The 25 games that made Eurogamer

Welcome back to Eurogamer’s 25th birthday week – this time, for something of a more personal piece from the team. We’ve already introduced The Eurogamer 100 – the games we recommend you play right now. Well, here’s something different: the games we feel have helped form Eurogamer’s identity over the past quarter century.

Many of these inclusions come from the memories we’ve made working together over the years. It’s telling, perhaps, that a lot of this list are multiplayer titles. Other entries highlight games we’ve found ourselves being associated with over the years – be it because of infamous review scores or recurring memes.

So much of that – as with many of our memories of Eurogamer over the years – has been influenced by you, the readers. You were the ones discussing those scores, sharing those in-jokes, putting up with us as we wrote far too much about Destiny. Thanks for sticking with Eurogamer – hopefully this list is a fun peek behind the curtain, and a reminder we couldn’t do it without you.

Destiny

Destiny is a terrible game to play solo. I know, I did it for a year on Xbox One, after picking the ‘other’ console to everyone else in the Eurogamer office at the start of the PlayStation 4 era. With a staff full of former Halo fans, there was no doubt Eurogamer would go deep on Destiny – so deep, some readers felt we ended up referencing it in almost every article.