---
title: "My GOAT games"
url: https://raskell.io/notes/goat-games/
author: Raffael Schneider
date: 2026-11-03
description: "My twenty-five greatest games of all time as one chart, from Phantasy Star Online to Anno 1602."
tags: [goat, games, strategy]
---

# My GOAT games

These are my twenty-five GOAT games, as one chart.

*[An interactive figure (cover chart) is drawn here on the HTML page; its data: https://raskell.io/data/goat-games.json.]*

| Title | Console | Year | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Phantasy Star Online](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasy_Star_Online) | Dreamcast | 2000 | Action role-playing |
| [Xenoblade Chronicles X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoblade_Chronicles_X) | Wii U | 2015 | Action role-playing |
| [Xenoblade Chronicles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoblade_Chronicles_(video_game)) | Wii | 2010 | Action role-playing |
| [Xenogears](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenogears) | PlayStation | 1998 | Role-playing |
| [Final Fantasy VIII](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VIII) | PlayStation | 1999 | Role-playing |
| [The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Majora%27s_Mask) | Nintendo 64 | 2000 | Action-adventure |
| [Assassin's Creed Origins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed_Origins) | PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC | 2017 | Action role-playing |
| [Perfect Dark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Dark) | Nintendo 64 | 2000 | First-person shooter, stealth |
| [Mass Effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect_(video_game)) | Xbox 360 | 2007 | Action role-playing |
| [Terranigma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terranigma) | Super Nintendo | 1995 | Action role-playing |
| [Halo 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_2) | Xbox | 2004 | First-person shooter |
| [Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_Championship_2:_The_Liandri_Conflict) | Xbox | 2005 | First-person and third-person shooter |
| [Turok: Dinosaur Hunter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turok:_Dinosaur_Hunter) | Nintendo 64 | 1997 | First-person shooter |
| [Super Smash Bros. Melee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Smash_Bros._Melee) | GameCube | 2001 | Fighting |
| [Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_%2B_Rabbids_Kingdom_Battle) | Switch | 2017 | Tactical role-playing |
| [XCOM 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCOM_2) | PC | 2016 | Turn-based tactics |
| [Gangsters: Organized Crime](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangsters:_Organized_Crime) | PC | 1998 | Strategy |
| [Dwarf Fortress](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress) | PC | 2006 | Management simulation, roguelike |
| [Advance Wars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Wars) | Game Boy Advance | 2001 | Turn-based strategy |
| [Mole Mania](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_Mania) | Game Boy | 1996 | Action, puzzle |
| [StarCraft](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft_(video_game)) | PC | 1998 | Real-time strategy |
| [Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Tiberian_Sun) | PC | 1999 | Real-time strategy |
| [Black & White](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_%26_White_(video_game)) | PC | 2001 | Simulation, god game |
| [Diablo II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_II) | PC | 2000 | Action role-playing, hack and slash |
| [Anno 1602: Creation of a New World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_1602) | PC | 1998 | Real-time strategy, city-building |

The console is where the game first came out, and the year is its first release anywhere. Consoles, years and genres come from the Wikipedia article linked on each title.

About a third of the chart is strategy of one kind or another, and [Gangsters](https://raskell.io/notes/orders-for-the-week/) has a note of its own.