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22. Celeste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70d9irlxiB4

And another one I know is the #1 of at least a handful on this board. These ultrahard fast-paced platformers are usually fun for me at first but I often don't get a ton from them in the long run. Celeste is probably one of the best examples of a platformer than did not do that. I think part of it was the accessbility and difficulty options. Celeste is a very difficult game. Nobody would deny that Celeste is a very hard game. And yet, there are options to make the game pretty much as easy as you need it to be (and it didn't lower the experience of the game for anyone else! take notes, From Soft!). What's funny is that I never really ended up using those options; I think just knowing that I could lower the difficulty if I needed to left me more inspired to push through. It helps that the gameplay is very fun, the characters are extremely sweet, and this is pretty easily one of the best indie game soundtrack of all time. When you do finally reach the summit, it's a subtle moment, but extremely satisfying.

21. Inscryption
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN5GSIWIN1k

Inscryption is a card game and an escape room and also, in the loosest possible defintion, a roguelike. Until it's not. This game quite literally bleeds lore, and I constantly found myself wanting more and more and more from it. It's also a game that's very hard to talk about, beause there are so many moments that just left me slackjawed. I could play this card game endlessly, and thankfully there's a mod for that! Finding all the combos and bizarre beasts you could summon through questionable methods had me hooked even before I realized what I was in for.

Shout out to @masterplum for buying this game for me and several other B8ers as a holiday present two years ago; I might not have discovered it otherwise and that would've been a real shame given how incredible it is.