The Top 50 PC Games According to Octopus Overlords

[Jaymann]

100 is too tedious to manage, but list your top 50 here. I am working on mine. If we get enough responses I will compile the results.

[Jaymann]

OK, here is my list. Highly subjective of course.

My Top 50 PC Games

1 Baulder's Gate 3
2 Elden Ring
3 Diablo 2
4 Bioshock 2
5 Skyrim
6 Divinity Original Sin 2
7 Half-life 2
8 Tomb Raider 3
9 Thief
10 Solasta
11 Gothic 2
12 Fallout
13 Icewind Dale 2
14 Baldur's Gate 2
15 Dishonored 2
16 Quake II
17 Quake 3
18 Doom
19 Divinity Original Sin
20 Dragon Age Origins
21 Everquest
22 Knights of the Old Republic 2
23 Octopath Traveler II
24 Tetris
25 Elex
26 Two Worlds
27 Heroes of Might and Magic III
28 Might and Magic VI
29 Final Fantasy X
30 Wolfenstein
31 Legend of Grimrock II
32 Wizardry – Labyrinth of Lost Souls
33 Blade of Darkness
34 Lords of Xulima
35 The Temple of Elemental Evil
36 Ultima VII
37 Max Payne
38 Diablo
39 Starcraft
40 King's Quest
41 The Witcher 3
42 Legend of Zelda
43 Neverwinter Nights
44 Dragon Age Origins
45 Unreal Tournament
46 The Last of Us
47 The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
48 Fallout 3
49 Prince of Persia
50 Triangle Strategy

[Sudy]

Dude I hate you, there goes my weekend. It's a fun project, but I don't know how to put it together objectively or remember every game I've ever loved.

[Sudy]

42 Legend of Zelda

When was Zelda ever on PC?

[Jaymann]

42 Legend of Zelda

When was Zelda ever on PC?

Emulation my friend. Emulation.

[Sudy]

OK. This is obviously a subjective list. I know there are amazing games I haven't played, or I've barely played for whatever reason. (I'll get to you someday, BG3!) These are the ones I've enjoyed most, or played the most, or have a special connection with. They aren't all universally good games, but I'd recommend each of them for various reasons. Though in the case of live service games, not necessarily in the current era.

E.g Fallout 76 is buggy and often frustrating, but I had intense fun playing online with a friend across many months. Fallout 4 is probably a better overall experience, but I've never gotten around to playing it. Gazillionaire Deluxe is wrapped up in nostalgia for me; it's definitely not an objectively good game mechanics-wise in this era, but I still go back to because I adore the setting, sounds, and music. And so on.

I could only come up with 40 titles for now. I know there are probably a handful of loved games from the 90s and 00s that I've forgotten about. I didn't spend too much time on the rankings--I used https://www.pubmeeple.com/ to expedite the process. Like is Half-Life 2 better than XCOM: Enemy Unknown? Erggg.... XCOM is more meaningful to me, but HL2 is a work of art that advanced its genre. Is World of Warcraft my most loved game? As an isolated experience, absolutely not. But it's a comfort food and source of wonderful memories in the classic and Cataclysm eras. Hearthstone often bores and pisses me off, but I still play it habitually and have dumped billions of hours into it over the years, and I think it would still be a great experience for those wanting a lighter CCG. Is Civilization V the best Civ? Probably not, and certainly not for others. But I personally played and enjoyed it more than Civ IV. But for someone who's never played a Civ before, I'd probably recommend VI. My time with Diablo was special but comparatively short compared to II and III, so I didn't even list it despite its importance in gaming history. And then there's the games that I played for hours and are intensely memorable, but I don't consider to be "good" games so I didn't list them, like New World and Anarchy Online, my first MMOG. So, it's just not consistent in terms of what I'm ranking. But it's close enough without breaking my brain.

1 World of Warcraft
2 Doom (1993)
3 Fallout 2
4 Half-Life 2
5 XCOM: Enemy Unknown
6 Civilization V
7 Portal
8 Half-Life
9 Starcraft
10 FTL: Faster Than Light
11 Out of the Park Baseball (series)
12 Diablo 2
13 Slay the Spire
14 Diablo 3
15 Unreal Tournament
16 Minecraft
17 Hearthstone
18 Quake 2
19 Dragon Age: Origins
20 Quake III Arena
21 Borderlands
22 Vampire Survivor
23 Halo
24 Destiny 2
25 Fallout
26 Max Payne
27 Team Fortress 2
28 Defense Grid: The Awakening
29 Sleeping Dogs
30 Deus Ex: Human Revolution
31 Battlefield 1942
32 Mass Effect
33 FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage
34 City of Heroes
35 Battlefield 2142
36 Cardhunter
37 Rage
38 Fallout 76
39 Gazillionaire Deluxe
40 Solitaire, fucker

[Sudy]

42 Legend of Zelda

When was Zelda ever on PC?

Emulation my friend. Emulation.

Your rules, but that's breaking them. You open this to my top games of all time that I have or could emulate if I wanted to. But I'm not going down that rabbit hole.

[Unagi]

It's like the entire world has forgotten Oregon Trail

[Skinypupy]

If you’re counting emulation, you may as well just say “Top 50 Games of All Time”.

Pretty sure nearly every console game has been emulated to PC in some form at some point.

[Fardaza]

I came up with about 30. In no particular order as I remembered each one after numbers 1 & 2

#1 X-Com: UFO Defense
#2 Dungeon Master

Bard’s Tale
Ultima IV
Empire Deluxe: Wargame of the Century
Darklands
Diablo II
Imperialism II
Lord of the Rings Online
Master of Magic
Civilization II and III
XCOM: Enemy Unknown & Within
XCOM 2
Baldur’s Gate II & III
Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
Fallout 4
Out of the Park Baseball
Jagged Alliance 2
Master of Orion II
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic
Conquest of the New World
Dungeon Hack
Heroes of Might & Magic 1, 2, & 3
Might and Magic: World of Xeen
Panzer General II
Pool of Radiance
Red Baron
Wing Commander: Privateer
Ultima Underworld
Warlords III: Darklords Rising
Perfect General
Conquered Kingdoms
Sim City 2000
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

[LordMortis]

I don't think I could begin to put this together but maybe I'll try.

[Blackhawk]

Yeah, I will come up with a list, but I'm not sure that 50 is a doable number. At some point I'd just be adding games to pad the numbers.

25 per person would still work, and could still be combined into a top 50 list.

[LordMortis]

Was it OO or as far back as GG that we did vote on best game brackets? I remember we started with 64 as proposed by the community and then votes each bracket.

[Skinypupy]

No way I’d get to 50, so here’s a few that come to mind. In no particular order and trying to keep it more PC-specific and not just console games that got ported over (although that line blurry for many of these).

- Final Fantasy 14
- Guild Wars 2
- Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2
- HOMM 3
- Age of Empires 2
- Diablo 3
- Civ 2
- Thief 2
- Baldur’s Gate 2 and 3
- Planescape Torment
- Dark Castle
- Dungeon Keeper 2
- Witcher 3
- Skyrim
- Balatro
- Dragon Age: Origins
- King’s Quest
- Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
- Beyond Good and Evil

[hitbyambulance]

42 Legend of Zelda

When was Zelda ever on PC?

Emulation my friend. Emulation.

[Blackhawk]

If we do emulation, then practically every game is a PC game.

[Jaymann]

If we do emulation, then practically every game is a PC game.

Knock yourself out. If you have emulated games that are better than anything else on your list of 50 games developed for the PC, so be it. I played Zelda on the PC and think it deserves a spot. YMMV.

[Sudy]

If we do emulation, then practically every game is a PC game.

NOT THE BLAME GAME!

[gbasden]

Here's a stab.

1. BG3
2. Civ 5
3. Battletech
4. Pathfinder Kingmaker
5. BG2
6. XCOM 1
7. GTA5
8. GTA4
9. Fallout 2
10. Mafia 2
11. Skyrim
12. Far Cry 3
13. Dragon Age Origins
14. Dying Light
15. Wasteland
16. Ultima 4
17. Assassin's Creed 4 - Black Flag
18. Sid Meyer's Pirates
19. Wing Commander 3
20. Wing Commander 4
21. Deus Ex - Human Revolution
22. Days Gone
23. Sleeping Dogs
24. Dead Island
25. Splinter Cell Blacklist
26. Prey
27. Alpha Protocol
28. Wasteland 3
29. Shadow of Mordor
30. Payday 2
31. Bioshock Infinite
32. Cyberpunk 2077
33. Starflight
34. Max Payne
35. State of Decay
36. Planescape Torment
37. Diablo 2
38. Jagged Alliance 2
39. Master of Magic
40. XCOM - Enemy Unknown
41. Jedi Knight 2
42. Deathloop
43. Spec Ops - The Line
44. Thief
45. GTA - Vice City
46. Disco Elysium
47. Divinity Original Sin 2
48. Railroad Tycoon 2
49. Covert Action
50. Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines

[gbasden]

Yeah, I will come up with a list, but I'm not sure that 50 is a doable number. At some point I'd just be adding games to pad the numbers.

25 per person would still work, and could still be combined into a top 50 list.

I came up with about 70 and had to cull. But then again I've been playing on PC since 86. I know there are a ton I've forgotten.

[coopasonic]

Just went through steam by hours played and then tossed in highlights from Epic, EA and Ubisoft, trying to place everything according to my preference but preference can change on the day and the situation but I think this is a decent reflection of my top 50 PC games. I'm sure there are some huge misses (like Arkham Asylum - oops, that should be in there somewhere) and I tried not to include multiple games from a series unless they met some undefined criteria only my brain understands.

XCOM 2
The Witcher 3
Shadow of Mordor
Monster Hunter World
Nioh 2
Remnant 2
Borderlands 2
Baldur's Gate 3
Ghost Recon Wildlands
Forza Horizon 5
Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Kerbal Space Program
Jagged Alliance 2
Mafia
Skyrim
Fallout 4
The Surge
Cyberpunk 2077
Hades
Subnautica
Rocksmith
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
No Man's Sky
Satisfactory
Elden Ring
Dragon's Dogma 2
The Division 2
Far Cry 5
Outriders
XCOM Enemy Unknown
The Crew
Jagged Alliance 3
Factorio
V Rising
Rogue Legacy 2
Ender Lilies
Hitman: World of Assassination
Vampire Survivors
My Time at Sandrock
Conan Exiles
Kingdom Come Deliverance
Dave the Diver
Terraria
Planet Crafter
Ark Survival Evolved
Fortnite
the Hunter: Call of the Wild
Plants Vs Zombies
Starfield
PUBG

[Kraken]

I only have maybe 25 Steam games and some of them were gifts that I didn't want and never played, so that's not going to be much help. A few titles that have sucked down many hours in recent years come to mind:

Baldur's Gate 3
Stellaris
Civ 6
The Xcom games
Fallout 4
Xenonauts
Tropico 5 & 6
GalCiv 3
FTL: Faster Than Light
Railroad Tycoon 2 & 3

[Pyperkub]

Are we doing top 50 in terms of how great they were when we played them, or if we played them right now?

Example, Diablo 1 was one of the most amazing gaming experiences I ever had, ditto the original Command and Conquer, but they wouldn't hold up now to their sequels, even tho the sequels don't capture the same magic as that first time with those games which managed to create entirely new gaming experiences.

[Hipolito]

It's going to take some time to put together my list but I welcome the challenge.

Are we doing top 50 in terms of how great they were when we played them, or if we played them right now?

I'm thinking the former.

Was it OO or as far back as GG that we did vote on best game brackets? I remember we started with 64 as proposed by the community and then votes each bracket.

Yes, we've had six tournaments in the past, starting on GG (and I think one was on ConsoleGold which later became GamingTrend). In case you'd like to see the last three tournaments, either for nostalgia or for ideas for your list, links are below. Note that tournaments 4 and 5 were PC only, but tournament 6 was for all platforms.

#4 nominations
#4 results
#5 nominations
#5 results
#6 nominations
#6 Best Game of Last Five Years results
#6 Best Game of All Time results

[LordMortis]

This is a work in progress and will be edited multiple times... (I will remind myself that this only includes game I have played on PC. Other platforms, even if available on PC don't count, so all my Atari 800 and Apple II history don't count, so no Ultima IV, Autoduel, 7 Cites, Mail Order Monster, Telengard etc... for me )

Top

Battle Brothers - Favorite squad building TBS with a great Strategic map
Diablo II - Improved Diablo isometric addiction to the loot and improve treadmill and wasn't improved on until Torchlight II and by then it didn't feel like the same addiction
Moria - My first and favorite of the Rogue likes. I couldn't go back to it but I wish I could.
1a Dwarf Fortress - Story tellers with light engineering that just defined what they did
1b Rim World- differentiated enough from the what DF built that it is worthy of being its own best
Factorio - Build more better and expand. A city builder without the city and a much better economy of scale
X Wing - Tie Figher might have improved the game but X Wing was good enough that even improving it was enough to unseat it.
Don't Starve - This game really got me hooked on pre release games, which every other pre release since has paled by comparison. The game kept changing and being great. It's the best survive until you can't, reminding me of old arcade games. And everything about the development was awesome. The art style of the posters and movies. Just. Everything. I looked forward to announcements of announcements.
Slay the Spire - Just keep coming back to it. CCG without the CCG in quick bytes with scaling difficulty
Hades - the best fail better game I've ever played and a story about failing better!
Stellaris - The pinnacle of Galaxy Conquest games for me that goes all the way back to my Atari 800 and Pax. They kept changing it and I kept getting a whole new galaxy conquest game for free.

2nd tier

HoMM3 - installed on every machine since it was released. It's dated but still best in class.
Crusader Kings II - Conquor the world in a historic setting with a family tree.
Magic Duel of the Plainswalkers - If it didn't have bugs and they continued to release content, I'd still play. I debate buying an external DVD player and trying to get it run through DOSBox.
Mechwarrior - If it weren't for X Wing this would probably be top tier.
Populous - Never replicated or really improved on.
Dune - Not the first RTS for me but stuck out so much above the others (Herzog Zwie and Dogs of War for me)
Darkest Dungeon - Building a party to fixed to endure in a four tactical moves per round while strategically building a roster. The old XCom and Syndicate formula but in a whole new way.
1a Children of the Nile - Walker City building on a great scale
1b Tropico 2 - Walker city building loving the addition of sending them off for dicey combat and the sound track.
Kerbal Space Program - My first big dip into Let's play. I loved the game, as poorly as I could control it, but I watch over 80 hours of Scott Manly playing.
Rollercoaster Tycoon II - Who never dreamed of building their own theme park? I probably should pick up one the more modern games but they're all about the DLC.
XCom Enemy Unknown (though I feel like I'm the only one who love Apocalypse) or Syndicate? Can't decide. All three helped to define tactical squad TBS for all time for me.
BattleTech - It would have been the tech game Nick did such brilliant AARs with or the Viscious Byte game based on the Amiga game but they did such a great job with the modern version and I rarely treat stories as drivers of a game as much as I did this one.
Oxygen Not Included - Another artsy game from Klie and it did not disappoint. Builder, survival, platform, cutesy, engineering light.
Railroad Tycoon II. Rails. Stock Market. Robber Baron. Economy building. This could have actually been topped by Railroad Empires if they hadn't made the economy and stock market absolutely useless.
Renowned Explorers - I don't know why I loved this game. It was the same thing over and over but I found myself Steam Achievement hunting, something I never do.
Mount And Blade II Warband - Something was so liberating about mowing down 100s of enemies in different ways medieval style and then building a squad and kingdom in a keyboard mouse control system I don't generally care for.
Card Hunter - So much fun for what it was. CCG and character building for quick dungeon looting. I think about going back and playing more. I'm surprised they've held my player for so long.
Dungeon Keeper 2 - Tons have tried to improve the formula. They all come up short.
Star Wars Rebellion - Just loved it. I still the get the hankering. You can make it work on 10 but not well. It's about the only physical documentation I've kept.
Jagged Alliance 2 - Punching crows again and again to build stats!


Worthy of being the best but not best of the best

1a Civ Not sure which. Maybe II - It came after Empire but improved the game so much.
1b SMAC - It took Civ and made it a unique experience.
Masters of Magic MtG but with an ever building TBS to conquer a world
Masters of Orion II - Did what it did well enough to earn respect all these years later.
Wolfenstein 3d - Not my first FPS but enough of an advancement that it gets to the best
Might and Magic III - Party building on a huge scale. I played way too much to not include it.
Wizardry Mad Overlord - one of the early party builders that just stuck. It was so satisfying to build a party of Ninja.
SimCity - Created a genre I that rarely satisfies but is something I always want to love.
Starcraft - The pinnacle of RTS for me.
Imperialism II - Board gaming in a way that was impractical for board gaming, with a cool economy.
1830 - Lost my copy. Had to aquire it from an abaondon ware site and then clean the virus out of it Still enjoy it.
Lords of the Realm probably II - Most memorable of the build a castle and defend it games.
Marvel Puzzle Quest - One of the few pay to play games I paid money to. Probably $50 or more for card slots. Steam says it's the most hours I put in to a game and it was an addiction I had to walk away from. Had to get all my play time in every day.
1a Faster Than Light - Fantastic light TBS games that played like puzzles
1b Into the Breach

48... 50 if you include that I can't decide between Enemy Unknown, Apocalypse, and The Syndicate

[coopasonic]

It's going to take some time to put together my list but I welcome the challenge.

Are we doing top 50 in terms of how great they were when we played them, or if we played them right now?

I'm thinking the former.

My list is skewed significantly toward the latter, primarily because I would forget most of the greats from the 80s and 90s unless you guys talked about them first. Like Interstate 76 would definitely be on an all time list along with Thief and Deus Ex, but none of them really hold up today for me. A nostalgia list would differ quite a bit from a modern list for me So many game experiences that stand out in my memory but damned if I could tell you the names without doing more research than I am willing to do.

[LordMortis]

I think I'm doing a mix but for the older stuff, it really really has to have a reason. Like either I could revisit it or it defined the game so well that it can't be forgotten. I've pretty much decided my list, a bit shy of 50. Now I'm trying to scale them.

[Blackhawk]

Alrighty.

Since there are no guidelines except 'top', '50', and 'PC', I'm listing my personal top 50, purely subjective, and not trying to follow any other criteria. That means that there are going to be a mix of older and newer games in here (although I think that nearly all of them still hold up - I've played Fallout 3/NV and Deus Ex within the past year.

Order is taken from my personal finished games list, which means that it's alphabetical rather than by 'favorites' (besides, I'm not the type to have favorites - I have moods, not single preferences.)

1. 7 Days to Die
2. Aliens vs Predator 2
3. Asgard's Wrath
4. Baldur's Gate 2
5. Batman: Arkham Asylum
6. Borderlands 2
7. Conan Exiles
8. Cyberpunk 2077
9. Deep Rock Galactic
10. Deus Ex
11. Diablo II
12. Dragon Age: Inquisition
13. Dragon Age: Origins
14. Dragon's Dogma
15. Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
16. Fallout 2
17. Fallout: New Vegas
18. Fallout 4
19. Gothic
20. GTA V
21. GTA San Andreas
22. Half-Life
23. Half-Life 2
24. Jagged Alliance 2/3 (they tied)
25. Kingdom Come: Deliverance
26. The Last of Us
27. Mass Effect 2
28. Metro 2033 / Last Light / Exodus
29. Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
30. No Man's Sky
31. No One Lives Forever
32. No One Lives Forever 2
33. Planet Zoo
34. Portal
35. Prey
36. Rainbow Six III: Raven Shield
37. Red Dead Redemption 2
38. Satisfactory
39. Subnautica
40. System Shock II
41. Talos Principle
42. Team Fortress 2
43. Thief: The Dark Project
44. Thief 2: The Metal Age
45. Titan Quest
46. Total War: Warhammer 2
47. Valkyria Chronicles
48. Warhammer Vermintide 2
49. Witcher 3
50. XCOM (reboot)

[Jaymann]

You made me remember The Last of Us. I will make room on my list.

[Carpet_pissr]

BH: No Fallout 3 or did you just forget?

[Blackhawk]

BH: No Fallout 3 or did you just forget?

I have New Vegas holding FO3's slot. It's a better implementation.

[Fardaza]

It's going to take some time to put together my list but I welcome the challenge.

Are we doing top 50 in terms of how great they were when we played them, or if we played them right now?

I'm thinking the former

Somebody else said it was the latter.

For me, it has to be how much I liked them when I played them. I don't even have 50 games on my currently playable list that would qualify as Top 50!

My greatest of all-time list previously in the thread only had about 30 games on it. There were many others that I liked but not Top 50 liked.

This is more of a "trip down memory lane" kind of exercise for me. I really dislike PC Gamer's Top 100 games you can play now because it hardly includes any of the all-time greats. And, many of their top 100 games are crap, IMHO. Just because you can't play a game on current machines doesn't mean it isn't one of the best.

[Jolor]

Not finished BG3 yet so in the meantime & based on enjoyment/compulsion at the time of play ...
1 Fallout 2
2 Grim Dawn
3 Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest
4 Rise of Nations + Thrones & Patriots
5 Witcher 3, The Wild Hunt + Hearts of Stone + Blood & Wine
6 Civilization II + Fantastic Worlds + Scenarios
7 Icewind Dale II
8 Nox
9 Wildermyth
10 Titan Quest
11 Fallout
12 Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind + Tribunal + Bloodmoon
13 Icewind Dale + Heart of Winter
14 Baldur's Gate II + Throne of Bhaal
15 Anachronox
16 Age of Empires II + The Age of Kings
17 Alpha Protocol
18 Myst
19 Baldur's Gate + Tales of the Sword Coast
20 Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
21 The Banner Saga (trilogy)
22 Horizon: Zero Dawn Complete Edition
23 Diablo II + Lord of Destruction
24 Empires - Dawn of the Modern World
25 Freedom Force
26 Planescape Torment
27 Hard Reset
28 West of Loathing
29 Witcher 2, The Assassin's of Kings (Enhanced Edition)
30 Total Annihiliation: Kingdoms
31 Grim Fandango
32 Far Cry Blood Dragon
33 Jade Empire (Special Edition)
34 Monkey Island 3, The Curse of
35 Tower of Time
36 Wasteland 2
37 Painkiller Black
38 Metro Exodus + Season Pass
39 Witcher, The (Enhanced Edition)
40 Wasteland 3
41 Alpha Centauri
42 Wizardry 8
43 Assassin's Creed: II
44 Divine Divinity
45 Puzzle Quest
46 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
47 Sniper Elite V2
48 Tyranny
49 Vampire - The Masquerade: Bloodlines
50 The Talos Principle

[Hipolito]

Here's my list. And thanks to Sudy for the link to https://www.pubmeeple.com/. That Ranking Engine made this a lot easier.

1. Planescape: Torment
2. Wasteland
3. Star Control II
4. The Secret of Monkey Island
5. Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula
6. Fallout
7. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
8. Trinity (1986 Infocom game)
9. Jagged Alliance 2
10. Portal
11. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
12. Moria
13. Quest for Glory II: Trial By Fire
14. Wizardry 8
15. StarCraft
16. Wing Commander: Privateer
17. Sid Meier's Civilization II
18. Starflight
19. Undertale
20. Gone Home
21. Grim Fandango
22. Deus Ex
23. The Pinball Arcade
24. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
25. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
26. Analogue: A Hate Story
27. Mission Critical
28. Outcast
29. Katawa Shoujo
30. Deadline (1982 Infocom game)
31. X-COM: UFO Defense (The 1994 original. I haven't played the reboot.)
32. Mass Effect 3
33. The Longest Journey
34. System Shock
35. Mafia
36. The Walking Dead: Season One
37. TIE Fighter
38. Beyond Good and Evil
39. Loom
40. System Shock 2
41. King's Bounty: The Legend
42. The Pandora Directive
43. The Dig
44. Champions of Krynn
45. Driftmoon
46. A Short Hike
47. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father
48. Sacrifice
49. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
50. Curse of Monkey Island

[LordMortis]

[*]Moria

I'm not alone!

[The Meal]

I preferred Angband.

[Unagi]

[*]Moria

I'm not alone!

How weird, that game went entirely past my radar. Not a single blip on the screen once. Never heard of it until just this split second. wtf.

[LordMortis]

It was my second true roguelike after Telengard on the Apple. I played a bunch of procedurally generated" dungeon crawls on my Atari and I played Wizadry on the NES but Moria was one of my first PC games IIRC and I was hooked. I have no idea how many fails and how much I had treasure hoard and build magic to... I guess this a spoiler if you never heard of the game...

Spoiler:

kill the balrog

Or for that matter running against a D I wasn't prepared for... before making runs to hunt them...

[Fardaza]

[3]Star Control II

[39]Loom

Thanks for the memories! Add those to my list too.

[LordMortis]

I was trying to think of Star Control II but the truth is I sucked at it so bad while others were so good that it my memories of it are being a great game for other people. Maybe if I owned it and put time in to it when I was young.