| 1. | Why The Longing Takes Four Hundred Days to Play | 6,741,434 | | The Longing
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| 2. | How Subnautica Uses TERROR | 2,043,985 | | Subnautica
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| 3. | How Great Games Beat The Grind | 1,666,271 | | Stardew Valley
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| 4. | How Terraria Makes You Feel Like A Master | 1,543,824 | | Terraria
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| 5. | Why The Best Open World Is A (slightly) Closed World | 1,112,793 | | Elden Ring
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| 6. | When Great Games Have Terrible Beginnings | 1,080,579 | | Xenoblade Chronicles 2
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| 7. | What Was Undertale Actually About? | 1,077,494 | | Undertale
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| 8. | Vampire Survivors Only Works Because We're Stupid | 858,616 | | Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
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| 9. | Why Do So Many Games Have Tanks, Healers and DPS? | 858,295 | | Guild Wars 2
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| 10. | Are Morality Systems Making Us Less Moral? | 790,880 | | Frostpunk
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| 11. | How Outer Wilds Makes Running Out of Stuff Fun | 785,095 | | Outer Wilds
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| 12. | Engineering The Perfect Enemy | 779,712 | | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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| 13. | What Happened to Dawn of War 3?- When Good Sequels Go Bad | 736,465 | | Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III
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| 14. | Why Hitman Isn't A Stealth Game | 735,049 | | Deus Ex: Human Revolution
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| 15. | How To Make RPG Combat More Interesting | 714,433 | | Final Fantasy VII Remake
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| 16. | Why We're Wrong About Violence In Games | 707,500 | | No Man's Sky
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| 17. | Building Better Crafting Systems | 681,991 | | Minecraft
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| 18. | Leveling Up Progression Systems | 628,253 | | Dark Souls
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| 19. | Terra Nil Claims It's A Reverse Citybuilder. It Isn't. | 607,145 | | Terra Nil
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| 20. | The Anatomy of a Bossfight | 597,811 | | Deus Ex: Human Revolution
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| 21. | 6 Lessons from Hollow Knight's immersive tutorial | 589,829 | Tutorial | Hollow Knight
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| 22. | Difficulty By Design- X-COM 2's Endless Arms Race | 576,582 | | XCOM 2
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| 23. | A Comprehensive Reading of Nier Automata [MASSIVE SPOILERS] | 564,110 | | Nier: Automata
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| 24. | 20(19) Games You Should Have Played | 547,888 | | Nier: Automata
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| 25. | 20(22) Games You Should Have Played | 494,535 | | FTL: Faster Than Light
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| 26. | Refactionizing 4x: The Civilization Problem | 481,018 | | Civilization VI
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| 27. | The Hidden Purpose of Hub Worlds | 480,435 | | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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| 28. | How Satisfactory Makes Work Fun | 460,701 | | Factorio
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| 29. | Is It Possible To Make Feeling Weak Fun? | 427,317 | | Dark Souls
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| 30. | 20(20) Games You Should Have Played | 422,441 | | Final Fantasy VII Remake
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| 31. | Why We Need Weird Games | 416,897 | | Far Cry 5
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| 32. | Why Is It So Easy To Break Videogame Economies? | 395,850 | | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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| 33. | 20(18) Games You Should Have Played | 380,443 | | Deltarune
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| 34. | What Was Disco Elysium Actually About? | 378,667 | | Disco Elysium
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| 35. | Why Games Lie to You- The Fallacy of Fairness | 376,926 | | XCOM 2
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| 36. | Why Are Games So Hard To Balance? | 366,438 | | Hearthstone
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| 37. | How To Create A Legendary Sword Fighting Game | 366,099 | Guide | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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| 38. | The Four Fundamental Quests | 347,826 | | Guild Wars 2
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| 39. | What Makes a Great Secret? | 338,933 | | Shadow of the Colossus
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| 40. | What is a Sonic anyway? A Sonic The Hedgehog retrospective | 338,126 | | Sonic the Hedgehog
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| 41. | How Spelunky 2 Fixes Difficulty Levels | 337,937 | | Spelunky 2
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| 42. | RPGs Were Never About Roleplaying | 336,884 | | Final Fantasy VII Remake
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| 43. | 20(23) Games You Should Have Played | 336,283 | | Pseudoregalia
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| 44. | What's So Difficult About Alternate Endings? | 335,773 | | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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| 45. | What Does "Immersion" Actually Mean? | 323,046 | | No Man's Sky
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| 46. | Putting The Players Back In Multiplayer | 320,025 | | Golf With Your Friends
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| 47. | Why Do We Love Hostile Worlds? | 313,348 | | Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
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| 48. | Should Games Always Be Accessible? | 309,838 | | Enter the Gungeon
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| 49. | In Defence Of Randomness | 300,056 | | XCOM: Chimera Squad
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| 50. | Rediscovering the Joy of Exploration | 297,679 | | Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
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| 51. | How "Good Design" Ruins Games | 297,588 | |
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| 52. | How Dark Souls (accidentally) Taught You Cowardice | 291,933 | | Counter-Strike 2
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| 53. | Why The Hell Are There So Many Fishing Minigames? | 291,304 | | The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
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| 54. | Finding True Freedom In Videogames | 283,974 | | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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| 55. | Is It Possible To Fix Gaming Toxicity? | 280,985 | | Hearthstone
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| 56. | How Videogames Make The Ultimate Sacrifice | 274,130 | | Darkest Dungeon
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| 57. | How DOOM became DUSK | 266,469 | | Doom
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| 58. | How Gameplay Loops Keep You Playing | 263,450 | | Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
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| 59. | Factorio Fixed My Broken Brain | 261,320 | | The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
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| 60. | Why Videogames Want You To Fail | 261,155 | | Dark Souls
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| 61. | Clones Aren't Killing Gaming - They're Saving It | 258,286 | | Dark Souls
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| 62. | How Tears Of The Kingdom Keeps You Playing Forever | 255,970 | | The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
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| 63. | 20(24) Games You Should Have Played | 254,567 | |
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| 64. | Does Into The Breach Really Have Perfect Information? Why RNG Matters. | 252,234 | Guide | Into the Breach
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| 65. | How Nostalgia Is Holding Games Back | 250,707 | | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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| 66. | 20(21) Games You Should Have Played | 247,001 | | Genesis Noir
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| 67. | Frog Fractions Is A Game About Fractions (And Nothing Else) | 243,093 | | Frog Fractions
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| 68. | Why Perfect Difficulty Is Impossible | 243,052 | | Monster Hunter: World
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| 69. | Lethal Company Isn't a Horror Game - It's a Comedy | 242,640 | |
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| 70. | What Is a System? And How Did They Save Zelda? | 241,750 | | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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| 71. | What Does It Mean To Be A Metroidvania? | 240,779 | | Super Metroid
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| 72. | Why Are Explosive Barrels Always Red? | 229,682 | | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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| 73. | Finding the Fun in Failure | 225,257 | | RimWorld
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| 74. | What Among Us Has In Common With Soviet Psychology | 223,598 | Vlog | Among Us
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| 75. | Why Don't Mystery Games Need Mechanics? | 223,525 | | Tangle Tower
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| 76. | How "Bad" Balance Can Be A Good Thing | 222,798 | | Final Fantasy VII Remake
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| 77. | What Makes Doom Eternal Different? | 221,991 | | Doom Eternal
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| 78. | Why Wildermyth's Best Story Wasn't Written By Anyone | 218,026 | | Wildermyth
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| 79. | Videogames Have Terrible Worldbuilding | 210,037 | |
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| 80. | The Ugliest Videogame Ever Made | 209,679 | | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
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| 81. | Fixing Genre Fusions | 207,615 | | Mass Effect 3
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| 82. | How Videogames Keep You Playing Forever | 203,898 | | Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
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| 83. | How Batman Takes Stealth Back to Basics | 196,637 | | Batman: Arkham Asylum
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| 84. | Why Does Celeste Make Us Feel Anxious? | 196,084 | | Celeste
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| 85. | How to Fix Borderlands 3's Villains | 194,587 | | Borderlands 3
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| 86. | Do Interesting Decisions Create Interesting Games? Breaking Down Sid Meier | 193,511 | | Civilization VI
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| 87. | Why Do We STILL Hate Tutorials? | 188,663 | Tutorial | Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
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| 88. | 20(17) Games You Should Have Played | 187,409 | | What Remains of Edith Finch
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| 89. | The Greatest Videogame Genre You Didn't Know Existed | 185,948 | | The Legend of Zelda
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| 90. | Why Classes Are D&D's Best Idea | 184,699 | | Final Fantasy VII Remake
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| 91. | Puzzles Vs Problems: A Two-Sided Genre | 181,594 | | Portal
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| 92. | Roguelikes and the Modular Genre | 181,242 | | Spelunky
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| 93. | How To Design An Unsolvable Problem | 179,117 | Guide | Cities: Skylines
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| 94. | The Hollow Hardcore- Mastering the Art of Flow | 178,272 | | Cuphead
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| 95. | Starcraft 2- The Greatest RTS Ever | 167,300 | | StarCraft II
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| 96. | Why Tunic Hides Its Tutorial | 165,030 | Tutorial | Tunic
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| 97. | What Makes a Great Deckbuilder? | 163,753 | | Deus Ex: Human Revolution
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| 98. | How Games Communicate, Without Saying Anything | 160,745 | | Metroid Prime
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| 99. | Why Can Master Chief Only Carry Two Guns? | 158,192 | | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
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| 100. | What We Can Learn From A 2000 Year Old Puzzle | 152,144 | | The Witness
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