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The Giant Bomb Community's Top 50 Standalones of 2001-2025

by mento

Because for some reason everyone kept mistaking my top 100 standalones list for the site's. It wasn't. This is, though. As judged by the marvelous Giant Bomb community, or the ~3,000 of them that felt like filling out a list, these are the fifty highest-ranked games from '01-'25 that may have had remakes/remasters or DLC but don't have sequels, spin-offs, prequels, gaiden games, or... well, actually, I guess I didn't check if any of these had some weird tie-in mobile thing. Let's just say those don't count.

The site's Top 100 for the first quarter century, including the master list of everything that received a vote, can be found over here.

My list, which is all my opinion and thus way better than this one, is over here.

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Outer Wilds

1. Outer Wilds

The community loves wasting 22 minutes waiting for a sand pit to empty itself.

Bloodborne

2. Bloodborne

The community loves finding weird-ass glitchy Chalice Dungeons to exploit.

Disco Elysium

3. Disco Elysium

The community loves deadbeat weirdos and their more competent partners.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

4. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

The community loves French Logan's Run. La course de Logan. Poissons, et plancton, et algues marines, et protéines de la mer.

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

5. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

The community loves kite dude. Whoooooooooooo!

Stardew Valley

6. Stardew Valley

The community loves Krobus. He's such a little guy.

Undertale

7. Undertale

The community loves going on steamy dates with skeletons.

Balatro

8. Balatro

The community loves its jokers.

Shadow of the Colossus

9. Shadow of the Colossus

The community loves jumping gorges with their horses.

Celeste

10. Celeste

The community loves spending an hour trying to eat a single strawberry.

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