Asklemmy

In no particular order:

• kenchi
• ghost recon wild lands
• s.t.a.l.k.e.r
• ready or not
• arma 3
• dayz
• mag
• cities skylines
• red dead redemption
• skate 3

• Nethack : old school roguelike

• Tale of Maj Eyal : removing of tediousness in old school roguelike

• Baldur Gate 2 : D&D implementation

• Civilization 2 : just one more turn

• Fallout 2 : narrative based on character build

• XCom : tactical combat with base building

• Jagged alliance: tactical combat with squad building

• Knight of Legend : best original turnbased combat system never done again

• Slay the Spire: For deck building

• Quake: playing with friend

Bard's Tale
Ultima IV
Neuromancer
Phantasy Star II
Phantasy Star Online
Super Street Fighter II: Championship Edition
Destiny
Impossible Mission
Halo
Gain Ground

• Portal 2
• Shadow of the Colossus
• Gothic 2
• Mass Effect 2
• Uncharted 2
• Dragon Age Origins
• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
• Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines
• The Last of Us
• Max Payne 2

My top 10 in decreasing order (the first series' games I listed individually to give due credit to these masterpieces):

• Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos (Gothic universe)
• Gothic 2 + Night of the Raven
• Gothic 1
• Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 2, Fallout 1
• Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 3
• UFO Enemy Unknown (OpenXcom variant)
• Warcraft III + The Frozen Throne
• StarCraft, StarCraft II
• Unreal Tournament 2000 G.O.T.Y.
• No Man's Sky or Minecraft (contenders for 10th place)

dragon age origins
mass effect 2 red dead 2 baldurs gate 3 witcher 3 cyberpunk 2077 tetris horizon zero dawn dragon age inquisition resident evil 4

I have not kept up with gaming much for the past decade, so my list is going to be very dated. In no particular order:

• Starsiege: Tribes (Tribes 2 gets an honorable mention)
• EarthSiege 2
• EverQuest (very begrudgingly, but it did kick the era of MMORPGs into overdrive, and I was addicted to it for almost a decade)
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
• Mass Effect Legendary Edition (I'm counting the trilogy as a single game)
• X-Wing Vs. Tie Fighter
• Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe
• Cities: Skylines
• Star Trek Online (only because of storylines)
• Battlefield 1942

No console games on my list, because PCMR! :P

[Edit] Almost forgot Star Control 2!

Once again in no particular order: Ultimata IV - Quest of the Avatar

Sim City 2000

The Last of Us

Breath of the Wild

Trade Wars

Kingdom Hearts

Knights of the Old Republic

Civ 6

Omega - a dos game where you programmed Tanks and set them loose

And right now: Balatro

Tic tak toe,

Solitaire,

Snek,

That one with the bubbles that you just watch and you can’t do anything (I think it actually a screen saver)

Uh. That’s it.

• Suikoden 2
• Final Fantasy 7 (original)
• Dark Souls
• Resident Evil 1
• Castlevania SOTN
• D&D Warriors of the Eternal Sun
• Resident Evil 1 Remake (GC)
• Gran Turismo 4
• Road Rash 2
• Oblivion

Big shout out to SFA2, FFT:A/2, BOF series, Roadwarden.

10 feels too little to condense 40 years of games.

Halo 3
Viva Pinata
Fallout 3
Kingdom for Keflings
Red Alert 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Warframe
RuneScape 2 (pre eoc)
Minecraft
Borderlands 2

sly 3

mirror’s edge

also portal 2 somewhere in there

Boom Blocks - Wii - top of my list. Not because it's a good game, but because my kids and I had uproarious hours spent playing it together.
Video game I have not yet figured out the name of. It came out in 1986(ish?) and it had a robot/cyborg in a kind of metroidvania level set. Macintosh.
Doom, the original. Scared the PISS out of me. Then I played it hardcore after that. Doom II came out and I set up LAN parties and opened up my nascent IT outsourcing business for those. Helldivers 2 - Honestly, I haven't actually engaged with a game this hard for decades. Senua's Sacrifice - This game helped me considerably, in understanding the people I love. Doom 2016 - What's not to like. It's perfect. Starcraft II - When it came out. Excellent weaving of story and gameplay. HI-FI Rush - Unexpected fun. Zork - I would have never expected this level of amazing story telling this many years ago.
I know I am short of 10, but I can't think of anything else.

Hylics 1/2

Half Life 1

Myst

Jet Set Radio Future

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

Factorio

Doom II (heavily modded)

OpenRCT2

Voices of the Void

The Sims (I like the series as a whole, I feel like each game has its own pros and cons)

Football Manager phone versions.

All on Windows XP:

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Max Payne

Max Payne 2

Aliens Versus Predator 2

Half Life

COD 1,2 and 3

Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast

Elden ring

Borderlands 2

Pokemon emerald

Fallout 4

Monster Hunter world

Chivalry II

Gears of war 2

PUBG

Escape from Tarkov

Call of duty: World at war

Roughly in that order