| 1. | Why The Longing Takes Four Hundred Days to Play | 6,391 | | The Longing
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| 2. | How Subnautica Uses TERROR | 5,532 | | Subnautica
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| 3. | Why Do So Many Games Have Tanks, Healers and DPS? | 4,237 | | Guild Wars 2
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| 4. | When Great Games Have Terrible Beginnings | 3,549 | | Xenoblade Chronicles 2
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| 5. | How Great Games Beat The Grind | 3,151 | | Stardew Valley
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| 6. | What Was Undertale Actually About? | 3,139 | | Undertale
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| 7. | How Terraria Makes You Feel Like A Master | 3,006 | | Terraria
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| 8. | How To Make RPG Combat More Interesting | 2,768 | | Final Fantasy VII Remake
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| 9. | What Happened to Dawn of War 3?- When Good Sequels Go Bad | 2,581 | | Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III
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| 10. | Why We're Wrong About Violence In Games | 2,417 | | No Man's Sky
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| 11. | Why The Best Open World Is A (slightly) Closed World | 2,391 | | Elden Ring
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| 12. | Is It Possible To Fix Gaming Toxicity? | 2,366 | | Hearthstone
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| 13. | Are Morality Systems Making Us Less Moral? | 2,350 | | Frostpunk
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| 14. | Vampire Survivors Only Works Because We're Stupid | 2,292 | | Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
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| 15. | Building Better Crafting Systems | 1,871 | | Minecraft
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| 16. | Why Hitman Isn't A Stealth Game | 1,660 | | Deus Ex: Human Revolution
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| 17. | Terra Nil Claims It's A Reverse Citybuilder. It Isn't. | 1,518 | | Terra Nil
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| 18. | How Dark Souls (accidentally) Taught You Cowardice | 1,514 | | Counter-Strike 2
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| 19. | RPGs Were Never About Roleplaying | 1,400 | | Final Fantasy VII Remake
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| 20. | What Was Disco Elysium Actually About? | 1,278 | | Disco Elysium
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| 21. | How Nostalgia Is Holding Games Back | 1,261 | | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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| 22. | Is It Possible To Make Feeling Weak Fun? | 1,256 | | Dark Souls
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| 23. | Why Games Lie to You- The Fallacy of Fairness | 1,248 | | XCOM 2
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| 24. | Why Is It So Easy To Break Videogame Economies? | 1,230 | | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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| 25. | A Comprehensive Reading of Nier Automata [MASSIVE SPOILERS] | 1,188 | | Nier: Automata
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| 26. | What Makes Doom Eternal Different? | 1,165 | | Doom Eternal
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| 27. | Refactionizing 4x: The Civilization Problem | 1,139 | | Civilization VI
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| 28. | Why The Hell Are There So Many Fishing Minigames? | 1,139 | | The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
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| 29. | What is a Sonic anyway? A Sonic The Hedgehog retrospective | 1,136 | | Sonic the Hedgehog
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| 30. | How Outer Wilds Makes Running Out of Stuff Fun | 1,103 | | Outer Wilds
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| 31. | What's So Difficult About Alternate Endings? | 1,061 | | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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| 32. | What Among Us Has In Common With Soviet Psychology | 1,032 | Vlog | Among Us
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| 33. | How To Create A Legendary Sword Fighting Game | 1,029 | Guide | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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| 34. | Difficulty By Design- X-COM 2's Endless Arms Race | 1,009 | | XCOM 2
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| 35. | Clones Aren't Killing Gaming - They're Saving It | 1,000 | | Dark Souls
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| 36. | What Does "Immersion" Actually Mean? | 995 | | No Man's Sky
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| 37. | What Does It Mean To Be A Metroidvania? | 956 | | Super Metroid
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| 38. | How Spelunky 2 Fixes Difficulty Levels | 942 | | Spelunky 2
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| 39. | Rediscovering the Joy of Exploration | 931 | | Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
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| 40. | 20(20) Games You Should Have Played | 931 | | Final Fantasy VII Remake
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| 41. | How Satisfactory Makes Work Fun | 929 | | Factorio
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| 42. | Leveling Up Progression Systems | 928 | | Dark Souls
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| 43. | How "Bad" Balance Can Be A Good Thing | 925 | | Final Fantasy VII Remake
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| 44. | How Videogames Make The Ultimate Sacrifice | 924 | | Darkest Dungeon
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| 45. | 6 Lessons from Hollow Knight's immersive tutorial | 912 | Tutorial | Hollow Knight
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| 46. | Videogames Have A Creativity Problem (and it's not the one you think) | 837 | | Minecraft
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| 47. | Why Videogames Want You To Fail | 809 | | Dark Souls
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| 48. | How Tears Of The Kingdom Keeps You Playing Forever | 808 | | The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
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| 49. | Why Do We Love Hostile Worlds? | 793 | | Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
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| 50. | The Ugliest Videogame Ever Made | 755 | | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
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| 51. | Why We Need Weird Games | 748 | | Far Cry 5
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| 52. | Why Tunic Hides Its Tutorial | 738 | Tutorial | Tunic
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| 53. | Engineering The Perfect Enemy | 737 | | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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| 54. | Why Classes Are D&D's Best Idea | 733 | | Final Fantasy VII Remake
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| 55. | Should Games Always Be Accessible? | 732 | | Enter the Gungeon
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| 56. | How "Good Design" Ruins Games | 718 | |
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| 57. | Why Do We STILL Hate Tutorials? | 704 | Tutorial | Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
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| 58. | How to Fix Borderlands 3's Villains | 700 | | Borderlands 3
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| 59. | 20(18) Games You Should Have Played | 695 | | Deltarune
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| 60. | Why Are Explosive Barrels Always Red? | 694 | | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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| 61. | In Defence Of Randomness | 680 | | XCOM: Chimera Squad
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| 62. | Finding True Freedom In Videogames | 671 | | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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| 63. | 20(23) Games You Should Have Played | 667 | | Pseudoregalia
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| 64. | 20(19) Games You Should Have Played | 666 | | Nier: Automata
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| 65. | Why Are Games So Hard To Balance? | 654 | | Hearthstone
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| 66. | The Hidden Purpose of Hub Worlds | 643 | | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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| 67. | 20(22) Games You Should Have Played | 639 | | FTL: Faster Than Light
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| 68. | The Four Fundamental Quests | 586 | | Guild Wars 2
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| 69. | Why Atomic Heart Fails To Live Up To Its Inspiration | 581 | | Counter-Strike 2
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| 70. | Why Perfect Difficulty Is Impossible | 580 | | Monster Hunter: World
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| 71. | The Anatomy of a Bossfight | 566 | | Deus Ex: Human Revolution
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| 72. | Putting The Players Back In Multiplayer | 548 | | Golf With Your Friends
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| 73. | Starcraft 2- The Greatest RTS Ever | 539 | | StarCraft II
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| 74. | 100(k) | 531 | | Apex Legends
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| 75. | How DOOM became DUSK | 529 | | Doom
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| 76. | Frog Fractions Is A Game About Fractions (And Nothing Else) | 527 | | Frog Fractions
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| 77. | Fixing Genre Fusions | 511 | | Mass Effect 3
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| 78. | How Videogames Keep You Playing Forever | 503 | | Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
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| 79. | The Forbidden Fun of Breaking Games | 493 | | Final Fantasy VII Remake
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| 80. | 20(21) Games You Should Have Played | 479 | | Genesis Noir
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| 81. | Why Wildermyth's Best Story Wasn't Written By Anyone | 466 | | Wildermyth
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| 82. | Lethal Company Isn't a Horror Game - It's a Comedy | 456 | |
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| 83. | What Is a System? And How Did They Save Zelda? | 449 | | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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| 84. | Can A Game Be Too Realistic? | 441 | | No Man's Sky
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| 85. | How Gameplay Loops Keep You Playing | 436 | | Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
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| 86. | Roguelikes and the Modular Genre | 433 | | Spelunky
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| 87. | Why Can Master Chief Only Carry Two Guns? | 429 | | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
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| 88. | What Makes a Great Deckbuilder? | 424 | | Deus Ex: Human Revolution
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| 89. | Does Into The Breach Really Have Perfect Information? Why RNG Matters. | 422 | Guide | Into the Breach
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| 90. | You Can Never Play The Same Game Twice | 420 | | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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| 91. | Finding the Fun in Failure | 417 | | RimWorld
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| 92. | Videogames Will Never Escape The Elements (and neither will you) | 416 | | Final Fantasy VII Remake
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| 93. | How The Best Game of 2021 Respects Your Time By Ending Too Soon | 416 | | Final Fantasy VII Remake
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| 94. | How Batman Takes Stealth Back to Basics | 380 | | Batman: Arkham Asylum
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| 95. | How To Make NPCs That Aren't Completely Annoying | 378 | Guide | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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| 96. | Shovel Knight's Secret Mode- The Challenge Run Formula | 364 | | Shovel Knight
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| 97. | How To Design An Unsolvable Problem | 360 | Guide | Cities: Skylines
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| 98. | What We Can Learn From A 2000 Year Old Puzzle | 348 | | The Witness
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| 99. | Why Don't Mystery Games Need Mechanics? | 339 | | Tangle Tower
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| 100. | H.P. Lovecraft Lives Inside Your Computer | 330 | | Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
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