Fighting & Brawler Games
Invincible VS
The Invincible universe became a fighting game, which is probably the cleanest interactive use of its violence.
Characters
Solaire of Astora
The sun-praising knight who became the emotional mascot of jolly cooperation and very fragile hope.
Pokemon Games
Pokemon Legends: Z-A
Pokemon Legends: Z-A leans back into the Legends branch and bets that Kalos still has unfinished business.
Culture
Fan Theories
The community builds deeper lore in forum posts than some studios put in their actual games.
History
Spelunky Classic Freeware
The freeware release that showed procedural platforming could be as deep as dungeon crawling.
Based on infomaxxxing codebase