Any platform(s).
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
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 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:
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 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
- Pokémon Crystal
- Battle Brothers
Solid list
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
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
Firestorm represent! I had the biggest oh shit moment when the core defender came out
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
Nice, I love Yakuza, really very special in the world of gaming! :-)
- 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
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.
(Edit 1: formatting)
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.
Ah glad to hear it!
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.
Well, OP’s question could be read as “choose your top games out of a list of all time best video games” and this is probably what the person you’ve replied to read.
Maybe my brain skips words when I read things.
This isn’t a maybe.
:)
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. 😋
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.
Spec ops is amazing
Funny story about that one: my first time playing it, I actually found it a bit too… visceral, and had to stop after getting a couple hours in - I only came back to play it all the way through several years later.
In the intervening time, I learned that one of the developers, when asked whether the game had a “good ending”, said something along the lines of “that’s when the player stops playing in disgust”.
Guess I got the good ending.
Its a great anti war message marketed to the pro war gamers.
It’s also just an incredible deconstruction of the “modern warfare” shooter genre. It screams at the player, “hey, hold up a sec, think about those people you’re shooting”.
I think it’s part of why the only other shooters I like are TF2 and the Borderlands series, both of which frame the violence with a distinctly fantastical, escapist setting, intentionally distancing the game from reality.
Can’t stop playing FTL years later.
Weirdly Monster Train has a similar flavor to me in play style.
- 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