Every game I play is like "this is good, but it's no Outer Wilds..."

Factorio. 10k hours and I still play it over and over again when I get cravings or when there's. No other games to play.

2nd is Minecraft and 3rd is rimworld

Of course all of them HEAVILY modded.

Yup, Super Metroid. Game is basically perfect. i have other near favorites like Hollow Knight and Dead Cells that have generally remained in place too, but Super Metroid is amazing and always a fun, perfectly atmospheric time.

It used to be Counter-Strike but now I think it's Deadlock.

The game is still in closed beta but valve really nailed everything about it. The movement, the combat, the strategy, the art style. I wish I had young kid's reflexes still but even so the game is absolutely brilliant.

Portal 2.

Overall, bg3. Looking back all the way to pong, I haven't had as much fun for as long as with bg3.

Not that I want to play it every single time I put in game time. I do like variety too. But in terms of sheer joy of play, bg3 just hits the right points.

I can maybe see a future game topping it, though I suspect that would be a rarity what with the things in games that really hit for me being hard to find in one game. Even bg3 doesn't hit every single thing that I love in games, it just hits the most important ones. It's not perfect, but I've never required that in a game.

Not sure if its my favourite , but Gothic 2 will always have a special place in my heart for being my first open world RPG.

Sanctum 2. Though I do wish for a graphics update.

left 4 dead 2 - imperfect as it is, the friends and communities i played and modded versus games with, made it the best, thousands of hours well spent.

Dungeons and Dragons.

American McGee's Alice.

I love the atmosphere, the game play, and the soundtrack. It is awesome 🤘

If I split my life into 4 chapters:

1. Phantasy star 4 - great story, a game way ahead of its time
2. WoW
3. Oxygen Not Included
4. Satisfactory

Dragon Age Origins. A lot of game came close to it afterwards in my heart but couldn't beat it. (Like The Witcher 3, The Legend of Zelda Breath of The Wilds and Mass Effect 2)

Final Fantasy 9. I was seven years old and had never experienced anything comparable. 100% a nostalgia driven choice but I still remember those thoughts and feelings.

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

R-Type II

Tetris

I always have a heavily modded skyrim running on every machine I game on. No mater what I can play that game over and over.

Celeste is a perfect game. My only complaint is that "it's just a platform game", which I don't find that interesting anymore compared to games like Deltarune. Still, it brings me lots of joy, even on replays.

Original Borderlands on xbox360. Ain't no way I'll find anything I could spend as much time as I have in that game and still love it. Been playing on and off for over a decade, with DLCs included. And this is from me having come from the second game. Just happen to like the atmosphere and storytelling of the original better, for the most part.

Favorite character is specifically Mordecai since I think he has the best ability. Favorite weapon is between one of the fire and corrosive infinite ammo recharge alien weapons.

Terraria is so good, I keep going back to it. Subnautica is also amazing.

Halo reach. I wish with all my heart I could play it again with no knowledge of how the story went. It's the one of two games to ever make me tear up with emotion.

Deus Ex, Cyberpunk 2077, Surviving Mars, Stellaris and SWTOR.

All of them are my favourite game of all time.

FF7 (original)

Zelda 3: A Link to the Past for classics and Cyberpunk 2077 for modern. Though Deus Ex is also a classic now.

Can't pick one but my top are: Fallout New Vegas, Destroy All Humans 2, Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Kingdom Hearts 2, Halo ODST, BG3, and Saints Row 4.

Edit: can't believe I forgot Okami, Infamous Second Son, and Simpsons Hit and Run.

TES: Oblivion. It's not even good, but it will always be my favorite

Minecraft. I don't come back to any other game as much. Minecraft can be what I want it to be more so than any other game I've played.

RDR2

And it’s not even close

Goldeneye 007 on N64.

No game could pass that one as my favorite because I could never play a game in the specific social context that made that game special (staying up late for hours with your friends physically present next to you).

It's gotta be:

Command and Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath

Other honorary mentions:

• Outer Wilds (my best gaming experience so far, but low replayability)
• Skyrim
• Shapez 2
• Prey
• Naev
• The Talos Principle

Deltarune by leaps and bounds

Warframe!

So Skyrim must be my favorite because: Every year (I realized this last grind that it is always around December to January) do I start a new mod grind for Skyrim and then play a shit ton for a week or two and then never look back until winter again lol

I saw most added a list so I will too.

The best year of gaming for me was 2006 to around 2012, you will be able to tell by the list. Why around that time is because before then did I not playing games with deep or meaningful stories and after that have I only found a few games that I really like.

Games I haven't played for a long time now but have a lot of nostalgic memories of (some did I play over and over again that I can not count unless I find all my saves):

• dragon age origin and 2 (fight me, 2 was great)
• mass effect 2 and 3 (especially 2)
• the three assassin's Creed games with ezio, and black flag
• saint row 3 (4 was fun too but more like a chaotic episode)
• Shin Megami Tensei games mainly persona (3 and 4) and devil survivor (1 and 2)
• sleeping dogs
• golden sun
• pyre
• deus ex
• far cry 3
• tales of the abyss
• 999: nine hours, nine persons, nine doors
• phoenix wright

The list is getting long so I will stop now. It was fun thinking back especially on the megami tensei series, that is a rabbit hole to fall down in, i mixed them up a lot while trying to remember the names haha

I only added the games that woke up a fussy feeling in me (I hope I didn't forget any important ones).

Difficult to choose a single one. But a game that has been my stable side game for ages, that I constantly keep in circulation and that no other game has come close to replicating the feel of for me has been Enter the Gungeon.

I’ve got a list. Only the first one is in order, the rest the order doesn’t matter.

Super Mario Bros 3

Chrono Trigger

Cyberpunk 2077

Ocarina of Time/Majora’s Mask (Ship of Harkinian/2Ship2Harkinian especially)

RimWorld

Factorio

Expedition 33 quickly eclipsed anything that could have been considered my favorite game last year.

Pure art.

I'm struggling to pick a single game, but this three(ish) games I could play forever:

• Pokémon Blue/Red/Yellow: essentially the same game. I'm pretty sure I have played over 1,000 hours of these games so far, especially since I've played them in different languages and trying to achieve different goals — lots of fun challenges to try here. Oh, yeah, let's add OG Pokémon Green there which I played in Japanese a couple of years ago.
• Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal: as with the first generation games, I've played these ones to exhaustion. In fact, I'm playing them right now. 200 hours in and counting!
• Xenoblade Chronicles: the "modern" game which has left the biggest impression on me. I put 100 hours into it and could do it again.

Tough one actually,

I got a few, but these are my top picks:

• OG GTA San Andreas (IMHO, the best map and story) has lots of stuff to do, including an online community long before GTA Online was a thing.

• Sleeping Dogs (quite an underrated game even though it is getting more attention recently).

• An old-school platformer one: Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (great OST, fun game to play)

Hard to choose from these three: Planescape Torment. Disco Elysium. World of Warcraft Vanilla.

and maybe MGS4 on PS3 was good. :)

Legend of Grimrock 2. It was high school though, so I was really into sword-and-sorcery. It is very old school design, meant to be nostalgic for games I was too young to ever play. Very clicky. You'll see. It ends up feeling like a rhythm game almost.

I always have a hard time putting things into rankings, because different games have different qualities that make them hard to compare to each other, but if I had to choose, there is one game that I keep coming back to and is pretty much my "comfort food" game: Twinkle Star Sprites.

Dragons Dogma. It's an undercooked game, no doubt, but the ambition and exe ution of what is complete is unmatched.

Also impossible to pick just one, but depending on my mood it’d likely be one of these:

• Half-Life
• Quake
• Outer Wilds
• Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
• GTA III