Expansion Bucket List

The Land of Shadow, Messmer and the final boss argued about for months; the biggest From expansion.

Dogtown, Idris Elba and the spy thriller that redeemed Cyberpunk.

Complete the Half-Life: Blue Shift expansion, a first-person shooter set in the Half-Life universe

Complete the Half-Life: Opposing Force expansion, a first-person shooter set in the Half-Life universe

Three named alien hunters who remember your fights, plus three resistance factions to answer them.

Ulysses finally explains why he has been following you, at the end of the Divide.

Zion Canyon, a Mormon missionary and the Burned Man everyone in the Mojave talks about.

The Sierra Madre casino, a bomb collar and three companions you should not trust; the DLC people argue about.

Corporations, espionage, random events and the Advanced Start - widely held to be the best expansion the series has had.

Sheogorath’s realm split between Mania and Dementia, and the best writing Bethesda has published.

Durlag’s Tower and three more areas for the first game, still the hardest dungeon BioWare built.

China, Japan and India, each winning by building a wonder rather than collecting one.

Rome added to the 1997 original, with four campaigns and the units that fixed its worst balance.

Solstheim in the snow, a werewolf questline and the first Elder Scrolls expansion with a build-a-colony thread.

Nine generals with their own armies, and the challenge ladder that is still played competitively.

The expansion that ends the Tiberian Sun story, with CABAL turning on both sides.

Three Native American civilisations, war chiefs and fire pits; the first Age III expansion.

The walled city of Mournhold and an audience with a living god who has stopped answering prayers.

Golden and dark ages, loyalty that can flip a city to a neighbour, and governors to hold it.

Trade routes, world congress and a culture victory you win with tourism; the expansion that finished Civ V.

The expansion that ends the Bhaalspawn saga, with Watcher’s Keep and levels past the original cap.

Religion and espionage return, and combat is rebuilt around the hex map the base game shipped with.

Nine scenarios from the Peloponnesian War to the Pacific, and the rules changes that made Civ III worth returning to.

Back to Solstheim to face Miraak, the first Dragonborn, and learn to ride a dragon.

Red Alert 2’s expansion adds a third faction of mind control, and time travel to undo it.

Great Generals, vassal states and six warlike scenarios; the first of the two expansions Civ IV is now sold with.

The expansion adds the Atlanteans and the titan you spend the whole game trying to release.

Vikings fight for glory in a doomed world, with drafted powers each age.

The expansion that gives Catan a real mid-game and a barbarian clock.

Four zones underground beneath Khaz Algar, and warbands that share progress across every character on the account.