Off the clock.

Terraria

Still the best sandbox survival game, with amazing progression. Even with a full backlog, I keep finding myself coming back to it again and again.

Stardew Valley

It was supposed to be a cozy game — yet here I am speed-running and min-maxing it. Still having a heck of a great time.

Outer Wilds

One of the best experiences I've had in years. The only problem: you can only experience this masterpiece once.

Baldur's Gate II

A personal favourite. Hard to beat nostalgia, but still an exemplary cRPG — great narration, replayability, and the freedom of a proper RPG. The UI and spell explanations are dated and oldschool, but if I beat this at age 10 without proper English, I'm sure you can too.

Dredge

I wouldn't have guessed a fishing minigame, inventory-management "minigame", and cruising around in a boat would add up to a fun game. Yet here we are — simplicity at its best, a well-polished indie with a welcome Lovecraftian streak.

Thronefall

Finds a sweet spot between RTS and tower defense — a lucky little genre mash-up that leans hard into fun and simplicity.

Dark Souls

Not hard, just punishing — it teaches you to respect the enemies and the game. And the best 3D map design I know: a long trek out from Firelink Shrine, only to unlock a shortcut that drops you right back at it.

Factorio

The factory must grow.

Hollow Knight

Somehow Team Cherry made a better game than the genre-defining Metroid and Castlevania.

Slay the Spire

Kicked off the whole roguelike-deckbuilder wave. I love card games but always found deckbuilding tedious — the homework happens outside the game. Slay the Spire folds it into the run itself, so you learn your deck as you go and feel the weight of each choice. Great design.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

This is how I like to remember Star Wars — great narration, a great story, and choices that matter.

Spelunky

A model for how a platformer roguelike should feel: fair (well, almost), lots of ways to solve a problem, and I can always see exactly why a run went south.

Tunic

Picked it up for the cute art and the oldschool Zelda-like feel; finished it for the brilliant puzzles and hidden tricks.

Antichamber

An incredible non-Euclidean puzzle game I still look up to as a developer. Most 'think outside the box' puzzlers just frustrate — Antichamber keeps amazing you at every step.

A Short Hike

Short, but it stays with you. A reminder that a game doesn't need hundreds of hours of content — a cute, well-made platformer can go a long way in a player's memory.

Cowboy Bebop

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

Bakemonogatari

Steins;Gate

Princess Mononoke

Nichijou

Daily Lives of High School Boys

Spy x Family

KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!

Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World

Sword Art Online

Dan Da Dan

Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day

The Prestige

The Truman Show