Ask HN: What is the most memorable game you played?

Star Wars: The Customizable Card Game.

Of the 90’s era deck building games it had the most advanced mechanics. The unique, beautiful, brilliance of the game was an element of randomness built into the game be the cards themselves.

Your deck was a stack that you would often draw the top from to determine random elements. Then place the card on the bottom (there’s more to this rule, but good enough for now).

Experienced players could learn to count cards in the end game, creating either fast, dynamic play or hard fought chess battles, jockeying for positions slowly undermining your opponent.

Tournament games had a time limit, but I’ve played regulation decks for 3 hours.

Lucasfilm eventually pulled the license for lesser games, but for a while it was amazing.

Progress Quest. Quintessence of all RPG games. http://progressquest.com/

Nier Automata. It has some of the best story line, music and action in a game. It follows 3 Androids trying to reclaim the world for humans in a future dystopian world overrun by machines. There are many philosophical questions underlying the story and together with the music makes for an immersive game.

I played AgeOfEmpires: RiseOfRome in late 1990s. Hearts in eyes!

My favorite moment was: Conversion battle. Priests can convert enemies' army into my own army.

Disco Elysium. I have returned to it recently, and I'm still amazed by how good the writing is. There are simply no other games out there that tackle these themes and build a world so closely resembling one I'm living in.

Teenagers on amphetamine and mephedrone, surviving the worst hangover of your life only to get drunk again, aching for a love that you destroyed yourself, barely scraping money to pay rent, corrupt union leaders, foreclosed game studios, domestic violence, underground rave at abandoned church, people who are unable to let go of a political conflict after a few decades — all of that hits much closer to home than saving the world.