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Alright, I'm back from the workshop with my new list. The concept is essentially games throughout my life.

It looks like this:

  • 50-36 - Top 15 games of my childhood
  • 35-21 - Top 15 games of my teens
  • 20-6 - Top 15 games of my adult years
  • 5-1 - Top 5 games of my life

Fits extra well since this is the 15th anniversary (though that was a lucky coincidence).

Pretty happy with the new list anyways, it will make my contributions to the combined list quite different than usual but I don't really mind.



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Hint time, I got a lot of catching up to do since I restarted:

#50 The power of the gods is at your fingertips, as long as you have their favor

#49 You basicly start out as a werewolf but eventually become an animagus

#48 The first game in what would become a massively series of licensed games^2

#47 Honorable mention? That was a joke, haha, fat chance

#46 What comes up, must come down

#45 The game that made me think boomerangs were cool (they are)

#44 Pyrite Town Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness

#43 This licensed property is more known for its fighting games, but this one is a turn-based card gameDragonball Z: Legendary Super Warriors

#42 This game in a popular party game series has an actual story mode and boss fights

#41 Now this is how you control a platformer Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat



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As I am falling farther and farther behind, I will reveal my games in batches.

#50Clanfolk
platformWindows
release year2022
developer/publisherMinMax Games/Hooded Horse
genrecolony sim
linksSteam / website / trailer

This is a colony sim, that gameplay wise takes strong pointers from Rimwold (which itself is sprung from Dwarf Fortress), but pushes it into the direction of simulating the life of a clan in the scottish highlands in the middle ages. So reach your new home, build houses, find food and other resources and grow your family and clan.

#49Halls of Torment
platformWindows
release year2024
developer/publisherChasing Carrots
genresurvivor
linksSteam / trailer

After Vampire Survivors blew up many games followed which copy certain elements, as they are distinct from other game style I call that survivor games (they existed before Vampire Survivors, but that popularized it). Halls of Torment is one of these Survivor games. Your character goes through a level and either automatically or per click attacks the hordes of enemies coming at you. The experience they drop you can use to improve your character and stay alive longer.

Halls of Torment specializes in a feel a lot like the first Diablo: dark, gritty fantasy. With that is has NPCs that talk to you, goals to finish and equipment for your adventurer. So that the next dive into the Halls of Torment let you go farther.

#48Costume Quest 2
guessed byBofferbrauer2
platformWiiU
release year2014
developer/publisherDouble Fine
genreRPG
linksWikipedia / trailer

Before Double Fine stopped being an indie they made some great games, including Costume Quest and Costume Quest 2. I played this game back on the WiiU and had a lot of fun with turn based combat and abilities based on the costumes. And who doesn't want to save Halloween!

#47Mercury Meltdown Revolution
platformWii
release year2007
developer/publisherIgnition Entertainment
genrepuzzle platformer

The motion controls of the Wii inspired many to try out to use that for game ideas. One of the better games is Ignitions transformation of their Mercury Meltdown series to Wii motion control. Generally in Mercury Meltdown you tilt the stage to move the main object, similar to games like Monkey Ball. But in this case it is a blob of mercury you move, a liquid. So you can finish levels without saving all of the blob, losing parts on the way. You can split it to solve puzzles and they have a mechanic to colorize a blob to use for switches. Using the Wiimote for tilting feels very natural, this is an actual good fit for the motion controls.

#46Steamworld Heist
platformLinux/Switch
release year2015
developer/publisherImage & Form
genreturn based tactics shooter
linksWikipedia / Steam / trailer

Image & Form has now for some time developed their brand of Steamworld games. This game features the Steambots in piracy to bring water to poor planets. The gameplay is turn-based, but the shooting is done freely by you and includes ricocheting bullets. Also the game has physics, so your (and the enemies) actions can lead to chain effects.

#45Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
guessed bydrbunnig
platformDS/Switch
release year2010
developer/publisherInfinite Interactive
genrepuzzle/RPG
linksWikipedia
past years2022: #11, 2021: #9, 2020: #7, 2019: #8, 2018: #7, 2017: #6

I played this game on the Nintendo DS and it was a nice game to play on the go. It is an RPG where you choose a character to solve an upcoming problem for your kingdom - which turns into an epic quest as there is more involved than meets the eye. Gameplay is quite simple for such a story centered game: you move on the overwolrd map from and to marked locations, more of which you unlock while playing. Fight are fought in a match-3 puzzle game, where the matched bubbles turn into mana for your characters abilities.



3DS-FC: 4511-1768-7903 (Mii-Name: Mnementh), Nintendo-Network-ID: Mnementh, Switch: SW-7706-3819-9381 (Mnementh)

my greatest games: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

10 years greatest game event!

bets: [peak year] [+], [1], [2], [3], [4]

UnderwaterFunktown said:

Hint time, I got a lot of catching up to do since I restarted:

#42 This game in a popular party game series has an actual story mode and boss fights

Mario Party 3?



 

 

 

 

 

Next batch of hints to catch up:

#44: Hack isn't enough anymore, you need to slash.

#43: Adorable dating sim... where one of the character really, really wants to date you.

#42: The grandmother of colony sims got a fresh layer of paint with this.

#41: Kittens will take over the universe!

#40: You really need help sometimes.



3DS-FC: 4511-1768-7903 (Mii-Name: Mnementh), Nintendo-Network-ID: Mnementh, Switch: SW-7706-3819-9381 (Mnementh)

my greatest games: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

10 years greatest game event!

bets: [peak year] [+], [1], [2], [3], [4]

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UnderwaterFunktown said:

Alright, I'm back from the workshop with my new list. The concept is essentially games throughout my life.

It looks like this:

  • 50-36 - Top 15 games of my childhood
  • 35-21 - Top 15 games of my teens
  • 20-6 - Top 15 games of my adult years
  • 5-1 - Top 5 games of my life

Fits extra well since this is the 15th anniversary (though that was a lucky coincidence).

Pretty happy with the new list anyways, it will make my contributions to the combined list quite different than usual but I don't really mind.

Cool idea for a specialized list actually.



3DS-FC: 4511-1768-7903 (Mii-Name: Mnementh), Nintendo-Network-ID: Mnementh, Switch: SW-7706-3819-9381 (Mnementh)

my greatest games: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

10 years greatest game event!

bets: [peak year] [+], [1], [2], [3], [4]

Mnementh said:

Next batch of hints to catch up:

#43: Adorable dating sim... where one of the character really, really wants to date you.

Doki Doki Literature Club?

OT - These new posts remind me I need to post 40-36 yet... sometime...



 

 

 

 

 

UnderwaterFunktown said:

Hint time, I got a lot of catching up to do since I restarted:

#50 The power of the gods is at your fingertips, as long as you have their favor

#49 You basicly start out as a werewolf but eventually become an animagus

#48 The first game in what would become a massively series of licensed games^2

#47 Honorable mention? That was a joke, haha, fat chance

#46 What comes up, must come down

#45 The game that made me think boomerangs were cool (they are)

#44 Pyrite Town Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness

#43 This licensed property is more known for its fighting games, but this one is a turn-based card gameDragonball Z: Legendary Super Warriors

#42 This game in a popular party game series has an actual story mode and boss fights

#41 Now this is how you control a platformer Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat

49: Altered Beast?

47: Portal



Mnementh said:
mZuzek said:

#38 - The second of two games in this series whose lack of a Switch port still puzzles many.

#38: Last Window: The Secret of Cape West?

I, uhh... Surely that's a made up name?

Bofferbrauer2 said:

#38 NES REMIX maybe?

Nah.

UnderwaterFunktown said:

38) Ahh, Twilight Princess?

Yes.

Come on you guys, surely my #39 can't be that obscure? Certainly not anymore than whatever Mnementh guessed up there.

#39 - What is a rival?
Hint 2 - This is an indie game whose entire world is centered on the idea of the 4 elements (fire, water, air and earth)
Hint 3 - It's a fighting game that just came out recently!



haxxiy said:
UnderwaterFunktown said:

Hint time, I got a lot of catching up to do since I restarted:

#42 This game in a popular party game series has an actual story mode and boss fights

Mario Party 3?

Right series, but not quite the right game

Darashiva said:
UnderwaterFunktown said:

Hint time, I got a lot of catching up to do since I restarted:

#50 The power of the gods is at your fingertips, as long as you have their favor

#49 You basicly start out as a werewolf but eventually become an animagus

#48 The first game in what would become a massively series of licensed games^2

#47 Honorable mention? That was a joke, haha, fat chance

#46 What comes up, must come down

#45 The game that made me think boomerangs were cool (they are)

#44 Pyrite Town Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness

#43 This licensed property is more known for its fighting games, but this one is a turn-based card gameDragonball Z: Legendary Super Warriors

#42 This game in a popular party game series has an actual story mode and boss fights

#41 Now this is how you control a platformer Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat

49: Altered Beast?

47: Portal

49 is wrong but 47 is correct!



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