🎮 All-time favorite completed video games (as of 2025, loosely ranked)
Thought I'd make this list public so it's easy to link to when people ask me what kind of games I like. 🤷
I've finished all of these, with the exception of those that are exclusively multiplayer of course.
My loose ranking is based on a combination of perceived cultural impact (meaning how broadly I've known the game to be revered in the enthusiast gaming sphere), and my own personal experience while playing.
You will notice many obvious omissions; These have either not been completed, or I simply haven't played them. There are also games out there which I consider to be "good" without having actually played or enjoyed them, so they are also omitted.
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Top Ten or so
- DOOM (1993)
- Quake
- Baldur's Gate III
- Disco Elysium
- Tunic
- Outer Wilds
- System Shock 2
- The Neverhood
- Quake III: Arena
- Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Runner-ups
- Monkey Island III: The Curse of Monkey Island
- World of Warcraft (Vanilla through WOTLK, specifically)
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Alien: Isolation
- DOOM (2016)
- SOMA
- Prey (2017)
- Divinity: Original Sin II
- Myst
- Ori and the Blind Forest
- GRIS
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Return of the Obra Dinn
- Half-Life
- Half-Life II
- Hades
- Portal
- Starcraft: Brood War
- Diablo II
- Spiritfarer
- Cuphead
- TMNT: Shredder's Revenge
- 1000xRESIST
- Control
- Layers of Fear
- Super Mario Galaxy
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- The Witness
- Subnautica
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- DUSK
- Super Castlevania IV
- DuckTales
- Thank Goodness You're Here
- Bioshock
- Super Mario World
- DOTA2
- Ninja Gaiden
- Donkey Kong Country
- TMNT IV: Turtles In Time
- Super Mario Allstars (I know, I know, this is cheating (kind of))
- Street Fighter II: Turbo
- SimCity 3000
- Braid
- Chip'n'Dale: Rescue Rangers