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Danganronpa was my first reaction. (As well as AA and 999, but DR >.)

My limited slate of Falcom games are due to B8, but I doubt they supercede. If they do, then Trails of Cold Steel 1 is the pick there.

There's a not unreasonable argument that Genshin Impact qualifies here. I don't remember the exact sequence that got me playing that game, but I hadn't heard of it until the day it launched, when a lot of different people were talking about it. Considering I'm not on social media, I imagine most of that influence had to have been from here. I know I finally got put over the edge by hearing a streamer I followed at the time talking about it, but I wouldn't have even known or cared what it was (and it was an incredibly hurdle to get past the fact that it's a gacha game, which I swore I would never ever not ever touch under any circumstances whatsoever) if I hadn't heard people buzzing about it here first.

There's also quite a few games I've picked up as an indirect result of VGMC, so there might be a game there that was really good that I stumbled across. There are certainly some games from VGMC that I've started that others consider really good, like Outer Wilds and CrossCode. The only game I can think of currently that I might put down here is Hollow Knight. However, I'm not sure how much of that is genuinely Board 8 influence.