The Stanley Parable
Davey Wredon's The Stanley Parable floored critics and players alike when it came out in 2011, originally as a mod for Half-Life 2. The...
Dear Esther
This image does no justice to how beautiful Dear Esther is. If the point of walking sims is to immerse you in a gorgeous environment...
Time travel and narratology (99. Life is Strange (2015), 76. Braid (2008))
There needs to be an article on time travel mechanics in gameplay. Braid, Life is Strange and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask all give...
Portal/Portal 2
So, like I said on the Top 10 page, Portal was the first game I ever played that took my breath away with its narrative. The idea is,...
Mario (1981–)
Mario is (all apologies to Zelda, whose time is coming) the quintessential video game. If you ask a random American who doesn't play many...
Tomb Raider (2015)
I missed the Tomb Raider phenomenon (well, avoided it) and so missed Lara Croft, from her first release in 1996 with pyramidical breasts,...
61.Half-Life 2 (2004)
So I don’t have any kind of moral problem with Half-Life 2, or with First Person Shooters in general. There’s no evidence that in-game...
80. Super Meat Boy (2010, Team Meat)
I have a lot of trouble with the simplest game mechanics. I can only solve a puzzle if you tell me it's a puzzle. The difficult buy-in...
101. That Dragon, Cancer (2016)
That Dragon, Cancer, created by a small group called Numinous Games and categorized as a “walking simulator” on Steam, uses game...
2. Pong (1972)
If we forget experiments like Spacewar!, Pong was the first video game. With it’s very simple and abstracted 2D graphics, ping pong...