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A list of all the video games I’ve played in reverse chronological order.
2023
SiN Gold
Platform: PC
3/10
This game absolutely sucks. The graphics are just what you’d expect from a `1998 Quake engine game. The problem...
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Broforce
Platform: PC
8/10
I didn’t immediately warm up to this platform shooter. For one thing, it’s very twitchy, chaotic, and brutally unfair...
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Platform: Nintendo Wii U
9/10
Zelda games had been in a bit of a rut lately (as in 2015 lately). Sure the games were...
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Emily the Strange: Strangerous
Platform: Nintendo DS
6/10
In this point and click puzzle adventure you control Emily on her quest to find her missing cats. Apparently...
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Rise of the Triad: Dark War
Platform: MS-DOS
8/10
Rise of the Triad is a first-generation FPS that technologically sits somewhere between Wolfenstein 3-D and Doom. In fact,...
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XIII
Platform: PC
4/10
I really wanted to like this game. It feels almost like No One Lives Forever in it’s hip spy...
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Ion Fury
Platform: PC
9/10
Ion Fury is more than the nostalgia cash-in that its marketing might suggest. It an FPS that gets to...
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Control
Platform: PC
7/10
In Control you are in control of Jesse. She’s been plunked down into a giant, oppressively designed government building...
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2022
Dishonored 2
Platform: PC
8/10
It’s time to return the steampunk world of Dishonored in which you sneak around and strangle everyone who crosses...
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Platform: PC
4/10
In the end this just became tedious. While you control your character like an FPS, this is almost a...
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The Talos Principle
Platform: PC
6/10
The Talos Principle is a solid puzzle game in which you manipulate objects around rooms to connect light beams,...
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The Legendary Starfy
Platform: Nintendo DS
8/10
I’m surprised that I enjoyed this kid-friendly platformer as much as I did. It leans in heavy into its...
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Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
Platform: Gameboy Advance
7/10
This is the first Castlevania sequel I have ever completed. I’ve played the first five minutes of Symphony of...
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Mushihimesama
Platform: PC
8/10
Lately I have become obsessed with bullet-hell shmups like this. I’d see these images of these impossible patterns of...
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Phantasy Star
Platform: Sega Master System
7/10
I played all of the sequels to this RPG that were available on the Sega Genesis, two on the...
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Crusader of Centy
Platform: Genesis
7/10
Every couple of years I get back into emulation, mostly as a reaction against some massive open-world game I...
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Caladrius Blaze
Platform: PC
7/10
For some time now I have been interested in playing various SHMUPs in MAME. Some of the best looking...
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Wasteland Remastered
Platform: PC
6/10
Wasteland is considered a classic RPG from the Apple ][ era but it’s one that I never played back...
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Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire
Platform: MS-DOS
4/10
I was actually enjoying this game but, after twelve or so hours of play, I discovered that the GOG...
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Aer: Memories of Old
Platform: PC
3/10
Aer takes a 1995 Zelda aesthetic and makes it into a boring slog. This game felt like a college...
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Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Platform: PC
7/10
With this game I have finally played all the key 90s RPG classics. I attempted to play a few...
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Fallout 4
Platform: PC
9/10
I was quite a bit hesitant to get this game because I had heard that a big part of...
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2021
Resident Evil 6
Platform: PC
4/10
I don’t know why I keep thinking these Resident Evil games might actually be good. Everything about RE6 is...
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Platform: PC
8/10
The third in the reboot series which is more or less the same as its predecessors. Excellent graphics, the...
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Prey
Platform: PC
6/10
Prey takes a very ambitious approach to game play. There are always multiple paths towards achieving your goals and...
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Thief 2: The Metal Age
Platform: PC
6/10
Thief 2 has not aged terribly well. I’m usually not one to complain about dated graphics, but in this...
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Crusader: No Regret
Platform: MS-DOS
7/10
The fake red Boba Fett is at it again in this sequel to Crusader: No Remorse and he just...
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Ultima IX: Ascension
Platform: PC
5/10
With the completion of this playthrough, I have now completed all the Ultima games (technically I never finished Ultima...
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Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny
Platform: Apple ][
9/10
Ultima V is perhaps the pinnacle of gaming on the Apple ][ computer system. While I thought that Nox...
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Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Platform: PC
8/10
This game goes out of its way to let you know that it’s about mental illness; and that they...
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Nox Archaist
Platform: Apple ][
8/10
Nox Archaist (no relation to Nox) has come up several times before on this site as it was a...
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Mirror’s Edge Catalyst
Platform: PC
6/10
The original Mirror’s Edge was one of only a handful of games that I had gone back and replayed...
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2020
Wasteland 3
Platform: PC
8/10
The Wasteland 2 sequel sorta came out of nowhere for me. The previous game was one of the first...
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No More Heroes
Platform: Nintendo Wii
6/10
No More Heroes is a spazzy fighting/action game for the Wii in the vein of say Madworld. It leans...
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Captain Goodnight and the Islands of Fear
Platform: Apple ][
8/10
Along with Karateka and Prince of Persia this may be one of the most solid story-oriented action games on...
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Spare Change
Platform: Apple ][
9/10
Although I am very nostalgic for many a game on the system, the Apple ][ was never the ideal...
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Tacoma
Platform: PC
6/10
Yet another walking simulator, but this time it’s in space! So, technically it’s a floating simulator. The gimmick here is that you can...
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Pillars of Eternity
Platform: PC
5/10
I think it’s time I finally accept the fact that I don’t really like Infinity Engine style games anymore....
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Hexen: Shadow of the Serpent Riders
Platform: MS-DOS
8/10
Hexen was another mid-nineties FPS that, I swear, I played the demo of several times but never played the full...
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Fallout Tactics
Platform: PC
8/10
The third game in the Fallout series eschews much of its RPGness and concentrates on combat instead. I always liked the...
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Saints Row 2
Platform: PC
6/10
I vowed to avoid open world games but then GOG.com goes and makes Saints Row 2 free. This series has always...
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Hob
Platform: PC
8/10
Hob is from the same studio that created Torchlight and much of the same beautiful artistic style is on display here. This...
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Bayonetta
Platform: Nintendo Wii U
6/10
The WiiU is not known for much other than being a failure. The whole two screen thing doesn’t make...
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Legend of Grimrock
Platform: PC
8/10
Legend of Grimrock brings the real-time dungeon crawl formula of Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder to the modern age. Perhaps the best...
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Transistor
Platform: PC
4/10
The only thing Transistor has going for it is a beautiful art style and high-quality voice acting. The rest is an...
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Flashback
Platform: PC
7/10
I must have attempted to play this game about a dozen times. I would download it from some abandonware...
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Abzû
Platform: PC
5/10
Hey, it’s a walking simulator with a twist… swimming! I’ll give it this, Abzû is a very nice looking and great...
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The Silent Age
Platform: PC
6/10
The biggest puzzle in this modestly sized point-and-click adventure is figuring out how to get it to even run....
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2019
Doom [2016]
Platform: PC
9/10
I think this is a reboot. Was there actually a plot in the original Doom? Whatever the case, this version of Doom is...
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GNOG
Platform: PC
7/10
GNOG is a cute little puzzle game in which you are left to click and poke around without any instructions...
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Ruiner
Platform: PC
7/10
Ruiner rages with a riot of red. So much red. It’s like an entire game based on a Photoshop filter...
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Assassin’s Creed III
Platform: PC
4/10
This game has been sitting in my to-do list for quite some time. I got it as a freebie...
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Metro 2033 Redux
Platform: PC
6/10
There was some sort of nuclear apocalypse and the citizens of Moscow were forced to live in the city’s...
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Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
Platform: PC
8/10
This is the sequel to Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Like its predecessor, this is an isometric puzzle...
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Tomb Raider Legend
Platform: PC
8/10
I could have sworn I had played this game before, but I wasn’t completely sure. I get this one...
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Rise of the Tomb Raider
Platform: PC
8/10
Part two of the Tomb Raider reboot doesn’t offer anything really new in terms of game play but that’s okay. The...
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Ultima Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams
Platform: MS-DOS
8/10
Martian Dreams is built on the same game engine as Ultima VI. Much like that game, it is much less of...
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Tomb Raider II
Platform: MS-DOS
6/10
This game is part of a Tomb Raider three pack at GOG.com. I tried to play Tomb Raider 1, but I had already...
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Nex Machina
Platform: PC
9/10
Nex Machina is the (almost) official follow-up to Robotron: 2084 or, as I like to call it, the greatest arcade game ever...
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Layers of Fear
Platform: PC
4/10
Another walking simulator but this time with a horror theme. The whole point of this “game” is to make...
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The Witness
Platform: PC
9/10
The Witness is from the same developer who created the superb Braid. It feels like a cross between that game and Myst. Once...
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A Story About My Uncle
Platform: PC
7/10
A Story About My Uncle is a game based entirely around a single game mechanic, a grappling beam. Players shoot...
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Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon
Platform: MS-DOS
8/10
Time to break out that pad of graph paper again and start charting the depths of nerd-dom. Eye of the...
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Cursed Mountain
Platform: Nintendo Wii
7/10
This “limited edition” version was one of the first games I bought for the Wii. It’s been sitting on my stack of...
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Wolfenstein 3D
Platform: MS-DOS
6/10
As with most of the great shareware titles of the 90s, I played the free episode of Wolfenstein 3D a gazillion...
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Beneath a Steel Sky
Platform: MS-DOS
5/10
I think this is considered by many to be one of the best point and click adventure games of...
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Serious Sam 2
Platform: PC
6/10
The original Serious Sam became an unexpected hit when it received the approval of Old Man Murray. While other games were trying...
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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Platform: Nintendo Wii
8/10
Well, this is a Zelda game. The formula has remained unchanged ever since The Ocarina of Time. The princess has...
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Shadow Warrior 2
Platform: PC
8/10
Shadow Warrior 2 is a fast and wild shooter that continues in much the same vein as the first reboot...
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2018
Far Cry 4
Platform: PC
8/10
All these Ubisoft open-world games (Assassins Creed, Watch Dogs, etc.) follow the same basic formula. Main story which you can take your...
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Jotun
Platform: PC
3/10
The only thing this game has going for it is its art direction. There’s some wonderful hand-drawn characters and...
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Alien: Isolation
Platform: PC
8/10
The first few hours of Alien: Isolation are some of the most nerve-racking gaming I have ever experienced. It’s a stealth...
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Crusader: No Remorse
Platform: MS-DOS
8/10
In the 90s, I tried playing the demo of this game many times and could never really get into...
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Vanquish
Platform: PC
7/10
Vanquish is a third-person action game that has little to offer in terms of plot or characters. Its story feels...
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Ultima VI: The False Prophet
Platform: MS-DOS
9/10
With the completion of VI, I’m getting close to having played all the games in the Ultima series. I own boxed...
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Unavowed
Platform: PC
8/10
At this point I think we can all basically agree that every game that Wadjet Eye releases is going...
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Planescape: Torment [Enhanced Edition]
Platform: PC
6/10
I think with this I have finally played through all of the original Infinity Engine RPG games. Icewind Dale I...
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Watch Dogs
Platform: PC
6/10
Ubisoft only knows how to make these open world games with paper-thin story lines and lots of side challenges...
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Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
Platform: MS-DOS
7/10
I remember watching my housemate play this game quite a bit back when we were in college. I don’t...
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Destiny 2
Platform: PC
6/10
I’ve been playing this off and on for the past few months. This is supposedly designed as a multiplayer...
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Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror
Platform: PC
7/10
This game is a bit of a mixed bag. I really like the main characters and it has some genuinely...
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Deadlight: Director’s Cut
Platform: PC
7/10
This one was a freebie from GOG.com of which I knew nothing about before playing it. Turns out, it is a...
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Dishonored
Platform: PC
8/10
A while back I gave this game a spin during a Steam free weekend and ended up setting it...
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Spelunky
Platform: PC
4/10
Games journalists (I can’t believe that’s really a thing) seem to love this game, I thought it was tiresome....
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Eye of the Beholder
Platform: MS-DOS
7/10
Eye of the Beholder is a real-time RPG dungeon crawl that borrows heavily from the mechanics of Dungeon Master. It’s a...
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The Crimson Crown
Platform: Apple ][
8/10
This sequel to the classic Apple ][ adventure game Transylvania has you returning to the same locations as the first game...
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Transylvania
Platform: Apple ][
8/10
Transylvania is a hybrid text/graphical adventure originally for the Apple ][. This was a big hit back in the day...
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Red Steel 2
Platform: Nintendo Wii
8/10
We are already two generations beyond the Wii and I am still getting caught up on all the games...
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Rage
Platform: PC
5/10
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. This game is the epitome of bland first person shooters and Id Software should know...
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2017
Minecraft: Story Mode
Platform: PC
6/10
I thought it was Game of Thrones, but this is definitely the weakest Telltale release. I don’t mind that this...
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The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
Platform: Nintendo DS
8/10
It took me nearly half a decade to finish this one. Not that it’s terribly difficult, I just put...
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Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt
Platform: PC
10/10
Witcher 3 is a massive open world RPG that’s full of detail in terms of visuals and story. It’s was...
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Shadowgrounds: Survivor
Platform: PC
7/10
The sequel to Shadowgrounds doesn’t offer much new. There’s the same aliens, same corny voice acting, and the same top-down shooting...
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Life is Strange
Platform: PC
8/10
Life is Strange uses the same branching story game play as Telltale’s games. The twist here is that your character...
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F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
Platform: PC
6/10
The first F.E.A.R. game did a really good job of building up the tension to provide creepy scares and atmosphere. This...
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Red Steel
Platform: Nintendo Wii
5/10
I think this was one of the earliest titles on the Wii, and one that was supposed to showcase...
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Super Mario Galaxy 2
Platform: Nintendo Wii
8/10
Well, it took me about half a decade, but I finally finished Super Mario Galaxy 2. I really liked the...
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Super Metroid
Platform: SNES
9/10
We never owned a Super Nintendo so I never got around to playing the 16-bit incarnation of Metroid. Well, thanks...
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Kathy Rain
Platform: PC
7/10
Kathy Rain is a point and click adventure which uses the same AGS engine that all the games from Wadjet Eye games use....
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Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri
Platform: PC
6/10
This game was a $5 budget CD when I bought it over a decade ago at CompUSA but I...
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