2026-09-27 16:21 UTC
The Outer Wilds (obviously)
The Talos Principle
Dark Souls
Factorio
Dwarf Fortress (This last one is tough and I don’t know if this is the right choice. The other four are correct.)
An honorable mention to Death Stranding. It isn’t in my top games, but I think it deserves to be more influential. It takes the boring part of most games, which is traversal, and builds the entire game around it. It’d be higher if it didn’t become so trivial by the end, but also designing your network that makes it trivial is part of the fun. More open world games should take more lessons from it and it’d solve some of the biggest issues of open world game: traversal just being a waste of time and boring.
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@SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-09-28 06:42
I thought about talos, and while it’s a great game and a very high score, I just can’t get myself to put it next to what I would call the greatest of all time like sm64, oot, and ff7. Talos is too one note. So while it’s likely top most tier in whatever genre that is, it’s also weirdly not that well rounded and I would almost call it a niche game
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@kieron115@startrek.website 2026-09-29 06:34
Outer Wilds made me cry like a baby at the end. I wish memory erasing tech was real so I could play it for the first time again.