[PS4] The Sexy Brutale (2017)

How:
Found while browsing the PSN store.

Pros:
- Stunning graphics
- Nice fitting music (although a bit repetitive at the beginning)
- Some nice puzzles
- Straightforward but refreshing gameplay
- Cool setting, mood and story

Cons:
- Some glitches and unresponsiveness when trying to do things quickly
- A bit too much backtracking
- Annoyingly slow character

[PC] Fallout 2 (1998)

How:
Got during a Fallout series giveaway at GOG.com.

Pros:
- Limited items and money make resource management useful
- Well written and darkly fun dialogues
- Great graphics, fitting dark ambient / industrial music
- Lots of nonlinearity and side quests

Cons:
- Cumbersome and annoying inventory management
- Using items can be confusing, the "use" functionality is not always the correct way
- Brutal difficulty encourages save scumming
- NPCs keep getting in the way
- Several glitches and bugs

[PC] Fallout (1997)

How:
Got during a Fallout series giveaway (which means FREE!) at GOG.com.
Note:
I got lucky and got the alien blaster by chance quite early in the game.
Pros:
- Great isometric graphics
- Very cool atmoshpere, setting and lore
- Combat can be unforgiving, and detracts the player from pure grinding
- Well balanced economy, you never have too much money
- Nice turn-based combat system
- A limited but cool arsenal and set of items to use (including drugs)
- Cool lore
- Non-linear gameplay and quests
- A nice variety of death animations depending on the weapon used
Cons:
- Sometimes difficult to control in occluded areas
- Can't reach areas that the main character cannot see; this makes moving in towns very tedious
- Some possible walking dead situations
- Music is a bit forgettable
- Few side quests
- There is a lot of content which is never explored because of the unpredictable outcome of choices
- Carry weight is fairly limited
- Very few companions, with almost no control over them
- Some obscure puzzles (connect a radio to a computer in order to control force fields?)

[PC] Sanitarium (1998)

How:
Played the demo when it came out, finally bought it during Halloween sales at GOG.com.
Pros:
- Cool isometric view
- Nice music fitting well the creepy mood
- Plenty of cut-scenes
- Engaging story with a slowly unraveling mystery
Cons:
- Some game-breaking bugs and crashes
- Puzzles tend to be sparse and easy, they mostly serve to move the story along
- Lack of dialogue continuity; the character reacts to dialogue in a fixed manner even if he already has the information he needs

[PC] Diablo (1996)

How:
From the old days of double-blind game swapping with friends. Couldn't understand the gameplay at first, but a second re-evaluation got me nailed down to the chair for days.
Pros:
- Immersive world
- Cool isometric graphics
- Excellent music
- Very good replayability value due to the random generation of dungeons and side-quests. Playing with three different characters also provides rather different experiences
- Immediate and fun gameplay
Cons:
- It's too easy to max out characters and beat the game
- Gets repetitive after a while
- Role-playing elements are rather limited

[PC] Planescape: Torment (1999)

How:
Was browsing through the gog.com catalogue, got intrigued by the isometric screenshots and by the very positive reviews.
Pros:
- A beautiful RPG which an immersive story lending itself to a very personal experience
- Wonderful music and voiceovers
- Excellent writing and dialogues
- A whole lot of side quests, adding a lot of depth and gameplay to the already big world
- Very good replayability value
- Tons of items and magic spells
- Highly non-linear and strongly dependent on the player's actions
Cons:
- Assorted bugs and glitches, some crashes
- Frequent path-finding bugs, with PCs getting stuck and unable to get items or talk to characters
- Every time a PC dies he must retrieve his inventory items which lie scattered on the ground
- Inventory is quite limited, many key items must be brought along for a long time and there is no possibility to deposit them somewhere temporarily (or at least no clear indication on how to do it)

[Amiga] Heimdall 2 (1994)

Pros:
- Beautiful graphics and animations
- Memorable plot and setting
- Difficult puzzles
- Many colorful places to visit
- It is an incredible pleasure to play this game
- The rune system is functional and fun
- Fights are difficult at the beginning but soon become part of the fun
- You can choose at any time among two characters
- Very good balance between adventure, RPG and arcade
- Hard and long-lived
Cons:
- Not much music
- Some dead-ends (e.g. by letting the wrong people die)