A game about loneliness on a space station. A non-trivial plot, interesting mechanics, a strong setting, and decent moral questions.

Building a factory, automation, expanding into new territory. I've put 500+ hours into it. Keep me away from it.

Just a really high-quality game, pleasant and beautiful. Also several hundred hours in.

Defense against aliens. Discovered it in university, periodically come back for a few evenings — and drop it again.

Surprisingly good, even after already knowing the modern entries. Surprised me how well-thought-out games of that era were — many mechanics have survived to this day almost unchanged.

Played it a lot, but never managed to beat it as a kid.

Raced a lot, replayed it as an adult too.

A wargame, dozens of hours. For a long time I couldn't figure out why saves didn't work — turned out I just needed to put a battery in the cartridge.

An incredibly detailed world that's still interesting to explore. I come back to it every few years.

Spent hundreds of hours on it as a kid, and a good amount more as an adult. One of my favorite games. Who doesn't think about the Roman Empire, anyway?

A horror game set in a prison on an island. Memorable, maybe just because it was one of the first games on my own personal computer.

64 GB — my main machine, also where I play via GeForce Now.

Streaming via the MacBook — lets me play titles that don't run natively on Mac.

Base model + Steam Controller. For the couch and for trips.

An early revision with GameCube support: has the ports and an original controller — I play not just Wii games but the previous generation too.

Vertical form factor, for travel — honestly, I rarely take it out.

A thin client — building a mini gaming station for emulation and 2000s games that don't run well on modern hardware. Planning a basic GeForce with 2GB DDR3 and a few native OSes. Put a lot of effort into setting it up, but at some point I fried the motherboard — waiting for a replacement.

Sometimes I fire up something old on them.