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96. Super Meat Boy
https://youtube.com/watch?v=snaionoxjos

It's honestly a little ridiculous that such a silly premise managed to be as successful as it was, but Super Meat Boy would serve as a source of inspiration for an entire generation of indie platformers that would come after. It's kind of gross and super difficult, and every time you think you've hit the hardest challenges it has to offer, it brings you an alternate extra hard level to take on. There's so much content here, but one of the best aspects is the end of levels, where it replays all the death simultaneously (and there are inevitably going to be a lot of deaths). I think I actually had more patience for this level of difficulty in platforming around the time Meat Boy came out. Now I'm old and slow.

95. Bound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE37l6

I was pretty disappointed this one flew as under the radar as it did, because it had all the makings to be one of the greats. Maybe the idea of "ballet-based platforming" doesn't appeal to everyone, but this game is gorgeous and a lot of fun to play. It can be a little awkward at times, as it does require you to keep in that ballet style consistently, but you'll eventually get used to it. It makes up for it by having plenty of options for speedrunners, encouraging you to find obscure and unintended pathways.

94. What the Golf?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSaEYgGEW6k

There was a brief period there in the late 2010s where I swear we were getting so many silly golf games, and What the Golf? is pretty easily the silliest. The game has some very liberal interpretations of what "golf" is. Sometimes, soccer is golf. Sometimes, bowling is golf. Sometimes, Portal is golf. It takes the simple mechanic of sending one thing toward another thing and constantly tries to one-up itself with its sense of humor.