The 10 best games of the 21st century

King of Posters
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Games that I had to brutally cut but it wasn’t fair they almost made it:

  • Noom
  • Neufenstein
  • Uru
  • Alpha Protocol
  • Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
  • Enderal
  • Gravity Bone
  • Disco Elysium
  • Portal
  • Ico
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One of these years, I will have time for Uru

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so easy to clock which sb users played a lot of pc games in the early 00s

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yeah I guess I could answer this but it would be bullshit because it’d all be PC crap. but maybe I’ll finish a list

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Making this list made me realize that I really could have used a PS2 and some contemporary PC games in the early aughts (list is chronological):

  • F-Zero GX
  • Katamari Damacy*
  • Cave Story
  • Kirby: Canvas Curse
  • WarioWare Twisted
  • Mega Man 10
  • Lizard (NES)
  • V I T A L I T Y
  • UFO 50
  • Deltarune

There are a game or two here that I feel like I could easily swap out if I actually made a concerted effort to play some of the games that I keep telling myself I want to.

*what do you mean i’ve only played the PSP game!?!?

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  • Morrowind
  • Umineko
  • Katamari Damacy
  • Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers
  • Dog Days
  • WWE Smackdown! vs Raw
  • Hitman: World of Assassination
  • Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD
  • A Dark Room
  • Gran Turismo 4
  • Resident Evil 4

Special award to MGSV, Death Stranding, and Resident Evil 5 for containing the best parts of games in the 21st century, which are in games that are not the best games of the 21st century.

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wait, what’s special about steambot chronicles?

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i can’t really do lists like this - i’ve played too much and yet not enough

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literally everything

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it’s a relatively early open world game with a ton of stuff to do, plus it has a lot more charm than most other open world games.
you can charge straight throufh the story (during which you can be a bad guy if you want), or you can ignore it and be a miner or street performer or paleontologist or stock trader or a bunch of other things.

and you travel everywhere in a customisable walking vehicle thing

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open worldish but with goofy robot controls, very high variety in what you can do, frequently funny, has that irem magic (the game shares a producer with the Disaster Report series)

One of those games that leaves me saying “I wish most games were like this”

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well then!

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bumpy “steambot chronicles” trot is also one of few games to embrace a katamari damacy-style dual analog control scheme in such a direct way imo…

also has a real flair for the cinematic just like the zettai zetsumei “disaster report” toshi series which it shares a large amount of its credits with, also much like those games features lots of branching dialogue trees

really charming lofi cel-shaded graphics, really entertaining mecha-based world where bipedal robots are used for everything from industry to battle… it’s a very well-made videogame that feels fairly unique and isn’t like tied to a larger franchise or something idk it’s just an ambitious and unique one-off made by one of the longtime brilliant videogame development studios. also the main characters are kind of like in a band together

i always think of the silly english dub that has the voice actors going “steambot chronicles!” over and over on the title screen

need this so bad :smiling_face_with_tear: one of the goated games…

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i had this game filed under “only tollmaster liked this” for some reason?!

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steambot chronicles is extremely deliberate (read: slow, methodical), especially in the first hour or so. i think this can be a good thing (it forces the player to slow down) but it’s a little less pleasant now that this game isn’t as technically impressive as it was when it was first released. still, it’s absolutely unique and charming and has a crazy amount of cool ideas.

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Arcanum has been on my list of games I should play for 20 years, as is Bloodlines. I love ToEE, so not sure why I still haven’t played either.

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Bloodlines is hilarious. You can use guns, but it’s much funnier to punch people and watch them ragdoll through apartment buildings.

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Tempted to put Cursed Mountain on my list…

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This is one of my blindspots, a jar I fill with one marble every year or so. One of those marbles I’ve spent time with is Giants: Citizen Kabuto. I finished the jetpack marine campaign but couldn’t get past the second faction.

Does anyone know if it’s possible to play onli e these days?

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You should definitely try Steambot Chronicles. It was my pick in 2016 for the game that I’d encourage people on this site to play.

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