These are some of the games I’ve played throughout my life and found to be entertaining, insightful or transformative, one way or another. Perhaps you, dear reader, find something enjoyable or meaningful in them too, something that matters to you which will delight your day and help you on your journey through the complexity of life on spaceship earth.

Video & Digital Games

• Among Us. Innersloth, 2018
• Age of Empires II
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Nintendo
• Anno 1404
• Anno 1800
• A Short Hike
• Baba is You
• Banjo-Kazooie
• Bastion. Supergiant Games. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, 2011
• Battlerite
• Beat Saber
• The Beginner’s Guide
• Bubble Bobble, 1986
• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, 1997
• Celeste. Maddy Thorson and Noel Berry, 2018
• Coming Out Simulator 2014
• Cloud Gardens
• Cult of the Lamb
• Cultures 2: The Gates of Asgard. Funatics Software, JoWood Productions, 2002
• Darkest Dungeon
• Depression Quest
• Diablo II. Blizzard North, Blizzard Entertainment, 2000
• Diablo III. Blizzard Entertainment, 2000
• Donkey Kong 64
• Don’t Starve
• Donut County
• Dead Cells
• Doki Doki Literature Club
• Doom. id Software, Bethesda Softworks, 2016
• Dorfromantik
• Downwell. 2015
• Dys4ia. Anna Anthropy, 2012
• Elden Ring
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• ELOH
• Firewatch
• Florence
• Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
• Gibbon: Beyond the Trees, Broken Rules
• Gris
• Grim Dawn
• Gorogoa
• Guacamelee!
• Guild Wars 2
• Hades. Supergiant Games, 2020
• Hidden Folks
• Hotline Miami
• Hollow Knight, by Team Cherry
• Hyper Light Drifter
• Inside
• ISLANDERS
• It Takes Two
• Katana ZERO
• Limbo
• League of Legends, Riot Games
• Lemmings. 1991
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Nintendo
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Nintendo, 1991
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Nintendo, 1998
• The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. Nintendo
• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Nintendo
• LUFTRAUSERS. Vlambeer, 2014
• Mark of the Ninja
• The Messenger
• Minecraft. Mojang Studios, 2009
• Mini Metro. Dinosaur Polo Club, 2015
• Mini Motorways. Dinosaur Polo Club, 2019
• Monster Hunter: World
• The Nations. Neo Software, JoWood, 1999
• Nova Drift
• Opus Magnum
• Ori and the Blind Forest, by Moon Studios
• Ori and the Will of the Wisps, by Moon Studios
• Overwatch, Blizzard Entertainment
• Oxygen Not Included
• Papers, Please. Lucas Pope, 3909 LLC, 2014
• Path Out. Abdullah Karam, Causa Creations, 2017
• Pentiment. Obsidian Entertainment, 2022
• Pony Island
• Pokémon Crystal
• Pokémon Red & Blue
• Portal, Valve
• Portal 2, Valve
• PRODUCER 2021. Stuffed Wombat and ThorHighHeels
• Plants vs. Zombies. PopCap Games, 2009
• Rayman Legends
• Risk of Rain
• Roto Force, Accidently Awesome
• SimCity. Maxis, 1989
• Snake
• Snowboard Kids
• The Sims. Maxis
• Shovel Knight. Yacht Club Games, 2014
• Snipperclips
• Spelunky
• Spore, Maxis, Electronic Arts, 2008
• Starcraft, Blizzard Entertainment, 1998
• Starcraft II, Blizzard Entertainment
• Stardew Valley. 2016
• SUPERHOT
• Super Mario 64, Nintendo
• Super Mario Odyssey. Nintendo, 2017
• Super Meat Boy
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Bandai Namco Studios, Sora Ltd., Nintendo, 2018
• Stacklands, by Sokpop Collective
• Terraria
• Terra Nil. Free Lives, Devolver Digital, 2023
• Tetris. Alexey Pajitnov and Vadim Gerasimov. Electronika 60, 1984
• Thomas Was Alone
• Thronefall
• Thumper
• Torchlight. Runic Games, Perfect World Entertainment, 2009
• Torchlight 2
• TowerFall
• Transistor. Supergiant Games
• Tropico. PopTop Software, Gathering of Developers, 2001
• Unpacking
• Untitled Goose Game
• Valheim
• Viva Piñata
• Warcraft III. Blizzard Entertainment
• Wilmot’s Warehouse. Hollow Ponds, 2019
• World of Warcraft, Blizzard Entertainment, 2004
• Worms: Armageddon. Team17, 1999
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, CD Projekt Red. CD Projekt, 2015

Board & Analog Games

• Abalone
• Billard
• Cards Against Humanity
• Chess
• Codenames
• Exploding Kittens
• The Great Dalmuti
• Go / Wei-Chi
• HITSTER
• Jenga
• Mancala
• The Mind
• Munchkin
• Rummikub
• Settlers of Catan
• This is not a Hat
• Skyjo
• Scout
• Werewolf