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Single-player video games

Metal Gear Solid (video game)1998 video game
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1992 video game)To beat the 1992 NES Empire Strikes Back game, you must rescue Han Solo and defeat Darth Vader.
Star Wars (1991 video game)In the 1991 Star Wars NES game, Darth Vader appears only on the Game Over screen. Han and Leia get one life each.
Street Fighter X Mega ManStreet Fighter X Mega Man began in a Singaporean fan's bedroom. One million people had downloaded it by March 3, 2013.
Silent Hill HD CollectionKonami had not kept the final source code for Silent Hill 2 and 3. That left the remaster team fixing old bugs again.
Suikoden TacticsSuikoden Tactics is both a prequel and a sequel to Suikoden IV. The 2005 PlayStation 2 game uses two time periods.
Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera OmniaOne fan recorded about 100 hours of Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia before its servers closed.
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant WingsFinal Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings began with no Final Fantasy XII link. Vaan and Penelo were added later.
Final Fantasy XV: Pocket EditionFinal Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition squeezed a console epic onto a touchscreen. Only the first of ten chapters is free.
Mitsumete KnightMitsumete Knight, a 1998 PlayStation game, leaves a church bomb threat unexplained. Audio dramas later explained it.
Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred HeroesEiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes passed $500,000 on Kickstarter in just three to four hours.
Metal Gear Solid: Master CollectionKonami pulled two Metal Gear Solid games from digital stores in November 2021. Expired licenses were the reason given.
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake EaterMetal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater sends a soldier into the Soviet jungle in 1964, using a game that first appeared in 2004. It is a 2025 stealth action-adventure from Konami, rebuilt from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the first…
Silent Hill: OriginsSilent Hill: Origins was rewritten in one week after its first version became a dark comedy.
Gensō Suikoden: Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no TokiGensō Suikoden: Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no Toki sends three heroes back a hundred years. A monster wakes every century.
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin SnakesThe Twin Snakes began with a chance meeting in a Nintendo cafeteria.
Silent Hill 2 (2024 video game)In Silent Hill 2, a man gets a letter from his wife, who died three years earlier. He goes to Silent Hill, Maine.
Suikoden IVIn Suikoden IV, a cursed rune jumps to the nearest person when its bearer dies. It slowly drains its bearer's life.
Hades IIHades II arrived without warning on the 5th of May 2024, and a rival studio rearranged its calendar because of it. Evil Empire had planned to release The Rogue Prince of Persia on the 14th of May. It pushed the launch to later that month…
Star Wars: X-Wing (video game)Star Wars: X-Wing sold out its first 100,000 copies before the weekend was over.
Silent Hill 3In Silent Hill 3, a roller coaster kills 17-year-old Heather Mason, who then wakes in a mall.
Final Fantasy XIIIFinal Fantasy XIII's heroes learn their mission is to destroy their own world.
Silent HillsA free horror demo from a studio that did not exist secretly teased Silent Hills.
God of War IIIEarly in God of War III, the sea god Poseidon dies at the hands of the Spartan Kratos, and the oceans pour across Greece. He is only the first of many gods to fall. This 2010 action-adventure game, made by Santa Monica Studio for the…
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the KingdomIn The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, fusing a rocket to a shield is enough to send Link soaring through the air. That one trick says a great deal about this 2023 action-adventure game for the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo EPD built it…
BioShockBioShock, a first-person shooter released in 2007, hides its sharpest trick inside a polite request: "Would you kindly." The phrase sounds harmless. In the game it carries a hidden weight, and it changes what the player believes about…
God of War (2005 video game)In God of War, a 2005 game from Santa Monica Studio, a Spartan named Kratos kills a Hydra for the sea god Poseidon. The victory brings him no relief. For ten years he has served the Olympian gods. Now he is tired of the work and the…
Final Fantasy Mystic QuestIn Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, players see enemies coming and choose whether to fight.
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VIICrisis Core: Final Fantasy VII explains a death that fans of the 1997 game already knew.
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (video game)The Star Wars game Shadows of the Empire starred a hero most fans had never heard of.
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1985 video game)The Empire Strikes Back arcade game was sold as an upgrade kit, which limited its reach.
Resident Evil RequiemResident Evil Requiem sold five million copies in its first five days, which made it the fastest-selling game in the long-running Resident Evil series. Capcom released it on the 27th of February 2026, and critics greeted it warmly. It is…
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…
Metal Gear (video game)In the 1987 game Metal Gear, Snake's own commander tells the player to switch off the console.
BioShock InfiniteBioShock Infinite sends its hero to a city that floats among the clouds above America in 1912. Irrational Games developed it and 2K published it in 2013, and it is a first-person shooter that leans hard on story. The hero is Booker DeWitt,…
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…
Resident Evil – Code: VeronicaIn December 1998, three months after she escaped Raccoon City, Claire Redfield raids an Umbrella Corporation facility in Paris. She is searching for her brother Chris, and she is caught. That capture opens Resident Evil Code: Veronica, a…
Final Fantasy Legend IIIFinal Fantasy Legend III began in Japan as SaGa 3, planned as the last game in its series.
Silent Hill: HomecomingIn Silent Hill: Homecoming, the soldier hero was never really a soldier. Alex Shepherd has been in a mental hospital.
Fallout 3Fallout 3 is a 2008 action role-playing game from Bethesda Game Studios, and it begins with a 19-year-old leaving the shelter where they grew up. Vault 101 is a high-tech fallout shelter, built for survivors of a nuclear war fought 200…
Star Wars (1987 video game)In a 1987 Star Wars game, bosses look like Darth Vader until hit. Then they turn into a shark or a scorpion.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the PatriotsMetal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots reached shops on the 12th of June 2008. According to Konami, more than three million units shipped worldwide that day. Kojima Productions built the game for the PlayStation 3, and it was the sixth…
God of War IIGod of War II begins with a god being killed by his own king. Kratos, the Spartan warrior who became the God of War by killing Ares, joins an attack on the city of Rhodes. A giant eagle swoops in and drains a huge share of his powers. It…
Assassin's Creed IIAssassin's Creed II is a 2009 action-adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the sequel to the 2007 game Assassin's Creed. Its hero is Ezio Auditore da Firenze, a young man in Renaissance Italy. His…
Snake's Revenge1990 video game
Gensō SuikogaidenGensō Suikogaiden was a pair of Japan-only visual novels, never officially translated. Fans translated them in 2013.
The Elder Scrolls V: SkyrimA modder made Falskaar for Skyrim as a job application to Bethesda. Bungie hired him instead.
The Last of Us Part IIThe Last of Us Part II is a 2020 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It unfolds in a post-apocalyptic United States, four years after the studio's The Last of Us of 2013. Two…
God of War (2018 video game)God of War, the 2018 PlayStation 4 game from Santa Monica Studio, was formally announced at the 2016 Electronic Entertainment Expo with a short gameplay demo. In it, a fully bearded Kratos taught his young son how to hunt. Soon afterward…
Fallout (video game)Fallout, the 1997 role-playing game from Interplay Productions, opens with a narrator voiced by the actor Ron Perlman. In 2026 he recalled that the job paid "40 dollars and a sandwich." It is a modest origin for a game that players and…