Asklemmy

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!

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.)

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)

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

• 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.

• Portal 2
• Shadow of the Colossus
• Gothic 2
• Mass Effect 2
• Uncharted 2
• Dragon Age Origins
• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
• Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines
• The Last of Us
• Max Payne 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

Ranking is tough but I'll give it a go. The ranking is based on the impact and enjoyment I got out of them regardless of playtime.

1. What Remains of Edith Finch & Kentucky Route Zero (shared 1st place)

2. Life is Strange

3. Stray

4. GRIS

5. Cyberpunk 2077

6. SOMA

7. Heaven's Vault

8. The Town of Light

9. FAR: Lone Sails

10. Portal 2

That last one is a bit of an outlier but I have laughed so much while playing it, it deserves a place at the table.

1. Chrono Trigger

Okay done

I'll add mine in no particular order:

Zelda: tears of the kingdom

Diablo 3

Secret of Mana

Skyrim/Oblivion

Super Mario Odyssey

Zelda: ocarina of time

Command: aces of the deep

Halo 3

Metal gear solid

Donkey Kong country 2

These are the games over gotten the most enjoyment out of over the years

R360

Operation wolf

GTI club

VideoPoker

Coin pushers

Fussball

Bar billiards

Darts

Bowling

Paintball

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

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3

Katamari Damacy

Sims 2

Stardew Valley

Skyrim

The 101 Dalmatians Puzzle Game for Gameboy Color.

These are the games I have the fondest memories of 💜

This is off the top of the dome and given more time I'd probably change this significantly, but here's 10 of my favorites from a multitude of genres:

• Rain World
• Outer Wilds
• Stephen's Sausage Roll

(Those are pretty firmly my top 3, all totally mindblowing experiences that surprised and awed me multiple times)

• Spelunky 2
• Getting Over It
• Peaks Of Yore
• Satisfactory
• Dark Souls PTDE
• Hunt: Showdown
• Morrowind

Honorable mentions for Guilty Gear and Tekken as series, and I have a special place in my heart for the 2000 title Sacrifice, which is my eternal top pick for a remaster/remake.

Hylics 1/2

Half Life 1

Myst

Jet Set Radio Future

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

Factorio

Doom II (heavily modded)

OpenRCT2

Voices of the Void

The Sims (I like the series as a whole, I feel like each game has its own pros and cons)

In no real particular order, games with highest impact on me:

1. battlefield 1942 - desert combat mod

Ground breaking at the time. Physics and gamespeed have never been captured by any other game. Consumed my free time for a long time.

2 counter strike

Simple concept, extreme depth. I've clocked several thousand hours into this franchise.

3. The witcher 3

In terms of world building and story telling... Incredible.

4. The Witness

Absolute masterclass in game design, world design. Puzzle design.. This is an incredible puzzle game that will shift your perspective.

5. Faster than light

I haven't found anything else quite scratch that replay ability, that tethering on the brink of losing, itch. It's a unique game.

6. Guild wars 2

Completely changed the way mmorpgs were played, and was a great mmo.

7. Monkey Island

I wanted to mention a point and click, several spring to mind, but this still series lives in my mind the most. Although space quest is another that impacted my young brain.

8. Minecraft

Like... I was there since its debut. Still watching and enjoying mc related content.

9. Elite

Space is pretty big and cool

10. Eve online

Getting back stabbed by the person you've been back stabbing for, so you join the enemies of your friends to be able to backstab your backstabbers.

Boom Blocks - Wii - top of my list. Not because it's a good game, but because my kids and I had uproarious hours spent playing it together.
Video game I have not yet figured out the name of. It came out in 1986(ish?) and it had a robot/cyborg in a kind of metroidvania level set. Macintosh.
Doom, the original. Scared the PISS out of me. Then I played it hardcore after that. Doom II came out and I set up LAN parties and opened up my nascent IT outsourcing business for those. Helldivers 2 - Honestly, I haven't actually engaged with a game this hard for decades. Senua's Sacrifice - This game helped me considerably, in understanding the people I love. Doom 2016 - What's not to like. It's perfect. Starcraft II - When it came out. Excellent weaving of story and gameplay. HI-FI Rush - Unexpected fun. Zork - I would have never expected this level of amazing story telling this many years ago.
I know I am short of 10, but I can't think of anything else.

1. Hades.
2. Rocket League
3. Deep Rock Galactic
4. Warframe
5. Heroes of the Storm
6. DotA. (I'm talking original WC3 mod here)
7. Street Fighter 2
8. Starcraft 2
9. Tropico 4
10. World of Warcraft (pre fuck-you-Blizzard days)

Honorable mention for all of the Diablo's really, been playing them since the first one, and all of the Fallouts, playing since the 2nd. Shoutout to my X-Com homies.

I play them still.

1. Total annihilation.
2. Zero-k
3. World of Warcraft, as long as I can avoid cataclysm

I don't play them but would easily

4. The settlers III + Amazons
5. Torchlight
6. Diablo II as it was in like 05
7. Quake II + lithium (slow hooks; hi Nelson crew)
8. Dune 2
9. WCII as in 98

Huh. That's it. StarCraft is out as I played for a day before cavedog ruined it for me forever, but it get it if you still love it.

Might and magic III

F19

Submarine Commander (Atari computer game)

B17 (intellivision)

Counterstrike.1.6

Half-life

Castle Wolfenstein

WOW

WoT

Witcher 3

Cyberpunk 2077

In no particular order:

• Zelda Twilight Princess
• Xenoblade Chronicles X
• Dragon Nest (back when they had Level 60 cap)
• Kirby Planet Robobot
• Lost Odyssey
• Super Mario Galaxy 2
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
• Mother 3
• A Hat in Time

Honorable Mentions:

• Blue Dragon
• Dragon Quest VII
• Cloudbuilt 
• Epic Battle Fantasy 3
• Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• The Witcher 3
• Minecraft (I stopped at version 1.11)
• The Evil Within 1
• Layer of fear

Elden ring

Borderlands 2

Pokemon emerald

Fallout 4

Monster Hunter world

Chivalry II

Gears of war 2

PUBG

Escape from Tarkov

Call of duty: World at war

Roughly in that order