Patient Gamers

• OpenTTD, easily. Would be nice if I could sneak in the og assets (music mainly) from Transport Tycoon Deluxe as well, but not critical
• Fallout: London - or does that count as 2 as it's a tc mod + basegame of fallout4?

really drawing a blank on the other ~3 games. Probably some mix of old Lucas Arts adventure games (indy atlantis, day of the tentacle, the dig...), imsims (dishonored, deux ex).

X-Com, Smash Brothers, Halo, Civilization, StarCraft

factorio, noita, some random tower defense game, city of heroes, and Minecraft..

Id pick 5 games that have infinite replayability like dwarf fortress or other roguelikes

I'd probably go for historic impact if there's no more games I'd want a good selection of what people considered major titles of video game history. Maybe one classic, one old console, one arcade fighter, one modern PC, and one online shooter.

Pong

The legend of Zelda

Tekken 3

World of Warcraft classic

Team fortress 2

For me I'd say...

Borderlands 2 Left4Dead 2 Destiny 2 Zombies Ate my Neighbours (SNES) Pokémon (ZA has me at the moment but I'd say keep Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire)

CO-OP shooters with single player elements are what I'd play more than anything else to avoid it being the same thing over and over, Destiny has hit hard times recently but still has a lot to give.

ZAMN is just cool.

I can lose hours shiny hunting and mucking about in the Pokémon games so easily has to be one around.

Dark Souls series, then will pretend all the games were that hard and every gamer was total badass.

Based on my currently highest time spend in the game, in no particular order: Terraria, Dark Souls 3, Factorio + expansion, Stardew Valley.

The last one kinda depend on some caveat: Fallout 4(assuming mods also survived), Project Zomboid(if the dev will still working on it), or dying light(assuming some mods also survived). Else Prey 2017.

Edit: honestly i would put Monster Hunter 4U up there, but not sure if i can still take the early game grind, World kinda ruined a bit of 4U but it still a significantly better game.

Forsaken 64 (multiplayer does things with "4th Dimensional" space I've never seen elsewhere, else this slot would belong to Descent)

No Man's Sky (open to others for this slot, but not aware of any that check the same boxes for me)

Minecraft (Factorio mods)

Armored Core (any besides 3)

Starcraft or Dawn of War or Total War ... so long as the best of the RTS genre is represented

Wait ... no new games ever? Wtf, just kill me. ... or rather, why bother rebuilding civilization only to stagnate like so?

My list is tailored towards inspiring a re-launch of the industry. I would rather disappear into Amish society than play the same five video-games forever more.

I'll pick 5 genre (4x/building sim/strategy, RPG, Sandbox, Sport, and maybe racing) then choose the best open source game in each genre.

A very good closed source, mod-able game will be limited on what technology exist when it was made. While an open sourced game would have a lot of possibilities. It will count as an update, not a new game.

if anthologies are allowed:

Activision Anthology: Remix Edition
Atari Anthology
Sega Genesis Classics
Namco Museum Archives
Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition

I'm a novice gamer, so someone who's got more experience with retro gaming history could probably come up with a list that includes the greatest possible number of titles for preservation

could we have a link to the video you mentioned?

Nah just destroy them all, maybe I can get my friends to learn Bridge with me. If not, Canasta will suffice.

It would take me long to decide which 2 of those not to preserve (probably the non-replayables):

Dead Cells

Hollow Knight

Hades

Dredge

SOMA

Witness

Outer Wilds

• Puyo Puyo Champions - Extra selfish pick, in this scenario now people would have to play it and we'd have a healthy playerbase again. I'd finally get to fulfill my dream of large offline tournaments.
• Skullgirls - See above.
• Stepmania - I was tempted to say Wacca or Chunithm, but in this scenario Stepmania would be ideal for nearly infinite content, as well as offering both keyboard and pad playstyles in one game.
• Slay the Spire - My pick for casual second monitor content. I'm also assuming the modding scene is allowed to continue, in this scenario it'd suddenly have everyone making tons of new characters.
• Super Mario Maker 2 - Actually took me a bit to think of what the last game should be. Gotta be an endless game, but I didn't want to duplicate genres by just adding another fighting game or puzzle game. Though if we're allowing romhacks to count as part of the game, if new romhacks can continue to be made, substitute Super Mario World instead.

Stardrew Valley I want to relax, it's relaxing and fun and literally everyone likes SV

Master Of Orion 2 Nostalgia because I had a garbage PC as a teen that could only run 90's game and it's a great game

XCOM 2012 Enemy within + longwar should keep me busy until society collapses.

Starsector GOTY every year. Amazing how do they keep doing.

Animal crossing on Wii Stardew valley + nostalgia + cute animals

Dota 2.

Mandatory for every gamer.

That can only end up great.

FF7 (original) FF8 Fallout NV Crusader Kings 2 (with dlc and mods) Rimworld (with mods)

Well let's see...there's Pong, of course, then Asteroids, Pac Man, Poker and Tic Tac Toe. Yeah, that ought to do.

I could only come up with three for now because it's no small task!

• Squarez Deluxe

• TormentorXPunisher

• Quake IIx

I didn't choose anything with crafting or making, because I can still craft and make things in real life. I chose games that provide something that I could never get anywhere else, and also games that for me are infinitely replayable. I would never pick a story driven anything because if that's the only game I can play for the rest of my days, I don't want to hear/play the same story 70 times, and RPG combat systems are easy to figure out and game after a while

Squarez Deluxe to me is the greatest shape packing game ever made, it makes Tetris look like Tinker Toys idc fite me. It's probably three decades old by now and it's DOS freeware and I still play it. Extreme mode only, my peeps

TormentorXPunisher is the best twin stick shooter I have ever played, and I have played hundreds of them. It has an infinite skill ceiling. I play every day and have done so for about 7 years. I was number two WR on hard mode until my protegé took me down, but I recently ascended on regular mode by 14 ranks. I'm so invested in this game I actually developed a friendly acquaintanceship with the sound engineer Joonas Turner

Quake 2 is just a granddaddy of all amazing FPS with again, an infinite skill ceiling esp in movement. I actually enjoy the movement of Q1 better, but the mod support of Q2 and upgraded engine makes it a game that goes on forever. Team CTF, rocket arena, etc