ReVians Favourite Single Player Games

Hey Mates,

I figured I'm interested in what your favourite single player games are and why. This shall not only be about pure single player games (like Super Mario Bros.) but about any games that can be played solo (e.g. some might not know but SC has a single player campaign too). In addition it'd be nice to get any additional info (for example platform, genre,...) on the games and your history with them, that you feel the urge to share. I don't want to limit the amount of games to mention but I recommend to somehow cluster franchises or consecutive titles where possible (don't write down every single Mega Man game that ever hit the market plz!). Since I like to rank my media experiences, it would be great if you could do that too, if you don't feel like it, it's just as good. So this definitely is a thread about nostalgia, nerdism, bragging, research, discussing each others tastes and maybe most important, finding inspiration in lists of others:

1. Super Metroid (SNES, 1994)
I've seen someone playing this game around 1995 when I was kid, the music, the nonlinear gameplay, the game mechanics and the not so child friendly imagery were fascinating and burnt themselves deep into my memory, around 2008 or 09 I finally played it myself, thanks to some emulator. I also watched countless playthroughs and speedruns on youtube and twitch and I still do. Every few month I feel like playing it again sometimes I finish it sometimes I lose inclination rather fast. It's replay value is what put it ahead of second place:

2. The Legend of Zelda - Breath of the Wild (Switch, 2017)
This would be the most recent game, in my list I guess. Although I like all the 2D-TLOZ-games this was a great relaunch to the franchise. The world is really open, beautiful and full of small and big adventures, easy and difficult challenges, crafting, cooking, a huge variety of weapons, a lot of small and big riddles of different kinds and the best thing is, after the tutorial you can do everything or just run to the final boss and beat him up (if you're skilled enough that is). I caught myself just running around randomly to investigate interesting looking things, that just happened to be in sight, more often than is sane. And if there was nothing interesting (which was rare enough) I climbed a mountain and looked from there. The immersion is quite real and Nintendo really surpassed themselves on this. However the replayvalue is not as high (the game is quite young though) and the addition from the 2 DLCs are imo not worth their money which is a big letdown considering it is Nintendo.

3. Neverwinter Nights + Shadows of Undrentide + Hordes of the Underdark(PC, 2002/2003)
The realization of 3 incredibly epic D&D-adventures was just so impressive that I couldn't stand it really, I played the whole campaign numerous times. Afaik this was as close to the original ruleset as it could be at that time with the visibility of dicerolls being optional. The control of the character was executed completely with mouse and keyboard which made it feel much like Diablo in that regard but seeing the dicerolls made it much easier to understand what happened, which was kind of necessary considering the amount of skills, spells, weapons, armor, alignments, other equipment and so on. Most of the time I played a female lawful good elf mage and I did it like 10 times always aiming to optimize everything and combine the coolest spells with the coolest and most beautiful appearance of my character. Having Dragon wings summoning a dragon in a fight against 2 dragons and finally transforming yourself into a dragon feels so right. Inbetween I also played chaotic good, chaotic evil and lawful evil chars and sometimes even male ones.

4. Diablo III + Reaper of Souls (PC, 2012/2014)
Hardcore mode for true warriors! In the time since the vanilla release Blizzard did a good job in balancing the game out imo. If you're a fan of never ending progress (aka grinding for equipment and XP) this is the game for you. If you need that extra adrenaline do it on hardcore with bad internet on borderline difficulty. I play fem DH with Unholy Essence Multishot build or Natalyas with nonstop strafe, rain of vengeance and vengeance (as far as I recall). MY Hardcore paragon is 403.

5. Pokémon (GB, 3DS)
Played many hours, it's always been solid to good RPGs. I have a living dex of 754/770. I played at least one edition per mainline generation but am not sure about this with future installations of the franchise.

6. Starcraftz
No text. Kinda self explanatory in this board.

7. Final Fantasy I to III

Had been run on AGDQ not too long ago, found it interesting played it myself found it epic, never finished one. For the first part I stuck at the final boss realizing my decisions at the very beginning made it nearly impossible to beat him. 

8. Super Mario Bros
The only game I seriously tried speedrunning besides Super Metroid. Compared to the latter one its pretty easy to run by only grinding/memorizing again and again. After a few hours I could do it in less than 15 minutes, world record is at less than 5 though.

9. GTA (PC, 1997)

All weapons cheat enabled I played this in turns with my cousin, aiming for the highest kill count until getting shot by police. With abusing the possibility to block the entrance of the sports ground with burnt out cars, so police could not enter while civilians constantly respawned within the sports ground, I made it to eighthundred something back in the day. Stupid lol!


...further mentions.
Kid Icarus, Diablo1, other 2D-Metroids, other 2D-Zeldas, Warcraft 2, Star Crusader, FIFA96(?), Nintendo World Cup, Anno 1602

So tell me what are your favourite games/franchises and what memories are connected to them? I'm curious if there are still unknown treasures for me to unveil.