My 50 Favorite Games -- Updated April 2024

Exactly what it says on the tin. Visual novels and interactive fiction excluded.

Margikarman ItoA
Margikarman ItoA
I have found God, and it is a RPGMaker game.

1

The Sea Will Claim Everything
The Sea Will Claim Everything
"In the end, the sea will claim everything."

2

Heisei Pistol Show
Heisei Pistol Show
This game is violently homosexual.

3

Ruthless Smile
Ruthless Smile
Nier Automata if Yoko Taro wasn't a hack:

4

Ruina: Fairy Tale of the Forgotten Ruins
Ruina: Fairy Tale of the Forgotten Ruins
The greatest open world game is not open world.

5

Immortal Defense
Immortal Defense
Elevated the tower defense genre to high art for a brief moment. Then Bloons came out.

6

Pathologic
Pathologic
Dybowski could write War and Peace, but Tolstoy could never write Pathologic 1.

7

Cosmology of Kyoto
Cosmology of Kyoto
もののあはれ

8

Anodyne 2: Return to Dust
Anodyne 2: Return to Dust
Moved 4 spots down because I missed out on buying that Nova fumo.

9

Geometry Dash
Geometry Dash
Not a rhythm game because it's actually good.

10

Baroque
Baroque
This game is quite new, actually.

11

Mother 3
Mother 3

12

Pathologic 2
Pathologic 2
It's like Pathologic 1.

13

The Void
The Void
It's like Pathologic 1 but with naked girls.

14

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut
Twitter argument simulator (2019, colorized)

15

Flower, Sun, and Rain
Flower, Sun, and Rain

16

Moon: Remix RPG Adventure
Moon: Remix RPG Adventure

17

Bloodborne: Game of the Year Edition
Bloodborne: Game of the Year Edition
The PC port beggers have got it all wrong: the janky framerate is part of the soul of this game.

18

A Blessing for the Herd
A Blessing for the Herd
Here's what Phil Lord would look like if he was Black or Chinese.

19

Oikospiel
Oikospiel
I still do not understand anything about this game.

20

Demons Roots
Demons Roots

21

Fading Afternoon
Fading Afternoon
97 year old Yakuza boss fights alcohol abuse the old fashioned way.

22

Yuuyami Doori Tankentai
Yuuyami Doori Tankentai

23

Pentiment
Pentiment

24

Commonplace
Commonplace
The Life Changing Magic of Not Tidying Up and making shit as bad as it used to be.

25

Suzuki Bakuhatsu
Suzuki Bakuhatsu
Heartwarming ♥️ A Latinx defuses bombs the old fashioned way.

26

Beeswing
Beeswing
I wish Scotland was real.

27

Serial Experiments Lain
Serial Experiments Lain
Did not help with my depression.

28

A Postcard From Afthonia
A Postcard From Afthonia
It's in the Lands of Dream.

29

Re:Kinder
Re:Kinder
Really did not help with my depression.

30

Cave Story
Cave Story
RIP Plato, you would have loved Cave Story.

31

Ico
Ico

32

Arrest of a stone Buddha
Arrest of a stone Buddha

33

L.O.L.: Lack of Love
L.O.L.: Lack of Love
If love, then lack!

34

Saira
Saira

35

Spiegel Ei
Spiegel Ei

Murder is actually really frowned in Japan. It goes against the traditional concept of 生きる, which means "to live."

36

Shadow of the Colossus
Shadow of the Colossus
I just know the 9th colossus gives mad head.

37

Kentucky Route Zero
Kentucky Route Zero
Game about white Republican truck driver talking to other people in MAGAVille somehow has a fanbase of twitter leftists.

38

Rule of Rose
Rule of Rose

39

Sanitarium
Sanitarium
So this is that Blue Archive everyone was talking about...

40

Outer Wilds
Outer Wilds

41

Palette
Palette
CNUYY UOUHHHHHHHHHHH😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💢💢

42

Dys4ia
Dys4ia
coolmath games approved

43

Return of the Obra Dinn
Return of the Obra Dinn
Makes insurance agents look like actual people.

44

Sorry We're Open
Sorry We're Open
Welcome to the corporate ladder.

45

Rain World
Rain World
If you showed this to miyazaki in 2015 he wouldnt have been impressed. this isnt fucking cool or appealing to the eye. this is spelunky on steroids. you guys have completely lost the plot on making dark souls clones holy shit

46

A Space for the Unbound
A Space for the Unbound
I did a lot of bad deeds in my past life, so god punished me by reincarnating me as a filipino.

47

The Caligula Effect 2
The Caligula Effect 2
It got a low metacritic score so it can't be good.

48

Ongeki Bright
Ongeki Bright
I promise I'm not a sex offender

49

Blue Reflection: Second Light
Blue Reflection: Second Light

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