It’s been 15 minutes since I’m trying to rank my top 10 games, but it’s impossible. I love them all for different reasons, they’re all n°1 in my memories. So I’ll go with an unordered top 10, deal with it. Of course there’s nothing objective in that list.
- Skyrim. The first game I have been truly, completely, utterly involved in. I enjoyed every hour playing, even more with mods. I still regularly come back to it.
- Planescape : Torment. Old game, but the writing and the worldbuilding got me. Everywhere you look, you’ll find a comment, a little interesting fact, a funnily lame pun.
- Witcher 3. Basically Skyrim 2 for the way I felt playing it. Especially the Blood and Wine extension.
- Minecraft modded. This game is just infinite possibilities of exploration and creativity for me.
- Baldur’s Gate 3. This game checks everything I’m looking for in a CRPG. I’m on my 3rd playthrough, it’s still as epic as the first one, i still enjoy it thoroughly.
- Yakuza Like a Dragon. My god this game. How can you have such a deep and serious main story and such silly sidequests at the same time. No game has had me passing from crying to laughing so rapidly.
- NieR Automata. Wierd, atmospheric, original, surprising, compelling, even if boring sometimes. This game simply sucked me in its atmosphere. It compares to no other experience I’ve had in gaming. Bonus point for the music.
- Warhammer 3 Total War. I love the setting, I love building armies and slowly rolling over the world. It’s a no-brain game for me.
- Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. I’m probably very biased because I love ancient greek mythology. This game is gorgeous, the story was cool, and even if the sidequest felt repetitive in the end, I loved simply travelling through those landcapes.
- Warcraft 3. I have nothing more to add. No other strategy game has felt the same after this one.
Honorable Mentions : Too many to list be here’s a few : Dishonored, Death Stranding, Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2, Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2, Divinity : the Dragon Knight Saga, Dragon Age Origins, Persona 5, Starcraft 1 and 2, Age of Empire 3, Battle for Midle-Earth 1 and 2, Nier Replicant, Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2, Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2, Icewind Dale and many more.
More or less the entirety of Sanitarium. I had to play it a second time to know that it was talking about the mental recovery of the main character. Before that, to me it was just someone travelling between strange worlds.