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Here's a collection of games I played. This is to keep a record, recommend, and just keep track. I'll also have a to-play list at the bottom.

There's category links above you can click on to filter (if you have javascript enabled). This is an example of what I call escalator web development.

I have my most played and recommended games at the top. Some of these are also what you'd call "forever games". Games I play over and over. And I realize now they might be "forever games" because they keep coming up on platforms I move to which makes them easy to get and play. So have that as another thing to filter on.

Recommended and most played:

Machinarium - a point and click about a cute robot
Myst - the classic puzzle adventure game, which I recently played.
Human Resource Machine - office workers as assembly code
Hyper Light Drifter - a great action rpg, pays homage to 8/16 bit games, both in style and in difficulty. you'll die several times until you master it. I had on ps4 and didn't really play, but really started playing on Switch.
• here's a cool [map](https://hyper-light-drifter-map.de/t/#3/64.00/92.06) to keep track of what you found
Journey - adventure game praised for it's art and meant to evoke emotion, it's more abstract, some consider it more like a parable
The Last Guardian - by the same people as Shadow of the Collossus, an adventure game where you have to solve puzzles and challenges to get through ruins with your large creature friend. On the PS4.

Other games

2064: Read Only Memories - a not-as-noir cyberpunk pixel-art point-and-click
7 Grand Steps - a civilization game based on generations of a family played as a mechanical coin-op?
80 Days - narrative game based on the Jules Verne book
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAA!!! for the Awesome - a base jumping game
Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders - point-click mystery
AI War: Fleet Command - a complex RTS
Aspire: A Simple Story - and a simple platformer, with an "emotional" story
The Almost Gone - atmoshperic isometric point-and-click adventure
Boomerang Fu - party game for the switch
Elli - a pretty basic 3D platformer
Moonlighter - an SNES retro inspired dungeon crawler
My Time at Portia - a typical small town farm simulator
Narita Boy - retro-themed platformer of a pixelated hero in a computer
No Man's Sky - procedurally generated space exloration and crafting
Obduction - a spiritual successor to Myst
Ratcheteer - a great game for the Playdate. This plays just like Zelda: Link's Awakening, but with it's own cute unique story and puzzles.
Sea of Stars demo - a retro SNES style game with Zelda style puzzles and JRPG combat

Shadow of the Colossus - an action adventure game in a beautiful, large open world, notable because it's mostly empty landscape. There's basically only the 16 "bosses" to fight. A remastered version for PS4.

This review about the remake talks about its lonely nature.

Skyrim - the classic Bethesda fantasy RPG. They keep porting it, I keep playing it.
Starfield - it's a Bethesda RPG, but unlike Elderscrolls/Fallout, a good portion is procedurally Generated
Traumatarium demo - a Gameboy-looking dungeon-crawler
Watch Dogs 2 - openworld GTA-style game but interesting characters and hacking
Yooka-Laylee - a Banjo-Kazooie look-a-like
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair - the game now as a sidescrolling platformer