This list will update as long as games continue to exist, and all entries are in no particular order.
Games that are life-changing:
- 1000xRESIST
- Outer Wilds
- Nier Replicant/Gestalt
- Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
- Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
- Undertale
- Persona 3
- 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
- Deltarune
- The World Ends With You
- Disco Elysium
- LoZ: Majora's Mask
- Nier Automata
- Metal Gear Solid 2
- To The Moon
- Tales of the Abyss
- SOMA
- Inscryption
Games that are core to my identity/aesthetic:
- Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 (Avatar Tuner)
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (AA1)
- Sonic Adventure 2
- Bloodborne
- Gnosia
- Finding Paradise
- Tales of Symphonia
- Ghost Trick
- Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
- Link's Awakening
- Zero Escape: 999
- Ai: The Somnium Files
- Hypnospace Outlaw
- Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky
- Professor Layton and the Unwound Future
- Tales From the Borderlands
- Metal Gear Solid (1)
- Super Paper Mario
- OneShot
- Hatoful Boyfriend
- Lobotomy Corporation
- Library of Ruina
Other games that wowed and inspired me:
- Control
- Oxenfree
- Judgment
- Yakuza: Like A Dragon
- Return of the Obra Dinn
- Bayonetta 1
- Bayonetta 2
- Yakuza 0
- Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
- Pokemon Colosseum
- LoZ: Wind Waker
- Okami
Games that I simply like and will talk about occasionally:
- Gravity Rush 2
- Tales of Xillia
- Pokemon ORAS
- Metroid Prime
- Metroid Prime 3
- moon: remix rpg adventure
- Impostor Factory