Nope, not that one either. As an extra hint it's an indie game

Think I might actually know all of these?

15) FF7

14) FF8?

13) The Last of Us

12) Dark Souls III?

11) Trails in the Sky? One of the Trails games at least

29) RE2 Remake?

19) Okami?

18) Breath of the Wild?

As the great Meat Loaf sang (and the great Jim Steinman wrote), two out of three ain't bad.

29 and 19 are correct.

Correct on all except 15, and 11 is the first Trails in the Sky.

#15

• MINERVA
• AETHER

#14 Final Fantasy VIII

• This game has a very obscure sidequest involving a black shadow in a lake, a talking monkey, strange clues all over the world, and colored rocks that point you towards treasure.

#13 The Last of Us

• This game's adaptation followed the plot quite accurately, while changing some key details, such as the story of Bill and Frank

#12 Dark Souls III

• The lords were summoned to fulfill their duty, but only one answered the call

#11 The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky

• Bracers in Liberl - part 1

17 is Star Fox 64

But I felt reluctant to say it because I feel like I guess this one every year.

Guessed by @S.Peelman

Thinking of this game always brings back memories of playing this on my 3DS in my first year of the first college I dropped out of. I think going into adulthood and trying to find a place in the world, studying music alongside what I thought would be like-minded people, was when it started to become pretty clear that I was gonna be an outcast wherever I went. Almost a dozen years later, I can say I've still found no place in the world, and... well, thinking of this game makes me miss when things were simple. Because even if things weren't going well back then, I wasn't too bothered at the time, I kept things simple. I was simple. And this game, well... it's so simple, too. You fly around and shoot the bad guys. Say corny one-liners. Hear Peppy reminding you of your dad every five seconds. Try to shoot even more bad guys to get bigger numbers. Big number gives medal. It's just fun.

Maybe I need to relearn what fun is.

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Guessed by @UnderwaterFunktown

So, Portal 2 finds itself outside of the top 15 for the first time ever. I just looked back through its position over the years and actually, it had stayed exactly in the same spot (#13) for the past three years, and was always in the top 10 before that. I don't really know what happened, I guess this is just kinda.. fading? I still have so many fond memories of this, of playing the main campaign several times, of going through the co-op campaign with my brother in what might've been the last game we spent plenty of time on together, or even trying my hand at making custom stages and giving up when I played through other people's much better ones. Portal 2 is amazing, it really is. Just feels a bit more distant now than a few years ago, I suppose.

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#18

Change YoY: =   My Rating: 9.4 / 10

Inarguably the most successful and most influential JRPG of all time, Final Fantasy VII very much lives up to the hype, even if certain elements have suffered due to the passage of time. Look past those things, and at its core Final Fantasy VII is still an absolutely brilliant game. Even then, the few aspects that don't quite hold up are mostly due to the game's age and the era in which it was made. The graphics are naturally dated, and some moments would probably no longer be acceptable if the game was made today, but the one aspect that hurts the game the most is its honestly quite shoddy localization. The translation into English is simply not very good, rife as it is with errors, weird and awkward sentences, and even mistakes that unintentionally altered certain scenes. The quality of the game still shines through, but it's still a shame that such an important part of the game falls so far below acceptable. It was very common at the time, but for such a high-profile game you'd expect better.

One of the most brilliant aspects of Final Fantasy VII is the decision to make its main character an unreliable narrator. We get to witness numerous events from Cloud Strife's point of view, yet we don't learn until much later that his recollection of events is at best incomplete, and at worst completely fabricated. This gives the game a sense of mystery and even unease, since if the player pays attention from the start they will begin to notice some strange inconsistencies in Cloud's story as the game progresses. This is also the source of many of the game's most important and well-known twists, the only thing holding the story back being the poor translation that often leaves certain aspects of the story somewhat unclear. However, it also has some very strong theming around topics such as environmentalism, corporate greed, terrorism, and various other political and spiritual issues that run through the entire story and most of its important characters.

 Final Fantasy VII also features a wonderfully flexible battle system built around the game's use of Materia as a source of abilities and stats. There are countless different combinations that the player can tinker around with. The game's world is also among the most iconic of all time, with locations like Midgar, the Northern Crater, Cosmo Canyon, and others being fondly remembered for a very good reason. Finally, it also has one of the all-time great video game soundtracks composed by Nobuo Uematsu. Again, the game is not without its flaws, but they do very little to detract from its overall excellence.