Factorio – when I initially played it in its first iterations, I thought it was boring as hell due to little to no instructions and a fairly steep learning curve. Now I’ve expended about 8,000 hours on it, been playing on and off for 5 years, totally worth it.
Last of us, i bought the game in 2014, it stood in the shelf for over a year sealed, then i pushed myself to try it out, i hate playing hyped games, this game was beautiful.
Dishonored 2 was a masterpiece to me such fun environments and tactics. And the songs in this game I Heard- for a month without stopping it once. I heard them during my vacation I heard them in the car I heard them to go sleep
Kingdom Come: Deliverance – The most immersive and true to real life in year 1400 RPG I have ever played. I have nothing bad to say about that game. What a masterpiece.
Mad Max. I was expecting it be a average game adaptation of a movie but My god i was blown away. The Arkham style combat, The driving, The world Everything about this game exceeded my expectation.
Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition. I was eyeing it for a year until I finally decided to give it a go. I haven’t looked back since. The games visuals are good for a 2016 version of a 2015 game. The artstyle is amazing and the game has an equally amazing soundtrack. It is quite fun to play. I wasn’t expecting much and my expectations were so far exceeded that I don’t really remember what they actually were. This game is worth a play, and also another playthrough directly after that.
I love this game. Definitely in masterpiece territory.
So glad OP picked Minish Cap as their example. One of my favourite Zeldas period, not just of the handheld ones
Harvest moon
Gameboy advance?
Witcher 3 and Terraria
Horizon Zero Dawn. Honestly I got it fairly late but despite the expectations being set high HZD really knocked it out of the park
Days Gone , an underrated gem
Factorio – when I initially played it in its first iterations, I thought it was boring as hell due to little to no instructions and a fairly steep learning curve. Now I’ve expended about 8,000 hours on it, been playing on and off for 5 years, totally worth it.
Dying light
Knack 2.
Deep Rock Galactic
Prototype
Ghost of Tsushima
Last of us, i bought the game in 2014, it stood in the shelf for over a year sealed, then i pushed myself to try it out, i hate playing hyped games, this game was beautiful.
Spec ops: the line. I had absolutely no expectations going in and honestly it was a blast. But sadly rather short.
Dishonored 2 was a masterpiece to me such fun environments and tactics. And the songs in this game I Heard- for a month without stopping it once. I heard them during my vacation I heard them in the car I heard them to go sleep
Kingdom Come: Deliverance – The most immersive and true to real life in year 1400 RPG I have ever played. I have nothing bad to say about that game. What a masterpiece.
Hollow knight – I entered expecting a simple platformer with simple enemies considering its low price but man the game was amazing
Mad Max. I was expecting it be a average game adaptation of a movie but My god i was blown away. The Arkham style combat, The driving, The world Everything about this game exceeded my expectation.
Golden Sun 1 & 2
Enter the gungeon. I started playing it because I liked the art style and the bullet hell aspect but now I’m addicted to it
Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition. I was eyeing it for a year until I finally decided to give it a go. I haven’t looked back since. The games visuals are good for a 2016 version of a 2015 game. The artstyle is amazing and the game has an equally amazing soundtrack. It is quite fun to play. I wasn’t expecting much and my expectations were so far exceeded that I don’t really remember what they actually were. This game is worth a play, and also another playthrough directly after that.
I love this game. Definitely in masterpiece territory.
Dishonored
Deus ex human revolution
Black Flag.
A Plague Tale: Innocence
NieR:Automata. Heard a lot about this game for a long time and just got into it. Haven’t touched another game since download.
Yakuza 0. Fucking masterpiece and proof that you don’t need a huge map for an open world.