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

Dwarf Fortress

Elden Ring

Quake

Chrono Trigger

Metal Gear Solid 3

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.

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

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

Heroes of Might and Magic III

World of Warcraft vanilla (2005)

Europa Universalis IV

Path of Exile

Path of Exile 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.

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Zelda: A Link to the Past

Minecraft

Stardew Valley

Metal Gear Solid

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

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.

Lemmings.

Wolfenstein.

Doom.

Descent.

Unreal Tournament.

• fallout
• fallout 2
• deus ex

(stopped gaming for 10 years)

• disco elysium
• baldur's gate 3

Quake

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars

Unreal Tournament

Outer Wilds

Half-Life

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

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.

Mass Effect 2

Civilization IV

Fallout 3

Super Mario World

Monster Hunter Rise

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

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.

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

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

Chrono Trigger

Outer Wilds

Subnautica

Deus Ex

Ocarina of Time

In no specific order:

Mass effect 2

Skyrim

Civilization 5

Portal 2

The witcher 3

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

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.

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

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

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

Resident Evil 4

Bayonetta

Bloodborne

Breathe Of The Wild

Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri

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

• 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.

In no particular order:

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

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

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.