10 Most COMPLEX Games EVER MADE That Challenged Us

[@anoc5345]

Falcon not being an expert at flying? I am starting to question if he is actually a bird

[@geewhizzywill1475]

Falcons don't need knobs pedals or switches to fly

[@dallesamllhals9161]

Diving?

[@shylerham777]

Those kind of inquiries draw some unwanted attention.....

[@zmiguelr]

He's better at gliding

[@dallesamllhals9161]

@@zmiguelr Heh! Ain't we all - these days?

[@wutthabuck8772]

8:10 Falcon's millennial designer voice is PERFECT 'o I like the feng shui in hereeeee' 😂😂

[@dustinmillar120]

Yeah that got me to laugh pretty good, which got some funny looks from the people around me haha

[@lorddmarek]

ok boomer

[@listerofsmeg884]

I remember when that was such a big thing for about 3 years till people realised it was actually quite complicated and thought 'bollocks to this '

[@PartyhatRS]

@@lorddmarek ok coomer

[@1003JustinLaw]

Came into the comments to see if anyone else died laughing from hearing that.

[@Strat-Guides]

I'm surprised Songs of Syx didn't make the list compared to some of the others on here. I'm glad to see Paradox though, spot on!

[@wavehellhole]

Songs of Syx is great

[@CheatsOnDisplay]

Loved your stream for that game, barely understood it though 😅

[@Sarstan]

Lots of more demanding games are not present. Stationeers and X4 Foundations (or really any of the X games at that rate) come to mind. But games like Oxygen Not Included and Noita are more popular, even if they're comparably simple.

[@crestfall5331]

@@Sarstan It's complex in underlying mechanics he's taking about not necessarily difficulty, that just tends to come with it

[@KahYAHlahYAH]

Pt 2

[@Mac_Kymera]

I have never considered Flight Simulator a “game” per-say. You either know how to control an aircraft or you learn how to virtually.

[@JamesHoffa420]

It's still just a game. Just like driving "sims". Still a game.

[@JamesHoffa420]

It has a ship from Halo and the Atreides Ornithopter from Dune lol

[@sarcasticgenius8563]

Or you put it on the easiest mode and basically get to travel the world using what is basically gta flight controls

[@proto-geek248]

It's still a game. a very complicated game. but I totally get where you're coming from.

[@amphernee]

The only time it makes sense to lash out with “I’m not playing a game it’s a simulator!!”

[@noobestofdamall]

10. Microsoft Flight Simulator 9. Noita 8. Oxygen Not Included 7. Amazing Cultivation Simulator 6. Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic 5. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead 4. Hearts of Iron series 3. Children of a Dead Earth 2. Dwarf Fortress 1. Aurora: 4X

[@Nigel222]

Thanks

[@ross-carlson]

Thanks for saving me the time to see how bad this list really is.

[@johnsmithabc94726]

@@ross-carlson what are some complexer games

[@johananj.j8003]

Wtf?

[@Disxreet]

@@johnsmithabc94726more complex.

[@NookaNifty]

Noita means witch in Finnish, so you don't play as a wizard, but as you witch

[@patatedouceyaim1407]

noita is genderless. its both wizard or witch.

[@NookaNifty]

@@patatedouceyaim1407 Wizard is velho (or sometimes taikuri - magician). Gandalf is velho. Pääsiäisnoita (trulli) is easter witch. While noita is genderless, it is not a wizard. Lapland's Sami people have noaidi, or Lapinnoita, and he is a shaman, not a wizard.

[@SnowRaver-p2v]

No Falcon you can't be Frank, you're Falcon!

[@tubensalat1453]

If Falcon wants to be Frank or Susie or who-/whatever I fully support them. ;)

[@deevee5348]

And don't call me Shirley!

[@tituikabussaa]

Frankcon

[@ManiacMonkboon]

🤣😂🤣

[@proto-geek248]

C'mon, just let him be frank once in a while. He likes being frank. Frankly.

[@JohnClam]

I'm a little surprised not to see Project Zomboid on here

[@wschnabel1987]

Big fan of flight sims myself.... I often joke to my friends that if I want to play a game with more difficult mechanics than Dark Souls I go for Microsoft Flight SIm or X-plane and turn on weather effects. Some racing games are also getting pretty decent as well with weather and how it effects vehicle handling such as gran turismo 7 and forza motorsports. Sure they both have their issues (lack of tracks, race modes, cars, etc) when compared to predecessors, but they still get some areas right, such as customization of the settings for the cars, custom car liveries/skins etc.

[@christopherlperezcruz1507]

X-Plane and Project Cars 2 are the most complex.

[@howlingwolf7280]

Great to see Workers & Resources get some screen time. It’s a brilliant game and well worth sinking time into.

[@listerofsmeg884]

I couldn't help thinking of 'worker and parasite ', that hilarious spoof east European cartoon on one of the early Simpsons episodes

[@gameranxTV]

What other games would you have included in this list?

[@Tommyboyy99]

@@gameranxTV Eve Online

[@brycestrife5605]

I AM here.... now. -Neil breen, man, genius.

[@jasondavie3027]

Love it 😂 Space Ice is great channel for Neil Breen and Steven Seagal content

[@paulnolan4971]

@@jasondavie3027 Preem content mman

[@DetectiveHalogen]

WHO AM I?!

[@jroameverywhere]

My Uncle doesn't play "regular" games but he was in the Air Force so he plays Flight Simulators and has an area just with flight controllers and pedals that in my 25-plus years of gaming I won't even go near in fear of messing something up because of how complex it looks.

[@Skylar.H93]

Oh man, I was not expecting Amazing Cultivation Simulator to be on the list. I love that game, it's so complex and crazy hard

[@Retainer_98]

I like the Feng Shui in here 😂

[@ahandsomefridge]

I feel like Factorio is worth a mention when it comes to complex games. It starts out nice and easy until it stops being that. Satisfying when stuff works but tough to figure it all out.

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

Kingdom Come Deliverance's combat was so challenging, It took some time to get used to but now I've mastered it

[@paulnolan4971]

As you levelled up the skills it just made so more more mechanical sense and it was cool curve to learn. Iirc

[@Delenai]

I thought I would come here and say how the "Tales of" games have pointlessly complicated systems that you can very well just ignore if you want, but when I saw it starts with MS Flight Sim I knew this video is about a different scope of madness.

[@Loglam]

Ah yes, a list of some of Sseth’s favorite games

[@lolmao500]

I love factorio its complex enough for me, especially with mods. If I could go in the future like 50 years, it would be amazing if we could get some kind of Dwarf fortress level of simulation in a game... but in photorealistic 3D... and in VR. Thatd be freaking epic... and you could time travel to any epoch and all of it would be generated on the fly by an AI.

[@crestfall5331]

This guy's in my head! That's what I was thinking of too! With the dwarf having AI generated speech based on their personality, memory and events around them

[@tvs99999]

well factorio isnt really complex. its quite an easy game which can get overwhelming. complex means difficult to understand and do well.

[@salchipapa5843]

I own 3 of these games (Noita, Oxygen Not Included, and Hearts of Iron IV), and I've never played them yet. I have many, many games I haven't played yet. Buying video games is an entirely different hobby from actually playing them.

[@brodriguez11000]

In a world where video games own you.

[@Lenariet]

I feel you

[@paulnolan4971]

Essentially a video game librarian/custodian :)

[@durthed]

You are the most complex gaming system and/or game.

[@Vik1919]

You should probably start with Noita. I wish my PC was strong enough to handle it or it were available on consoles.

[@Olie_d94]

That “brother” falcon hit us with healed my soul for some reason

[@tSunrise_]

0:01 "Some games have booty in their simplicity." -Falcon (2024)

[@dimonasdf]

I would like to recommend Stationeers to anyone who's interested in complex space "survival", which is somewhat like Space Engineers, but with actual electricity, temperature, pressure, alloys and components production, agriculture, and stuff.

[@marier4394]

Stationeers absolutely deserves a place here, you've got to sort out the gases and WIRING of your base, often you end up playing constantly consulting massive spreadsheets, it's kinda crazy

[@x0b34rd4]

He may not be a stork, but Falcon is a bird that always delivers!

[@wutthabuck8772]

Time to start the week with the most complex Falcon 🦅🎉

[@geewhizzywill1475]

I had no idea there was a whole ass genre of Feng Shuimulators

[@GameViolence]

These games are for the NES players who would complete each of their games without any guides not realizing it was supposed to be a challenge

[@proto-geek248]

You mean like me (sniffs - cracks knuckles)

[@tomweather8887]

You definitely only just scratched the surface with Noita. Without a wiki, you could play that game for the rest of your life and you wouldn't see everything it has to offer. Not even close. Even with wikis, and data mining, and people putting in thousands of hours, there are still secrets in the game.

[@myoptik3x103]

Dwarf Fortress is number 2?!? Holy shrimp! I figured for sure this was the most complex ever.

[@crestfall5331]

I know right

[@jackdenihan5333]

Silly, birds aren’t real.

[@gameranxTV]

Did we miss any games that should have been included?

[@WyxianGames]

@@gameranxTV Space Station 13, world record for largest open-source multiplayer game. Also Stationeers which is inspired by it.

[@neuro9185]

​@@gameranxTV dota 2

[@axelalvarado7439]

Thank you gameranx, so much, for being the only channel I can rely on in my subscriptions to put out content I know I can watch that hasn’t turned into something I hate

[@gameranxTV]

Hey we appreciate you! :)

[@LudoTechWorld]

If I had to make one complaint about this channel, it's the lack of content about 4X/Strategy/Simulation games, so I'm obviously happy to see this video! (Some other very cool complex games that could have made into the list: Shadow Empire, Songs of Syx)

[@MattMcMatt]

Shout-out to EVE Online and Factorio, and maybe Anno 1800 although I don't think it's quite up there with the others

[@shhhvcnear]

Factorio is very simple, belts move stuff, inserters insert, you can learn all you need to learn to play the game from 30 min of tutorial. You just have to solve the in game problems with those tools but thats just moving belts around to get the right things where they need to go. I'm voting - not super complex. I wouldn't play EU4 without reading the manual first.

[@plaxor]

@@shhhvcnear i bet you didnt play with mods in it (K2 + SE)

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

Crusader Kings is one for me, One of the most complex and immersive games ever

[@dallesamllhals9161]

HEH! Only if YOU are...erh..a complex person 😛

[@victorpiuila7938]

Falcon flying a fighter jet…. Imagine 🤔

[@LordAncker]

Come on Falcon, you failed to speak about the air traffic controllers that actual monitor the airports in flight simulator, KZbin “flight simulator ATC” … now this is a whole different level

[@rurockygamer]

This video felt like an odd checklist of my day... like 5 out of the 11 were part of my ACTUAL day.... and I have a life... they were part of my social life, I was at college talking about these games... lol

[@simplysinclair3626]

Lmao the Feng Shui voice made me chuckle. Brought me joy. Thank you for that.

[@Illumas]

Me, laughing when dwarf fortress comes up, pauses a second, "Wait, number 2?"

[@19Lqueen17]

Cool to see Workers and Resources here. It's my fave city-builder ever, with almost 800 hours of playing in steam.

[@alanredacted]

This is one of the best gameranx lists so far.

[@NafisR08]

Original Falcon is back???

[@RyuLongRHOG]

'frankly spiteful UI' 😂😂😂😂

[@TheUberjammer]

The most complex game is the game you play while you meticulously craft your 500 mod modlist for Fallout New Vegas, generating LODs, and then troubleshooting for hours to find that one mod that destroyed everything, all while staying under the halved mod limit.

[@Silversnake27]

One day he'll say "hi falcon it's folks" and then my life will be complete

[@Boss_Fight_Index_muki]

There's a RTS called SUpreme Commander by RTS veteran Chris Taylor. If you ever saw this game at Best Buy back in the mid 2000 and picked up the box, it weighed 4lbs. it came with a manual 2 inches thick.

[@Gerritt94]

Wish more people knew about Space Station 13, it's right up there with dwarf fortress.

[@VicerExciser]

Crusader Kings 3 is already an extremely deep and complex game. Then toss in all the mods, especially total conversions and it's literally multiple games in one. I have 3000 hours in CK3 and I've yet to get bored, there's always new mods or self-made challenges to keep the game interesting and refreshing.

[@James-gj8rn]

I really want to get into the Total War franchise but it's just too complex for me because i have no idea what i'm doing (Baldur's Gate III is quite the challenge to get to grips with too)

[@dafff08]

just play it. learning by doing.

[@James-gj8rn]

@@dafff08 I've tried, it's too much for both lol

[@calvinbarnes1721]

I feel represented. I have four of these games, and have played quite a few hours in each. Kinda sad Rogue System isn't on here, but it was abandoned in early access by the main dev getting injured.

[@OddlyIncredible]

There used to be a reactor mod for Minecraft - I don't recall its name - that basically required building a power reactor by building all of the infrastructure, resource management, and even things like containment, that go into an actual reactor. It had multiple types but the two grand-daddies were a deuterium-moderated uranium fueled fission reactor and a hydrogen fueled tokomak fusion reactor. The uranium reactor required doing things like building water separators that would extract deuterium and tritium from water, mining uranium ore and purifying it into fuel, etc. etc. etc. Took a solid 10-20 hours to get a reactor up and running but it would power everything else in any modpack.

[@chrisstott3508]

Thanks for bringing us this, discovered some new gems here.

[@843Bobinator]

I use Microsoft Flight Simulator to supplement my real world pilot education and it’s been an amazing resource. I respect you mentioning a high fidelity developer like PMDG as well, their 737 add-on is exquisite

[@cohngo]

Ah yes, Hearts of Iron aka Excel spreadsheet gaming

[@kylel3833]

Me: wow, these all seem awesome, I should deep dive into one Also me: loads up Space Marine 2 only for the foreseeable future

[@tobi_versace]

Path of exile is so unnecessarily convoluted

[@Phil_Official]

to me as a child, minesweeper was the pinnacle of complex games lol. I never found out how that crap worked

[@FirestormX9]

Timestamp notations on the timeline are a bit off for Number 2 and 1. Nice spreadsheet simulators there, though! Fun to see MS Excel in such different graphics!

[@ZeroGH]

i'm missing Eve Online on this list. i mean, some call it the the most beautiful excel-sheet. The whole player driven economy from getting resources to research blueprints to actually building ships and other shipmodules to actually put them into use is not easy

[@Triggernlfrl]

It is more complex than these 11 games together.

[@listerofsmeg884]

Maybe they feel its complexity is more to do with the player base than fundamental game design

[@crestfall5331]

@@listerofsmeg884 I think it has more to do with them already mentioning it several times in previous videos

[@kms_23]

“They made the carp too hardcore by accident.” 😂😂😂

[@tituspullo3946]

I had a gf that used "feng shui" all the time. Swore I'd jump off a cliff if I ever heard that phrase one more time. You nailed it with the voice. 🤣🤣

[@dugstarr5277]

Favourite daily video. Let's go!!!!!!!

[@huffinLeeroy]

DCS is amazingly complicated but incredibly enjoyable and rewarding when you do work it out. Nothing like reading through an entire FA18c NATOPS to be able to play a game.

[@JollyJa5on]

When I saw the clips of the Crusader Kings 3 trailer at the beginning, I was worried that was the Paradox game you'd pick. I was thinking Vicky 2, but HoI3 was the better pick. All the complexity is in the stuff you can play around with and directly control. Where as in Vicky 2, it's mostly behind the scenes in a global trade market and population simulator that you can attempt to influence. Also could have an honorable mention to Fate of the World, the Underfunded International Department of Stopping Global Warming and Nuclear War game.

[@pclown9490]

Has anybody here seen AI Doom it generates code simultaneously while you play so every frame is coded and rendered as you walk through it. It only runs at like 20 frames per second but the fact that it does all that in real time is amazing

[@Knife_Eclectic]

Oh Falcon. I could tell you didn't know what you were doing when you called an a320 a "Jumbo Jet" 😂

[@jim._.]

Excellent work on this video. Bravo Zulu, Gameranx team.

[@gameranxTV]

Thanks for watching :)

[@TheNightAngel1017]

Banger Minecraft shootout at the end

[@kaneaquino8295]

Now the opposite: 10 most SIMPLEST games EVER MADE that challenged us

[@gameranxTV]

lol now that would be fun to make. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@theQuickRundown]

"5D Chess with Multiverse Timetravel" should be on here, or for the follow-up video.

[@renammartinez]

Shoutout to all the knowers-to-be plagued by skill issues. "The sacrifice of oneself to the pursuit of knowledge Is the highest tribute to the gods."

[@Spikehead777]

The eyes! What do they mean?!

[@over9000optimally]

It's crazy to fathom people learned how to control a plane in real life through a game. It's kind of awesome and really shows the power games can have to educate.

[@dannyx2737]

Im surprised the witness wasn't in this. That game actually hurts my brain

[@sammyaaron8184]

I’m convinced some of these games are recruitment tools to some undercover schemes 🤣

[@KlarthCurtiss]

Everytime someone mentions “complex games” my first thought is always Resonance of Fate, never seen an RPG with a combat system so convoluted that just wants to throw hard fights at you

[@FranciscoSilva-km1dg]

Minecraft mods❤️❤️ Greg tech + terrafirmacraft is like going from stone age to a futurist era in the most realist way possible

[@TheSchwarzKater]

I think we could put Europe Universalis, Eve Online and X4 on that list too. I prefer to stay with Rimworld.

[@seanlayton-z2v]

mortal online 2 is one you should of added to this list, not many people know about that hardcore game

[@jddesmore]

19:21 I was staring so hard to try to see the asci art in my dark room at night, just to get a seizure and almost breaking my neck in recoil from the white flash.

[@FiniteFr]

Workers and resources belongs on this list, it’s the only game that’s ever made me respect the world and work around me after realising what goes into it

[@squatchneedsnoheroes]

The board game version of Europa Universalis is just absurd.

[@chilufyamwamba4555]

Falcon not being an expert at flying is a little sus😂 on another note I'm always tempted to ask whether he's related to birdman

[@Pr0digyZRX]

Imagine getting so scared you pee... then you pee so much you drown in it 😂😂😂

[@NatanCruz96]

Loved the video because there is just games that are so complex and hard to keep up. Can y’all do the shortest or longest video games ever made (from scratch to launch). Thanks!

[@tylerchristensen1484]

Usually my Crusader Kings 3 games end with my lieges teaming up to claim my titles. And then getting demoted to a lowly baron or duke. And then someone in my court as a baron/duke has a claim to that throne, and then the game truly ends.

[@IndustrialBonecraft]

Terra invicta, Distant Worlds 2, Caves of Qud, X4: Foundations, Space Station 13 all get a shoutout.

[@NJoint]

I find Factorio and Kerval waaaaay more complex than, for example, Noita

[@danbardos3498]

Honorable memtion: Rock Smith Hook up your guitar to your console and learn how to play it. From the rudimentary to Guitar Hero level chops. It gets as complicated as you are willing to progress.

[@Loknath009]

Aside from the flight simulator, this could be called top 9 games I don’t care about. You know what is my no.1 most complex game? LIFE! So yeah, I’ll just do that and play games for other purposes.

[@BlestNekun]

Who knew a Falcon would have 'Valley Girl' impression in their repertoire.🤣💜 😎🍻😎

[@poweredBYGDKDIYengineering]

Europa Universalis IV: "am I a joke to you?"

[@Alex-bu9pl]

"I like the feng shui in here..."...😆😆😆

[@EvilFrosty2U]

A good mention for this list would be the 1D4chan Chapter Master game.

[@hhch2]

i bursted out laughing at work at 8:11

[@TheManWhoWas21]

Amazing video, god job sir

[@gameranxTV]

Thanks a lot

[@KAPAFlyer]

1,200+ hrs and $3,400+ into Flight Sim myself, with the new one releasing in November. I might be a bit too into it.

[@kdpflush]

This guy has never tried to max out nuclear at 100% efficiency in Satisfactory

[@TsZen876]

Air to Air refuelling in DCS makes you feel like a superhuman

[@asaltosdefe]

ok, i give this one to you my friends, this is actually a brilliant video.

[@gameranxTV]

Hey thanks we appreciate it!

[@Half-Axd]

Fun list! The Steam release of DF makes the game playable for the average human IMHO... Will have to look into Oxygen not included... Also... Distant Worlds 2 is something to try out... is more of a space empire sim that gets really deep if you turn off assists. Cheers!