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15 Video Games That Have Almost Zero Haters

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Nazarii Verbitskiy

Gaming - November 11th 2026, 20:30 GMT+1

15. Prototype (2009)

A helicopter is following Alex Mercer across Manhattan. In most open-world games, that means finding a tunnel and waiting for the heat to die down. In *Prototype*, it means running up the nearest building to see if you can steal the helicopter. Radical Entertainment understood the appeal of a good superhero game even as it cast you as the probable cause of tomorrow’s evacuation order. | © Radical Entertainment

Clair Obscur Screenshot — 14. Clair Obscur: Expédition 33 (2025)

Gustave brings Sophie a flower on the day she’s going to die. They both know it, as does everyone they pass on their walk through Lumière. Before *Clair Obscur: Expedition 33* asks you to master a single parry, it lets you spend time with two people figuring out what to say on a last date. You carry that walk a long way into the expedition. | © Sandfall Interactive

13. Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)

Where do you fly first when *Microsoft Flight Simulator* gives you the whole planet? Paris can wait, apparently, because you’d quite like to know whether the developers got the shape of your local roundabout right. Asobo’s great achievement was building a serious flight simulator in which looking out the window is a perfectly good reason to learn how to take off. | © Asobo Studio

12. Club Penguin (2005)

For years, kids logged into *Club Penguin*, waddled out to an iceberg and tried to tip it over. Imagine pitching that activity at a design meeting. The players supplied the rumor, recruited the volunteers and kept the whole business going long enough for the developers to finally let them tip it at the farewell party. That iceberg got the kind of send-off most MMO bosses can only dream of. | © New Horizon Interactive

Doom eternal msn — 11. Doom Eternal (2020)

I’d like to thank the lowly zombie who shambled into view just as my shotgun ran dry. A quick introduction to the chainsaw and we’d resolved my ammunition problem to the satisfaction of everyone still alive. *Doom Eternal* fills its arenas with little decisions like that. Even with a Mancubus bearing down on you, it pays to keep track of the least threatening demon in the room. | © id Software

10. Untitled Goose Game (2019)

Wait until the groundskeeper raises his hammer to put up the sign banning geese. Give him one well-timed honk. He hits his thumb, and suddenly you understand both the appeal of *Untitled Goose Game* and the man’s entirely reasonable position on geese. House House gives the villagers just enough dignity to make ruining their mornings funny. The dedicated honk button takes care of the rest. | © House House

Animal Crossing New Horizons — 9. Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020)

Blathers hates bugs. He’ll tell you this while accepting the moth you caught, then give you a surprisingly informative lecture if you let him. That small courtesy goes both ways in *Animal Crossing: New Horizons*. Eventually, you start saving the first specimen of every species for an owl who’d sincerely prefer you brought him a nice fossil. The museum feels like yours because you remember catching half the exhibits. | © Nintendo

8. Super Mario World (1990)

The most tantalizing thing in *Super Mario World* is a red dot. It means a level has a second exit, information that becomes personally insulting once you’ve reached the same goal three times. Out comes the cape for another look above the treetops. Finding a hidden keyhole feels wonderful, particularly when a new stretch of road appears on a map you thought you’d already figured out. | © Nintendo

7. Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018)

Ask two people about their favorite Arthur Morgan moment and one might describe a pivotal scene in the Van der Linde gang’s collapse. The other might pull out Arthur’s journal to show you a sketch of a bird. *Red Dead Redemption 2* makes room for both versions of the man. His quiet habit of drawing what he sees tells you as much about him as hours of gunslinging. | © Rockstar Games

6. Terraria (2011)

Your first house in *Terraria* will probably be a wooden box with a chair. Give it time. Soon there’s a nurse upstairs, a suspicious number of treasure chests downstairs and a long platform outside for the next time a giant eyeball comes calling. Re-Logic gives every ridiculous addition a practical purpose, until the lopsided monstrosity on your screen amounts to a surprisingly accurate history of your adventures. | © Re-Logic

Metroid prime — 5. Metroid Prime (2002)

Buried in a Space Pirate log is an account of what happened when researchers tried to copy Samus Aran’s Morph Ball. It went very badly for four test subjects. You can walk straight past that terminal, which is precisely why discovering it feels so good. *Metroid Prime* trusts you to get curious about the people shooting at you. Occasionally, they turn out to be even more dangerous to themselves. | © Retro Studios / Nintendo

Stardew valley — 4. Stardew Valley (2016)

Rain on the roof means the crops are watered. Suddenly there’s time to go fishing, visit the mines or take a birthday present into town. It’s a small pleasure that *Stardew Valley* earns by letting you do the watering yourself on all those sunny mornings. After a couple of seasons in Pelican Town, you develop surprisingly strong feelings about tomorrow’s forecast for somebody sitting indoors playing a video game. | © ConcernedApe

3. Portal 2 (2011)

“Trust me” takes on a different meaning when your co-op partner controls the portal under your feet. The two-player campaign gives *Portal 2* a flavor of comedy all its own, especially when a beautifully reasoned explanation ends with one robot sailing into a wall. Valve’s puzzles are precise enough that you can usually identify exactly who made the mistake. Whether the friendship benefits from that information is another question. | © Valve

2. Minecraft (2011)

On a shared *Minecraft* server, a bridge can tell you quite a bit about your friends. Somebody gathered the stone, somebody added lanterns, and somebody spent the entire evening building a second, uglier bridge six blocks away because nobody told them about the first one. Both will probably still be there months later. For all the extraordinary things people build in this game, those are the worlds you miss. | © Mojang Studios

1. Tetris (1984)

You left a gap down the right side for the long piece. Perfectly sensible. Then you put an awkward block over the opening, and guess which piece just showed up? Alexey Pajitnov found a way to make seven shapes feel capable of holding a grudge. The enduring pleasure of *Tetris* is that digging yourself out of a terrible decision can feel even better than getting the four-line clear you wanted. | © The Tetris Company

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Gamers will argue about frame rates, difficulty settings, and whether a yellow ladder counts as level design, so finding a game with almost no haters is a minor miracle. Yet a select group of video games has somehow survived decades of console wars, online discourse, and impossible expectations with its reputation intact. From generation-defining classics to modern masterpieces, these are the rare titles nearly everyone agrees are genuinely great.

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Gamers will argue about frame rates, difficulty settings, and whether a yellow ladder counts as level design, so finding a game with almost no haters is a minor miracle. Yet a select group of video games has somehow survived decades of console wars, online discourse, and impossible expectations with its reputation intact. From generation-defining classics to modern masterpieces, these are the rare titles nearly everyone agrees are genuinely great.