Not in any particular order:
Curse of Monkey Island
Final Fantasy VII
SOMA
Stardew Valley
Anno 1800
The Last of Us
The Last of Us 2
Dark Souls 3
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Hades
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In no order
Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
Bloodborne
Celeste
Slay the Spire
Monster Hunter: World (+ Iceborne)
Hades
Portal 2
Persona 4: Golden
Advance Wars 2
TES 4: Oblivion
In no particular order:
- Star Craft: Brood War
- Diablo II
- Half Life
- Counter Strike
- Homeworld
- Heretic
- GTA Vice City
- Quake 2 (and 3)
- Star Wars Battlefront
- Battlefield 2
In no particular order:
- Diablo II
- World of Warcraft classic
- Path of Exile
- Baldurs Gate 3
- Yoshi's Island
- Banjo Kazooie
- TES V: Skyrim
- Counter Strike 1.6
- PokΓ©mon Crystal
- Battle Brothers
Solid list
In no particular order:
Tunic, Outer Wilds, Undertale, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Celeste, Hollow Knight, Ori And The Blind Forest/Will of the Wisps, Citizen Sleeper, The Talos Principle
If you force me to choose a top 3 of those:
- Tunic
- Outer Wilds
- Celeste
In my playtime order. (I know OP asked best game of all time. But, this list is according to games which I think is best.)
- Minecraft
- Geometry Dash
- Brutal Doom
- Brotato
- Ultrakill
- Balatro
- Zortch
- Rythia or Sound Space Plus
- Stardew Valley
- Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
Honourable Mention
- Tetris
- Quake I & II
- Binding of Isaac
- Dusk
- Slice and Dice
Yakuza 0
Yakuza Kiwami
Yakuza Kiwami 2
Yakuza 3
Yakuza 4
Yakuza 5
Yakuza 6
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
Dragon Quest 11
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in no particular order:
-Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun Firestorm
-Wolfenstein 3D
-Max Payne
-Railroad Tycoon 2
-Starcraft
-Half-Life
-Fallout 2
-Tropico 3
-Age of Empires II
-Uplink
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Probably incomplete list that I may update after a nap.
- Outer Wilds The most sublime game I've ever played. I can't begin to describe how this game made me feel. It's also an excellently designed game. If you've never played it before, go in blind, because even the smallest spoilers risk diminishing your experience. It's an open world, exploration adventure game, which involves space travel, a quaint setting and fun physics
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- Disco Elysium Another game that made me feel things. One of my favourites
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- Tetris Played it on a Gameboy back in' day. It's a great game
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- Rollercoaster Tycoon 2
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- Halo Reach I don't even know if I believe this was the best Halo game, I was just indecisive and I'm biased because I like the DMR and the SWAT multiplayer game mode (no shields, so a headshot kills in 1)
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- Deep Rock Galactic Feel like it's the peak of the four person squad based kind of game. I've literally got hundreds of hours in this game.
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- Stardew Valley I didn't actually vibe with this too much personally, but I've got to respect it for how accessible it is to many different kinds of gamer. It executes what it set out to do perfectly.
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- Faster than Light
- I don't even like rogue likes generally. The soundtrack is great.
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Please play Tunic if you haven't already - your praise for Outer Wilds leads me to believe you'd adore it
I've already played it but yes, that's a great recommendation for anyone who has enjoyed the games I mentioned. I especially enjoyed it because I'm also a fan of Dark Souls (& other FromSoft games), and it was neat to have souls-like combat in such a cute packaging.
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Depends how you define 'top', but lets go with most (estimated) hours played:
Minecraft. It wont track my hours, but if it did in the back end and told me I had played 10,000 hours of minecraft, I'd believe it. Yes I'm aware that's more than a year of playtime, I mean what I said. Almost been playing for half my life, I doubt I will ever truly stop.
Runescape, both RS3 and OSRS. They started tracking hours played well after I started playing, but given my playtime for both of these is listed in days, it probably deserves being here. You never quit Runescape, you merely take extended breaks.
League of Legends. This probably wouldn't show up if it were a list of favourite games, i don't know why I still play it. Around 2,000 hours at last check. Help me.
Forza Horizon 5. 600 hours. I did a lot of races. 400 hours in the previous title. Anyone still playing 5 know if the game works properly now? I remember the online being a disaster and the majority of every leaderboard being cheated times.
Warframe. This is going out of order due to the extremely short time I got those hours. At 500 hours, the first 200 hours were in 2 weeks. More games need bullet jump.
Counterstrike: Global Offensive. Yeah that's about 2k hours again. This game has ruined most other FPS games for me because bullet travel time is a bitch and I never learned it.
Stardew Valley. I think all top 10 lists deserve this game, 400 hours. Level 10 fishing in the first spring, never sided with Joja.
Skyrim. 360 hours, although at least 20 of those hours were mid-crash. Unplayable without mods.
Trackmania 2020. Excellent game, ton of fun. Wish it wasn't behind the Ubisoft launcher, this game is the only reason I have it. 300 hours. Obviously learned about the game from Wirtual.
Stellaris brings out 10th, 170 hours. I have no idea how to play the game and I think I need about 500 more hours to maybe get the basics down. And then I'll have to learn all the DLC!
This list did not end up being some of the games I expected it to be. I thought Skyrim would be lower, and I thought Beat Saber would've made an appearance, but only 145 hours of that. This list also skipped idle games because that's just cheating. Apparently I only have 10 games on Steam over 100 hours, that's clearly not enough gaming and I need to fix that. Did I write too much? Probably. But I spent a couple minutes looking up the numbers for some of these so I'm not just gonna not post it at this point.
The OP said top ten best. I don't think "top" is the subjective part.
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- The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
- Monkey Island 3
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Minecraft
- Mass Effect 3
- Left 4 Dead 2
- Baldurs Gate 3
- Pokemon Silver
- Terraria
- Spider-Man 2 (the one for PS5)
Out of those probably Terraria and Minecraft take up ranks 1 and 2, just because i START playing them again every few years
Okay let's do this. Not in any order:
- Diablo 2
- Fallout 2 (and to a lesser degree 3 and New Vegas)
- Civilization 4
- Rimworld
- Morrowind
- Against the Storm
- 7 Days to Die
- XCOM 2
- Factorio
- Minecraft
Roughly in order, I think:
- StarCraft: Brood War
- Subnautica
- FTL: Faster than Light
- Spec Ops: The Line
- Risk of Rain Returns
- Portal
- Dead Cells
- Hades
- Team Fortress 2
- Borderlands 2
- Satisfactory
Honorable mention:
- Unreal Tournament 2004
- The first two Golden Sun games
- SOMA
- Diablo II
- Diablo III
- TLoZ: Link's Awakening
Looking over this, it seems like I'm drawn to games that have either unusually good writing, very long skill curves, or (e.g., #1) both.
UT2004 sneaks in for being the absolute best LAN-party game ever (fight me). I think Link's Awakening is mostly just nostalgia though. π
Edit: bumped UT2004 down to "honorable mention" because I somehow forgot the billion hours I've sunk into Satisfactory. Still very curious to see where that game goes story-wise after the 1.0 launch, though.
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- earthbound
- final fantasy 6
- chrono trigger
- super mario world
- mario 64
- halo 2
- grand theft auto 3
- half life 2
- bioshock
- tears of the kingdom
-The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
-Chrono Cross
-Dark Souls 3
-Twisted Metal Black
-Final Fantasy IX
-Perfect Dark
-Banjo Kazooie
-Super Mario 64
-Killer Instinct
-Contra
No particular order. Very much based on personal enjoyment - I recognize that a few of these are very flawed!
Ace Combat 4/5/Zero
Slay the Spire
Elden Ring
Dark Souls 3
Escape From Tarkov
PokΓ©mon Sapphire
DOOM (2016)
PUBG (in its heyday)
(Old School) Runescape
Titanfall 2
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In no order...
- Grim Fandango
- Psychonauts (I and II combined)
- Fallout New Vegas
- Morrowind
- Portal (I and II combined)
- Thief (1-3 combined)
- Civilization II
- Space Invaders
- Falcon series (F3 and 4.0)
- The Pandora Directive
And some bonus games to add to the mix, because there are too many amazing games in the world.
- The Longest Journey/Dreamfall
- Red Dead Redemption II
- Mass Effect
EDIT Also
- Pac Man
- Quake II
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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!
I have a whole separate list for arcade games.
- Mortal Kombat (including only 1, 2, and 3. Hated 4 with a passion.)
- Virtua Fighter 2
- Killer Instinct 1 and 2
- Marvel Vs. Capcom
- Super Street Fighter II Turbo
- X-Men (1992 side scroller)
- NBA Jam
- Tekken 3
- Daytona USA (really reaching here)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (struggling to get the list to 10)
In Order with contender from the same gameline between brackets.
- Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
- Valkyrie Profile Lenneth
- Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones (Path of Radiance & Awakening)
- Monster Hunter Worlds (Hunter 4 Ultimate & Rise)
- Need for Speed Underground 2
- World of Warcraft
- Final Fantasy IV (IX)
- League of Legends
- Dwarf Fortress
- 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
- Gothic 2
- Gothic
- The Legend of Zelda: Windwaker
- Age of Empires 2
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Guild Wars
- Minesweeper
- Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord
- Football Manager 2024 (or one of the old EA ones?)
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Outer Wilds
and
Inscryption
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
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A few favs:
- Max payne
- twisted metal 2
- contra 3
- tetris
- super mario world
- super metroid
- diablo 2
- starcraft
- warcraft 3
- red alert 2
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Gnome Mahjongg
Ltris
Bejeweled
Gnome Tetravex
Frozen Bubble
Xye
No particular order, but it seems I hit quite a few different genres.
- Starcraft
- Stardew Valley
- Subnautica
- Final Fantasy Tactics
- Infamous
- Hades
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Halo 2
- Super Smash Brothers Melee
- Rome: Total War
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
- Street Fighter 2 Turbo (Arcade)
- Chrono Trigger (SNES)
- Contra (NES)
- Dark Souls
- Warcrat 3 TFT (non remaster)
- OpenXCom with X-COM data
- XCom
- Slay the Spire
- OlliOlli
- Mark of the Ninja
- Yakuza0
- Horizon Chase Turbo
(No order, might be not exactly 10 :-P)
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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
Not in order: Dark Souls 1 Dark Souls 3 Elden Ring Witcher 3 Undertale Baldurs Gate 3 NieR: Automata Skyrim Hollow Knight Minecraft
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
In no particular order:
- kenchi
- ghost recon wild lands
- s.t.a.l.k.e.r
- ready or not
- arma 3
- dayz
- mag
- cities skylines
- red dead redemption
- skate 3
Elder Scroll series. Skyrim for the modding and eyecandy potential, Oblivion for the madness that is spellcrafting (also Shivering Isles is the best ES DLC), Morrowind for the true alien fantasy.
Thief II is the quintessential first-person sneaker.
Independence War II still has one of the best flight models and a great story.
X3: Terran Conflict is the best first-person strategy game.
Half-Life 1 and 2.
Il-2: Great Battles is the best WWII combat flight sim.
DCS is the best jet combat sim.
Elite: Dangerous is the only space sim with actual 1:1 scale galaxy, including many real-life stars and is the best life-in-space simulator with flight model as good as I-War 2 and decent enough on-foot parts (even though there is some jank and glitches).
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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
- 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
Satisfactory RDR2 Cyberpunk2077 Mass Effect trilogy Cities Skylines, GTA 5 Halo series then probably a bunch of simulators
Just the ones I know, of course. In the order I fell in love with them:
- Combat
- Duke Nukem
- Herzog Zwei
- Streets of Rage 2
- Mario Kart
- Outpost
- Sim City 2000
- Warcraft 2
- Unreal Tournament 2004
- Halo
Darn thatβs ten and it only gets me up to two decades ago, when I was ending college.
My ten from after college:
- FarCry 2
- EVE Online
- Left 4 Dead 2
- Minecraft
- Grand Theft Auto V online mode
- Factorio
- Battlefield 5
- Sea of Thieves
- Space Engineers
- Overwatch 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
Last time in ONI I made a massive outside area with buildings, an ocean and trees in it!
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Tekken 3
Raiden rtype
Diablo
Unreal Tournament
Blakestone
Alien vs predator
Ultimate Doom
Team fortress 2
Overwatch 1 R.I.P
Battlefront 2
- Team Fortress 2, Team Fortress 2 Classic
- A Story About My Uncle
- Minecraft
- Satisfactory
- Portal, Portal 2
- Half-Life, 2, 2 Episode 1, 2 Episode 2
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Quake
- Portal Stories: Mel
- Tempest
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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
- 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.
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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
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dragon age origins
mass effect 2
red dead 2
baldurs gate 3
witcher 3
cyberpunk 2077
tetris
horizon zero dawn
dragon age inquisition
resident evil 4
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