except I don't play very many video games to completion so it's a short list

• Outer Wilds: literally impossible to play with a mouse (someday I'll buy a controller)
• Untitled Goose Game: it's surprising how hard it is to beat!
• Stray: the blob things are so hard to escape :( I loved the story and the setting and I spent a long long time staying in the city and when I left I quickly reached a stage I could beat and was like welp had a good run with this one. I might go watch a let's play just to see how it ends
• Baba Is You: with puzzle games I always get really into it in a big burst and then lose steam quickly and this was no exception
• Stellaris: not really a game that "finishes", but I'm pretty sure there's some end conditions or final events that I never got to because I quickly got bored of continually managing the same little things forever and ever

• Return of the Obra Dinn: by the creator of Papers, Please and also highly recommended by my friends so I'm looking forward to it! I'm planning on buying this just after I'm done with Pentiment
• Night in the Woods: I see this recommended a lot by both Disco Elysium and Pentiment players so I'd probably like it very much as well
• The Stanley Parable: I know for sure the humour would be right up my alley, but the impression is that there are tons of endings and this would awaken the achievement hunter in me so I'm waiting for the right time¹ when I can spend a good chunk of vacation playing it
• Undertale, Deltarune: I actually watched my sibling play Undertale so I generally know how it ends but I've never played it myeslf, and it's been long enough that I think the details will be like fresh to me
• Hades: I hear a lot of gay things about it so I would like to play it, but it's the kind of action/battle game that I think I would be bad at because I'm generally bad at dexterity-based fighting games²
• Celeste: I actually played the first two levels I think but I couldn't get past the second one lol. like you would not believe how bad I am at any sort of spatial dexterity tasks. I suspect a controller would help, but we'll see about Outer Wilds first
• Beat Saber: but I don't have a VR headset :( and I'm not going to buy a VR headset for one game

1. and for it to go on sale.

2. interestingly I really enjoy rhythm games. I think it's a different kind of dexterity

idk I wanted to mention some games I've played that I didn't bother putting in my top $\mathrm{n<!--\; -->}$ but that I still wanted to mention: Dream Daddy, Hatoful, and To the Moon (one of these is not like the others)

Dream Daddy was kind of the very first gay video game I've played so I have fond memories but I think I could find a better gay video game if I tried

Hatoful and To the Moon I played quite a while back so I don't remember very much of the experience but I remember enjoying them

I've decided this chart should answer the question "what video games would you recommend to someone?" so I removed Minecraft and the Portals bc it seems a little silly to say in 2024 "have you tried Minecraft?"

new games in this chart are Return of the Obra Dinn, Night in the Woods, and Chants of Sennaar, all excellent games. I did also play The Case of the Golden Idol but ngl it just didn't hit as hard as the others for me

if you could only pick one¹ game to buy/recommend which would you pick
some recent games I've enjoyed to get a sense of what I've liked: Disco Elysium, Pentiment, Obra Dinn, corru.observer, Unpacking, Stardew Valley

1. I'll probably be picking two or three from this list, depending on the exact discounts of each of them. I suppose bugpoll supports voting for multiple choice if you can bother refreshing the post

Update: I have since played Chants of Sennaar, Night in the Woods, and Superliminal, and I strongly recommend Chants of Sennaar and Night in the Woods!

I regret to inform everyone that my autism has been activated. You will be educated about the clearly very easy to understand timeline of the Life is Strange series.