Divinity Original Sin
No Man's Sky *
Slay the Spire *
Fallout New Vegas

And an honorable mention because I played it for over a decade in the past:

Ragnarok Online

Honestly, I've tried so many MMO's in the years since then trying to capture that feeling.. You all know what I'm talking about. THAT FEELING. Never found it again.

(The games with the * are the ones that I have the most hours in, not because they're the "best" games, but because they have the most replayability and no stories that can end. In a "pick 5 games for the rest of your life" situation those would be the ones I'd choose, I think. Or maybe I would trade one in for Mass Effect, because I can't have N7 Days otherwise. ;))

• Wizball on the C64. I cannot even begin to explain how much fun I had with that game.
• Wing Commander III on the Amiga. Ginger Lynn Allen in all her pixellated glory? AND Tim Curry? What more can you ask?
• Ratchet & Clank (all of them) on the PS2. Shout-out for Jak & Daxter though.
• Silent Hill III on the PS2. Not necessarily the best SH game, but the first one I played, and that amusement park was the first time I was ever genuinely scared by a video game.
• Half Life 2 on PC. I mean, nuff said.

I love loads of games, old and new - I feel really bad that Uncharted, MGS, Alan Wake, Control, Death Stranding, and a load of other brilliant games aren't on that list, but I feel like those 5 are the ones that were most epoch-defining for me for the kind of games I love.

• Kingdom Come Deliverance I and II
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Horizon Zero Dawn
• Ghost of Tsushima
• Crimson Desert

• Quake
• Borderlands 2
• Warcraft 2
• Fallout 4
• Space Trader

1. Control
2. Metal Gear Solid
3. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
4. Alan Wake 2
5. Red Dead Redemption 2

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

Noita Ultrakill Doom eternal Animal well Helldivers 2

And just barely Primordialis No mans sky

Bioshock

Descent 2

Radix

Heretic

No man's sky

Bonus: Trog, wacky wheels, worms

Games I have enjoyed the most:

1. WoW (base through Cata)
2. Diablo 2
3. Starcraft
4. Day of Defeat
5. Perfect Dark

Games I currently feel the most fondness for:

1. Path of Exile 2
2. Once Upon a Galaxy
3. Factorio
4. XCOM: Enemy Within (Long War)
5. Zero Sievert

Tough to pick only 5… I'll try:

1. The Wonderful 101
2. Bayonetta
3. Ninja Gaiden II
4. Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R
5. Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi

Doesn't feel right leaving Viewtiful Joe, Catherine, Hellsinker, and Under Night out, but I believe this top 5 accurately represents my taste: action games interspersed with fighting games and shmups, and an odd puzzle/rhythm game every now and then.

Half life Alyx

Civilization 4

Mario Kart Double Dash

Mass Effect 1-2-3

Endless Space 2

Honnorable mention to Hollow Knight and Ori will of the wisps.

1. Metal Gear Solid 2
2. The Talos Principle
3. Demon's Souls
4. Silent Hill 2
5. Inside

Obviously just videogames I've already played.

That’s a tough one!

In no particular order;

1. Persona 5 Royal
2. Last of Us 1 & 2
3. Hollow Knight
4. Sekiro
5. Catherine Classic

Empire Deluxe

Diablo 1/2

Test Drive unlimited 2

GTA Online

Noita

Halo CE/2/3/Reach

KotOR

Diablo 2

StarCraft

Gran Turismo

You're all wrong, only correct answer is:

1. Ocarina of Time
2. Breath of the Wild
3. Portal 2
4. Civilization VI
5. Slay the Spire

With Smash Melee and Hades II only just missing out.

• Devil May Cry 3
• FF7 Remake Intergrade (the combat makes up for all the walky talky bullshit)
• Prey (2018)
• FIFA 07 / PES 6 (the peak of football games imo)
• Burnout 3: Takedown (Laced with crack)

Honourable mentions to Super Mario Brothers 3, Infamous 2, Skyrim, Twilight Princess, BoTW, Call of Dutys 4-Black Ops 2, Battlefield 2,3,4 & V, and Bad Company 1 & 2, Sifu, Sekiro

Oh god there's so many, it's hard to pick from them all.

• Chrono Trigger
• Shenmue
• Metal Gear Solid
• Quake
• Ocarina of Time

(It’s impossible to limit to 5, so here’s 5 more)

• Doom
• Resident Evil 2 (Original)
• Half Life
• Ninja Gaiden Black
• Super Mario Galaxy (grouping both games together)

Half Life 2 (+ deathmatch, episodes, and Alyx all viewed as one piece), Sonic and knuckles (plus 2 & 3), Mario 3, dead by daylight.

this type of question is too hard.. i wish people would at least limit these questions to a specific platform.

Ugh.. in no particular order

• 1)Final Fantasy 8
• 2)Suikoden 2
• 3)Stardew Valley
• 4)Fallout New Vegas
• 5)SimCity 4.

I guess, maybe. trying to compress 40+ years of games down to a top five is to goddamn hard.

• Breath of the Wild
• Metal Gear Solid 3
• Baldur's Gate 3
• Portal 2
• Mario Odyssey

Honourable mentions: Super Mario Bros 3, Resident Evil 2 Remake, Shovel Knight, Nier Automata, Persona 4

The Legend of Zelda

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles

Braid

Castle Crashers

Slay the Spire

Honorable mentions: Ravenswatch, UFO 50, Baldur's Gate 3, Hades, Minecraft, Bastion, Rock Band, Fire Emblem: the Blazing Blade, Spider-Man 2 (PS5), LoZ: Majora's Mask, Bubble Bobble

• Street Fighter 2 CE
• God of War (2018)
• Final Fantasy 7 (original)
• Elden Ring
• Resident Evil 2 Remake

Honorable mentions: Resident Evil 7, Doom Eternal, Duke Nukem 3D, Left 4 Dead 2, Helbreath, Super Mario World, Sniper Elite 4.

• Bastion
• Heroes of Might and Magic IV
• Doom Eternal
• Diablo II
• Super Mario Odyssey

Based purely on soundtrack.

Starcraft & Brood Wars

Riven

Dyson Sphere Program

The Outer Wilds

Stationeers

Witcher 3 Elden Ring Age of Empires 2: Conquerers Mass Effect 2 NFL QB Club

Honorable mention to Asheron’s Call. Not because it was a great game but because it was my first MMO and had all those addictive qualities that make people dump 1k+ hours into it and pay a subscription.

Dark Souls

Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology

Dragon Age Origin

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Honorable mention for the entire Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Xeno- RPG franchises.

Minecraft - It's Minecraft

Factorio - Best factory game on the market and one of the best-designed pieces of software of all time

Celeste - Most artistic game on this list and the skill ceiling basically doesn't exist

Team Fortress 2 - Still a contender for the best class-based shooter of all time, I love making loadouts and screwing around. Best shooter community I've experienced.

Not really sure what to put for my 5th. Some sort of puzzle game? A coop friend game? idk.

Disco Elysium Rimworld Cyberpunk 2077 Expedition 33 Dragon Age Origins

Oregon Trail, Solitaire, Blackjack, Duke Nukem 3D, and Quake 2 plus Castle Wolfenstein

1. Super Mario Sunshine
2. Alan Wake 2
3. Breath of the Wild
4. The Last of Us 2
5. Spyro Year of the Dragon

Donkey Kong Country, Legend of Zelda Link to the past, Oblivion, Witcher 3, Resident Evil 2

Tetris - The "Citizen Kane of games" that everyone has been waiting for came out before we were taking games seriously. The recorded narrative that makes you feel is literally you getting apprehension, anger, grief, elation, and pure flow state oneness while you yourself play the game, and sort blocks into lines. This game is a slap in the face of anyone that thinks we need the trappings of film to be art.

Portal - Just such a novel game and mechanic, a clever and fun tone, everything fit together properly. Some days I'd change this out for Quake as the mirror of this.

Shadow of the Colossus - What a fucking game.

Dwarf Fortress -My "everything" game. I just want it to keep growing.

And I don't know about the fifth. I'll have to get back to you. Maybe Quake, maybe a GTA, maybe Minecraft. I just don't know.

/edit: Final Fantasy 6 - I'm not saying narrative is bad in my earlier explanation. I'm just saying it's not inherently the medium's strength. But this is great. And the community's mods ("romhacks") are just chef's kiss.

1. Civ V
2. Civ Vi
3. Civ Iv
4. Civ III
5. Civ iI

The Witcher 3, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Life is Strange, Zelda: BotW, GTA V

Space Station 14

Celeste

Portal 2

Splatoon Raiders

Breath of the Wild

Super Mario World Final Fantasy 7 Minecraft GTA San Andreas Katamari Damacy

• Shadow Hearts
• PES (before they went shit)
• Xenoblade Chronicles 2
• Burnout 3: Takedown
• FF8

1. Nethack
2. Dark Souls 1
3. Monster Hunter 3U
4. Kerbal Space Program 1
5. Baba is You

a generous top five:

Baldur's gate 3
TMNT: Shredder's Revenge
Team Fortress 2, when it came out
Mass Effect 2
Tactical Breach Wizards
Mark of the Ninja

honorable mentions:

Under a Killing Moon
Deus Ex
Diablo (the first one, and single player)
VtM Bloodlines
Star Wars: Jedi Academy
Perfect Dark

Baldurs Gate 3

Factorio

God of War (2018)

Red Dead Redemption 2

Ocarina of Time

• Limbo (I don’t like platformers except for Limbo)
• (for the genre founding game)
• Guild Wars (for the build mechanics and the no subscription in an era of WoW)
• Terraria (for the chill vibes and the boss fights)
• Warcraft III (for the custom maps, I.e. DotA)

in no particular order:

• Desperados - wanted dead vor alive
• COD 4: Modern Warfare
• Silkroad online
• Empire Total War
• Red Dead Redepmtion 2

Honorable Mentions: Battlefield 1942, MOH:AA, Rome Total War, Tetris, Gran Turismo 4, Guitar Hero: Metallica

I am a very prolific gamer, and this is tough to say because on the one hand, I do highly rank gameplay focused and short but sweet titles. But at the same time, it would feel very odd ranking something as top 5 that hasn't personally moved me in some way, which is usually due to the plot and characters, or a game that's like 2 hours long. Games are usually ranked by me on terms of what it is trying to do, and I value uniqueness, not homogeneity. That being said, just to answer the question, I'm thinking something like this:

Planescape - Torment

Metroid Prime

Persona 5 Royal

Sekiro -Shadows Die Twice

Super Smash Bros Ultimate

1. Chess

2. We Love Katamari

3. Magic the Gathering (specifically Jumpstart)

4. Qwirkle Cubes

5. Hot Shots Golf Fore!

rock band 3

skyrim

hypnospace outlaw

telltales the walking dead season 1

madden 10

1. Demon's Souls
2. Dark Souls
3. Monster Hunter World
4. Sekiro
5. Horizon: Zero Dawn

Signalis
Hunt Showdown (the original, not the 1896)
Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker
Monster Hunter Freedom Unite
Resident Evil 5

I'm alphabetical order

Commandos behind enemy lines

Hitman

The Stanley Parable

Terraria

What Remains of Edith Finch

Not in any specific order:

Final Fantasy Tactics (PS1) - the first game that I played into the hundreds of hours.

Tales of Destiny (PS1) - the first game that I played late into the night and had to stop playing because it was becoming a problem.

World of Warcraft - I played it from 2004 through 2025, but mmorpgs in general are fantastic and a wonderful creation. Currently, I am playing LotRO.

Final Fantasy Tactics (GBA) - I played this game every night for three years when I worked night shift ems. Hell, just mentioning it makes me want to spin up a fresh save file.

Final Fantasy (NES) - this game got me into party-based, turn-based role-playing games and that turned into a lifelong love of Dungeons and Dragons.

Thanks for causing me to pause and reflect.

Wing Commander

Baldur's Gate 2

Mass Effect 3 with Citadel DLC

Knights of the Old Republic

X-COM

In no particular order:

• Dwarf Fortress
• Kerbal Space Program
• Project Zomboid
• Vintage Story
• Stellaris

Factorio CnC red alert 2 Half life 2 Turrican 2 Shadow of the beast 2 Rimworld

I seem to like a lot of 2's...

Not in order

1. gothic
2. Witcher 3
3. baldurs gate 3
4. red dead redemption
5. half life 2

Sekiro.

I'd have to think a lot to come up with the rest...

Maybe Super Mario World is on there.

In no particular order: Silent Hill 2, Resident Evil (Remake), Heartworm, The Gap, and SOMA.

• Galaxian (5200, 1982)
• The Dungeons of Moria (DOS, 1983)
• The Legend of Zelda (NES, 1987)
• King's Quest IV (DOS, 1988)
• Microsoft Solitaire (Win 3, 1990)

Honorable mentions:

• Centipede (1981)
• Shinobi (1987)
• Doom (1993)
• Day of the Tentacle (1993)
• Myst (1993)
• Tie Fighter (1994)
• Minecraft (2011)

No particular order:

Vampires: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

Star Wars Galaxies (pre-cu)

Ultima Online

Disco Elysium

Gizmos and Gadgets

Ultima, SWG, and Gizmos and Gadgets were more about the memories of playing them with friends/family.

SWG still has some unique mechanics that I still view as the high tide of major publishers willing to take risks on complexity. Game was probably too ambitious for its own good.

Vampires had a high level of jank even years after release, but boy did they nail the ambiance/music/open approach to quests for the time. Shame about the sequel.

Nightreign

Elden ring

Demons souls

Silent hill 2

Baldurs gate 3

Top 5 is too few, heres top 10 instead, in no order:

Halo Combat Evolved (the original)

The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (the original)

Silent Hill 2 (the original)

The Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of This World YU-NO (the original)

Super Metroid

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair

Super Mecha Champions (can't play this one anymore and it is such a shame because the gameplay was so fun)

Need for Speed Underground 2

Elden Ring

MechAssault

Man, looking at my own history is a total trip. It’s basically just an entire life dedicated to MOBAs and RTS games... Guild Wars, HotS, Dota 2, League, StarCraft II. That’s pretty much the whole vibe. And honestly? If there isn't some insane level of micro-management or a high skill ceiling involved, I'm barely even touching it.

Death Stranding 1 & 2

Derail Valley

Train Sim World

No Mans Sky

I might be getting old, but games that live in that happy place between chill and adventure really speak to me these days.

Edit: My line breaks disappeared. Did this suddenly become Reddit?

Ocarina of Time

Animal Crossing New Horizons

Cyberpunk 2077

Red Dead Redemption 2

Ghost of Tsushima

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)

1. World of Warcraft
2. Baldur's Gate 3
3. Nioh 2
4. Doom Eternal
5. Overwatch

Police Quest 1

Gabriel Knight: The Sins of the Fathers

Animal Crossing (GC)

Super Mario RPG

Assassin's Creed: Odyssey

Okay look, I know a lot of people don't like AC: Odyssey. But it was the first AC game I played and the whole thing just clicked for me. It's a pure sit back and wander experience for me.

1. Portal

2. Portal 2

3. Red Dead Redemption

4. Red Dead Redemption II

5. Journey

Team Fortress 2, Titanfall 2, Guns of Icarus, Ace Combat Zero, Kingdom Hearts 2.

Borderlands

Hollow Knight

Outer Wilds

Path of Exile

Factorio

Super Metroid

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Hollow Knight

Control

Dead Cells

Chrono trigger FF7 Red dead 2 Rocket league GTA 5

resident evil 4

Metroid prime

metal gear solid

god of war (ps2)

Pokemon crystal

WarCraft 3 Quake 3/live Warsow Binding of Isaac Counter-Strike

Extreme APM for me

GunZ

StarCraft

Teeworlds

Couldn't find other games that are as intense, pvp.

Half Life, Doom, Quake, Warcraft, Age Of Empires.

• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
• Balatro
• Street Fighter 3: Third Strike
• Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
• Xenogears

Honorable Mentions: Diablo 2, Destiny, Skyrim, Gran Turismo 4, Red Dead 2, Tetris, & Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver

1. Dark Souls
2. BioShock
3. The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim
4. Metal Gear Solid 4
5. Disco Elysium

Left 4 Dead 2

Warframe

Team Fortress 2

Rocket League

Witcher 3

• Factorio
• Minecraft
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Slay the Spire 1/2
• Terraria

Starcraft

Half Life

System Shock 2

FTL: Faster Than Light

Pavlov VR

• Dark Souls
• Doom
• Diablo II
• Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
• Freelancer

Romancing SaGa: minstrels song

Super Mario World

Civilization ii

Lords of Magic

Left 4 Dead

Runescape, halo 3, minecraft, call of duty 4, red alert 2

1. Red Dead Redemption 2
2. Star Wars Battlefront games from 2004-2005
3. All the Bungie Halos
4. Battlefield Bad Company 2
5. Civilization 5

• Metal Gear Rising
• Spelunky
• Persona 4 Golden
• Minecraft
• Yakuza 0

No particular order but mine would be (I went with a top 10 list since I just couldn't narrow it down further):

1. Factorio
2. Portal 2
3. Arma 3
4. Bastion
5. LA Noire
6. Red Dead Redemption 2
7. Halo CE
8. Stationeers
9. Any of the Metro games
10. Tetris

I literally spent the entire night thinking about this lol. Don’t judge me but here we go. In no particular order:

1. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim [PS3,PS4,PC]
2. Super Mario 64 [N64]
3. Yu-Gi-Oh Forbidden Memories [PS1]
4. Pokémon Trading Card Game [GB Color]
5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 [Xbox360]

Here are a few favourites. Hard to remember after all these years...

• Super Metroid
• Crimzon Clover World EXplosion
• Mega Man X
• Cotton Rock ‘n’ Roll: Superlative Night Dreams
• Donkey Kong Country or Land

If user is not me: I copied this from Scoffing_Lizzard and am a bot that everyone should block.

1. Demon's Souls (original)
2. Returnal
3. The Last of Us
4. Dark Souls (1,2,3)
5. Belatro (please send help)

Honorable Mentions:

• Rogue Legacy
• Bloodbourne
• Elden Ring
• Contra
• Castlevania
• Metroid

Gwent from Witcher 3 - just bought a real deck but hated the rest of game in general

1. Rocket League
2. Beat Saber
3. Minecraft (including mods)
4. Satisfactory
5. Mafia 1 and 2

1. Descent
2. Battlefield 1942/DC mod
3. Tie Fighter (‘94)
4. Myst
5. Farcry 5

No particular order:

• The Witcher 3
• Minecraft
• Monster Hunter World: Iceborne
• ARK: Survival Evolved/Ascended
• Baldur's Gate 3

Not in order:

Sim City 4

Mario Kart 64

Smb3

Little Big Planet

Fallout 4

Duke Nukem 3D should be on this list, but I'm unwilling to bump any of the others off.

Edit: how'd I forget Tetris (NES)?! Put that on the top five and bump Fallout 4 to an honorable mention.

Minecraft

N64 Zelda

GameCube LoTR The Two Towers

Borderlands 2

Bioshock 2

Age of Empires 2 (Age of Kings & Conquerers), NFS MW-2005, GTA Series (Liberty City, Vice City), Crysis 3, & Assassins Creed 2 Ezio-Trilogy.

Top 5 is cutting too short. There are so many timeless games that didn't make the list.

BG3 Planescape: Torment & Disco Elysium (gotta group em) Dark Souls 2 The Witcher 2 The Long Dark

Honorable mention: Frostpunk

Planescape Torment

Fallout 2

MGS 2 and 3

Dark Souls

In terms of hours played

Elden ring

Pokemon emerald

Skyrim

Witcher 3

Mortal Kombat X

In terms of replay value

Tekken 8/Mortal Kombat X (fighting games have basically infinite replay value if there are people online or in person you can play with)

Dark Souls 2 (best Souls game with the best NG+ system)

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (best MH game, GU is a close second for me)

World of Warcraft (an addiction rather than a game)

In terms of "best game"

Elden Ring/DS2

Baldur's Gate 3

Witcher 3 (after QOL updates)

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

Mother 3

Honorable mentions: Chrono Trigger, Civilization V, Age of Empires IV, Fallout New Vegas, Final Fantasy VI (GBA), the other 2 Witcher games, Zelda from OOC to Twilight Princess (truly a golden age for Nintendo), Dark Souls 1, Super Metroid, Borderlands 2 (did not age well, but I have good memories of the multiplayer experience)___

• Kingdom Hearts (can't decide which - 2 or Birth By Sleep are usually my go-tos)
• Final Fantasy VII
• Persona 3 Reload (closest thing to a definitive version, even though it's still missing stuff)
• Rayman 2 (PS1)
• Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear To The Rescue (PS1)

Sekiro

Baldur's Gate 3

Witcher 3 Wild hunt

Civ 5

Hollow Knight

Can I just say a bunch of Yakuza games?

I fell in love with them during the pandemic and they each have something great.

Can't pick a game, but here are the series (and then I try to pick a game),

• Super Mario series (Super Mario World)
• Legend of Zelda series (Link to the Past/Link's Awakening)
• Baldur's Gate series (Baldur's Gate II)
• Metroid series (Super Metroid)
• Pokemon series (Pokemon FireRed)

So mostly Nintendo games.

Slay the spire 1 and arguably 2 Trackmania( it doesn't really matter which ) BeamNg Disco Elysium Bloods td 6

Halo 3, GTA 3, Gen 1 Pokémon, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Red Dead Redemption

Doom 1/2 Dark Souls Super Mario World Half Life 2 and all episodes Sonic 3 + Sonic and Knuckles

Doom 2016 and Animal Well honorable mentions

I love these questions but the also cause me much many stresses so I apologize in advance that I’m gunna cheat.

Also, this is not in any specific order except #1 is absolutely my #1 of all time game.

1. Red Dead Redemption 2
2. The Horizon Series (thus far but Gorilla is making me nervous)
3. Kena - Bridge of Spirits
4. Stardew Valley
5. Hades 1 & 2

The Secret of Mana

Mario Kart 64

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2

Quake 3 Arena / Unreal Tournament (tie)

dopewars

Not sure I have “favorites” but measuring by impact on me:

RuneScape

Final Fantasy 7 (original)

Rust

Oblivion

Stardew Valley

• Super Mario Sunshine
• Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem
• The Long Dark
• Fallout: New Vegas
• PUBG back when it was a horrible game and deeply unoptimized and your car would explode randomly because you hit a polygon that was missing its texture

In no particular order:

• Cyberpunk 2077
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• CK3 (or Paradox games in general)
• Rimworld
• Overwatch 2

Mario Galaxy

Celeste

Smash Ultimate

Minecraft

Geometry Dash

never been much into those heavily story driven games lol

In no particular order:

Chrono Trigger

The Binding of Isaac

Quake

Super Metroid

Diablo 2

Pokémon Blue

Max Payne 2

Subnautica

Stardew Valley

Dark Souls

• Final Fantasy X
• Starcraft II
• Battlefield 2
• Mount & Blade: Warband
• Factorio

I could be more objective if it was like top 20 or something.

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.

Arma Cold War Assault (OG Operation Flashpoint)

Automobilista 1

Morrowind

Quake 2

DayZ

Some flight sim that i haven't played nearly enough, like Ill-2 Sturmovik 1946 or F22 Total Air War

1. The Lord of the rings online
2. Guild Wars 2
3. Valheim
4. Civilization 5
5. Ascendency

1. Mass Effect
2. Red Alert 2 Yuris revenge (although i enjoy others c&c games just as much)
3. Kerbal Space Program
4. Ms Flight Simulator 2020
5. Quake 3 (it just scratches an itch)

• Globetrotters (board game)
• Cribbage (card game)
• Tennis (racquet sport)
• Paper Mario and the 1,000 Year Door (Nintendo Game)
• The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo Game)

In no order,

Tetris nes, Vanilla wow, Pokemon red, Zelda a link to the past, Final fantasy vi

I know you specified no need for explanation, but I’m in a sleep deprived state and feel the need to state several caveats. Heh.

Games I come back to over the years:

• Arx Fatalis
• super Mario World on Super Nintento
• The Legend of Zelda The Ocorina of Time
• Transistor by Super Giant
• Trine 4 The Nightmare Prince with Friends
• Reciever 2 if not

Super Mario Brothers 3
Tetris
Gran Tourismo
Real Racing 3 (RIP)
Minesweeper iOS (perfect in line at the shops)

Couldn't do 5

• Path of Exile
• Halo 2
• Factorio
• Baulder's Gate 3
• World of Warcraft
• Diablo 2
• Claire Obscur
• Starfox 64

Silent Hill 2

Morrowind

Red Dead Redemption 2

Space Station 14

Final Fantasy 7

recency bias is strong. top five is hard. I'd probably answer this differently if asked another day

Rimworld

Stellaris

FTL: Faster Than Light

Crusader Kings 3

XCOM: Enemy Within

Honorable mentions:

No Man's Sky, Baldur's Gate 3, Dwarf Fortress, Skyrim, Fallout: New Vegas.

Psychonauts 2

Portal 2

Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3

Kingdom Hearts 2.5 Final Mix

Doom 2

Honorable mentions:

Town of Salem

There's too many to name 5 but these are up there somewhere.

Shenmue Death Stranding Futurecop LAPD Kirby's Dreamland Mass Effect

world of warcraft 7 days to die raft super Mario brothers 3 contra

1. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
2. ‎Super Mario Bros. 3
3. ‎Bayonetta
4. ‎Nex Machina
5. Cyberpunk 2077

Spelunky (all of them plus mods) Diablo II Elden Ring MGSVTPP Assassin's Creed series

In no particular order:

Stuntman Ignition

Assassin's Creed III

Skyrim

Beyond Good and Evil

Fallout New Vegas

No particular order, but definitely games I'd love to play again with no memory of playing them:

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Dark Souls 3 Hollow Knight Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon

Unordered Top "5": Yoshi's Island Subnautica Portal 1/2 Assassin's Creed 2 Halo Trilogy

Bonus: Alien: Isolation Halo: Reach Half Life series RimWorld Stardew Valley Papers Please

Kerbal space program

Star control 2

Blood

Life is strange

ADOM

1 Disco Elysium

2 Prey (2017)

3 Cyberpunk 2077

4 Kingdom Come: Deliverance

5 SOMA

Chrono trigger, mass effect 2, link's awakening, tekken 3, maniac mansion: day of the tentacle

Diablo 2

Halo 2

Final Fantasy X

Street Fighter 3: Third Strike

Donkey Kong Country 2

1. Super Meat Boy
2. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
3. Half-Life
4. Cyberpunk 2077
5. Need for Speed Most Wanted (2012)

Overwatch

God of War 2018

Red Dead Redemption 2

The Witcher 3

What remains of Edith Finch

My taste is very vanilla...

1. Nier Automata
2. Star Wars Battlefront II (2005)
3. Baldur's Gate 3
4. Ace Combat Zero
5. Persona 5 Royal

In no particular order:

Titanfall 2 single player / Titanfall 1 multiplayer Cyberpunk Batman: Arkham Knight Ghost of Tsushima Wipeout 2097

Grand Theft Auto (All), League of Legends (shame that it doesn't work on GNU/Linux anymore), Clash of Clans, Minetest(Luanti), Counter-Strike.

• Spelunky 2
• Cataclysm DDA
• Fallout 2
• UFO: Enemy Unknown (original xcom from '94)
• Minecraft

• Civ V
• Breath of the Wild
• EV Override
• Master of Orion
• Mario Kart: Double Dash

No particular order, but these are the games I always come back to

Chrono trigger Outer wilds Elden ring Path of exile

Not sure about the 5th

Halo Mario64 To the moon Rocketleague Battlefield modern warfare

• Vanilla wow + tbc

• FF7 original

• Call of duty (the first 1 on pc)

• Halo 2

• Super Mario world

Honorable mentions

• Super R type

• Metal gear solid

• Contra

• And a side scrolling konomi space shooter for the NES that I can't remember the name of but the konomi code worked on it and it was a lot of fun.

It's just Monster Hunter.

Mass Effect 2 Baldurs Gate 3 Civilization Deus Ex Witcher 3

In no order:

1. Outer Wilds
2. Might and Magic: World of Xeen
3. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
4. Final Fantasy 7 (original, I'm ambivalent on the remake)
5. Baldur's Gate 3

Heroes of Might and Magic III

Super Mario Bros. 3

Hades

Katamari Damacy

Sim City 2000

• WoW
• THPS2
• Rocket League
• AOE2
• Flight simulator

• skyrim
• red dead 1
• cs2
• sc2
• quake live
• doom
• dragon age inquisition

oh that's 7

Space engineers Halo reach Baulders gate 3 Snowrunner Escape from tarkov

Homeworld 1

KCD 1

KCD 2

Witcher 3

I cant decide on 5... Ok rimworld

I am first and foremost a World of Warcraft addict. I don’t know if it is actually one of the best games of all time, but it’s my comfort blanket. So it takes the #1 spot.

1. Valheim
2. Grim Fandango
3. Myst
4. Skyrim

Super TuxCart gets an honorary mention.

• Fallout New Vegas
• Zelda: A Link to the Past
• Super Metroid
• Resident Evil 2 (OG)
• Control

• Diablo 2
• Left 4 dead
• Zelda: A link to the Past (GBA)
• Metroid Prime
• Civilization V

My favs (not necessarily those I consider the best):

• Freelancer
• Minecraft
• Dragon Warrior/Quest Monsters series (especially the 1st)
• Pokemon (which entry I choose changes a lot)
• Binding of Isaac w/ all DLC

• Twisted Metal Black

• Tekken Tag Tournament 2

• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

• Alien Hominid HD

• Gauntlet

All's this to say, I'm addicted to action, and these games satisfy my sweet tooth for it better than most.

Quest for Glory 4(wholes series of that is an option) Valheim Witcher 1 Stardew Valley Mount and blade

Baba is You

Dragon Warrior Monsters (the first one)

Monster Hunter World (w/ Iceborne)

Operation: Inner Space (a 1994 Windows 3.1 game about rescuing the icons on your computer with a little spaceship)

Disciples II (Turn-Based Strategy game from the early 2000s)

EDIT: Formatting

Not listing the specific game release, more the game epoch:

• Civilization
• World of Warcraft
• StarCraft
• Sim City
• Quake

I can think of way more than five. These are the first ones that popped into my head when I saw the question.

Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

Homeworld 2

Half-life 2

God of War: Ragnarok

Alan Wake 2

I don't have a top X of anything. It depends on

• My mood
• What's been released
• How naughty the industry has been
• However I've never played on console
• Also I've been around for longer than most of you, and my first game really was Pong

Sim City 4

Metal Gear Solid 2

Dino Crisis

Mass Effect 2

Terraria

Hollow knight (and silksong)

Baldurs gate 3

Destiny 1

Final fantasy 7 (ps1)

Star wars jedi fallen order (and survivor)

Honorable mentions

Clair obscur, Blasphemous 2, remnant 2, world of warcraft, guildwars, pathfinder wrath of the righteous, baldurs gate 1+2 , Icewind Dale 1+2, animal well.

Anything that inspires me to keep playing till the end and to do it again if i come for round 2.

in no particular order:

metal gear solid 3

deus ex

dark souls

beatsaber

chrono trigger

Bloodborne

Portal 2

Age of Empires 2

Overcooked 2

Pokemon FireRed & LeafGreen

1. Dishonored (Even more specifically the knife of dunwall dlc)
2. Mass effect trilogy
3. Signalis
4. Star Wars Republic Commando
5. Half life 2

Making this list was hard I went by games I'm mostly likely complete for the millionth time

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.

Dwarf fortress

Valhiem

Factorio

Starsector

Half life 1+2

Lucky for me, I already had to make a top 25 when topsters lists went around earlier this year.

I can hardly believe it, but trimming this down to 5 now seems to be just as hard as building it up to 25 back then... uh, you pick 5?

Off the top of my head? Alan Wake 2, Max Payne 2, Silent Hill2, Mario Kart 64, and Assassin’s Creed Unity.

Some of them are nostalgia, some of them come from a genuine love and appreciation for the game

No particular order:

• Destiny 2
• MechWarrior 2
• Diablo 2
• StarCraft
• Super Mario on NES

Honorable mention: I have no Mouth but I must Scream and Balatro.

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'll go. I'm a weirdo though so... Rust, DayZ, Long Dark, N64 Goldeneye, original Kings/Space/Police quest games.

*edit Honorable mentions to Escape Velocity and clones, Halo games, Mass Effect, and Ultima 1-4

Red Dead Redemption II

Red Dead Redemption II

Red Dead Redemption II

Red Dead Redemption II

Red Dead Redemption II

Outer Wilds

UNBEATABLE

Portal 2

Rhythm Doctor

Peaks of Yore

In the order I played them,

Metroid Prime, WoW, Subnautica, Satisfactory, Hollow Knight

Mass Effect 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Starcraft: Brood War, Witcher 3, Natural Selection 2

• Portal 1 and 2
• Life is Strange
• RDR2
• Mecca Chameleon
• Mad Max

• Marvel's Spider-Man
• Ghost of Tsushima
• Uncharted 4
• Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada
• Hi-Fi Rush

• Witcher 3
• Skyrim
• Witcher 2
• Baldurs Gate 3
• Assassin's Creed Origins (or Odyssey)

With honorable mentions to Elder Scroll Oblivion and Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon.

I like games where I can spend dozens of hours forgetting about the main quest and losing myself exploring the world, and then coming back to the main quest when I'm ready. If I can put 100 hours into a game just in exploration I am down, but at the same time I hate being forced to grind repetitive combat like in Dark Souls games.

Edit: extra honorable mentions to Red Dead Redemption 2, Ghost of Tsushima, and Horizon: Zero Dawn. I can't believe I forgot about those games, they're definitely not in my top 5 but in my top 10-15 for sure. I put many very happy hours into those games. Add in Stardew Valley and Terraria and you almost have my top 15.

Chronological order:

Starflight (1986)

Faery Tale Adventure (1987)

Final Fantasy nes (1987)

Diablo 2 (2000)

Rocket League (2015)

That so many people have not played factorio is suprising...

Arma 3 Sonic 3 and Knuckles Resident Evil 4 Dark Souls 2 Metal Gear Solid 1

Rocket League Battlefield 3 Destiny Portal 2 Mario Kart 8

Honorable mention: iRacing in VR

World of warcraft vanilla Metal gear sold psx Resident evil 4 wii Symphony of the night psx Super Metroid snes

Everquest Freelancer Unreal Tournament 99 Ultima Underworld Gianna Sisters

In no particular order: Baldur's Gate 3, Half-Life, Minecraft, Warframe, Eve Online

Dj max

Beat hazard

Rez

Jet grind radio

Auditorium by Cipher Prime.

Metal Gear Solid 2 Quake 3 Arena Doom Counter Strike StarCraft 2

Number varies by mood.

1. ME trilogy
2. DA thru Inquisition
3. Dishonored, all of it.
4. epic zone AC (origins, odyssey, Valhalla)
5. Witcher 2 & 3, awaiting 4. (1 was unplayable).

• Half-Life 2 and Half-Life + Portal
• Earthbound and Mother 3
• Mario Kart 7 (+ 8 and World)
• Daxter
• Fable on the OG Xbox

• Dragon Age
• Diablo 2
• WH40K Rogue Trader
• Mass Effect
• WoW (before Mist)

I miss old Blizzard and Bioware :(

No Man's Sky, RDR2, Disco Elysium , Forza 5, and split between MK3 and Sonic on Sega

1. Dance Dance Revolution 8th Mix - Extreme

2. Deus Ex HR

3. Fallout NV

4. Fallout 4

5. Deus Ex

(6. Deus Ex MD)

There’s a lot of people with good taste in this thread. Will edit when I think of mine

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Horizon Forbidden West

Ghost of Tsushima

Ms. Pac Man

Space Invaders

@Forsho@sh.itjust.works

Stanley Parable (2)
Chrono Trigger
Octopath Traveller
Portal (2)
Outer Worlds

No order:

• Celeste - Mostly Modded
• Minecraft - Only modded like GregTech: New Horizons and Divine Journey 2
• Factorio
• Hellish Quart
• Siralim Ultimate

All time?! Heck

• Midnight club
• Oblivion
• Mario Kart
• The Discworld MUD
• Subspace

1. Transformice
2. Wurm online
3. Astroflux
4. Digimon World 3
5. Vigilantes Second Offense