OR YOU WILL LITERALLY DIE
Games are like a badly written book that relies on a worrisome death just around the corner to achieve dramatic tension. Death ups the...
The art of losing
Note from May, 2017: well obviously I should be integrating Jesper Juul and Jack Halberstam into this post and talking about how failure...
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...
101 games
Here goes! This list was compiled from multiple "best-of" lists, the most commonly mentioned examples in books like Fullerton's Game...