Honorable mentions - Fallout 1, Half Life 1, Demon's Souls, Persona 5 Royal, Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, and The Binding of Isaac. 🗿

These are all excellent!

I was just thinking about how hard it must've been to narrow down your list — I spent way too long debating my own favorites the other day and still wasn't satisfied. What game almost made your cut but didn't quite squeeze in?

Not sure if this is for me or for chad, but for me the hardest one to not include was Sly Cooper. I LOVE that game but it didn't really change my brain chemistry like the others did.

>Sly Cooper

I might have to re-do my list again because honestly a lot of my favorite games as a 10 - 17 year old were stealth games like Sly and Assassin's Creed. IT'S SO HARD

If I were being honest my grid might be a 10x10 at least. So many games that I genuinely love. This is a set of games I've replayed multiple times throughout the years (sans Black 2, but it was my favorite 2D Pokemon game and I always end up coming back to them). Luigi's Mansion, Killer7, or Deadly Premonition might have made it in if I were rethinking this entire thing now.