Asklemmy

• Minecraft
• Factorio
• Danganronpa
• Danganronpa UDG
• Danganronpa 2
• Danganronpa V3
• Pokemon: FireRed
• SuperTuxKart (because best FOSS game ❤️)
• Pick any two classics from Valve

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

Obligatory "No particular order and this was really fucking difficult to distill into just 10 games":

• The Witcher 3
• BioShock
• Minecraft
• Baldur's Gate 3
• Monster Hunter: World
• Dying Light
• Transistor
• Borderlands 2
• Elden Ring
• ARK: Survival Evolved

• Subnautica (original and Sub Zero, plus a nod to Planet Crafter which captures some of that same vibe)
• Metroid Prime (and all the other Metroids)
• StarCraft (1 and 2, though fuck Blizzard today)
• Diablo (2 and 3, though to a lesser extent for 3, and still fuck Blizzard)
• WoW (I'm done with it now but there was a reason I was addicted for those years, but fuck Blizzard)
• Oblivion (and Skyrim)
• Factorio (and Dyson Sphere Project)
• Beat Saber (and a nod to the rhythm games that predated it, like Rock Band, Guitar Hero, and Frequency I believe it was called)
• Paradox games (HOI4, CK3, Europa (uh current?), Stellaris)
• Hades

Many others could have been listed here instead. Oxygen not included, smash Bros, DBZ kakarot, xenosaga 2, transport fever, city skylines, risk of Rain 2, King's quest series, civ, Halo, Mario games, Zelda games, Mario Kart, Lego games, Minecraft... And I'm sure I'm missing many more that I have tried and others that I haven't.

In no particular order:

• Super Mario 64
• Sonic 3 and Knuckles
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Watch Dogs
• Portal 2
• Doom (original shareware version)
• Super Mario Galaxy 2
• Half Life
• Half Life 2

Dwarf Fortress

Factorio

CS 1.6

Dunno after that - probably one of the civilizations, I'm partial to Test of Time personally.

A few favs:

• Max payne
• twisted metal 2
• contra 3
• tetris
• super mario world
• super metroid
• diablo 2
• starcraft
• warcraft 3
• red alert 2

In no order:

• Diablo 2
• Chrono trigger
• The incredible machine
• Loom
• Bravely default
• The secret of monkey island
• Prince of Persia
• Rampart
• Papers, please
• Zak McKracken and the alien mindbenders

1. Gothic 2
2. Gothic
3. The Legend of Zelda: Windwaker
4. Age of Empires 2
5. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
6. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
7. Guild Wars
8. Minesweeper
9. Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord
10. Football Manager 2024 (or one of the old EA ones?)

Satisfactory RDR2 Cyberpunk2077 Mass Effect trilogy Cities Skylines, GTA 5 Halo series then probably a bunch of simulators

Half-life.

Sim city.

Smb3.

Outer Wilds

and

Inscryption

No order in particular:

• Elder Scrolls 3-5
• KOTOR 1 & 2
• Dota 2
• Mass Effect
• Grim Dawn
• Kerbal Space Program
• Warframe
• Age Of Empires II
• Battle for Middle Earth 2
• Counter Strike

Not in order: Dark Souls 1 Dark Souls 3 Elden Ring Witcher 3 Undertale Baldurs Gate 3 NieR: Automata Skyrim Hollow Knight Minecraft

• Disco Elysium
• Jade Empire
• Eternal Darkness
• Knights of the Old Republic
• Starcraft 2
• Quake
• Chrono Trigger
• Portal
• Resident Evil 4
• The Last of Us

Alphabetical Order

1. TBOI Rebirth
2. BTD6
3. DOOM Eternal
4. GMod
5. Pizza Tower
6. Post Void
7. Super Meat Boy
8. SUPERHOT
9. TF2
10. Titanfall 2

Not in order:

• Farcry 5
• civilization VI
• cyberpunk 2077
• portal 2
• Minecraft
• Hitman 2
• Hearts of Iron IV
• watchdogs
• oxygen not included
• The binding of Isaac

Half life 2 (especially episode 2), HL: Alyx, Mario 3, Sonic 3 (with Sonic and Knuckles attached), Sonic 2, space station 13, dead by daylight, portal 2, guitar hero 3, I dunno, one of the metal gear solids or Garry's mod

In Order with contender from the same gameline between brackets.

1. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
2. Valkyrie Profile Lenneth
3. Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones (Path of Radiance & Awakening)
4. Monster Hunter Worlds (Hunter 4 Ultimate & Rise)
5. Need for Speed Underground 2
6. World of Warcraft
7. Final Fantasy IV (IX)
8. League of Legends
9. Dwarf Fortress
10. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates (& Echoes of Times)

Honorable Mentions

• Midnight Club 2
• Sid Meier's Civilization VI
• Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
• Tekken 3

In no particular order:

• Hero's Quest (from Sierra On-line)
• Valheim
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Skyrim
• No Man's Sky
• City of Heroes (can you believe it's legally back?!?)
• Red Dead Redemption II
• Planescape: Torment
• Stardew Valley
• Starfield

(I'm sure that last one will raise some eyebrows, but I've already got over 1k hours in it since launch. For all its faults, it scratches some itch of mine just right.)

In some sort of order

• Sim City 2000, City Skylines
• Halo 1, 2, 3 , Modern Warfare 2, 3
• Civilization 4,5,6
• Kerbal Space Program
• Minecraft
• BioShock
• Final fantasy 7
• Game Dev Story
• FTL
• BG3

• Neverwinter Nights
• Kingdom of Amalur
• Warcraft III: Frozen Throne
• Battle for Middle Earth
• Deux Ex
• KOTOR I
• Morrowind - Oblivion
• Red Alert 2
• XCOM2
• WH: Total War II

• Ultima VII
• Baldur's Gate 1
• Daggerfall
• Morrowind
• Oblivion
• Deus Ex
• Thief
• Ultima Underworld
• Kerbal Space Programme
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Honourable mentions for Baldur's Gate 3, Crusader Kings 2, and Tears of the Kingdom.

Bard's Tale
Ultima IV
Neuromancer
Phantasy Star II
Phantasy Star Online
Super Street Fighter II: Championship Edition
Destiny
Impossible Mission
Halo
Gain Ground

My top 10 in decreasing order (the first series' games I listed individually to give due credit to these masterpieces):

• Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos (Gothic universe)
• Gothic 2 + Night of the Raven
• Gothic 1
• Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 2, Fallout 1
• Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 3
• UFO Enemy Unknown (OpenXcom variant)
• Warcraft III + The Frozen Throne
• StarCraft, StarCraft II
• Unreal Tournament 2000 G.O.T.Y.
• No Man's Sky or Minecraft (contenders for 10th place)

• Suikoden 2
• Final Fantasy 7 (original)
• Dark Souls
• Resident Evil 1
• Castlevania SOTN
• D&D Warriors of the Eternal Sun
• Resident Evil 1 Remake (GC)
• Gran Turismo 4
• Road Rash 2
• Oblivion

Big shout out to SFA2, FFT:A/2, BOF series, Roadwarden.

10 feels too little to condense 40 years of games.

I'm probably a little biased but... (I'll also include my fave music track from each game as a little bonus!)

Pikmin 3

Pikmin 4

Pikmin 2

Pikmin

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Super Mario Sunshine

Super Mario Galaxy

Final Fantasy X

Super Paper Mario

Sonic Adventure 2 Battle

Tic tak toe,

Solitaire,

Snek,

That one with the bubbles that you just watch and you can’t do anything (I think it actually a screen saver)

Uh. That’s it.