I can hardly be called a gamer. What's the last AAA-game that I've deliberately finished? "The Witcher /Two/"? Indie game? Guess it was "Age of Decadence"...

Over the time I started to value the time spent over ttRPGs with friends much higher than solo videogaming. But there is a number - a small one - of games that never abandon my powerful PC computer and provide quality recreation time when I just can not commit to the tabletop (which usually somehow coincides with negative polarity periods, meh).

It's not just oldfag's tears, neither it is the overwhelming quality of those games (each revolutionary at their time). The secret of their development process guaranteed that many years after their release they still can give a breath of fresh air.

What's that secret? Well, a bit later on that. Now, for the games themselves...