An amnesiac bounty hunter, turn-based battles on a grid, and a sprawling adventure like they don't make anymore.

Here's the most disorienting game of the bunch. When the community votes on gut feeling, Arc the Lad II drops to the very bottom, ahead of barely 7% of games. And yet, look at the detail, and everything flips. On the desert island, it climbs ahead of more than 80% of titles, and fun, the game you start for one session and put down at 3am, also lands right at the top. That's the real tension: a game you don't pick on instinct but would take to survive, the one that devours hours without you noticing. What sinks the immediate choice shows up elsewhere: the controller pleasure and the art style stay low, ahead of less than a quarter of games, the weight of age and a 32-bit look.

Against tactical RPGs, this is the slow-burn profile: hard to sell at a glance, immense once you settle in.

So, who's it for? For you if you love sinking into a long campaign, depth over flash, a game you have to earn. Much less if you judge fast, on the handling or the looks.