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Incline RPG Codex's Top Non-RPG PC games - VOTE THREAD

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2020 has been slow year so far, so let's have some fun & drama: a voting for the best non-RPG PC games!

RULES

1. You can vote for up to 20 games, divided into three tiers:
  • 5 games for 5 points
  • 5 games for 3 points
  • 10 games for 1 point
2. NO RPGs. We already have Top RPG polls, this is for everything else. If it's on our Top 101 RPGs list, it can't be voted here.

3. NO CONSOLE GAMES (ports are ok).

4. Voting ends on March 21st (you can edit your votes until then).

5. No Codex accounts from 2020.

EXAMPLE VOTE

5 Points:
Monkey Island 2, Hollow Knight, Day of the Tentacle, StarCraft, Half-Life
3 Points: UFO: Enemy Unknown, Thief II, Warhammer: Dark Omen, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Devil May Cry 3
1 Point: Subnautica, Minecraft, Resident Evil 4, WarCraft III, GTA: San Andreas, Dynasty Warriors 8, Alien vs Predator 2, Need for Speed Underground 2, Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2

This thread is only for voting, if you want to complain about this, please use the discussion thread.
 
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Well, someone has to go first.

Taking "NO CONSOLE GAMES" to mean no console exclusives, so multiplatform games/PC ports are allowed, right?

Including years just to avoid confusing with remakes etc

5 Points:
Tomb Raider 2 (1997)
Half-Life (1998)
Doom (1993)
Max Payne (2000)
System Shock (1994) - this was on the older best RPGs poll - inexplicably since it's an FPS - but seems to have not made the newer one, so I guess it counts here

3 Points:
Unreal Tournament (1999)
FTL: Faster Than Light (2012)
Thief: The Dark Project (1998)
Blood (1997)
Desperados (2001)

1 Point:
Stellaris (2020? idk, ongoing)
Shenmue (1999)
The Last Express (1997)
Slay the Spire (2019)
Command & Conquer: Red Alert (1996)
Heretic (1994)
Descent (1995)
Dishonored (2012)
Mirror's Edge (2008)
Crash Bandicoot: N Sane Trilogy (2017) - actually, I just like the PS1 versions of Crash 1 and Crash 2, but this gets around the no console games rule so :smug:
 
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I occurs to me I don't play all that many non-RPGs.

5 Points:
Starflight, Civ IV (with all expansions), Master of Orion 2, X-Com: Enemy unknown, Quake (that multiplayer explosion),

3 Points:
Doom, Wing Commander, Zork, Civ II, Thief

1 Point:
Pirates
Sim City
Total War: Rome (If only for the mods)
Prince of Persia (original)
King's Quest II
Secret of Monkey Island
Descent
Alpha Centauri
GTA: Vice City
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
 

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Well I can only vote for games I have played, I still haven't played some what people consider classics (a lot of RTS/Adventure games come to mind) but fuck it:

5 Points:
Thief 1
Thief 2
Resident Evil HD Remaster
Warcraft III
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

3 Points:
Blood
King's Bounty: Armored Princess/Crossworlds
Battlezone (1998)
GTA Vice City
Silent Hill 2

1 Point:
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
Shadow Warrior Classic
Terraria
F.E.A.R
Hexen
Max Payne 2
Postal 2
Grim Fandango
Psychonauts
Worms Armageddon
 
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5 Points
Tetris (1984)
Civilization (1991)
Doom (1993)
UFO: Enemy Unknown (1994)
Hollow Knight (2017)

3 Points
Master of Magic (1994)
Descent (1995)
Hexen (1995)
Axiom Verge (2015)
Night in the Woods (2017)

1 Point
Loom (1990)
Chaos Engine (1993)
Syndicate (1993)
BlackThorne (1994)
Duke Nukem 3D (1996)
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate (1998)
Hero Core (2010)
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet (2012)
Environmental Station Alpha (2015)
Yoku's Island Express (2018)
 
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5 Points:
X-Com: UFO - Enemy Unknown (1994)
Secret of Monkey Island
Curse of Monkey Island
Tie Fighter
X-Com Apocalypse

3 Points:

Nu-X-com Enemy Within
Hexen 2
Hard West
Dark Souls 2 (never an RPG)
GTA: Vice City

1 Point:
Doom
Secret of Monkey Island 2
Rome: Total War
Okami HD
Civilization
Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast
Star Control
Tomb Raider 2013
Quake 2
Batman: Arkham Asylum
 

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This is fun. Gonna take a while to think of all these games. I don't want to miss any important one!

5 POINTS:
1) Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
2) Abe's Odyssey
3) X-Com
4) Thief the Dark Project
5) Rollercoaster Tycoon


3 POINTS:
1) Starcraft
2) Zork: Grand Inquisitor
3) Blood
4) Quest for Glory
5) Need for Speed: Porsche


1 POINT:
1) Netstorm
2) Pharaoh
3) Age of Empires
4) Duke Nukem 3D
5) Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight
6) Warlords 3: Darklords Rising
7) Master of Magic
8) Riven the sequel to Mist
9) Quake
10) Crusader Kings 2


This was a difficult list to make. Damn you for only allowing 20 games.
 

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Wasteland 2
5 points:
Thief 1
Thief 2
Master of Orion 2
Freespace 2
Tex Murphy The Pandora Directive

3 points:
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Blade Runner
Stronghold
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Starcraft

1 point:

Endless Space 2
SOMA
Syberia
Zeus+Poseidon
Primordia
Theme Hospital
Sacrifice
 
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Games like Bloodlines being on the RPG list makes me hesitant with Dishonored and STALKER but they're not there so...

5 Points:

1) Thief 2
2) Crysis
3) Dishonored
4) FEAR
5) STALKER

3 Points:

1) Hitman (2016)
2) Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
3) Under a Killing Moon
4) Bioshock
5) Alien Isolation

1 Point:

1) Curse of Monkey Island
2) Dead Space 2
3) Chronicles of Riddick
4) Mirror's Edge
5) Half-Life 2
6) The 7th Guest
7) Blade Runner
8) Sam & Max Hit the Road
9) Star Wars: Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight
10) Duke Nukem 3D
 

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5 Points:

Half-Life
Starcraft
The Sims
Warcraft 3
Portal

3 Points:

Stardew Valley
The Secret of Monkey Island
Roller Coaster Tycoon
Thief
Kerbal Space Program

1 Point:

Sid Meier's Pirates
The Talos Principle
Myst
Silent Storm
Age of Empires II
Tomb Raider (2013)
GTA Vice City
L.A. Noire
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat
 

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5 points:
Victoria 2
Eador: Genesis (+New Horizons mod)
Heroes of Might and Magic 3
Civilization 4 (+mods like Rise from Erebus)
Age of Wonders 2 (aka Shadow Magic)

3 points:
Unreal Tournament
Crusader Kings 2
X-Com (+Long War mod)
King's Bounty (new - add to whichever insubstantially different version has the most points)
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (without add-on)

1 point:
Dominions 4 (add to Dominions 5 instead if there is a big difference in points, they're similar)
Thea: The Awakening
Sam and Max Hit the Road (1993)
Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth
Rome: Total War
Age of Wonders 1
Warlords 2
Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War
Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast (deathmatch)
World of Tanks

(Assuming that ambiguous cases like Alter Ego, Ultima Online, King of Dragon Pass, Jagged Alliance 2, Space Rangers 2, ADOM, Mount & Blade, Battle Brothers are all RPGs. I'd also include ESO for the excellent PvP, but I don't want to send the wrong message because the rest is trash, and it's probably an RPG.)
 
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Very hard to figure out what it means to put a game on this list. Is meant to be one's own favorites, or somehow objective? Is it meant to judge the game by the time of release, or from today's standpoint? (For instance, if Doom were released today, I think I'd consider it far inferior to the game I played in the early 1990s -- on release, Doom was technologically and audiovisually arresting, and was extremely novel. It wouldn't be today.) A lot of these probably just depend on one's age; I can imagine someone younger than me might rate Warcraft 3 above Starcraft, say.

Ultimately, the method I've adopted is that I subjectively found the game amazing, enough others felt the same way, and there wasn't some later game that did everything the prior game did, but better (e.g., Freespace -> Freespace 2). I've tended not to include games where I ultimate stopped playing because it felt boring (Pirates is an example of this -- feels spectacular for a while, but never gave me a sense of satisfaction).

5 Points
Monkey Island 2
Starcraft
Freespace 2
X-Com: UFO Defense
Master of Orion 2

3 Points
Quake
Sim City 2000
Half-Life
Thief
Minecraft (I only played it a little, during very early development, but homage is owed)

1 Point (skewing told favorite games from childhood)
Prince of Persia
Warlords
Ancient Art of War
Tribes
Legend of the Red Dragon
Alpha Centauri
Gladiator (yeah, totally idiosyncratic, but this is an absurdly great game)
Doom
Stunts
Myth
 

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5 points:
Thief: The Dark Project
Thief 2: The Metal Age
Quake
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (+ Call of Pripyat, really)
Dishonored 2

3 points:
Unreal Tournament 99
Blood
Doom
Alien: Isolation
Unreal

1 point:
Duke Nukem 3D (replace with Dungeon Keeper if you don't allow my vote cause I'm at 3DR).
StarCraft
Half-Life
Silent Hill 2
Quake 3 Arena
Disciples 2
Worms Armageddon
Max Payne
Metro: Last Light
Dishonored
 

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5 points:
UFO Enemy Unknown
Operation Flashpoint
AvP 2
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. SoC
Mafia

3 points:
Duke Nukem 3D
Alien Isolation
Outcast
Silent Hill 2
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

1 point:
Gabriel Knight 2
Max Payne
Max Payne 2
The Dig
Desperados
Reunion
Maniac Mansion
Freelancer
Far Cry: Blood Dragon
Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer
 
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2020 has been slow year so far, so let's have some fun & drama: a voting for the best non-RPG PC games!

RULES

1. You can vote for up to 20 games, divided into three tiers:
  • 5 games for 5 points
  • 5 games for 3 points
  • 10 games for 1 point
2. NO RPGs. We already have Top RPG polls, this is for everything else. If it's on our Top 101 RPGs list, it can't be voted here.

3. NO CONSOLE GAMES.

4. Voting ends on March 21st (you can edit your votes until then).

5. No Codex accounts from 2020.

EXAMPLE VOTE

5 Points:
Monkey Island 2, Hollow Knight, Day of the Tentacle, StarCraft, Half-Life
3 Points: X-COM, Thief II, Warhammer: Dark Omen, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Devil May Cry 3
1 Point: Subnautica, Minecraft, Antichamber, WarCraft III, GTA: Vice City, Dynasty Warriors 8, Alien vs Predator 2, Need for Speed Underground 2, Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, Doom II

This thread is only for voting, if you want to complain about this, please use the discussion thread.


Myst - 5 points
Half Life - 5 points
Warcraft III - 5 points
Super-Hot 5 points
Medieval: Total War - 5 points

Caesar 3 - 3 points
Lords of the Realm 2 - 3 points
Unavowed - 3 points
Half-Life 2: 3 points
Portal: 3 points

Portal 2 - 1 point
Stardew Valley - 1 point
Bioshock - 1 point
Doom (2016) - 1 point
Primordia - 1 point
Vanquish - 1 point
Warhamer: Dawn of War II - 1 point
Rome: Total War - 1 point
Civilization V - 1 point
Soma - 1 point
 
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5 Points
Mechwarrior 3 ("Reactors online. Sensors online. Weapons online. All systems nominal.")
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Civilization V (most-played recent game)
Civilization
River Raid (had computer versions, first game I played)
Uncharted Waters (1991 KOEI)

3 Points

Command & Conquer
Monkey Islands 2
Half-Life
Strike Commander
History Line 1914-1918

1 Point

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
One Must Fall 2097
Sim City 2000
Crusader Kings 2
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Duke Nukem 3D
Space Quest 4
Colonization
Tie-Fighter
Sam & Max Hit The Road
 
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5 POINTS:

Sid Meier's Pirates!
X-COM: UFO Defense
Master of Magic

Thief II: The Metal Age
Far Cry

3 POINTS:

Counter-Strike 1.5
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Dune II
World of Tanks
King's Bounty: Armored Princess

1 POINT:

GTA: Vice City
Aliens versus Predator 2
Star Wars: TIE Fighter
Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares
Portal
Dungeon Keeper 2
Mechwarrior IV
Battlefield 1942: Desert Combat
Age of Empires II
Burntime
 
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5 points:
X-com: UFO Defense /UFO :Enemy Unknown (1994)
Pirates! (1987)
Myth 2: Soulblighter (1998)
Steel Panthers 2 (1996)
Chaos Engine (1993)

3 points_
Close Combat 2: A Bridge too Far (1997)
Sid Meier's Colonization (1994)
Master of Orion 2 (1996)
Max Payne (2001)
Crimson Skies (2000)

1 point_
Hexen : Beyond Heretic (1995)
Freelancer (2003)
Supreme Commander (2007)
Psychonauts (2005)
Men of War (2009)
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix (2002)
Desperados (2001)
Interstate 76 (1997)
Sensible World of Soccer (1994)
Flatout (2004)

edit.
I need to stop editing that damn 1 point list.
 
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5 points:
Master of Orion
System Shock
Thief: The Dark Project
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic

3 points:
Elite
Lords of Midnight
X-Com
(OpenXcom)
Heroes of Might and Magic 2
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

1 point:
Civilization II
Doom 2
Jagged Alliance
Half-Life
Unreal
Outlaws
Age of Wonders
Thief II: The Metal Age
No One Lives Forever
Ghost Recon
 
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Angelo85

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5 Points:
Freespace 2
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic
Myth 2: Soulblighter
Alien Swarm
Half-Life

3 Points:
Dungeon Keeper 2
X-COM Terror from the Deep
Medieval II: Total War
Savage: The Battle for Newerth
Natural Selection 2

1 Point:
X3: Terran Conflict
Dominions 4
Demonworld II: Dark Armies
Table Top Simulator
Factorio
Grand Theft Auto 5
Incubation aka Battle Isle Phase Four
Left 4 Dead 2
Contagion
King's Bounty: The Legend
 

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5 points:
  1. Doom (1993, I want to be sure it's not mistaken as DOOM)
  2. Hollow Knight
  3. Starcraft
  4. Company of Heroes
  5. Stalker: Call to Pripyat

3 points:
  1. Rome Total War
  2. Heroes of Might and Magic 3
  3. Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War
  4. C&C: Red Alert
  5. Dark Messiah of Might and Magic

1 point:
  1. Knights of Honor
  2. Civilisation II
  3. Age of Empire II
  4. SW Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith
  5. Half-Life
  6. Portal
  7. Warcraft II
  8. Dishonored
  9. Duke Nukem 3D
  10. AVP2
 

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