Here's my actual 25 games chart, sorted alphabetically. I tried to avoid overlap where possible, so I actually originally had The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles and 999 on here but I already had a Shu Takumi / Capcom game and a Spike Chunsoft death game VN so I swapped them out for Rayman Legends and Counterfeit Monkey.
Transcript of the list below, plus a ton of very arbitrarily grouped honorable mentions:
- Baba Is You
- See also: Stephen's Sausage Roll, A Monster's Expedition, Patrick's Parabox, Void Stranger, and Picross 3D: Round 2
- Butterfly Soup
- See also: Butterfly Soup 2, We Know the Devil (strongly debated leading with this instead, or even swapping out something else to make room), A Year of Springs, Us Lovely Corpses, Hiveswap Friendsim, and Pesterquest
- Counterfeit Monkey
- See also: Galatea, Blue Lacuna, Photopia, and Violet
- Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
- See also: 999, AI: The Somnium Files, 13 Sentinels, and Steins;Gate
- Fallen London
- See also: Blaseball
- Fez
- See also: Celeste, Hollow Knight, Anodyne 2, Wandersong, and Cave Story
- Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
- See also: The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
- Kentucky Route Zero
- See also: Citizen Sleeper and Norco
- Life is Strange
- See also: Life is Strange 2, The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us
- Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
- See also: Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Paper Mario and the Thousand-Year Door, and Super Paper Mario
- NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...
- See also: NieR:Automata, Alan Wake, and Control
- Open Sorcery: Sea++
- See also: Open Sorcery
- Outer Wilds
- See also: Return of the Obra Dinn, The Witness, and The Forgotten City
- Pentiment
- See also: Betrayal at Club Low and Baldur's Gate 3
- Portal 2
- See also: Portal
- Professor Layton and the Unwound Future
- See also: Tangle Tower
- Rayman Legends
- See also: Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Super Mario Galaxy, and Kirby: Super Star Ultra
- Rhythm Doctor
- See also: A Dance of Fire and Ice
- Rhythm Heaven Megamix
- See also: Rhythm Heaven, Rhythm Heaven Fever (debated leading with this one instead because it has the better remixes), Elite Beat Agents, and Taiko no Tatsujin
- Stay? (had to edit this one into the image since it wasn't an option in Topsters)
- See also: Mastaba Snoopy, Bee, Rat Chaos, Horse Master, the uncle who works for nintendo, and You Are Jeff Bezos
- Tales from the Borderlands
- See also: The Stanley Parable and Frog Detective 3
- The Beginner's Guide
- See also: The Norwood Suite, What Remains of Edith Finch, Thirty Flights of Loving, and SOMA
- The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
- See also: Enter the Gungeon, Risk of Rain 2, Spelunky 2, Hades, Slay the Spire, and Inscryption
- Tunic
- See also: Full Metal Furies
- Undertale
- See also: Deltarune, Off, Omori, and OneShot