Who can do it better than IGN? Your top 25 PC games since 2006?

[Internet]

As suggested in the IGN thread, list your top ten games since 2006 and we'll tally them up to make a top 25 list in two weeks. I'll count the first 10 if you want to include more, but please separate the two by some text.

Alright, here's the list:
1. Portal - 25 votes (and 2 for the Orange Box)
2. Fallout New Vegas - 20 votes
3. Dragon Age Origins - 19 votes
4. Mass Effect 2 - 19 votes
5. Alpha Protocol (sigh) - 17 votes
6. Company of Heroes - 16 votes
7. Dark Souls - 16 votes
8. Witcher 2 - 16 votes
9. Team Fortress 2 - 15 votes (and 2 for the Orange box)
10. Stalker SoC - 15 votes

And round it out with the top 28:

11. Deus Ex Human Revolution - 14 votes
12. Minecraft - 13 votes
13. Arkham Asylum - 11 votes
14. Skyrim - 11 votes
15. Mass Effect - 10 votes
16. Walking Dead - 10 votes
17. Witcher - 10 votes
18. Arma II - 9 votes
19. Fallout 3 - 9 votes
20. Hitman Blood Money - 9 votes
21. Mount and Blade Warband - 9 votes.
22. Portal 2 - 9 votes.
23. Bastion - 8 votes
24. Bioshock -8 votes
25. Crusader Kings II, Crysis, Just Cause 2, and Left For Dead 2 - 8 votes

[NathanH]

I assume this includes 2006.

Crusader Kings 2
Mass Effect 2
Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012
Dragon Age: Origins
Oblivion
Terraria
Puzzle Quest
King's Bounty: The Legend
Dominions 3
Football Manager 2012

[Internet]

I'll do mine in no particular order.

Bioshock
Portal
Just Cause 2
Deus Ex HR
Metro 2033
NWN 2 (and MotB)
Dragon Age Origins
Fallout New Vegas
Aquaria
Minecraft

Stuff that didn't make it but was close:
LoL
Stacking
Pixeljunk Eden
Arkham City
AAAAAH! For Awesome
King's Bounty

[squareking]

Wait -- top 25 or top 10?

Company of Heroes
The Orange Box
Dark Souls:PtDE
Stalker: SoC
Zeno Clash
X3:TC
Machinarium
King's Bounty: The Legend
Minecraft
Fallout New Vegas

[Drake Sigar]

Mount & Blade: Warband
The Walking Dead
Alpha Protocol
Arma II
King's Bounty: The Legend
The Witcher 2
Portal
Blood Bowl
Hitman Blood Money
Fallout New Vegas

Honourable mentions to Magicka, Trine, The Movies (didn't quite make the cutoff date), Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, the Total War series, Stalker, Hotline Miami, Braid, X-Com and World of Goo

Admittedly there are gaps in my experience. I haven't tried Dwarf Fortress (you need Matrix-vision or something!), Minecraft, or Amnesia.

[Internet]

Top 10. We'll tally up the 25 winners.

I assume this includes 2006.

Yep.

[DarkFenix]

Again in no partcular order:

Bastion
The Walking Dead
Mass Effect 2
Dark Souls
Alpha Protocol
Team Fortress 2
Portal
World of Tanks
Starcraft 2
Left 4 Dead

All these games were either fun and compelling enough to keep me sinking time into them ages after release, or left me with a strong enough lasting impression that I don't forget them. The first two in particular, those two games are a rare sort for me, games that left me such a strong impression that I never wanted to play them again, because treating them in such a gamey fashion would feel like desecrating the first time experience.

I was tempted to mention games like Skyrim, Fallout: NV, Deus Ex: HR, etc. but at the end of the day they were basically pretty forgettable to me, even if their quality was undoubtedly high.

[Nalano]

Post-2006 games in Nalano-colored lenses:

Company of Heroes
Screw you, I'm picking Mass Effect 3
Empire: Total War
Portal
Saints Row 3
Team Fortress 2
Dragon Age: Origins
Fallout: New Vegas
Tropico 3
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Oh yeah: I went there.

Honorable mention:

Mirror's Edge
The Witcher 2
STALKER: Call of Pripyat
Dragon Age: Origins
Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer

Pre-2006 games that I really, really wish I could pick:

Simcity 4
Civilization 4

[Internet]

Pre-2006 games that I really, really wish I could pick:

Simcity 4
Civilization 5

You mean Civ 4, right? Civ 5 is from 2010.

[Nalano]

You mean Civ 4, right? Civ 5 is from 2010.

Correct. I meant Civ 4.

[Tritagonist]

Tough one! First selection included 38 games, then down to 23. These remaining 10 are the games that weren't necessarily 'the best', but probably the ones I enjoyed most - or at least made a lasting impression. I did also try to include some variety with regards to different genres and series.

• Alpha Protocol
• Anno 1404
• Burnout Paradise
• Dragon Age: Origins
• Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
• Mass Effect
• Portal
• Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
• TrackMania United
• World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

Lot's of stuff I greatly enjoyed and was arguably a greater achievement of game design, storytelling, design, etc. was left out, so I won't bother with honourable mentions. I'd probably come up with a different list of 10 in a week's time, anyway.

[Pertusaria]

Fate of the World
Dungeons of Dredmor
Machinarium
Anno 1404
Blackwell: Deception

That's it from me. I'm not saying these are/were the best, though - there are far too many games that I haven't played, even sticking to those that are on their way to being classics. Also, I'm aware that nearly all of them came out in the last year or two - I wasn't playing many games before then. I'm starting to catch up, but it's slow.

Honourable mention to good multiplayer browser games and a MUD - Kingdom of Loathing, Urban Dead and Discworld MUD. All of these miss the release date, but they're still being developed.

[Internet]

• World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

I'd rather not count expansions unless they're standalone or the game was released in the time period. 2006 is a code for this generation of console development, and WoW was definitely not in that period.

[fiddlesticks]

Sure, why not?

Alpha Protocol
Bastion
Bioshock 2
The Binding of Isaac
Fallout: New Vegas
Hitman: Blood Money
Left 4 Dead 2
Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer (not the base game though)
Team Fortress 2
World of Goo

As I expected, half of my list consists of games made by either Valve or Obsidian. However, I don't know why the letter B features so much more prominently than the others.

[chopper]

Mount and Blade Warband
Fallout 3
Dark Souls
Out of the Park Baseball 13
Mass Effect
Bioshock 2
STALKER SoC
Bastion
To The Moon
Far Cry 2

[DeekyFun]

Top 10
Mass Effect 2
Minecraft
The Walking Dead
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
The Witcher 2
TES: Skyrim
Left 4 Dead 2
Dragon Age: Origins
Portal 2
Company of Heroes

Honourable Mentions:
Plants vs Zombies
Dishonored
Both Batmen (AA + AC)
Mirrors Edge
AssCreed 2
Too many others...

Honourable mention of console game that should have been a PC title:
Red Dead Redemption

[spcd]

I don't know if this a PC-only thing... but I added 1 console game (Geometry Wars 2). If this is not allowed you can choose Geometry Wars 1 which was released in 2007 for PC.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R - Shadow of Chernobyll
Hotline Miami
Frozen Synapse
Crysis
Geometry Wars 2
Super Meat Boy
Minecraft
Left 4 Dead 2
Spacechem
Trackmania 2

[Drake Sigar]

Alpha Protocol

Alpha Protocol

Saint's Ro- I mean Alpha Protocol

Alpha Protocol

Yes. YEEEEESSSS.

[Smashbox]

Team Fortress 2
Portal (interesting that I got these games TOGETHER, count them as the Orange Box if you want)
Skyrim
Minecraft
Mass Effect 2
Bioshock
Empire: Total War
Civ V (yeah, fuck y'all)
Fallout NV
Dishonored


Honorable mentions: Shogun 2, Deus Ex HR, Just Cause 2, GTA 4 & Episodes, AssCreed Brotherhood, Frozen Synapse, XCom EU, Mount & Blade Warband, Braid, FTL, Torchlight, The L4Deads, HL episodes

I also think it's too bad SimCity 4 can't be here. Nothing since has come close.

[Tritagonist]

I'd rather not count expansions unless they're standalone or the game was released in the time period. 2006 is a code for this generation of console development, and WoW was definitely not in that period.

I disagree, but here's not the place to go into that. Do as you please.

Yes. YEEEEESSSS.

You missed one!