Gaming Bucket List

What Are Bucket List Games?

Bucket List Games are essential games everyone must play in their lifetime.

Use this ultimate gaming list to find your next favorite game or relive a timeless classic.

Furthermore, this definitive list of games to play is based on my own personal gaming experiences over the past 30 years along with discussions with my core gaming group.

I hope you will find something fun to enjoy while looking over my bucket list of games.

Bucket List Games Play Priority Explained

Games on this gaming list are categorized by Play Priority Level.

  1. Platinum Priority
  2. Very High Priority
  3. High Priority
  4. Moderate Priority
  5. Low Priority

Play higher priority games before lower priority games to get the most out of your valuable gaming time.

BUCKET LIST GAMES FULL LIST
1080 Avalanche
Animal Crossing: City Folk
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Ape Out
Beach Spikers
Borderlands
Borderlands 2
Capcom VS SNK 2
Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics
Darksiders 2
Dead Cells
Deadly Creatures
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Minit
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
Sonic the Hedgehog
Streets of Rage 4
TMNT 2: The Arcade Game (NES)
Touhou Luna Nights
Vampire: The Masquerade – Shadows of New York
Warframe

As an avid gamer of over three decades, I can assure you I have played each of these games extensively.

Doing so has allowed me to provide you with a definitive list of games I highly recommend players try out in their lifetime.

Click on a game image below to view detailed information about the must-play game.

PLATINUM PRIORITY BUCKET LIST GAMES

A boy and girl happily sitting on a bench in front of a tree
ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS
a woman pointing
BORDERLANDS
playing cards fanned out with teh faces facing hte player
MAGIC: THE GATHERING
samus in her suit pointing her arm cannon at somethign off screen (Metroid Dread screenshot)
METROID DREAD
A bear eating food in a forest
MONSTER HUNTER GENERATIONS ULTIMATE

VERY HIGH PRIORITY BUCKET LIST GAMES

a ninja in armor standing on top of a train with clouds around him
BORDERLANDS 2
Ryu throwing a fireball in a winter area with flags hanging on clotheslines in the background
CAPCOM VS SNK 2
Death holding two scythes crossed in front of his body
DARKSIDERS 2
Two 2D pixel characters fighting inside a well lit crypt
DEAD CELLS
A character inside a go kart at the starting line of a race
MARIO KART 8 DELUXE
Two men in a dimly lit street illuminated by neon lights prepared to fight each other
STREETS OF RAGE 4
Two armored soldiers standing back-to-back with guns drawn on an alien planet
WARFRAME

HIGH PRIORITY BUCKET LIST GAMES

A happy boy fishing in blue water
ANIMAL CROSSING: CITY FOLK
A mancala board
CLUBHOUSE GAMES: 51 WORLDWIDE CLASSICS

MODERATE PRIORITY BUCKET LIST GAMES

A man snowboarding down a snow covered slope in daytime
1080 AVALANCHE
A woman holding a volleyball, about to serve, standing on a volleyball court on sand
BEACH SPIKERS
A tarantula walking in the dirt
DEADLY CREATURES
TMNT 2 Donatello jump kicking an orange rock enemy
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 2: THE ARCADE GAME
Two vampire women sitting next to each otehr in darkness with little light and a monster lurking behind them in the shadows
VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE – SHADOWS OF NEW YORK

LOW PRIORITY BUCKET LIST GAMES

An ape's silhouette walking in darkness on top of the word adrift
APE OUT
A small duck like creature hitting a crab with a sword in black and white
MINIT
Sonic Title Screen of Sonic the hedghog smiling and waving his finger in front of blue water
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG
Bucket List Games