I was recently playing Mass Effect 1, and I think it was right after I destroyed the thorian there was a dramatic cutscene where Shepard basically sees a vision of the end of the world, but in my game, when the camera cut back, Shepard proceeded to slowly blink both eyes one after the other while his eyelashes gently floated back to his face. It was like 1:00 in the morning and I straight up lost it 😂

Metroid is another good one

GTAV.

Never played a GTA game before, so I was surprised at how good the writing and stuff was. Then the ending felt like it came out of nowhere, and hastily wrapped up plot threads I didn’t even know had started.

Flywrench. It’s a fun as hell game, but the soundtrack and the vibe is what you play it for.

Also Hotline Miami 1 & 2. The first is great, but the second is a masterpiece both in music and story.

I mean, are you enjoying the Witcher? If yes, then definitely finish that.

Personally I’m a story guy, so I found myself liking Witcher 3 a lot more than GTAV, and was actually pretty disappointed in the latter. GTAV has a habit of being really good at writing character dialog and setting up interesting stories, but being horrible at resolving them, usually ending an interesting plot line over a 2 second “good job,” phone call without any real conclusion. Witcher 3 is a lot better at this.

I just played Titanfall 2 for the first time a few months ago. That time travel level might be one of my favorites in any FPS game, and it’s a shame there aren’t any games that do that for the whole thing.

Outer Wilds isn’t a game for everybody, but if it is for you, it’s the best “it,” there is with literally nothing like it.

Spoiler: Outer Wilds has been dead the whole time and was killed by Severus Snape

Really, probably only Half Life 3. I already got Metroid Dread a few years ago, HL3 is the only “mythical,” game left that would blow my mind to hear announced.

Outer Wilds, both the main game and DLC.

Also the Undertale soundtrack is spot on.

Super Metroid’s Maridia. You feel like you broke the game and accessed a secret area, and it’s beautiful and incredibly alien.

To me, the coolest thing about Subnautica was it’s range of tones. It’d be beautiful one second, terrifying the next, and then filling you with awe the moment after that. Such a great game.

✅Have fun

✅Beat final boss

SOMA has an easy mode that turns off enemy AI. Still scary on an existential story level, and the atmosphere is amazing enough to make a no AI playthrough still worth it.

Dead Space is decently scary, but a pretty good one for newcomers since it focuses on action a lot more than horror. The sequels focus even less on horror, so it might be a good series as a whole.

Alan Wake is also pretty good.

Just finished Little Nightmares for the first time, and while it barely scratches the surface of horror, it still might be a good place to start.

Subnautica isn’t necessarily a horror game, but I think I was more scared in certain parts of that game than any horror game I’ve played.

Also “Stories Untold,” is a great one! Tense horror vibe, but nothing really nightmare inducing.

The swamp boss in MGS3. 5-10 minutes of walking slowly in a straight line, and then you die.

It’s not even that unfair overall, it’s just that each “iteration,” takes forever. What made it especially frustrating for me was that I FIGURED IT OUT maybe 1 or 2 tries in, but there’s no reason I would have thought the game would suddenly give me access to an invisible menu on the game-over screen to actually use the item I needed to use.

Metroid Prime Federation Force.

Metroid Other M almost killed the franchise, 6-7 years passed, Nintendo had just shut down the AM2R fan game which was the only good thing to happen to the series during that time, and then Nintendo announced a weird chibi Metroid game that seems to want to be Rocket League. I wasn’t even mad, just really fucking confused like if your boss walked in wearing a chair on his head and he refused to acknowledge the chair.

Fi, Skyward Sword.

Literally useless hints, completely unlikable as a character, and even though the HD version of the game advertised you can tell her to STFU, she still pops up time and time again to remind you the basic controls.

Such a shame considering this was the first sidekick we got after Midna who was probably the best in the series.

In general you’re usually paying slightly more for the portability of weaker hardware, but portability is a super worth-it feature if you’re the type to use it i.e. long bus trips, sit around college campus a lot between classes, have to spend a lot of time undergoing certain medical treatments, etc. Nobody talks about the PlayStation Portal because it just came out (and is kind of shit), but everyone was talking about the Steam Deck 2 years ago when it launched, and I still see it everywhere.

If you don’t need the portability though, just go with the standard console/PC

It’s been sitting in Steam library for years. Can’t work up the nerve to play it.

To The Moon. Wonderful story, but damn, anyone who’s played it knows that moment.