A lot of good suggestions but my first thought was Final Fantasy X.
Undertale and Deltarune.
Dwarf Fortress.
Ultima 1-7 and 8 partially.
I think immortal gates of pyre is shaping up to be one!
FALLOUT NEW VEGAS! (Side note) Oh boy, a new list of games to play as I scroll through these comments.
Terraria! That game is great and aged like fine wine
Ocarina of Time. I’m biased because of nostalgia, but I genuinely think it’s the best game ever created. It took everything that was great about the SNES classic A Link To the Past, brought it into 3D as an early N64 game, and improved literally everything. The atmosphere, the gameplay, the story, the time mechanic, the music… It’s not perfect, in fact these days it’s trivial to break many things in it with glitches, but I think it’s absolutely the best.
Hades
Every Supergiant game TBH
MarioCart :)
Half life and half life 2
Prumbably the Morrowind game
Without a doubt the Witcher games, and Baldur’s Gate 3. Probably Dragon Age too, but I haven’t played those.
Factorio
Minecraft
Minecraft before the Microsoft acquisition.
I don’t really know Minecraft before the acquisition. Is it really that much different?
Baldurs Gate 3.
There are too many to mention.
MechWarrior 2
Dragon Age: Origins
Daggerfall
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Baldur’s Gate 3
The Longest Journey
Dark Souls
Civilization 2 & 4
Alpha Centauri
The Outer Wilds
Fallout 1 & 2
Alien: Isolation
Super Mario Bros. 3
Death Stranding
Doom (1993)
Phasmophobia
Psychonauts
X-Com: UFO Defense
The Witcher 1 & 3
Disco ElysiumHalf Life?
I like your taste. These are some bangers lol.
If you haven’t, you should play Armored Core 6. It’s a FROM game, and it feels like one, in all the best ways.
But it’s also a mech game, and it feels like one, in all the best ways! Every button assaults your enemy, every motion feels fluid, fast, effortless - or huge, heavy, clunky - your mech is your mech, and many thoughtful builds can become OP. The customization is bananas. And yet - some fights will remain challenging.
With all sincerity, easy 10/10 game for me, I proceeded from NG -> NG+ -> NG++ directly, which is a first for me and I’m an oldish dude. AND I felt thoroughly rewarded by the end of NG++. It’s a literal perfect game, just unreasonably fun and well-crafted.
Not Witcher 2?
Definitely not 2. Not for lacking of passion, though. They just didn’t pull it off.
