#29
Total Annihilation (PC)
YoY: -2
This is one of the games that made me a huge RTS fan back in the late 90s. Alongside series like Command & Conquer, Warcraft, Starcraft and Age of Empires, Total Annihilation was one of the landmark titles that shaped the genre around the turn of the millennium. Even if certain aspects of the game haven't aged very gracefully (the AI), I can still easily go back and spend an evening building massive war machines and destroying robots without ever getting bored. In fact, I literally just now installed it once again after a long break.
Obviously, nostalgia plays a part in its high ranking on my list, but that's the way it works sometimes. I expect that over time Total Annihilation will slowly fall further down on the list as I play new games, but I will probably never really stop playing it either.
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