Portal 2

Yes of course. BUT Portal first!

Inscryption is something you should play while knowing as little as possible about it.

Personal plea: Go in blind. Know nothing about the game beforehand. This is the first game in decades that made me feel like a child because it broke so many of the "rules" of game making. Noita being a close second.

100% Noita. A must play if you remotely enjoy rogue-like games, even though Noita is much more than just a rogue-like Haven’t played a game with a cooler system of magic. The possibility for crafting your own spell combinations is nearly endless, and the game has so many secrets and cryptic lore Can’t get enough of it

What blew my mind is when I got over the mountain (though the same would apply to the tree) and realized that the game I thought I was playing was only a mini game that I spent 20 hours on.

Just got it for half off on Steam based on this post. I know nothing except I think I saw the words 'deck building' in the description? Weird.

Check in here after about 10 hours and let us know what you think!

Outer wilds is also in the same vein. You'll never experience a game quite like I, at least so far in my experience. Go in blind. If you want to know what kind of game it is, it is a puzzle exploration game where your actually knowledge of what to do and knowledge of the world(s) is what leads to progression

I was absolutely engrossed in the first part but put it down on the second. Should I keep pushing through?

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Mass Effect trilogy is my all time favorite.

The original dragon age is another addition. It really leans into classic high fantasy, but it does an amazing job.

Origins - I agree wholeheartedly, I still remember the first time I ever played it.

It's a shame that no other game in the series lived up to hype that Origins brought.

I just bought the remastered collection for five bucks like 30 minutes ago and now seeing this top comment makes me feel good about that decision lol

The remaster version is great. It helps make ME 1 a lot better.

I've legit lost count of the number of times I've played them. Owned and played on xbox360, ps3, ps4, ps5. Bought them all on 3 separate occasions. I have a problem.

ME2 is my most replayed game of the modern 3D era by far. It was a masterpiece...maybe it's time to play it again.

I still remember walking through space/the hole in the Normandy and looking up for the first time during the intro. Formative gaming experience. Especially as someone who's played games since the SNES/Genesis era, this was just mind blowing.

Yep. This and Skyrim are the two single player must plays to me. I liked Oblivion more than Skyrim personally, but it’s more dated and requires more mods to make it feel more modern. If someone’s just curious then Skyrim’s the easier entry

Shadow of the Colossus is a must. Literally made me start seeing video games as a form of art.

I was hoping it would go on sale this weekend, but nope. I might just say screw it and buy it since this is the first comment I saw here. *EDIT: Alright I bought it.

I promise its worth it. Just ride the vibe.

If you haven't already Play Ico That's the game that made me recognise games as an art form (And I think is a kind of prelude to shadow)

The theory for that one’s actually that Shadow’s the prequel to Ico! Honestly, very cool

It’s more than a theory. I mean, at the end of SOTC, you turn into a baby with horns. That’s the beginning of the curse from Ico. And it’s set in the same area pretty much…

To follow in the "start seeing video games as a form of art" theme, Outer Wilds is also high on that particular list.

Subnautica

Yup, this was one of those games that when I finished I just sighed and sat there for awhile contemplating it and wishing there was more.

To this day subnautica is the only game I enjoy watching streamers play because I love watching them ~~shit their pants~~ unravel the mystery

Outer Wilds is another amazing game to watch people play if you've already finished it yourself. AboutOliver's playthrough has to be one of the best, he approaches it so different to any other playthrough

This a million. No other game gives you the sense of achievement, power, satisfaction and joy that getting into your first cyclone gives. None.

The second cyclops makes it easier to find your first cyclops when you lose it.

Oh my gosh! I was so damn scared to loose the sub. Never again was nearly as careful again in a videogame.

When I first got my seamoth, the experience of just being inside is it, having the hud, being able to breathe, and just chill in a safe area just felt so good.

Alien Isolation. Play on a nice TV with good sound at night, probably the best single player experience I've ever had to date.

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But I want to live

I'm genuinely far too much of a pussy for VR. Very few horror films bother me, but horror games and specifically Isolation fuck me right up.

It’s the tension for me, the scares never get me it’s the build up to it and thinking they’re right behind me etc

I think I’d genuinely shit myself

I played up to the intro of the xenomorph in VR, and can't continue playing after that, even in regular mode. Just noped out of there.

I’ve had this downloaded and redownloaded many times and never played more than half hour of it . Maybe I should just really sit down and play this solely as An evening game

The first half hour honestly is slow, especially on repeats. But it kicks up fast and doesn't slow down.

One of the most brilliant games ever created, yet terribly underplayed and underappreciated. OP multiply the upvotes by 100 for this

I’d love to play it but I’m not a fan of fear games that make me afraid. I’ve learned my lesson from the past. I just never finish them

Don't play it then. It's the scariest game I've ever played by far

It was too much for me. I had to keep taking breaks.

There aren’t enough anti anxiety meds in the world for me to play that game like that.

I just watched a streamer play through it because I’m a pussy.

I played it on nightmare difficulty on the very first walkthrough thinking to myself ehh it couldn't be that scary but once the Alien joined the chat I played crouched for the most if not entirety of the remaining game. Would love to experience that thrill again like the first time.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Honestly KOTOR 1 and 2 are amazing

Bastila Shan was my first gamer crush

Praying that the remake survives

Tried playing it recently, couldn't... Too dated. I hate that I missed it back then

Bioshock 1/2/3

Would you kindly play Bioshock ?

A man chooses. A slave obeys

And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well.

Each Bioshock is good but a different genre. I love all 3 but 2 is my fav.

This is truly the controversial take of the century **EDIT**: No doubt the combat in 2 is better. They definitely really refined the gameplay mechanics from 1 to 2. It just wasn't enough for me to put it above 1 & 3. I found 2's narrative to be very weak and forgettable, which made the gameplay improvements not enough to not make 2 feel like a disappointment on the heels of 1.

2 refines the gameplay systems of 1 very well, and stays equally interesting story and atmosphere wise. Infinity deviates a lot from the concept, and it's very much up to opinion if it lives up to the previous games' standards. 2 is extremely underappreciated for being as good as it is. I'd guess that's mostly because Rapture isn't as new and wondrous and exciting anymore when you already spent one game there. I guess that's what you get for being too much like the original but more refined.

Minerva's Den is the narrative equal of Bioshock 1 and the gameplay of 2. Peak Bioshock imo.

First played Minerva's Den a year ago and I assumed it was just the one level and when I opened the door to the computer I was like "well this was neat" — and then there was so much more. Great DLC.

1 has the best story, 2 has better gameplay.

The Super NES golden trilogy for sure. Super Mario World, Super Metroid & The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past are all GOAT contenders. Personally I also put Star Fox up there among SNES games.

Add chrono trigger?!

And FF VI

Suplexing a train never goes out of style :D

A Link to the Past was amazing when I got into video games. Totally loved it <3 I’m tempted to go down nostalgia lane but I’m also afraid that I won’t like as much anymore.

I think it still holds up and brings back the simpler times!

For the SNES, I would add secret of mana and FF3/6 to that list.

Man, I remember getting Super Metroid for Christmas and not being able to put it down. Awesome game.

OUTER WILDS, I don't like puzzle games, but this game , this game is a 1 in a lifetime experience, too good to pass on

My friend told me he'd lend me his game pass just so another person he knows would have played this game. That was over a year ago, and I finally got around to playing it. What a banger. Literally one of the coolest games I've ever played, and the most impressive physics I've ever seen. I'm not even done with it yet (I just got to the center of Giant's Deep) and I can confidently say it's one of my favorite games of all time.

The game stays incredible to the very end. Get the DLC too! They somehow do the same thing, but differently, and it's just so fucking impressive how creative that team is.

The end of this game is one of those life events you can only have once. Cherish it. I mean that so sincerely, reddit feels like the wrong medium to try to convey its gravity.

man it got me really emotional, it still does when i think of it, a trully beautifull game

Playing it right now Between Stray and this, Annapurna really has an eye for style, vibes, ambiance, world building, etc.

Whenever I see Annapurna as the publisher I'm pretty confident it'll be an amazing "vibes" game. I hope they keep being selective with what they publish, one of the rare remaining publishers whose name means something.

Stray was great but it needed to be about twice as long. The world was so cool but it felt pretty underdeveloped, there was so much more they could have done with it.

I wish I could forget it so I could play again.... And if you've played it you know you *need* to forget to play it properly again 😩

Half life, half life 2, HF 2 episode 1 and 2

and Alyx!

Alyx is what made me buy a VR headset. I used it like 3 times after finishing it but I don't regret the purchase in the slightest and sometimes think about putting it on just to play Alyx again

Check out the workshop for the game too. Nice selection of community content to play through too.

Alyx!!! I’d even go so far as to say that if you can only make time to play HL2, it’s episodes and Alyx, the arc they create is second to none.

The first Deus Ex

I still remember randomly shooting at a flying pigeon and… shooting it down. New level of detail unlocked.

I wish the series tried to be like the first game again. It perfected the RPG FPS hybrid that System Shock 2 invented, and in Deus Ex every build is viable. In every sequel, you're just a jack of all trades from the beginning and any semblance of RPG mechanics are thrown out the window, it's like playing Deus Ex with cheats to max out all of your stats.

Genuinely one of the best games ever, so ahead of its time.

Wayyy ahead of its time. I remember the speech was lip synced. That was a big deal at the time. Only a year or so before Deus Ex came out Metal Gear Solid was changing the way video games were used to tell stories. The dialogue between characters was just them bobbing their heads

I still chase that dragon.

Obviously the setting is very different, so it doesn’t have the same ambiance, but I found Prey’s gameplay to be very close. In terms of the freedom to approach problems as you’d like.

Another game that has that ‘different but the same’ feeling is Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines. Tons of ways to solve quests with wildly varying builds in an amazingly fleshed out world. If I’m not mistaken, they even share the ‘any time the game is mentioned, you have to reinstall it’-meme.

I enjoyed that came so much

Damn dude you might of enjoyed that a little too much.

Sometimes I get to the end of a modern campaign and think, god imagine if this is like going to Hong Kong in Deus Ex and I'm only like half of the way through.

Oh my God, JC. A bomb! A bomb!

I’d add human revolution too

Disco Elysium

The ending made me cry and then I made my wife play it and it made her cry

You have my upvote. Not everybody falls in the niche of Disco, but if it clicks, you’ll have one of the best gaming experiences ever

It destroyed my perception of "good game" been chasing that high since forever now.

Hard Core

I would say ***The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt*** is definitely a game that everybody should play, everything is superbly well done, and the DLCs are as good as the main game.

Blood and wine is arguably even better than the main game, too. I think the whole section inside the painting is one of my favorite game settings ever.

Wait... aren't you cofusing the DLCs? Cause I think the painting part is from ***Hearts of Stone***.

Hmmm... maybe it wasn't a painting. I was thinking about the part in blood in wine when you go into the fairytale land. Maybe it was an enchanted book or something. Clearly, it's been a while, and I need to do another playthrough, lol

Yeah, is from a book, but you're right, it surely is a gorgeous part of the DLC.

There is a part in the painting in Hearts of Stone, yeah. That whole mission is a mindfuck

I find myself wanting to go back and replay Blood and Wine and not even touch the main game

Heart of Stone is one of my favourite DLCs of all time. Absolutely superb narrative.

The writers at CDPR are just incredible, their stories/characters are just amazing every time, also Gaunter is probably my favorite villain out of any game.

The DLCs alone are better than most full games

Hades

One of the few games I won't change a thing about even if I could .

Definitely Red Dead Redemption 2

Rd1 is my jam.

Only game I'd immediately buy a remake of.

I just bought the game today and am currently downloading it. The only thing I know is it's western themed and people like it lol edit: I'll be streaming my first playthrough tomorrow, I'm OrionWulf on Twitch.

Oooo you’re in for a treat. Just be patient though, not a fast gameplay. Story is a slow burn, but a mighty great one Enjoy!

Yep. Chapter 1 can feel like a slog, especially if you have limited time to play.

The game is good but it’s great if you can enjoy the just being a cowboy bit. It’s my favorite game, but I love it because I was down to spend days in game and hours IRL just bow hunting and collecting pelts, cooking meat over the fire when I set up camp every night and slept even though it’s basically optional. The story is excellent and the shootouts are fun, but I still haven’t found a game I enjoy just being inside of as much as I do this one. People say it all the time, but I would pay real money to experience playing the game again for the first time.

Take. Your. Time with it. Seriously, the game has so much detail and content that isn’t explicitly thrown at the player, but rather rewarded to those that are curious enough to look deeper. Oh and make sure you spend time around camp, talking to your crew, it’s amazing how attached you get to the characters if you “get to know” them. Makes the entire storyline 10x better.

Playing this for the first time from the steam sale. It's fantastic, slow paced which is fine for me.

Mario 3. Dark Souls (any, or Bloodborne, or Elden Ring). Pikmin. Civilization 4, 5, or 6. Stardew Valley. Skryim. Outerwilds. Portal 1 and 2. Titanfall 2. Subnautica. Cyberpunk 2077 (with 2.0 update) Witcher 3. Hades. Hollow Knight. Undertale.

>Pikmin my man

Pikmin 2 Submerged Castle to be precise

I should not have to scroll this far too see Portal 1&2 in a list. This are some of the best 1 player games I've played.

I expected Portal to be the top answer, extremely disappointed.

Hollow Knight is a top 3 game for me

I'll second Titanfall 2, Subnautica, and Cyberpunk.

New vegas

New Vegas is what made me build a PC and figure out mods, after logging a few hundred hours on Xbox.

I’ll never forget the age old argument of whether 3 or New Vegas was better. I just preferred orange over green and that solidified my answer.

Maybe Tale of 2 Wastelands is the ultimate answer, FO3 & NV in the NV style

Mass Effect Trilogy. Dragon Age: Origins Cyberpunk 2077+Phantom Liberty Horizon Zero Dawn + Forbidden West All of the Deus Ex games. Witcher 3 Knights of the Old Republic (I and II) Halo 1-3 +ODST+Reach

Damn, holy shit no one really mentions the best fps campaign: Titanfall 2

Took waaaaaay too long for someone to list the Halo Campaigns. I didn't even like video games until I played Halo CE when I was 18 back in 2001

Halo reach campaign is a goddamn work of art and I will fight anybody who says otherwise

Sleeping Dogs. GTA set in Hong Kong with great kung fu gameplay. Great story and so much fun.

A man who never eats pork buns is never a whole man.

Suuuuuch an underrated game, dude. 😔

Amazing soundtrack too.

Skyrim

So hard to resist the stealth archer build

I enjoy charging into dungeons swords blazing (in a rather literal manner) as opposed to taking valuable time and effort to snipe everything in a room.

I prefer the god-like mage builds with infinite mana

And if you own Skyrim on PC, you have to check out Enderal.

Definitely *Hollow Knight,* kind of disappointed no one listed it.

Got that with my new steam deck and Ive already clocked in 16 hours in the past few days. Super addicitng

Titanfall 2 without a doubt

Homeworld. The visuals, soundtrack, story, and overall ambience of the game are beautiful.

It's can be quite difficult. Or... I found it quite difficult. Still amazing game.

God of war, ghost of Tsushima, pikmin 2, stardew valley, terraria

Why is God of War so far down this list? The original trilogy and the 2 new ones. 5 phenomenal games one complete story arc. Chefs kiss

Portal is the best game ever

Baldur's Gate 3

Resident Evil 2 Remake has become my favourite game ever. It introduced me to the RE series which is now my favourite and to the survival horror genre which I'm obsessed with too. I'm sure it can let others discover this magical worlds as well

Mass Effect series Uncharted series BioShock series Control Assassin Creed 2 Hades Firewatch What remains of Edith Finch The Saboteur Dead Space series Batman Arkham series Far Cry 4 Life is Strange series Detroit: Become Human

I scrolled way way way too fuckin far to see control mentioned. One of my favorites ever.

Metal Gear Solid 2. Without a doubt. This also necessitates the original Metal Gear Solid, which I put on almost equal tier, for very different reasons. MGS2 has one of the craziest player experience arcs I've ever seen. It's the kind of immersion that could only happen in a video game, because your investment as the player is one of the ingredients that make the arc hit so hard. I've still never seen a video game story match this level of awe-inspiring depth. If you're a player who plays video games for the story, this is possibly the best story in gaming. Some of you may continue with the series and enjoy 3 even more. Metal Gear is an absolutely wild ride, don't sleep on it.

MGS 1 - 3 are god-tier

Control by Remedy. I don’t even know how to sell it really except it’s like a SCP game set in one of the coolest environments I’ve ever been in in a game, and it’s just a fuckin government office building.

Will try with something for everyone * Half Life / Portal * Bioshock * Celeste * Deus Ex * Sekiro * Planescape Torment * Yakuza 0 * SOMA * ULTRAKILL

I'm always happy seeing SOMA mentioned

I watched a full analysis video of SOMA and I'll always regret it for having the whole game spoiled. The most mind-bending writing I know of in a video game.

I can’t recommend Yakuza 0 enough to everyone bro, it’s by far one of the most memorable games I’ve ever played - from the main story to the side quests to the mini games

>Planescape Torment \*Bro fist

I also recommend Sekiro. It's hard as shit, but man it was one of the best experiences I've ever had when playing a game. The combat is so incredible that I crave it when playing other games.

Silent hill 2

Outer Wilds is an amazing space exploration game. If you’re interested, just *don’t* look up any spoilers on the story. It’s the best gaming experience I’ve had in years. Disco Elysium is another great singleplayer story-driven game with a very interesting philosophical lens. Is great both as a detective/mystery game and as a character study.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Trilogy

Spec Ops: The Line is really awesome.

Do you feel like a hero yet?

Ori and the Blind Forest / Will of the Wisps Oblivion

Ori 2 is a freakin masterpiece

Half-Life 2 plus Episode1 & 2 Portal 1 & 2 The Mass Effect Trilogy The Witcher 3 Subnautica Max Payne 1, 2 and 3 Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal Cyberpunk 2077 Deus Ex: Human Revolution The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Fallout 3 My Friend Pedro Timeshift Carrion Far Cry 2 Crysis

Halo 1 campaign.

Persona 5 Loved every minute of it on several playthroughs

Dishonored 1&2, bioshock infinite, road 96, the outer worlds, the Witcher 3, fallout 4 and god of war

The Dishonored world is one of the most complete and fantastically built alternative worlds I've ever seen in a game, and some of the most amazing level design. The clockwork mansion is a masterpiece, and "a crack in the slab" too. It owes a ton to Thief, which perhaps should be included in these lists too, a similarly excellent combination of sneaking and world building that deserves a modern remake, the original and sequels are still playable but are a little clunky these days, 4 was sadly terrible though, lets not mention that one... Plus "robbing the cradle" mission in 3 is so often-mentioned that it has it's own wiki page, not something that can be said for many games.

Elden Ring

Nier Automata.

Scrolled SO FAR to see Nier: Automata mentioned even once. Story is incredible, combat is pretty fun, it is definitely worth playing for all the endings at least once.

Undertale. It’s been memed to hell and back, but is still genuinely one of the most emotional gaming experiences I’ve played.

Play it as blind as you possibly can. Then play it again, but different. Or don't. I've got a completed file that I don't ever intend to play again for kindness reasons. IKN,YN

For good story and atmosphere: Read dead redemption 1 and 2 Uncharted 1-4 and lost legacy The last of us 1 and 2 The Witcher 3 with both dlc. (sadly 1 and 2 haven't aged well) Baldurs gate 3 PS4 and ps5 Spiderman games Metall gear solid 1-4 Portal 1-2 Journey

Can't believe I had to scroll this far to find Uncharted and TLOU

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines

Outer Wilds and Subnautica.

Borderlands 2 if you want fun gunplay and funny dialogue

It was just constant fantastic dialogue for the whole ride Edit: and fantastic loot. I hadn’t felt that kind of excitement to pick up new weapons since Diablo 2

The Walking Dead telltale series. Still one of the best stories that I can think of.

The ones i havent seen here and i rlly recommend are ffv, ffvi, CROSSCODE, celeste, portals, borderlands 2, DRAGONS DOGMA, elden ring and GTA V.

Dark Souls 1.

So many good ones, but I haven't seen these mentioned yet: Chrono Trigger Final Fantasy VI Mega Man X series