Arcade Factoids
This game is the very first arcade game in the world, released by Atari in 1972.
What is Pong?
Released in 2022, this game allows players to control a cat navigating a futuristic city inhabited by robots, focusing on exploration and puzzle-solving.
What is Stray?
This game is a short, unsettling walking simulator horror game where you're trapped in an endless, looping Japanese underground subway passageway and must find the exit by turning back from subtle anomalies in your surroundings to progress.
What is The Exit 8?
Released in 2007, this game is a puzzle-platform game that introduces players to the concept of using a device to create linked wormholes for navigating through the test chambers of Aperture Science Facility.
What is Portal and Portal 2?
This game, a sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed games of all time, is from the perspective of a young women in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by a fungal infection.
What is The Last of Us Part 2?
Developed by Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov in 1984, this game is known for its simple yet addictive gameplay, involving rotating and stacking falling tetrominoes to clear lines.
What is Tetris?
In this 2025 episodic game by Critical Role, players take on the role of a retired superhero in charge of a suicide squad-esque team of hero turned villains. Your choices heavily change the story.
What is Dispatch?
In this game, players take on the role of ghost hunters who must investigate haunted locations and try to identify the specific type of ghost present.
What is Phasmophobia?
This game, released in 2019, features a unique art style and gravity manipulation mechanics, allowing players to explore an infinite, gravity-defying world filled with mind bending architecture and puzzles.
What is Manifold Garden?
This action RPG, developed by From software and released in 2022, features an expansive open world knows as the Lands Between, where players explore, battle formidable enemies, and seek to become all powerful.
What is Elden Ring?
This game, released by Namco in 1982, players control a character who can inflate and defeat underground monsters by using a pump. The game features a unique mechanic of mining through dirt to create paths.
What is Dig Dug?
Set in the Wyoming wilderness, this game follows a fire lookout named Henry as he uncovers a mystery while communicating with his supervisor Delilah through a walkie-talkie, blending exploration with a strong narrative.
What is Firewatch?
In this game, players are sent by their corporate overlords to mysterious planets to grab scrap and junk to sell for money, but the places they're sent to are radiated and filled with monsters.
What is Lethal Company?
In this game, players control a lonely man who discovers he is the only person left in his office building. This game is known for its narrative-driven gameplay and the presence of a narrator who comments on the player's choices.
What is The Stanley Parable?
This role-playing game, released in 2023, is set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe and allows players to create their own character, make impactful choices, and engage in turn-based combat while exploring a richly detailed world filled with lore and quests.
What is Baldur's Gate 3?
This game, released in 1987, introduced the concept of special moves for fighting characters, but it was the sequel that popularized combo attacks and competitive play in arcades.
What is Street Fighter?
Released in 2018, this open-world game follows an outlaw in the Van der Linde gang, and explores themes of loyalty, morality, and the decline of the Wild West.
What is Red Dead Redemption 2?
This game, released in 2013 by Naughty Dog Studios, follows two people as they navigate a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by a fungal infection, exploring themes of survival, love, and loss.
What is The Last of Us?
Released in 2020, this game is a first-person puzzle game that plays with perspective and perception, where objects can change size based on how they are viewed, creating a unique gameplay experience focused on optical illusions.
What is Superliminal?
This platformer, released in 2024, features the character Astro as players navigate through vibrant world filled with creative challenges in puzzles, building on the success of its predecessor, Astro's Playroom.
What is Astro Bot?
Released in 1978 by Taito, this game is often credited with popularizing the shooting game genre. Its success led to a shortage of 100-yen coins in Japan due to its immense popularity.
What is Space Invaders?
This game, released in 2015, players control Batman as he faces a mysterious villain who resembles him and has a personal vendetta against him. The game features an open world Gotham City and introduces the Batmobile as a key gameplay element. Name the specific game.
What is Batman: Arkham Knight?
This almost analog horror type game uses security cameras as the main gameplay mechanic and is famous for its incredibly puzzling and hard to find lore.
What is Five Nights at Freddy's?
In this game, players must guide a character named Ida though a series of beautifully designed impossible landscapes and optical illusions, utilizing mechanics like rotating the environment to solve puzzles. The game is celebrated for its artistic style and emotional storytelling.
What is Monument Valley?
This game is a 2025 turn-based RPG where you lead the doomed 33rd expedition from the city of Lumiere to destroy the Paintress, a god-like being who paints a number on a monolith each year, causing everyone of that age to vanish.
What is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33?