The rows are themed.
Row 1: Fundamental to my personality.
Row 2: Games that I can feel in my bones
Row 3: Nintendo blood
Row 4: Fucked up PC and PC-Adjacent games
Row 5: Games that matter because of who I play them with (and in knytt stories' case, the level-making community)
A couple of standouts that might seem odd or just simply unknown:
Chex Quest 3: This was made by the original creator of Chex Quest and it is some of the finest level design in a DOOM WAD. It was released years after the original 2 episodes and isn't affiliated with the brand officially at all. It has some of the most naturalistic environments I've seen in DOOM and I loved every minute of it. Also, it's got parts set in Minneapolis which is very cool.
Widget Workshop: This "game" is instrumental in my understanding of computer logic. I make music in Bespoke, which is basically Widget Workshop for music. It's weirdly important to me.
Opera Omnia: The best I've ever seen an idea be expressed via mechanics. The idea being that the tools we use and the ways we use them define our thought patterns and the stories we tell. It's essentially the story of how a tool can be used to justify genocide.
Inversus and Nidhogg 2: Both are just fucking fantastic 2p vs. games. I will probably play these until I die, if I have a machine that can handle them.
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