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A collection of games I think are important, interesting, or innovative. These are games I enjoy thinking about now almost as much as I enjoyed playing them at the time. These are games I learned from.

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Recommended September 25, 2014
Beyond our lives, there's always a wider world than we can yet conceive. FEZ breaks down the barriers of its world and implies permeable barriers beyond
Recommended September 25, 2014
Short, but an impressive experiment in repurposing film storytelling techniques into real-time gameplay
Recommended September 25, 2014
Progenitor of a new wave of roguelike-inspired action games. Supremely important game.
Recommended September 25, 2014
Portal mechanic is an almost hilariously on-the-nose inversion of the stereotypically masculine FPS. Excellent writing/puzzle design make this a classic
Recommended September 25, 2014
The beauty of nature and brutality of mankind. Relentlessly oppressive, the systems take on a life of their own, and crazy things just... happen.
Recommended September 25, 2014
Hypnotic, meditative in its ceaseless demand - simple, but silences the chatter in your mind, leaving nothing but the hexagon, endless, hungry, profound
Recommended September 25, 2014
Still exemplary in how to make game systems to fit narrative or vice versa. Carefully scoped in all aspects, a scintillating gem of compact design
Recommended September 25, 2014
Grotesque, overwhelming, surreal, and strangely beautiful, HLM revels in the violence that has come to define games, while questioning why we love it so
Recommended September 25, 2014
Heartbreaking in its brutal humanity. Choices are agonizing, not because of their impact necessarily but because of the kind of person they make of you.
Recommended September 25, 2014
Thematically and superficially similar to Bastion, but with a completely different and compellingly intricate combat system. Aesthetically astounding.
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