Va-11 Hall-a
One of my abosulute favorite games of all time. It's a visual novel with really cool aesthetics, absolutely jammin chill music that you can just vibe to for hours, amazing characters that you get invested into from the eyes of a bartender, calming dialogue and overall atmosphere, everything about it is just so amazing and makes me feel safe. Best played while comfy in bed or when it's raining

Your Turn To Die
Obviously inspired by Danganronpa, but it's got aspects from a plethora of different games and tropes of this genre, with my favorite that it leans into being adobe flash escape games. It's been in early access for years though so don't expect a finished game just yet

BallisticNG
Faithfully recreates the wipeout craft physics in a modern engine. It's extremely fast and fun to zone into, has a billion settings to customize it exactly how you want, and has a plethora of mods on the steam workshop. There's even a track builder if you're feeling creative. Two player can make use of two monitors !!!

GTA 4
In my opinion better driving, story, and ambiance than GTA V. Made me feel a lot more like I was my character rather than playing as them, and had me questionioning my choices even when the outcome ultimately didn't matter. Let's go bowling

Tiny & Big
Rlly cool 3d puzzle platformer where you have to literally cut up and drag the environment around to maneuver around. Big fan of the sections where you're cutting up massive blocks from cliffsides. Very fitting soundtrack and artstyle too

Gurumin
It's an incredibly generic 2000s 3d platformer, but it's also just a really good one. Manages to hit every trope ever while being fun the entire time. The company exclusively makes a ton of serious jrpgs so it's funny to see the one y2k kawaii game on their timeline

Portal
Portal takes the simple mechanic of being able to place 2 portals and creates a hella fun puzzle game with an amazing story around it. Fun to go back and see how fast you can complete chambers to just mess around. Portal 2 is extremely good too but the introductory game of the mechanics deserves this spot on my list

Rez
Crazy audiovisual experience. Simple on rails 3d shooter that has you flying around "hacking a system" while the controller pulses to the beat of some techno track. Play it while high if you can

Ghost Trick
Ace Attorney but with environment manupulation puzzles instead of evidence analysis ones. (I really gotta stop using ace attourney for comparisons.) But seriously it's insane that more people don't know about this game, was even written by the same guy that wrote for Ace Attorney. But prolly a good idea to download it (carts are expensive)

Road Trip Adventure
Better than Forza. Better than Gran Turismo. Similar formula where you have to win bigger races and buy better parts but the rest of the game is amazing: Open world, minigame side quests, and rlly rlly good NPC writing. I named my protag Carbuncle

Dance dance revolution
Not super popular because you need a mat controller, but a very good rhythm game that get's insanely fun to master the more complicated charts. I only wish that there was a version with more songs so I wouldn't have to swap games so often

Last Exile
The first anime I had ever watched, so I may be a little bias, but it has really good characters, story, art style, and it all takes place in a sort of futuristic almost steampunk world with all sorts of cool flying vehicles. It'll take a good amount of time on the wiki afterwards to fully understand everything but it's highly worth watching, despite a slow start into the main plot

Redline
Generic hot-rod-guy-enters-race-to-win-the-girl plot, but its how everything is presented that makes this movie great. Every inch of adrenaline that the characters are feeling you also feel, the sound, the animation , the sheer speed, everything you feel resonating directly to you. Not to mention it also has a kick ass funky soundtrack, and a truly amazing comic book style that's characteristic of madhouse's animation. Give it a watch, it's worth it

Read or Die OVA
Very short but it's very good for what it is. Girl that's definitely not neurotypical and loves books must track down a manuscript stolen by some secret group using her ability to control paper with her mind. Unique concept and story, and great 2000s art too. Only complaint is needs more yuri

Perfect Blue
Psychological thriller about a parasocial attachment to a diva-turned-actor. Probably my favorite Satoshi Kon film as it actually cinematically integrates the "blending of dreams and reality" portion instead of shoving it in your face. (Sorry but Paprika was a letdown, cool animation tho)

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Another Madhouse movie. Extremely beautiful art and story. Takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which gothic architecture and vampires have re-prevailed, complete with road warrior type bounty hunters competing with our half-vampire protagonist. The Movie runtime actually plays in it's favour, Hellsing was just too drawn out

Pop Team Epic
Pure shitpost humor, Short clips most comparable to robot chicken, but with 2 anime girls with overly detailed hands. Such well crafted jokes that I had to buy both the english manga

Nichijou
You'll prolly wanna kill me for calling this "relatable" but this captures so many lil emotions of daily life in such an expressive way. Saying "nanoooo" is now a vocal stim. "City the Animation" is a great series from the same creators, that aims to capture the feelings of growing up again as an adult

Hells (2008)
Anime girl late for school bread in mouth hit by truck type deal but she gets sent straight to hell. There's a character named Hellvis. The story isn't the best in the world but it's got nuts animation that looks straight out of the manga. I also didn't know this until after watching it but it's officially dubbed by the team behind Hellsing Abridged and all that

Panty and stocking
Imagine the powerpuff girls, but for a much more mature audience. By the talented artists that are now at studio trigger, I just love all the nonstop action it has. Hopefully season two comes out soon season two out now !!!!

The Animatrix
Collection of short films set in the Matrix. I love all of these both from a story perspective and a 2000s sci-fi perspective

Swag Chan: The Kekkest Witch
Since it wears the cringe on its sleeve first and foremost, it's able to make way for some really gripping and emotional stories. Things are so much better when you can be yourself. Archive linked at the bottom of this page bc I fucked up how links work

Serial Experiments Lain
If you're on neocities there's a good chance you've heard of this one already. Between real life and internet personas, which is the real you? Is there even a real you? Also what if there was an alien in a t-shirt

Last Exile
The first anime I had ever watched, so I may be a little bias, but it has really good characters, story, art style, and it all takes place in a sort of futuristic almost steampunk world with all sorts of cool flying vehicles. It'll take a good amount of time on the wiki afterwards to fully understand everything but it's highly worth watching, despite a slow start into the main plot

Redline
Generic hot-rod-guy-enters-race-to-win-the-girl plot, but its how everything is presented that makes this movie great. Every inch of adrenaline that the characters are feeling you also feel, the sound, the animation , the sheer speed, everything you feel resonating directly to you. Not to mention it also has a kick ass funky soundtrack, and a truly amazing comic book style that's characteristic of madhouse's animation. Give it a watch, it's worth it

Read or Die OVA
Very short but it's very good for what it is. Girl that's definitely not neurotypical and loves books must track down a manuscript stolen by some secret group using her ability to control paper with her mind. Unique concept and story, and great 2000s art too. Only complaint is needs more yuri

Perfect Blue
Psychological thriller about a parasocial attachment to a diva-turned-actor. Probably my favorite Satoshi Kon film as it actually cinematically integrates the "blending of dreams and reality" portion instead of shoving it in your face. (Sorry but Paprika was a letdown, cool animation tho)

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Another Madhouse movie. Extremely beautiful art and story. Takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which gothic architecture and vampires have re-prevailed, complete with road warrior type bounty hunters competing with our half-vampire protagonist. The Movie runtime actually plays in it's favour, Hellsing was just too drawn out

Pop Team Epic
Pure shitpost humor, Short clips most comparable to robot chicken, but with 2 anime girls with overly detailed hands. Such well crafted jokes that I had to buy both the english manga

Nichijou
You'll prolly wanna kill me for calling this "relatable" but this captures so many lil emotions of daily life in such an expressive way. Saying "nanoooo" is now a vocal stim. "City the Animation" is a great series from the same creators, that aims to capture the feelings of growing up again as an adult

Hells (2008)
Anime girl late for school bread in mouth hit by truck type deal but she gets sent straight to hell. There's a character named Hellvis. The story isn't the best in the world but it's got nuts animation that looks straight out of the manga. I also didn't know this until after watching it but it's officially dubbed by the team behind Hellsing Abridged and all that

Panty and stocking
Imagine the powerpuff girls, but for a much more mature audience. By the talented artists that are now at studio trigger, I just love all the nonstop action it has. Hopefully season two comes out soon season two out now !!!!

The Animatrix
Collection of short films set in the Matrix. I love all of these both from a story perspective and a 2000s sci-fi perspective

Swag Chan: The Kekkest Witch
Since it wears the cringe on its sleeve first and foremost, it's able to make way for some really gripping and emotional stories. Things are so much better when you can be yourself. Archive linked at the bottom of this page bc I fucked up how links work

Serial Experiments Lain
If you're on neocities there's a good chance you've heard of this one already. Between real life and internet personas, which is the real you? Is there even a real you? Also what if there was an alien in a t-shirt