Video Games Bucket List
Finish all Half-Life games
Complete all main Half-Life games, including Half-Life, Half-Life 2, and its episodes, experiencing the iconic first-person shooter series.
Finish the Quake games and their mission packs
Three id shooters and the seven expansions built for them, two of those by MachineGames thirty years later.
Finish all Fallout games
Conquer the wasteland. Complete every Fallout adventure and etch your name in post-apocalyptic legend.
Finish all Steam Game of the Year Winners
A curated list of games that won Steam’s official Game of the Year award. Voted by players, these titles represent the most loved, played, and celebrated games on Steam each year.
Finish the Mass Effect trilogy
Shepard's trilogy, with the choices carried across all three.
Finish the Samorost trilogy
Amanita Design's three point-and-click shorts, from a 2003 school project to nine painted worlds.
Finish all the Bioshock games
Rapture twice and Columbia once.
Finish the Portal duology
Two puzzle games and the best writing Valve ever shipped.
Finish all the Civilization games
Sid Meier's turn-based history from 1991 to Civilization VII, one more turn each time.
Finish every numbered Final Fantasy
All sixteen, 1987 to 2023; two of them are MMOs, and no two share a world.
Finish the essential Super Mario platformers
Seventeen of them: the 2D line from 1985, the handheld ones, and every 3D Mario from 64 to Odyssey.
Finish all the main Assassin's Creed games
Fourteen games of the Assassin-Templar war, Jerusalem in 1191 to feudal Japan; the handheld spin-offs are left out.
Finish the essential Star Wars games
Eleven out of forty years: the LucasArts shooters and space sims, Knights of the Old Republic, and the two Jedi games.
Play the essential Battlefield games
Twelve of the series: the 1942 original, the two Bad Company campaigns, the modern numbered run and the 2025 return.
Play all the World of Warcraft games and expansions
The 2004 original and eleven expansions, the Dark Portal in 2007 to player housing in 2026.
Finish the essential Sonic the Hedgehog games
Eleven out of thirty years: the Mega Drive run, the Adventure games, and the modern ones that are actually good.
Finish all The Elder Scrolls games and expansions
Five single-player Elder Scrolls, the four expansions worth the return trip, and the MMO.
Finish the essential Command & Conquer games
Eleven of the run: both Tiberium and Red Alert timelines with their expansions, Generals, and the shooter set inside a GDI base.
Finish all the main Tomb Raider games
Lara Croft end to end: the six Core Design games, the Crystal Dynamics pair, and the Survivor trilogy that rebooted her.
Finish the essential Resident Evil games
The numbered run end to end, plus Code: Veronica and Zero; the remakes are the same works.
Finish the essential Total War games
Eleven of the grand campaigns, from Sengoku Japan in 2000 to the Warhammer trilogy.
Finish the essential Need for Speed games
Eleven out of thirty: both Hot Pursuits, Porsche Unleashed, the two Undergrounds and Most Wanted among them.
Finish the essential Castlevania games
Ten of the fifty: the whip-and-stairs classics, Symphony of the Night, the handheld Metroidvanias and one reboot.
Finish all the Amanita Design games
The Czech studio's hand-drawn point-and-click line, Samorost in 2003 to Phonopolis in 2026.
Finish the essential Mortal Kombat games
Ten out of thirty years: the arcade cabinets, the 3D stance years and the NetherRealm reboots.
Finish all the Far Cry games
Every mainline Far Cry and its two standalone spin-offs, from the Micronesian island in 2004 to Yara.
Finish all the Silent Hill games
Nine trips into the fog, from the 1999 original to Silent Hill f; the remakes are the same works.
Finish all the Diablo games and expansions
Four games under Tristram and Sanctuary, with the expansion each one needed to be finished.
Finish the Crash Bandicoot games
The Naughty Dog trilogy and the 2020 sequel that picks up straight after it.
Finish all the Age of Empires games and expansions
Four historical real-time strategy games and the three expansions that finished them, 1997 to 2021.