What is your eleventh favorite video game?

First thing that comes to mind is Ape Escape. I haven't played it in a long time, I remember the controls being a little jank, and I never beat it. But it was a unique concept, and I'd consider giving it another shot. Reaches 11th place for nostalgia.

According to My Steam Playtime, I guess that would be Among Us. But if we take into account the probably thousands, of hours I've put in to Heroes of the Storm as my true #1 playtime game, then I guess it'd be GTA 4?

According to my Steam stats, it's Dorf Romantik. Technically Fallout 4 is in the 11th slot, but I know for a fact I've got like 4x gameplay than what Steam lists over on my Xbox.

Dorf Romantik is a cute little laid-back puzzle game about matching features in a hexagonal tile grid to earn points and more tiles. You get missions to complete such as "build so many X chained to this tile", where X is trees or water tiles or railroad tracks or houses or fields last I checked.

It's a lovely, sedate little game that I would play more of if they'd bother to release it on macOS. It's the same people who made Star Bird for Kurzgesagt.

Steam says H1Z1, apparently, though it looks like it’s been renamed since I played it. Right next to that though is Rimworld, which really tracks. As much as I want to love it, I’ve never made it past mid-game. Maybe I should give it another shot!

If I had to guess what my eleventh favorite game is without looking at playtime, I’d say Creeper World III. It was a lot of fun, and I’d play it again, but it’s not top ten.

Off the top of my head, favorite games in no particular order:

Earthbound
Megaman 2
Tetris Attack
Team Fortress 2
Starfox 64
Super Mario 64
Final Fantasy VII
Mole Mania
Kirby’s Dream Course
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

I also like The Binding of Isaac

My eleventh favorite game is probably Syphon Filter 2, released in 2000 for the Sony PlayStation. I first played this game on a JAMPACK demo disc where there was only one level included, and by the time I was able to get my hands on a real copy I had that level memorized to the point I could probably do it with my eyes closed.

The game is a 3rd person shooter with a mix of action and stealth and extremely corny one-liners from our main character, Gabe Logan. The best part of the game is the air taser, a fantasy weapon with unlimited ammo and a shock so powerful it will set enemies on fire if you hold the button long enough. There's a story and it has something to do with a virus, that's all I can tell you in that department.

It also has split-screen versus, and up until a few years ago my younger brother and I would bust out our old ps1 once or twice a year and play a few matches when we were home for the holidays.

So yeah, it's my eleventh favorite because there's a lot of good memories associated with it but I'd actually probably hate it today. The forced stealth sequences were super frustrating back then, and I like stealth even less now.

I didn't participate in the other thread, but my all-time favorite game is probably Dark Souls.

My 11th most played game according to Steam play time is Battlefield Bad Company 2. And yeah, that kind of works. I really enjoyed it back in the day but it definitely wouldn't be in my top 10. But also it probably wouldn't be that close to my top 10 either.

My game that I have played the 12th most, but will almost certainly pass BF:BC2, is Warhammer 40000: Gladius - Relics of War. It's a lazy 4X that hits the 40k spot for me. I enjoy it and it's a comfort game for me. If I can't decide what to play, then I'll spin up another Necron run. It's not in my top 10, but I guess it's kind of close.

Unrelated but my 10th spot is the original CoD:MW2, which also would not be in my actual top 10, but I only mention it because Steam apparently thinks I last played it January 1st, 1970.

X-Men for Genesis. I love it dearly but it's got a little wonkiness that keeps it out of the top ten but still close.

The Witness is a strange game. On the surface it's one of the most meticulous puzzle games ever crafted: you go from panel to panel drawing a single line. The lines start off easy, being a simple maze, but then new elements are added to the panels. The game never tells you what they mean, instead you are expected to learn by solving the puzzles.

The game is first person. For a game about drawing lines on panels. On the surface this does not make sense. The game never tells you why it's first person, instead you are expected to find out why by examining the world around you.

If you fire up the minimum number of lasers and make your way to the end, the great glass elevator flies around the island, your work is undone, and your game is reset back to the very start. You were not ready. Try again.

The Witness has a moment, an epiphany, and it's usually different for everyone. There is a place in the game that explicitly to try and get you to have this epiphany, but I have watched two friends engage with part 1 then fail to recognise part 2 directly in front of them. It's ok, they got it later. The game almost directly tells you this epiphany, in its own way.

There are audio logs with quotes from various people: philosophers, religious leaders, scientists, poets. Why would you think I'd want a sandwich? The game never tells you why these were placed here, instead you're expected to ruminate on them, their text, why they were placed where they were, and why they would be included at all in the game.

If you fire up all of the lasers and go down, you might notice a new panel is lit up. There are some tough panels behind it, with paths that wind past areas you've been in. This leads to a timed Challenge, in which you must put together your knowledge of the game's mechanics solving some of its hardest problems as either Anitra's Dance or In the Hall of the Mountain King (from Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt) play. You will likely hear these pieces a lot. If you succeed, your reward is an hour long talk about... well, a lot of things. The game expects you to think about it.

Behind the Challenge is a box with a piece of paper inside. Detailed on the paper is a panel layout. It exists in the game, in one specific location. The game does not tell you where this panel is, instead you're expected to know what to do.

The Witness is Art, with a capital A. It's a game, too, but primarily Art. You could put this game in a modern art museum and it would not be out of place. You could put a modern art museum in this game and it would not be out of place. Like all good Art, the game does not tell you what it is about. Instead, it expects you to absorb it, introspect, and interpret.

The director, Jonathan Blow, is a proficient, pretentious (said with as much love as I can while calling someone pretentious. He is opinionated and loud about it in a way that comes across as a sore winner), and politically problematic (publicly anti-vax, Trump supporting, repeating anti-"woke" talking points on the ghost of Twitter) person. Their next game comes out later this year. The author of this comment does not tell you how to spend your money, but you are expeced to be aware that it is possible to obtain games without monetary transaction if you know what you're doing.

Also there's a pretty good parody called The Looker. You need to have played The Witness to understand what it does to break down and reconstruct the original game.