*My Only Rule I Must Have Played The Year It Released*

2026 Cairn (Play in manual mode)
2025 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
2024 1000xResist
2023 Baldur's Gate 3 (Alan Wake the musical tho )
2022 Elden Ring
2021 Tales of Arise (Sadly does live up to the Tales of Berseria cast)
2020 Paradise Killer
2019 Control
2018 Divinity Original Sin 2 (Beat in Early Access)
2017 Nier Automata / Total War: Warhammer 2 (a close one)
2016 XCOM 2/ Dark Souls 3 (Blood and wine DLC)
2015 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Hearts of Stone DLC)
2014 Divinity Original Sin/ Talos Principle *2014 was a good year for gaming*
2013 Antichamber/ Civ5: Brave New World (DLC) *Playing the PC Classics*
Xbox 360
2012 XCOM Enemy Unknown
2011 Skyrim
2010 Assassins Creed: Brotherhood
2009 Assassins Creed: 2/ Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

2008 Super Smash Bros: Brawl/ Call of Duty: World at War (yes Cod on the Wii)
2007 The Godfarther: Blackhand Edition (GTA for Wii)/ Guitar Hero III/Battalion Wars 2
2006 Wii Sports/ TLoZ: Twilight Princess/Okami

2005 SW: Republic Commando/ SW: Battlefont 2/SW: Kotor 2
2004 Need for Speed Underground 2/ Burnout 2: Takedown
2003 Lotr: Return of the King/ Simpsons Hit and Run/SW: Kotor/Crash Nitro Kart (2003 was Great)
2002 SW Jedi Kngiht 2: Jedi Outcast/ Lotr Two Towers/Ty the Tasmanian Tiger
2001 Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex/ Jak and Daxter/SW: Starfighter/Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
2000 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2/ Tekken Tag Tournament
1999 Pokemon: Gold+Silver/ CTR/AoE: 2
*Way to young to play so these are games released before 1999 that I loved playing*
1998 Star Wars: Rogue Squadron/ Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith
1997 Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2/ SW: Masters of Teräs Käsi
1996 Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
p.s I love starwars

RPGs
Disco Elysium (*Literally Dies of Cringe* amnesiac detective RPG)
Fallout: New Vegas (Best fully voiced RPG, Obsidian almost went under because it only got 84 on Metacritic)
Legend of Grimrock 2 (A Brilliantly Simple Dungeon Crawler CRPG)
Wasteland 2 (Only issue is reading walls of text)
Sonny (JRPG flash game)

ARPGs
The Witcher 2+3 (1 is hot garbage dragon age combat)
Mass Effect 2 (best part about 3 is when i shot the ghost kid at the end. Cried laughing but lost the 2hrs it took to get there from my last save )
Deus Ex Human Revolution + Mankind Divided (Underrated Franchise)
Tales of Berseria (Top story and supporting characters, Amazing Protagonist development/best female protagonist I've seen. All 6 playable characters have brilliant arcs. A must play if you like the genre.)

Strategy
Total War: Warhammer 2
FTL: Faster Than Light
Civilization 5 (Only got good after all DLCs, Completely burnt out on this type of 4X)
Crusader Kings 2 + 3 (ck3 more casual and the UI is the best of any paradox game)
Hearts of Iron IV (Completely burnt out on this and online is filled with N*zis)
Balloons TD (RIP Adobe Flash)
Slay the Spire
Dicey Dungeons (100%'d)

Puzzle
Portal 1+2
The Talos Priciple (IMO this and Antichamber on par with portal 2)
The Swapper
FEZ
Baba is You (Baba is Hard :'[ )

Shooter
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (the last great fps game of online multiplayer era)
Team Fortress 2
R6 Siege (Quit cos their servers were wank when people stopped sleeping on this)
Borderlands 2 + Presequel (got hate for being the same, which it is)
Saints Row the Third + IV
Spec Ops the Line (one of the best shooter stories)
Bioshock 1+2 (would you kindly not use time-travel as the main plot point its rarely used well)
Halo 3
Metro Last Light (Unstable on PC)
Army of Two (one of the best co-op campaigns)

Adventure
A Hat in Time
Outer Wilds (You get 8 minutes to rip apart the fabric of space-time)

Action
Hitman: Blood Money + Absolution + Hitman 2+3
Bayonetta (we are never getting a PC port for 2 & 3)
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (NANOMACHINES, SON!!!))
Transistor (Supergaint games good)
Crypt of the Necrodancer
One Step from Eden (10/10 would 100% again)

Platformers
Frogger (windows 1997)
Supermeatboy
The End is Nigh
Trails Evolution (Fusion was good too)
Sonic (1+2+3+Knuckles+3D)
World's Hardest Game (its not a platformer but it fits best here)
Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz (Wii version)

Sports
Forza Motorsport 3
Mariokart Wii
Wii Sports + Resort
Fifa 99 (Right about now, the funk soul brother)
Track and Field
Star Wars EP1: Racer (now this is podracing)

Simulation
Stardew Valley (what animal crossing wishes it was)
Elite Dangerous (this + star wars rpg = the best game ever made)
Zoo Tycoon (2001 with expansions for Dinosaurs)

Story Driven (VNs/barely games)
LA Noire ("You **** young boys, Valdez?")
Oneshot (guide a cat through a dying world to restore its dead sun)
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
Zero Escape (Saw esque trilogy exploring the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics)
AI: The Somnium Files (Similiar to Zero Escape w/quantum world concept and has great twist in the story FaceOff )
Steins;Gate + 0 (best time travel rules in fiction I've seen)
Danganronpa Series
Hatoful Boyfriend (100% recommend to play blind and get the true ending)
Undertale (Bullethell, If you never seen this game before play it NOW.)