22 and 17 is correct.

19 is not correct.

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#15

-Features a time paradox, where the main character accidentally travels to the past at the end of the game and gives someone an idea for a new kind of school that they then go on to found. 

-Garden

#14 Uncharted 4

-The epilogue sees you control the main character's daughter

#13 The Last of Us

-The prologue sees you control the main character's daughter (for a bit)

#12 Dark Souls III

-"I will assuredly finish the painting.
Of a cold, dark, and very gentle place.
One day, it will make someone a goodly home."

#11

-The two protagonists are junior Bracers

-First entry into a lengthy series of games

15) Clearly this is X-Men: Days of the Future Past Final Fantasy VIII

11) Hmm, depends on whether it's greater series or one of the subseries. I'll say Trails of the Sky

19) Persona 4?

18) "Recent tactical game" makes me think a Persona 5 spin-off. I can't keep track of those any more but I'll say Strikers

16) Could be Persona 5

(Kinda going for a theme here, hope at least one of them is right)

Next batch of write-ups ready to go. We're very high on the list now.

Placement/ Last Year	Write-up	(Box) Art
#20 #22	Super Mario Galaxy I had the great pleasure of replaying Super Mario Galaxy last year for the first time in a looong time and yeah, it’s still amazing. It might not have the openness of 64 or Odyssey (#32) but it makes up for it with excellently designed and highly varied levels. It’s also just one of the most charming and pleasant games to sit down and play out there and little elements such as the hub and Rosalina’s story book are really the icing on the cake. It wouldn’t call it a completely perfect game, but it’s not hard to see why both critics and players fell in love with it back in 2007.
#19 #18	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim I might not have visited the world of Skryim in a while but what a world it is. In some ways I think it’s still the best open-world out there or at least in the top 2 or 3, there’s something to do everywhere and just going exploring can be a blast. It’s a game that gives you so much freedom but in terms of where you go and what you do and how you shape your character, the skill tree is kind of ingenious in just giving every aspect its own little segment and letting you level up damn near all of them if you want to and put in the time. Whatever Skyrim might lack in terms of its combat or its main story (which are both actually pretty good just not amazing) it makes up for by simply being the best fantasy playground you could ask for.
#18 #17	Super Smash Bros. Brawl Yep, Brawl is amazing. Smash is always a blast and this is my most played one, in many ways I still like it’s roster the best and Subspace is probably still the highest bar for a cross-over, a real characters-actually-interacting-cross-over, in a game, one that I’m not sure will ever be topped. But enough about how great Brawl is because this time I want to take this opportunity to talk about my Home Run Contest addiction. Seriously when that mode arrived for Ultimate, I spent a couple of days doing almost nothing else, and I’ve played it even more in Brawl. If you look at the total amount of hours I’ve spent in Smash games, I’d bet at least 30 % of it has been in Home Run Contest, hitting some dumb sack over and over. There’s just something extremely (and dangerously) addictive about trying to land just the right combo, when you know it’s possible but the perfect execution is just out of reach, I’ve spent dozens or hundreds of tries setting some of my records, some of my best we’re with Ice Climbers in Brawl and Shulk in Ultimate. But yeah, I haven’t touched the mode in a couple of years now because even though I love it, I kind of hate how easily it can suck up so much of my time (and how it hurts my thumbs).
#17 #16	World of Warcraft World of Warcraft moved up a bit on my list this year despite the fact that I haven’t played it in years but I think it deserves some acknowledgement for being the game that has sucked up the second most hours of my life, and I loved it. There are so many elements that make up WoW like raiding, PvP, the lore, clans, etc. etc. and it all adds to the experience, but I think my favorite part of the game was starting up as a new character. Getting to experience new starting areas and quest lines and starting from scratch as a new class was always awesome to me. My Warrior was always my main, but I think I leveled up most classes fairly high and they were all pretty fun to play is in their own way. Like I said it’s been a long time since I’ve played the game by now but I hope Classic is still there when I one day get the time and the will to revisit the game.
#16 #15	Final Fantasy VII As much as I love both IX and X (let’s call them honorable mentions), VII is my favorite FF game by a very wide margin. I’m not the biggest turn-based enthusiast mainly because I think while many turn-based games have fairly good gameplay, very few have great gameplay, but luckily VII is one of the few that manage the latter. This mostly comes down to the Materia system which is easily the best customization system the series has seen in my eyes and gives you a ton of freedom to combine moves and modifiers and change things up fluidly along the way, and on top of that it just has some of the coolest moves, spells and summons. But maybe I should also mention the absolutely amazing story with some of the most iconic characters and moments in all of gaming? … Nah, come to think of it you probably know about that already.

18 is correct.

19 and 16 are incorrect.

See here for the current standing in the guessing game.

#20: Baldur's Gate as guessed by Darashiva.

#19:
The game has some innovative ideas, mainly it tries it's hand at procedural story generation and character growth, meaning each playthrough is different.
First the Age of Ulstryx.
Meet Drauven, Thrixl, Morthagi.
This kinda obscure indie game came to PC in 2021.
Magic users interestingly are manipulating objects in the environment and what can be done depends on the type of object.

#18: Breath of the Wild as guessed by Darashiva.

#17: (not Outer Wilds)
20 minute survivors.
Shoot at these spawning horrors to survive until dawn.
A good art style only needs black, white and red.
An earlier demo was half as long timed and appropriately named.

#16: Kid Icarus: Uprising as guessed by S.Peelman.

#15:
Let's rise your settlement, before it falls again to Ruins.
Build your city and defend against the hordes of the corruption attacking at night.
Even if your colony is overrun by corruption, you gain abilities to do better next time.

#14:
On the first day man was granted a soul and with it, clarity.
On the second day upon Earth was planted an irrevocable poison.

#13:
At the time the game had a discussion surrounding it, as in difference to other games in the genre at the time it had lifes.

19. Although this is the 4th game in the series, it feels like the 2nd game for most people. Basically it went like this, the first game got released on the PS3, the 2nd game on PSP in Japan and elsewhere, the 3rd game on PSP only in Japan, and the 4th game on PS4 worldwide. It was the last game made by the company in 5 years.

16. This is the entry in this series to put the game on the map for most western players despite being so deep into the series. Despite being deep in the series, it was the first game in the series to use the correct name instead of the weird localized name.

Guessed by @TruckOSaurus

Nothing will ever match the raw, visceral feeling of this game's combat.

Okay, I don't know, maybe one day something will. A sequel, hopefully? But it's unmatched so far.

Astral Chain just feels so good to play. It takes a rather ambitious idea - controlling two characters at once - and makes it feel seamlessly intuitive, while still having a significant learning curve and lots of depth beneath the surface. I feel like I could replay this game twelve times and I'd still be learning and improving, not only because the depth is there, but because it's so satisfying to actually get better, it's actually fun to play the game in the most optimal way, to use every single skill and mechanic at your disposal to destroy your enemies as fast as possible.

In most games, I can't be bothered to learn to play them "optimally", but with Astral Chain, it's like it opened up a whole new way of experiencing what was already a great game. It's got a great soundtrack, it's got a strong art direction with some of the best visuals on the Nintendo Switch (albeit still held back by the console). The story might be somewhat cliché, but it hits when it needs to and it has some really interesting worldbuilding behind it, it puts just enough juice behind its setting to really get your imagination going. Even the non-combat gameplay is pretty decent, if rarely more than that, but man, that combat really is something else, and it's gonna keep me coming back to this for a long time yet.

Top 50 >>

The guess ranking is looking like a foregone conclusion with 16 games to go, but anyways, here's what it's looking like:

UnderwaterFunktown - 10 guesses
drbunnig - 5 guesses
S.Peelman & Veknoid_Outcast - 4 guesses
Machina & Mnementh - 3 guesses
TruckOSaurus - 2 guesses
BonfiresDown, Darashiva & BonfiresDown - 1 guess

And here's the next two hints:

#16 - The developers of this game are so egocentric, they made themselves the final boss.
#15 - This horror game's main character was first mentioned in the director's cut of this franchise's second film.