Far easier without tank controls and incredibly short. It is actually just Resident Evil with samurai though and didn't really find its identity until the second game. They should remaster the rest though because it was worth the revisit.

The dadliest of all Yakuza, and quite possibly of all games. I don't know, I haven't played the one where Kiryu changes a diaper, yet... but 9 stories about the kids in Kiryu's orphanage baked into the main plot is hard to beat.

Another Dragon Quest! Bought at launch in 2009. The second in the Zenithia trilogy and actually a monster catching RPG. The game takes place over about 26 years from your main characters birth onwards. Wildly ambitious and, like DQIV, ahead of its time.

The Fire Walk With Me of the original Life Is Strange, if FWWM was incredibly boring and didn't take a single one of the chances it's original work did. Completely pointless. It gets points for being significantly more gay though.

This isn't the first plague game I've played in the pandemic, but it is the only one I had to take a break from because of it. Really good though. Very well paced and while it tries to emulate its AAA contemporaries, it ain't half as bloated.

As a long time fan of the series, I see so much of the old games brought forward through this. There's a lot of good I can say for this but let's go with... This is a series determined to master itself, rather than completely reinvent, and it works.

We have a lead for oldest game on the list. One of those games I've played many times over the years, but was too hard to actually beat... also I never owned it. Strange to have a history with it despite that. Always loved the music and art.

Very short and has to be played in one sitting, so I streamed it. VHS drugs. Vaporwave beats. Avian photography and night drives on an empty highway. That's my review.

I finished this game accidentally. Good, dungeon crawling fun, but I wish it had 2 save slots to play both versions of the game concurrently(I later learned the second one does this). I appreciated the limitation of party members preventing me from being underlevelled.

I finished the second of these 2 years earlier, but I want to include it here because it stays with me to this day. These games are puzzles boxes, and the stories they tell are crushing accounts of personal struggle. I doubt I'll ever forget them.

The first Tales game I've ever felt engrossed in, and also finished. That's gotta mean something. Don't play on Normal if you want any kind of challenge... I stuck with it to see how far Auto would take me and the answer is... all the way through.

What if Silent Hill, Overcooked and Bioshock had a baby you could get for free on Itch? Pretty ambitious for such a small game, and I'm no longer surprised that it's over a gig in size.

These years later, I think back on how much I enjoyed this and wonder why I haven't played through the full game of it, but if you ever get the chance, give this smaller one a go. I think it's free on Steam now.

Currently both the oldest and only game I've finished before on this list. A lot harder than I remember. I don't really have much to say, since I have a long road left with these games. After this though, I'm sure it'll be simple and clean

Needed more bosses and more focus on parts other than where you fight waves of enemies over and over. Stealth sections were weak but at least faster than combat. Did in fact rekindle my love of Spider-Man after about 8 years of avoiding superheroes

A short exploration game available free. I've played quite a few experimental shorts the last year, and I'll only add them to this thread if I recommend them. No combat or drastic puzzles, just a fun little world to inhabit for a time.