I recently got a bit curious about where the games I enjoy come from. I of course have a good idea, whether a game is Japanese or "Western". Obviously Japan and USA have gigantic gaming industries, but there are other countries that have flourishing gaming industries, of course countries like France and Poland come to mind.

I would like to make a handful of threads to create a bit of a "map" of the most beloved games from different countries. I won't be doing all 195, some countries like US and Japan have just developed way too many hits to make a poll that covers even the most popular titles, and other countries either don't have a gaming industry , only have obscure indie titles.

The rule is that the main Developer should be from the country, publisher is irrelevant. Support teams do not count. If two teams from different countries have contributed equally or almost equally, they can count for both countries. Likewise if a developer is split between two nations, and there is no reason to believe it mainly made the game in the other country. In case of incomplete information, I sometimes may have to do a qualified guess on whether a game qualifies or not (let's hope that is not needed).

Find threads and polls for individual countries below:

Germany: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/249238/what-is-your-favorite-game-developed-by-a-german-developer/1/

Sweden: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/249248/what-is-your-favorite-game-developed-by-a-swedish-developer/1/

Denmark: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/249259/what-is-your-favorite-game-developed-by-a-danish-developer/

Italy: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/249267/what-is-your-favorite-game-developed-by-an-italian-developer/1/

Norway: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/249282/what-is-your-favorite-game-developed-by-a-norwegian-developer/

Czech Republic: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/249285/what-is-your-favorite-game-developed-by-a-czech-developer/

Spain: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=249301

The Netherlands: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/249320/what-is-your-favorite-game-developed-by-a-dutch-developer/1/

Finland: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=249367&page=1#1

Australia: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/249377/what-is-your-favorite-game-developed-by-an-australian-developer/

France: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/249389/what-is-your-favorite-game-developed-by-a-french-developer/

South Korea: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/249402/what-is-your-favorite-game-developed-by-a-south-korean-developer/1/

Poland: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=249408

Ukraine: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/249433/what-is-your-favorite-game-developed-by-a-ukrainian-developer/

Croatia: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=249482

After Italy, you should go with Spain next: Commandos, Rime, GRIS, Blasphemous, Metroid Dread, Moonlighter.

Winner would be Commandos for me, great series from Pyro Studios!

idk USSR?? Tetris is a pretty cool game. Could also say Canada. (Celeste is incredible!) I don’t really play much from outside of USA/JP, I literally can’t think of a game I’ve played from the listed countries. I didn’t like BMW, so no to China.

I am probably never gonna do one for Canada. There are just way too many popular games from there, it would take forever. USSR probably has too little on its own, but if I add in Russia, I could make a compelling list.

Guys, you need to vote! We have a three-way tie.

Did I help? (Became a 4-way tie)

Oh, do Australia at some point please! We've made some bangers.

Haha, true! Eventually the tie was broken by another vote for Norway, but then The Czech Republic caught up again! Norway is made now, expect Czech Republic to follow quickly.

I definitely want to get around to that one too, so it doesn't become to euro-centric!

My friends, I have updated the poll, The Czech Republic and Norway have already received threads, so they are gone. I already decided to do Spain next, as it just climbed up and tied the other two in the poll. This makes way for three new countries, Australia, South Korea and Croatia.