1. World of Warcraft (Vanilla)
2. FTL
3. Terraria
4. Beat Saber
5. Chrono Trigger

Satisfactory

Factorio

Subnautica

Slay the Spire

Mechabellum

osu!

Need for Speed Most Wanted 2005

Chrono Trigger

Trackmania2 (if i had to pick an env it'd be Valley, but all environments are cool)

Team Fortress 2

Super Mario RPG

Disco Elysium

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Sly Cooper and the Thevius Racoonus

Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past

SMRPG is just an all around great game - second runner up being Chrono Trigger. 30ish hours for a full run, minimal filler.

Disco Elysium is just such an amazing game that I restarted it the second I beat it. I played. I cried. I tell everyone to play it.

MGSV isn't my favorite MGS story (that goes to 3) but the gameplay loop was satisfying and I just enjoyed playing it.

Sly just has a lot of nostalgia for me and it was overall my favorite game in the PS2 trilogy.

ALTTP is a similar combo of a great game with a lot of personal meaning to me. It's just one of those games I can mindlessly play but for some reason I've never got into randomizers for it.

In no particular order

Chrono Trigger

Splatoon

Ocarina of Time

StarCraft Brood War

Dragon Age: Origins

Honorable mentions: Mario 3, mass effect (1 and/or 2), tales of graces, Diablo II, tetris

Resident Evil 4

Bayonetta

Bloodborne

Breathe Of The Wild

Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri

1. Hollow Knight
2. Hollow Knight: Silksong
3. Fallout: New Vegas
4. Helldivers 2
5. Terraria

Coincidentally I started playing my top three for the first time starting this year. Its been great finally playing these titles everyone else has been enjoying for years.

Chrono Trigger

Outer Wilds

Subnautica

Deus Ex

Ocarina of Time

Battle for wesnoth

Divinity

Divinity 2

Witcher 3

Baldur's Gate 3

Disco Elysium Outer Wilds Deus Ex Return of the Obra Dinn Heavens Vault

In no particular order

1. Half Life 2
2. Outer Wilds
3. Hollow Knight
4. Pokemon Gold/Silver
5. Tunic

Factorio

Civilization 5

Roller Coaster Tycoon

Baldur's Gate 3

Forza Horizon 4

HM: Slay the Spire, Portal 2

1. Baldur's Gate 3
2. Stardew Valley
3. Skyrim
4. Chronotrigger
5. Rocksmith 2014

Pyre

Void Stranger

Warframe

Rimworld

F-Zero GX

Shared 1st place: What Remains of Edith Finch & Kentucky Route Zero

3rd: Scarlet Hollow

4th: Life is Strange

5th: Baldur's Gate 3

1. Rollercoaster Tycoon
2. Euro Truck Simulator 2
3. OpenTTD
4. Age of Empires II
5. Cities Skylines (only the first)

1. Shadow of the Colossus
2. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
3. Saints Row: The Third
4. Sekiro
5. Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap

Off the top of my head really quickly. Ask me tomorrow and it might be five entirely different games.

Counter Strike 1.6

Dark Souls

Civilization 5

Slay the Spire

World of Warcraft before the first Addon

1. KOTOR
2. Majora's Mask
3. Shadow of the Collosus
4. Fable, with the DLC
5. Pokemon Emerald

In no particular order, here's some games I absolutely adore, some of which absolutely have deep flaws.

Undertale

Gotcha Force

Dragon's Dogma

Kenshi

F-Zero GX

I feel like I'm deeply undercutting some loves, especially story driven games (such as the popular in this thread disco elysium) because I simply haven't poured dozens of hours of them individually and they don't spring to mind as easily. Devil May Cry 5, World War Z, Death Road to Canada, Mass Effect (yes, one), there are so many greats, and I want to enjoy them all. But when I think facorites, I end up thinking of games that let me go fast and explore a cool world

• Factorio
• Dominions (from dom3 onwards)
• Age of Empires 2
• Alpha Centauri
• Xcom Apocalyse

Super Mario World (SNES)

Outer Wilds

League of Legends

The Last of Us

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Dune (boardgame reprint). Battle Star Galactica (boardgame with some of the expansions). Game of Thrones (boardgame). Civilization 5 (PC). Age of Empires 2 (PC, any version, DE is good).

I love the mind fucks in the boardgames; there are a lot of good PC games.

1. Chrono Trigger
2. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
3. Xenogears
4. Final Fantasy VI
5. Metal Gear Solid

Honorable Mentions (no particular order): GTA: San Andreas, Star Ocean: The 2nd Story, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Chrono Cross, Street Fighter 6, Project Zomboid, Cyberpunk 2077, Cairn (very recent).

I lost the ability to have top 5 games lists anymore. But I can list 5 games that meant everything to me, in the sense that they are kind of my favorite games of all time. But that does not mean they are the best games.

• Legend of Zelda: A Link To the Past (Super Nintendo, 1991/92)
• Final Fantasy 6 (Super Nintendo, 1994)
• Final Fantasy 7 (Playstation, 1997)
• Metal Gear Solid (Playstation, 1998/99)
• Overwatch (PC, 2016)

My experience goes back to the 80s, so choosing 5 would be mostly the impactful ones. These games mean a lot to me. I have deep connection to them through my youth, besides Overwatch, the only modern game in this list. I also played ton of fighting games with my local friends, and there are special games to me too (such as Dead or Alive 2, Garou: Mark of the Wolve), but that does not mean they are the best games of all time.

• Elden Ring
• Final Fantasy 9
• Medieval 2: Total War
• The Witcher 3
• GTA Vice City

Yoshis Island Silent Hill Shadow of the colossus Majoras Mask Outer Wilds

There are a lot of games I played a lot of times but maybe because I had no others and had a ton of time. Nowadays I would only replay Yoshis Island and Shadow of the colossus. I dont know if would replay SH but I played it a ton when young and it cemented my love for survival horror games. I only went through Majoras Mask once or twice, I was more of a Playstation kid than a Nintendo one. I recently played Outer Wilds and it was an awesome unexpected experience.

In no particular order

• Animal Well
• Outer Wilds
• Disco Elysium
• The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
• Return of the Obra Dinn

Skyrim.

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1. Minecraft

2. Half-Life 2 & Portal 2

3. Hollow Knight

4. Undertale & Deltarune (cant separate them)

5. Disco Elysium

Other good games: rimworld, silksong, stellaris, ori 1+2, little nightmares 2, tetris, factorio, openTTD, cubyz(potential minecraft 2?), plants vs zombies, slime rancher, postal 2, world of goo 1+2, KSP

1. Silksong

2. Dead Cells or Hades.... Can't decide

3. Final Fantasy 10 (I'm expecting Expedition 33 to replace this as top RPG when I get round to making time to play it)

4. StarCraft 2

5. Control

Blue Prince

Shadow of the Colossus

Kirby Super Star

Brave Fencer Musashi

Morrowind

• Quake
• Borderlands 2
• Warcraft 2
• Fallout 4
• Space Trader

It's a very difficult question to answer. Best of all time what? RPG's? Sandboxes? MMO's? They're not comparable at all. For example, I have SO MANY fucking hours in Rimworld, but I would never say it's a 'better' game than Disco Elysium, where my hours played are very limited indeed (it's not a game you play for weeks on end, of even replay very often). They're both good games, but I would still say Disco Elysium is a 'better' game, even though I would never pick it in a "you're only allowed to play 5 games for the rest of your life, which do you choose?'-situation.

So let's see, I guess any 5 of these would do (Mass Effect + 4 of these anyway)?

Mass Effect
Disco Elysium
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Path of Exile *
Deus Ex
Rimworld *
Terraria *
The Witcher
Baldur's Gate
Dishonored
Divinity Original Sin
No Man's Sky *
Slay the Spire *
Fallout New Vegas

And an honorable mention because I played it for over a decade in the past:

Ragnarok Online

Honestly, I've tried so many MMO's in the years since then trying to capture that feeling.. You all know what I'm talking about. THAT FEELING. Never found it again.

(The games with the * are the ones that I have the most hours in, not because they're the "best" games, but because they have the most replayability and no stories that can end. In a "pick 5 games for the rest of your life" situation those would be the ones I'd choose, I think. Or maybe I would trade one in for Mass Effect, because I can't have N7 Days otherwise. ;))

Elden Ring

Sekiro

Dark Souls III

Oblivion

Hitman: World of Assassination

Bioshock

Descent 2

Radix

Heretic

No man's sky

Bonus: Trog, wacky wheels, worms

• Counter-Strike 1.6
• Assetto Corsa Competizione
• Steam World Dig 2
• Tetris
• MS Freelancer

Ys VII: The Lacrimosa of Dana Fallout New Vegas MechWarrior 3 Rollercoaster Tycoon Battlezone II: Combat Commander

Demons' Souls (PS3)

Tie Fighter

Outer Wilds

Master of Orion 2

Shenzhen I/O

Incredibly difficult to limit it to five, ask me tomorrow and I'll probably come up with 5 others. Anyway

1. Left 4 Dead 2
2. Portal 2
3. Metro Exodus
4. Life is Strange 2
5. DayZ

Half life Alyx

Civilization 4

Mario Kart Double Dash

Mass Effect 1-2-3

Endless Space 2

Honnorable mention to Hollow Knight and Ori will of the wisps.

That's tough. Lot of choices. Are we filtering by "most impactful" or "most likely to replay" or something else? I'll go games that made a big impression on me. There's some boss towards older games.

• Diablo
• Final Fantasy 7
• Baldur's Gate
• Dark Souls
• Guild Wars 2

Ghost n Goblins (C64)
Super pipelines II (C64)
Giana sisters (C64)
Spy hunter (C64)
Diablo II (PC)

Noita Ultrakill Doom eternal Animal well Helldivers 2

And just barely Primordialis No mans sky

Games I have enjoyed the most:

1. WoW (base through Cata)
2. Diablo 2
3. Starcraft
4. Day of Defeat
5. Perfect Dark

Games I currently feel the most fondness for:

1. Path of Exile 2
2. Once Upon a Galaxy
3. Factorio
4. XCOM: Enemy Within (Long War)
5. Zero Sievert