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My favorite video games that I've played

posted 2025-03-05

These are games that I like, and I think you might like them too. This page is a rewrite of the original page, which was almost 3 years old… now just a few sentences per game instead of entire paragraphs.

Adventure

OneShot: a puzzle/adventure game about the fourth wall and a cat who likes pancakes. Also see the remastered World Machine Edition!
Outer Wilds: adventure game about space and time. Go into this blind, spoilers ruin the game!
A Hat in Time: cute silly platformer with a lot of DLC content. Now mostly dead, RIP.
Pikuniku: a red ball overthrows capitalism. Short and enjoyable with a silly co-op mode.
Untitled Goose Game: be a goose that ruins everyone’s day. Also kind of a puzzle game?
Jazzpunk: fever dream video game. Not really sure how to explain it. Just have fun.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe: remake of The Stanley Parable with more stuff in it, which gets quite absurd at times. It’s more than it seems.
The Beginner’s Guide: incredibly moving walking simulator about creative drive. I play it every year or so to reflect on it.
Firewatch: the game that everyone used as wallpapers that one time. Beautiful mystery game that makes me feel like I go outside more than I really do.
Stray: you’re a cat in a dystopian city. Made me cry.
No Man’s Sky: explore space! The best comeback story in the gaming industry. It’s fun to pretend I’m a space voyager.
Hypnagogia: Boundless Dreams: walking simulator about exploring dreams. I want to make a game like this!

Platformer

Celeste: beautiful slick platformer with a pretty good story, tons of extra contant, and a very talented modding community.
GRIS: beautiful artistic classic. Also play Neva!
VVVVVV: classic platformer about bending gravity that came out when I was 4. Still fun to this day!
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk: funky skating game that feels like Jet Set Radio 3. Also check out my multiplayer mod!
Refunct: extremely short and sweet platformer speedgame thing. Not sure how to describe it. Fun and mindless.
Verlet Swing: swing around with a rope. It’s like the swingset in elementary school all over again.

Puzzle

Portal 2: my favorite puzzle game, and speedgame of choice. Probably the patient zero of modern internet humor.
Manifold Garden: absolutely mind bending puzzle game that breaks most laws of reality.
Superliminal: abuse the power of depth perception to also break most laws of reality.
Tetris Effect: Connected: incredibly artsy version of Tetris and also probably the best Tetris Guideline-adhering game.
Donut County: consume an entire house via a hole in the ground. Somehow oddly satisfying.
Peggle Deluxe: fever dream pachinko. They should release Peggle 2 on Steam.

Action

Titanfall 2: the best FPS campaign I’ve ever played, with an active modding community making custom servers.
ULTRAKILL: the boomer shooter of the 21st century. It’s stylish as hell and there’s a ton of content.
FINAL FANTASY XVI: they made a Final Fantasy game that’s just Devil May Cry in disguise. It’s very good, though. Haven’t actually beaten it yet because the climax of the story was so good I had to stop playing.
SUPERHOT: time moves when you move. You’ve probably already played it but it’s fun to revisit every once in a while.
Every single Half-Life game. I’m not even linking this you just know it’s good already. Alyx too.

Automation

Satisfactory: an easy way to make me waste two weeks. Extremely delightful every step of the way, but performance hits hard sometimes.
Factorio: the classic automation game. Never really clicked for me, though…

Misc. multiplayer titles

WEBFISHING: fish with your friends! Also check out my modloader.
Rabbit and Steel: imagine if FFXIV raiding was good and also 2D and also you were a rabbit. Easy to pick up and tons of fun, with harder raid tiers for the sweats.
ATLYSS: fun RPG best experienced with friends. The #1 use for Steam Private Games worldwide.
Buckshot Roulette: fun party game where you take turns blowing your head off. There’s some amount of strategy to it but I’m kinda stupid so I don’t know how to play it well.
Screeps: World: a programmer MMORPG where you write code to interact with the game world. I get really invested in it for like two days then drop it for a year.
Risk of Rain 2: extremely fun roguelike. Hopefully Gearbox hasn’t fucked it up more since I wrote this line.
Xonotic: the free and fast arena shooter. We play this every once in a while in my Discord server.

Other stuff I couldn’t sort into a category because I’m lazy

FINAL FANTASY XIV Online: MMORPG that I’ve spent too much time writing mods for. it gets better after 300 hours. My only exception to the no-live-service rule in this post.
SIGNALIS: survival horror with an incredible story. Yay lesbians!
Balatro: it’s gambling. It’s gambling. It’s just gambling. It’s peak.
Pseudoregalia: a metroidvania with incredible movement. The game ends very abruptly, though, so I have no idea what the story is about.
Teardown: voxel physics sandbox where you can destroy anything. RIP that one flying exploit with the wooden boards.
American Truck Simulator: trucking simulator. If you speed fast enough, the early bonus offsets the traffic violations.
Minecraft Dungeons: Diablo but Minecraft. It’s actually pretty fun.
Wanderstop: a “cozy game” about tea, burnout, and change. Incredible writing, music, atmosphere, art, and story.

Honorable mentions

These are games that I haven’t finished yet (and have been meaning to for years…), but you might be interested in them!