"Denoting or relating to a video game designed to be played by one person at a time."
This page features the best three single player games to ever grace the video game hall of fame.
In Spider-Man you play as who else but Spider-Man, A.K.A. Peter Parker. We join this universe's Spider-Man eight years into his career, and witness the rise and fall of the sinister six, headed by Peter's former mentor and father figure turned villain, Dr. Octavius. Octavius, along with four of Spider-Man's greatest rouges and another ally turned villain, Martin Li, unleash a plague onto New York in an attempt to make Peter's life as difficult as possible.
This game was my introduction to PlayStation games, as I had only ever owned Nintendo products before. Other than it acting as a stepping stone to other great games, this game deserves hall of fame status alone for how many times I've played the campaign (at least eight). Spider-Man also has the best controls and game play out of any game I've played, the ability to swing across New York is not only impressive, but comfortable.
Link awakens after 100 years asleep to find Hyrule in a vastly different state than he left it, not that he'd remember that though. Upon waking up you're quickly tasked with defeating Ganon, the fiend you soon find out caused the mass change across the land.
This game is notable to me for not only being one of the best games I've ever played but for the fact that I thought I'd hate it. I waited eight whole years to play this game and I had a wonderful time. One of the reasons I thought I'd dislike it is for the directional less game play, as the game gives you your final task from the start with little hints on how to actually achieve it, this however, never turned out to be an issue.
It's 1899 and the time for outlaws and cowboys is quickly being replaced by a more proper society. You play as Arthur Morgan, someone who is part of a cowboy outlaw gang. Faced with the end of the only life he's ever known, he attempts to turn another leaf, but his lifestyle, and his gang, keeps calling him back.
Red Dead Redemption II is the best narrative game I have ever played, my summary of it did not do it justice at all. Not only does the game tell one of the most heartbreaking stories of all time, it also looks beautiful, has great game play, and is like 80 hours long. This game legitimately left me in tears at the end of it, and I've never felt the same since.
Video Game Hall of Fame, created and curated by Austin Chmielewski @ HVCC, Fall 2025