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)

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 particular order:

• Wing Commander: Privateer
• Rim World
• Kotor + Kotor 2
• Any first person Elder Scrolls Game
• Europa Universalis games
• Portal + Portal 2
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Elite Dangerous
• Eve Online
• Dwarf Fortress

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All older games as I can’t fit games into adult life:

• Starcraft I and II
• Max Payne
• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
• Thief I
• Red Faction
• The Sims I and III
• Ski Free
• Worms Armageddon
• Chips Challenge
• Doom original

And honourable mention of the only game I recently play, which is Cooking Fever.

Dwarf Fortress

Factorio

CS 1.6

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

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

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.

I have not kept up with gaming much for the past decade, so my list is going to be very dated. In no particular order:

• Starsiege: Tribes (Tribes 2 gets an honorable mention)
• EarthSiege 2
• EverQuest (very begrudgingly, but it did kick the era of MMORPGs into overdrive, and I was addicted to it for almost a decade)
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
• Mass Effect Legendary Edition (I’m counting the trilogy as a single game)
• X-Wing Vs. Tie Fighter
• Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe
• Cities: Skylines
• Star Trek Online (only because of storylines)
• Battlefield 1942

No console games on my list, because PCMR! :P

[Edit] Almost forgot Star Control 2!

Once again in no particular order: Ultimata IV - Quest of the Avatar

Sim City 2000

The Last of Us

Breath of the Wild

Trade Wars

Kingdom Hearts

Knights of the Old Republic

Civ 6

Omega - a dos game where you programmed Tanks and set them loose

And right now: Balatro

• Final Fantasy VII (might be replaced with Rebirth if I end up replaying it a bunch in the future like I do with the OG)
• Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue
• Theme Hospital
• Mirrors Edge
• Celeste
• Halo 3
• Need for Speed Most Wanted
• Tony Hawk Underground
• Persona 3 Reload (before this it would’ve been 4 that would’ve been my favourite of the franchise)
• The Sims 3

I tried to think of games that I keep coming back to, or in the case of Persona and Celeste, ones that stick in my head even years after beating them.

Edit: don’t know how this slipped my mind but a kingdom Hearts game should definitely be here. It’s my favourite game series, I think I forgot to put it down because I was trying to think of which one I would put down as the best of the series.

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

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

Rimworld

Mount and Blade Warband (/Bannerlord)

Crusader Kings 2/3

Slay The Spire

Stellaris

Darkest Dungeon

Civilization V

Fallout New Vegas

Borderlands 2

Kerbal Space Program