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- Final Fantasy Legend IIA smashed goddess statue scatters 77 magical stones across linked worlds in Final Fantasy Legend II.
- Final Fantasy XV: Pocket EditionFinal Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition squeezed a console epic onto a touchscreen. Only the first of ten chapters is free.
- Final Fantasy IV (2007 video game)Three quarters of Final Fantasy IV's original script never reached players in 1991.
- Lineage WLineage W was called "the final Lineage" before anyone had played it. Estimates put it at an NCSoft first-day record.
- Red Dead RedemptionRed Dead Redemption is a 2010 Western from Rockstar San Diego, and it opens with a man who has run out of choices. In 1911, federal agents take the wife and son of a former outlaw named John Marston. The price of their freedom is his skill…
- Final Fantasy XIIIFinal Fantasy XIII's heroes learn their mission is to destroy their own world.
- Grand Theft Auto: San AndreasGrand Theft Auto: San Andreas, a 2004 action-adventure game from Rockstar North, gave players one of the most repeated lines in gaming. Early in the story, a mission called "Wrong Side of the Tracks" goes badly, and Big Smoke shouts, "All…
- Final Fantasy IV: The After YearsFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years was a role-playing game released to mobile phones in monthly installments.
- The Walking Dead (video game)The Walking Dead, a 2012 episodic graphic adventure from Telltale Games, begins with a convicted criminal named Lee Everett in the back of a police car. On the first day of an outbreak, the car strikes a walker and crashes. Dave Fennoy…
- Five Nights at Freddy's (video game)Five Nights at Freddy's, released in 2014 by Scott Cawthon, ends with its hero getting fired. Night guard Mike Schmidt has just survived a custom seventh night, where the player sets how aggressive the hostile animatronics will be. Then…
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice CityGrand Theft Auto: Vice City, a 2002 action-adventure game from Rockstar North, sold more than 500,000 copies within 24 hours of its release. Within two days it had reached 1.4 million, which made it the fastest-selling game in history at…
- Final Fantasy Legend IIIFinal Fantasy Legend III began in Japan as SaGa 3, planned as the last game in its series.
- Final Fantasy VJapan asked Square not to release Final Fantasy V on a school day.
- Final Fantasy IIIFinal Fantasy III's developers followed a programmer to Sacramento after his work visa expired.
- Five Nights at Freddy'sFive Nights at Freddy's, known to fans as FNaF, asks its players for one thing: stay alive from midnight until 6 a.m. in a pizza restaurant after closing time. Scott Cawthon created the series, and it has grown from video games into…
- Life Is Strange (video game)Life Is Strange opens in October 2013, as an 18-year-old photography student named Max Caulfield returns to Arcadia Bay, Oregon, to attend Blackwell Academy. During class she has a vivid vision of a tornado destroying a lighthouse and…
- Half-Life 2Half-Life 2 is a 2004 first-person shooter from Valve Corporation, and it cost 40 million US dollars to make. Development lasted five years. By 2011 it had sold 12 million copies worldwide. In November 2024, twenty years after its release,…
- Grand Theft Auto IIIGrand Theft Auto III began with an art director's complaint about the games of his day. Aaron Garbut felt that most of them were "a thing you played". He wanted this one to be "a place you lived in". The core team behind that ambition was…
- PUBG: BattlegroundsPUBG: Battlegrounds, a battle royale video game from 2017, once had 2,279,084 people playing it on Steam at the same moment. It reached that peak while still officially unfinished, listed as an early access title. The game began as a…
- Final Fantasy VIIFinal Fantasy VII skipped the Nintendo 64 after one big enemy slowed it down.
- Final Fantasy IXFinal Fantasy IX deliberately turned backward to medieval castles and minstrels.
- Final Fantasy XIII-2In Final Fantasy XIII-2, Serah and Noel jump between eras to repair paradoxes in time.
- Stardew ValleyStardew Valley had sold more than 50 million copies by February 2026, and one person made it. That person is Eric Barone, who works under the name ConcernedApe. After college he could not find a job in the games industry and ended up…
- Doom (1993 video game)Doom crashed a university network the night it was released in 1993. Ten thousand people tried to download it at once.
- Final Fantasy III (2006 video game)Final Fantasy III sold 500,000 copies in its first week in Japan in 2006. It had never been sold outside Japan.
- Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIIIIn Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Lightning has thirteen days to save the world.
- RobloxRoblox, pronounced ROH-bloks, reported an average of 85.3 million daily active users as of February 2025. The company also says its monthly players include half of all American children under the age of 16. Those numbers belong to an…
- Portal (video game)Portal, a 2007 puzzle-platform game from Valve, begins with an artificial intelligence promising a silent woman named Chell a reward of cake. The reward is for surviving a long run of laboratory tests. Players soon learn to distrust that…
- Honkai: Star RailHonkai: Star Rail, a free-to-play role-playing game from the Shanghai studio miHoYo, had 22.98 million people in mainland China pre-register before it opened its doors. Another 10 million signed up from outside the mainland. That is an…
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (video game)Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic sold 250,000 copies in its first four days on the Xbox. That made it the fastest-selling game the console had seen up to that point. The figure is striking for a game that did not feature a single…
- Final Fantasy IIFinal Fantasy II replaced experience points with stats that grow by use. Its designer felt it went too far.
- Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2Belgium's anti-gambling law forced Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2 to shut down there.
- Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive EditionGrand Theft Auto: The Trilogy , The Definitive Edition sank to a user score of 0.4 out of 10 on Metacritic, among the lowest the site has recorded. Some of the players behind that number were demanding refunds. The collection bundled three…
- MystMyst, a 1993 adventure game from the studio Cyan, opens with a book. The player, an unnamed person, finds a volume titled Myst and reads its detailed description of an island. Resting a hand on the last page carries the player into that…
- MinecraftMinecraft, the 2011 sandbox game from the Swedish company Mojang Studios, tells its only story through a poem of roughly 1,500 words. The End Poem was written by the Irish novelist Julian Gough. It scrolls past in about nine minutes when a…
- Metal Gear Rising: RevengeanceMetal Gear Rising: Revengeance, released in 2013 by PlatinumGames and Konami, carries a grudge in its very title. The final word was chosen because Kojima Productions wanted to get revenge on an earlier project that had failed. That…
- Alien: IsolationAlien: Isolation is a 2014 survival horror game in which the monster hunting the player cannot be killed. Creative Assembly developed it and Sega published it. No weapon in the game ends the threat. The player can only hide, listen and…
- Among UsAmong Us, an online deduction game from the American studio Innersloth, arrived in June 2018 to an audience of roughly 30 to 50 players online at any one time. In late September 2020, the same game peaked at 3.8 million concurrent players.…
- Pokémon GoPokémon Go is a 2016 augmented reality mobile game from Niantic that sends players outdoors with a phone to find and catch Pokémon. Within 15 minutes of its release in Australia and New Zealand, the game had passed the server load its…
- Pac-ManPac-Man was first called Puck Man, until executives feared vandals would change the P to an F.
- Final Fantasy (video game)Final Fantasy got its name because its creator planned to quit if it failed. Square was also facing bankruptcy in 1987.
- Final Fantasy IVFinal Fantasy IV began with a Formula One race. Hiroyuki Ito saw cars pass at different speeds and got an idea.
- Final Fantasy VIFinal Fantasy VI lets its hero fail to save the world. The story's second half is called the World of Ruin.
- Final Fantasy VIIIFinal Fantasy VIII sold 2.21 million copies in one day in Japan.
- Fighting EX LayerFighting EX Layer began as an April Fools' Day 2017 video of an unnamed prototype. Fans liked it.
- TerrariaTerraria sold more than 50,000 copies on its first day in 2011, and 432,000 in its first month. By May 2026 the total had passed 70 million, placing it among the best-selling video games of all time. The game itself looks modest. It is a…
- Bully (video game)Bully, a 2006 action-adventure game from Rockstar Vancouver and Rockstar Games, begins with a boy who has already been expelled from seven schools. His name is James Hopkins, known as Jimmy, he is 15 years old, and he is about to be left…
- Umamusume: Pretty DerbyOn the 26th of March 2016, a panel at the AnimeJapan event revealed concept art for a cast of racing girls with horse ears and tails. An animated trailer from the studio P.A. Works came with it. This was the first public look at Umamusume:…
- Genshin ImpactGenshin Impact, a 2020 action role-playing game from the Chinese studio miHoYo, caused an uproar before anyone could play it. At the ChinaJoy convention in 2019, fans of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild gave the Sony booth the…
- Chrono TriggerChrono Trigger is a 1995 role-playing game that Square developed and published for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It began with a research trip. In October 1992, three veteran creators traveled to the United States to study…