They state that is the list of the most interesting games to play as of today.
When looking at a game serie or a genre, they chose to select "the one who pushed its logic and grammar the furthest".
Assemble with Care
The Stanley Parable
Stories Untold
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Everything
Golf Club: Wasteland
Enterre-moi, mon amour (Bury Me, My Love)
Her Story
Gorogoa
Journey
That Dragon, Cancer
What Remains of Edith Finch
A Short Hike
Oxygen Not Included
The Longing
Stardew Valley
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Mass Effect Trilogy
Red Dead Redemption 2
Crusader Kings III
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Overwatch
Super Mario Maker 2
Minecraft
AI Dungeon 2
Windjammers
Threes
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2
Agar.io
The Jackbox Party Pack
Ultimate Chicken Horse
Towerfall: Ascension
Rocket League
Hearthstone
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Tetris 99
Florence
Device 6
A Normal Lost Phone
Superhot VR
Forza Horizon 3
Diablo III
Fallout 4
Picross 3D: Round 2
NieR: Automata
Infinifactory
Death Stranding
Hollow Knight
No Man's Sky
Civilization VI
Subnautica
Disco Elysium
Bloodborne
Sigma Theory
Super Hexagon
One Hour One Life
SpyParty
Les Sims 4
Ingress
MonPetitGazon
Celeste
Undertale
Baba is You
Return of the Obra Dinn
CupHead
VA-11 Hall-A
Tales from the Borderlands
Slay the Spire
Spelunky
Shadow of the Colossus
Life is Strange
Frostpunk
Super Mario Galaxy
Plants vs Zombies
Dishonored 2
Noita
Heaven's Vault
Outer Wilds
The Witness
Frozen Synapse
Reigns
80 Days
The Next Penelope
Thumper
Papo & Yo
Frog Fractions 2
FEZ
Papers, Please
Into the Breach
Firewatch
Heave Ho
Soldats inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre (Valiant Hearts - The Great War)
Kentucky Route Zero
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
Inside
Astrologaster
What the Golf ?
Braid
Mini Metro
Portal
It is obviously open for discussions, and they admitted quite openly there is a lot of subjectivity. But didn't Portal 2 push Portal's grammar further if we follow their logic ? On the other hand, is Fallout 4 a step forward compared to New Vegas (I really love Fallout 4, it's my favorite in the serie and I am currently replaying it... but I'd say an objective look at it might put New Vegas first, if only because it gives you way more solutions to avoid violence if you want and use charm or cunning to beat the game)
Countries of origin :
Germany, Brazil, China, Estonia, New-Zealand, Venezuela : 1
Australia, Denmark, Finland, Ireland : 2
Poland : 3
Sweden : 4
France : 9
Canada : 10
Japan : 11
UK : 12
USA : 36
I think the oldest game is Mario Galaxy, so from 2005.
As you can see they are fairly indie oriented, even if there are a fair share of AAA games, and they state "we are going to say Hades is not included due to being too recent, but actually we found it not readable enough for a rogue like and didn't find the narration that interesting".
They also ranked them between "for everyone" and "for beginners", "for medium players" and "for experts" which is sometimes strange (Crusader Kings III is for everyone for instance), but basically mean "is the game accessible ?" and apparently by that they mostly meant
Everyone : requires no agility, leaves you as much time as you want for choices (thus Crusader Kings or Oxygenfree being for everyone)
Beginners : real time but on a simple axe of movement
Medium : movement in 3D without managing the camera
Experts : movement in 3D with management of the camera needed
(but they actually put Cuphead, rightfully, in Expert, so they didn't fully follow that rule)
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