Important to the Genre
This game brought CRPGs to the masses
Baldurs Gate 3
This company permanently changed the landscape of the market by offering the game for free, with the ability to permanently buy characters within the game
Riot Games
This game is the first to offer Contextual Button Prompts in a 3d space
The 2015 indie dev's choice for a game engine, now known for wanting to steal everyone's money via downloads
Unity
Third Person Shooter Action Adventure game with quippy dialogue and a big focus on cutscenes and graphical fidelity
Uncharted 1/2/3/4
This game was the catalyst for Ludonarrative Dissonance as a term
Bioshock
This console is widely regarded as one of the best for its prolific 3rd party support, made possible by its legendary dev kit
PS2
This RPG shifted the landscape away from the Modern Shooter and Towards Open World Adventure
Skyrim
One of the first engines with an extensive physics system, it also has a pretty extensive movie making scene
Source Engine
First Person Puzzle Game with environmental interaction and spatial navigation
Portal 1/2
This game both revived, and permanently changed, a genre that was practically dead before its release on Newgrounds in 2011
The Binding of Isaac
This studio, well known for its mobile games, attempted to copyright the word "Saga" and "Candy"
King
What was the first game to split its loop between Combat, and Base Building?
Xcom:UFO Defense(also known as UFO:Enemy Unknown)
This engine always feels a little bit slippery, but has a graphical capacity beyond all others
Third person Action Roguelike with optional Co-Op and constant number scaling
Risk of Rain 2
This game popularized the term "Walking Simulator"
Dear Esther
This company was created under unusual circumstances, as two genre Giants came together to monopolize the market
Square Enix
This game was the first big JRPG to introduce QTEs in order to make combat more engaging
Super Mario RPG
The king of Jank, this engine is notable for having both the player and the NPCs operate on fundamentally the same rules, and its variety of simulated objects
Creation Engine
Isometric Story Based JRPG with a rhythm based combat system, currency system introduced later
Mother 3
This game spawned two different massive genres, all from the versatility of its modding tool kit
Warcraft 3
Name the most profitable game released in 2004
World Of Warcraft
This game has asymmetric factions, a strategic AND Combat layer, spell casting, and a variety of different units, each which plays differently...It was released in 1981
Archon:The Light and the Dark
This engine is actually 2D on the back-end, but you wouldn't know it just by looking around
ID Tech 1
3rd Person/Isometric Highly Non-linear Squad Based RPG with Basebuilding and a reactive dynamic world with no main story
Kenshi