Patient Gamers

1. Immortal gates of pyre: my favorite game of all time is starcraft II and this is a spiritual successor that i desperately want to have all the current funding for RTS to go to

2. Portal 2, it's a given

3. Rushdown revolt, similar situation to immortal, smash but better designed but not nearly enough resources

4. Mass effect legendary edition, nothing needs to be said

5. deltarune

I chose mostly based on future potential and design decisions because if these became the only 5 everyone would flock to them and they'd suddenly have all the resources they need to succeed

Pong, Tetris, Pac-Man, Minecraft, and petcii robots.

• My modded GTA SA
• Minecraft
• Jazz Jackrabbit 2
• Beamng
• For christmas: Santaclaus in trouble again.

If an .GameImage can be considered one game, I would have chosen those. On Linux you can create a single one-click package containing multiple games. Made a couple of those you see 😁

Skyrim

Fallout 4

Ratchet & Clank

Morrowind

The Witcher 3

Do I get the mods, too (because, realistically, who plays games only unmodded? Children? Console gamers?)?

So, if yes, half life and half life 2.

If not....

1. Minecraft - this feels like a no brainer. Also needs to have some mod packs. I would choose some fat as fuck packs. But if I only was allowed to choose one, I would choose one of the biggest mod packs that has the most mods in it.

2. Counter-Strike: Source - has to have all custom maps currently available. There's nearly an infinite amount of content there. But even without custom content, I still think a core pvp FPS is necessary to this list.

3. Some kind of an mmo. One that has instances of large quantity of player content that can be saved. Social games are incredibly important, to at least me. I don't love WoW. I don't really play MMOs, either, except for one, and it's largely because my partner loves it. So, maybe Guild Wars 2.

4. A co-op dungeon crawler that can be used for role playing. So, maybe like.... Neverwinter Nights? Or maybe Phantasy Star online...2? Diablo.....?nahhh... PoE maybe.

5. Some kind of very simmy racing game with simulation physics. Beam.Ng?

The "no new games will ever be made" is a hard one, because I instinctually want to save games that could be used as inspirational "seed" games for people to use as ideas to make new games.

My instinct is to treat this as a "all games are dying. What games would you take to restart?" But in reality, this is "what are your favorite games?" There's a lot of nuance between those two questions, and the lists would be extremely different. So, my list is kind of trying to merge those two concepts.

The Kingdom of Loathing it's funny, it's free by you get great stuff when you donate, the writing is great and it's balanced as hell.

Thief the Dark Project, because I like it even though it's old.

Bioshock, because it's the best "game as art" example out there

Gary's Mod for shitposting

And even though I'm not that into Minecraft, I'll pick that one because you can make video games on it with Redstone so pretty sure that's a loophole to make Doom or whatever

Path of exile, dota2, cs2, minecraft and Mario cart

Gotta have repayable games if no new ones are made

People should check out the 1 upsmanship podcast where a couple guys discuss which games are worthy of being uploaded to a "celestial hard drive" for preservation. It went patreon exclusive a couple years ago but there are still a lot of eps posted

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-1upsmanship-97574019/

Man.... tough choices.

I'm saving Dark Souls 1. It's a beautiful game, great replay value I've barely begun to tap into, and really cool multiplayer features. Also a game I'd love to introduce more people to.

I'm also saving Hollow Knight. Trying to beat Pantheon of Hallownest, or Steel Soul mode, may just keep me busy until I die single-handedly.

I'm also saving Silksong. Screw it, same reasons as Hollow Knight, selfishly I want em both. I would go just Silksong, but it lacks the updates and endgame content that Hollow Knight has been fleshed out with.

Mario Odyssey? I got really into speedrunning this for a while, and it was a blast. I could get back into that, and push it a lot further with all the free time I'd have now that I'm not playing much else.

There really should be a multiplayer game on this list.... I'm tempted by UFO 50, but that feels like cheating, so... Mario Kart World? The online is kinda trash, because they push the intermission courses too hard, but local multiplayer isn't so affected, and mechanically the rail and wall grinding is deep mechanically, and I could sink a lot more solo playtime time into mastering all the time trials, which I loved dabbling with.

Really, this whole list is defined by games I could speedrun and otherwise try to get thousands of hours of playtime and challenges out of them.

Well let's see...there's Pong, of course, then Asteroids, Pac Man, Poker and Tic Tac Toe. Yeah, that ought to do.

X-Com, Smash Brothers, Halo, Civilization, StarCraft

• Another World (1991)
• Star Control II / The Ur-Quan Masters (1992)
• Doom (1993)
• UFO: Enemy Unknown / X-COM: UFO Defense (1994)
• Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (1999)

1. Team Fortress 2
2. Smash Remix
3. MK 10
4. Aoe2
5. ???

Dark Souls series, then will pretend all the games were that hard and every gamer was total badass.

It would take me long to decide which 2 of those not to preserve (probably the non-replayables):

Dead Cells

Hollow Knight

Hades

Dredge

SOMA

Witness

Outer Wilds

Stardrew Valley I want to relax, it's relaxing and fun and literally everyone likes SV

Master Of Orion 2 Nostalgia because I had a garbage PC as a teen that could only run 90's game and it's a great game

XCOM 2012 Enemy within + longwar should keep me busy until society collapses.

Starsector GOTY every year. Amazing how do they keep doing.

Animal crossing on Wii Stardew valley + nostalgia + cute animals

Dota 2.

Mandatory for every gamer.

That can only end up great.

FF7 (original) FF8 Fallout NV Crusader Kings 2 (with dlc and mods) Rimworld (with mods)

• Minecraft (It's a sandbox)
• Garry's Mod (It's a sandbox)
• Roblox (It's a sandbox)
• Skyrim (It's a heavily mod-able medieval RPG)
• Portal 2 (It's literally anything at this point: a web server, a game engine, a fucking computer, a lot is possible when the right people crack it open)

Factorio. Not sure I'd need anything else