games

Games I’ve played and games I’d like to play. means I liked it, means it was just ok, means I didn’t like it.

Naturally, this is biased toward my taste. If I mark a game , I may still think it’s good overall, but just doesn’t match my own personal taste, and vice versa.

Also see books, movies, and other lists.

Games I’d like to play:

• Where Is My Heart (Die Gute Fabrik)

• Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee HD (Just Add Water)

• Fez (Polytron)

• Parallax (Toasty)

• Gemini Rue (Joshua Nuernberger/Wadjet Eye)

• Botanicula, Samorost 3 (Amanita)

• Capsized (Alientrap)

• SpyParty (Chris Hecker)

• The Witness (Jonathan Blow)

• Journey (thatgamecompany)

• The Last Guardian (Sony/Team Ico)

• Beyond Good and Evil 2 (Ubisoft)

• Feist (Florian Faller and Adrian Stutz)

Games I’ve played:

• To The Moon (Freebird)

• Uncharted 3 (Naughty Dog)

• Okabu (HandCircus)

• Cave Story (Studio Pixel/Nicalis)

• Bastion (Supergiant)

• Gun Mute (Pacian)

• SuperBrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP (Capy)

• Child of Eden (Tetsuya Mizuguchi)

• LA Noire (Rockstar)

• Portal 2 (Valve)

• Cordy (SilverTree)

• Fract (Richard Flanagan)

• Stacking (Double Fine)

• Ilomilo (Southend)

• Dance Central (Harmonix)

• Kinect Adventures (Good Science/Microsoft)

• Castle Crashers (The Behemoth)

• Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (Crystal Dynamics)

• Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar)

• Limbo (PLAYDEAD)

• The Misadventures of P. B. Winterbottom (The Odd Gentlemen)

• Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (Ubisoft)

• Heavy Rain (Quantic Dream)

• Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)

• Spelunky (Derek Yu/Mossmouth)

• Leave Home (Hermit Games)

• Love (Quel Solaar)

• Small Worlds (David Shute)

• Machinarium (Amanita)

• Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)

• Scribblenauts (5th Cell)

• Halo 3: ODST (Bungie)

• Shadow Complex (Chair)

• Tales of Monkey Island (Telltale)

• Little Wheel , Kutuke (OneClickDog)

• MotorStorm (Evolution)

• Shatter (Sidhe Interactive)

• Shift (Armor Games)

• Infamous (Sucker Punch)

• Blueberry Garden (Erik Svedäng)

• Me & My Katamari (Keita Takahashi/Namco)

• Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (Rockstar)

• Windosill , Levers , Feed the Head (Vectorpark)

• Groov (Barryman)

• Osmos (Hemisphere Games)

• Dyson (Rudolf Kremers and Alex May)

• Between (Jason Rohrer)

• You Have To Burn The Rope (Kian Bashiri)

• Noby Noby Boy (Keita Takahashi)

• Flower (thatgamecompany)

• Killzone 2 (Guerrilla)

• I-Fluid (Exkee)

• The Majesty of Colors (Gregory Weir)

• Seven Minutes (Virtanen)

• In the Pit (Studio Hunty)

• Crush (Zoë Mode)

• Loco Roco , Loco Roco 2 (Sony)

• Patapon (Pyramid)

• God of War: Chains of Olympus (Ready at Dawn)

• Prince of Persia (Ubisoft)

• Auditorium (Cipher Prime)

• Mirror’s Edge (DICE)

• LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)

• The Art of Theft (Yahtzee)

• Fable , Fable 2 , Fable 3 (Lionhead)

• Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People (Telltale)

• World of Goo (2D Boy)

• Wipeout HD (Sony)

• Braid (Jonathan Blow)

• PixelJunk Eden , Shooter 1 , 2 , (Q Games)

• Echochrome (Sony)

• Soul Bubbles (Mekensleep)

• The World Ends with You (Square Enix)

• Lego Indiana Jones (Travellers Tales)

• Professor Layton (Level-5)

• Passage (Jason Rohrer)

• Burnout Paradise (Criterion)

• Geometry Wars: Galaxies (Kuju)

• Call of Duty 4 , Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward)

• Contact (Grasshopper Manufacture)

• Assassin’s Creed (Ubisoft)

• Team Fortress 2 (Valve)

• Portal (Valve)

• Metroid: Zero Mission (Nintendo)

• A Cure for the Common Cold (MashPotato)

• Reactor 09 (Bernie)

• Knightsquire (Buloght)

• Bad Mojo (Pulse)

• Tomb Raider: Anniversary (Crystal Dynamics)

• Clubhouse Games (Agenda)

• Lunar Knights (Konami)

• Zelda: A Link to the Past, The Minish Cap, The Phantom Hourglass, Ocarina of Time 3D, (Nintendo)

• Gears of War (Epic)

• Dead Rising (Capcom)

• Knytt (Nicklas Nygren)

• Psychonauts (Double Fine)

• Elite Beat Agents (Nintendo/iNiS)

• Phoenix Wright (Capcom)

• Trauma Center (Atlus)

• Meteos (Q)

• Wii Sports (Nintendo)

• Rayman Raving Rabbids (Ubisoft)

• Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz (Sega)

• Sam and Max (Telltale)

• Okami (Clover)

• The Ship (Outerlight)

• Diner Dash (Gamelab)

• Gitaroo Man (Koei/iNiS)

• New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)

• Burnout 3: Takedown (Criterion)

• LA Rush (Midway)

• Lego Star Wars (Traveller’s Tales)

• Animal Crossing (Nintendo)

• Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (Funcom)

• Broken Sword 1, 3 (Revolution)

• Feel the Magic XY/XX (Sega/Sonic Team)

• Metroid Prime: Hunters (Nintendo)

• Trace Memory (Cing)

• Brain Age (Nintendo)

• Kirby’s Canvas Curse (Nintendo)

• Grid Wars (Marco Incitti)

• Mutant Storm (Pom Pom)

• Flow (Jenova Chen et al.)

• Guitar Hero (Harmonix)

• Strange Attractors (Ominous, IGF 2006)_

• Rumble Box (DigiPen, IGF 2006)_

• Palette (Handmade, IGF 2006)

• Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space (Digital Eel, IGF 2006)

• Dodge that Anvil (Rabidlab, IGF 2006)

• Cloud (USC Interactive, IGF 2006)

• Switchball (Atomic Elbow, IGF 2006)

• Ocular Ink (Pistachio, IGF 2006)

• Call of Duty 2 (Infinity Ward)

• King Kong (Ubisoft)

• Bone (Telltale)

• Samorost 1, 2 (Amanita)

• Shadow of the Colossus (Sony)

• Indigo Prophecy (Quantic Dream)

• Darwinia (Introversion)

• Wario Ware and Touched! (Intelligent)

• Crimson Skies (FASA/Microsoft)

• Beneath A Steel Sky (Revolution)

• The Last Express (Smoking Car)

• The Longest Journey (Funcom)

• Breakquest (Nurium)

• Facade (Auto-mata)

• Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time (Ubisoft)

• Beyond Good & Evil (Ubisoft)

• Half-Life 2, Episode 1, Episode 2 (Valve)

• Nethack

• Hitman 1, 2 (IO Interactive)

• Unreal Tournament 2K4 (Epic Games)

• Out of Order (Hungry Software)

• I Love Bees (4orty2wo)

• Subcity Central (Virtuquest)

• Oasis (PlayFirst)

• Worms 2, Armageddon, 3D (Team 17)

• Frequency (Harmonix)

• Rez (United Game Artists)

• Ico (Sony)

• Halo (Bungie)

• Subspace (Virgin Interactive/Harmless)

• Quake 1, 2, 3 (id)

• Tic Tac Toe (Ryan Barrett)

• Voxel Hunt (Ryan Barrett)

• Space Channel 5 (United Game Artists)

• San Francisco Rush 2049 (Midway)

• Ooga Booga (Visual Concepts)

• Floigan Brothers (Visual Concepts)

• Crazy Taxi (Sega)

• Rayman 2 (Ubisoft)

• Soul Calibur 1, 2 (Namco)

• Drakan (Surreal)

• Netstorm (Titanic Entertainment)

• Dark Earth (Kalisto)

• Super Mario 64 (Nintendo)

• Star Monkey (Small Rockets)

• Baku Baku (Sega)

• Black and White (Lionhead)

• Alien vs. Predator (Rebellion)

• Unreal (Epic Games)

• Twinsen’s Odyssey (Adeline)

• American McGee’s Alice (Rogue Entertainment)

• MDK 1 (Shiny), MDK 2 (BioWare)

• Rocket Jockey (SegaSoft)

• Final Fantasy VII (Square Enix)

• Sub Culture (Criterion)

• Adventure (Infocom)

• Zork (Infocom)

• Curse Of Monkey Island, Escape From Monkey Island (LucasArts)

• Samurai Showdown I, II, III (SNK)

• Civilization II (Sid Meier/Atari)

• Homeworld (Relic)

• Outcast (Appeal)

• Ultracorps (VR1)

• Interstate ’76 (Activision)

• Relentless: Twinsen’s Adventure aka Little Big Adventure (Adeline)

• Grim Fandango (LucasArts)

• Comanche (NovaLogic)

• Moto Racer (Delphine)

• Big Red Racing (Big Red)

• Tomb Raider (Core)

• Crusader: No Remorse (Origin)

• Full Throttle (LucasArts)

• Sam & Max Hit The Road (LucasArts)

• Day Of The Tentacle (LucasArts)

• Mechwarrior 2 (Activision)

• Wing Commander 3, 4 (Origin)

• Descent (Parallax)

• Cannon Fodder (Sensible Software)

• Z (Bitmap Brothers)

• Ultima VII (Origin)

• Legend of the Red Dragon (Seth Able Robinson)

• Terminal Velocity\ (3D Realms)

• Duke Nukem 3D (3D Realms)

• Mario Kart 64 (Nintendo)

• Star Fox 64 (Nintendo)

• One Must Fall 2097 (Diversions Entertainment)

• Gemstone (Simutronics/GEnie)

• Multiplayer Battletech (Kesmai)

• Raptor (Apogee)

• Doom (id)

• Warcraft 1, 2 (Blizzard)

• NBA Jam (Midway)

• Street Figher II (Capcom)

• Mortal Kombat (Midway)

• Wolfenstein 3D (id)

• Scorched Earth (Wendell Hicken)

• Phantasmagoria (Sierra)

• Epic Pinball (Epic)

• Marble Madness (Atari)

• SimCity 1, 2, 2000 (Maxis)

• SimEarth, SimAnt, SimLife (Maxis)

• Commander Keen 1, 2, 3, 4 (Apogee)

• Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventure (Apogee)

• Glider (Casady & Greene)

• Crystal Quest (Casady & Greene)

• The Incredible Machine 1, 2 (Sierra)

• The 7th Guest, The 11th Hour (Trilobyte)

• SSN-21 Seawolf (EA)

• River City Ransom (Technos)

• F-Zero (Nintendo)

• Deathtrack (Dynamix)

• Contra (Konami)

• Tetris (Alexey Pajitnov)

• Death Rally (Apogee)

• Double Dragon (Technos)

• Rampage (Midway)

• Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, 3, World, 64 (Nintendo)

• Space Quest 1, 2, 3 (Sierra)

• King’s Quest 1, 2, 3 (Sierra)

• The Oregon Trail (MECC)

• Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (Google knows!) (Broderbund)