Good stand-alone games

[Blood Brain Barrier]

Sanitarium
Yoomurjak's Ring
Obsidian

 

[Lord Quirk]

I'm saying "The World Ends with You" for the DS. Apparently there's rumours of a sequel, but Square seems more interested in tech demos and more bloody sequels to that atrocious FFXIII game. I was heartened to see Neku in KH3D(Which ISN'T A SEQUEL.)
Also, am I allowed to put FFVI in because, although it uses elements of previous final fantasies, it's plot is still self-contained?

 

[Diablo2000]

Arcanum: Of SteamWorks and Magick Obscura
Bastion
Crimsonland (shaky - the different versions show quite a difference. I've played 1.3 and 1.9.8 the most and they...look the same from a casual glance. Play the same at the bare bones)
Death Illustrated (well, opinions may vary, I love it. Cool shooter, which you can get free)
Frozen Synapse
Magicka
Minecraft
Planescape: Torment
Psychonauts
Second Sight
Spore (again, I personally love it.)
Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines (technically not a sequel at all but tied in a larger whole)

From the top of my head in alphabetical order.

A good list. I would add To The Moon, Pirates!, Sacrifice and Alpha Protocol. Maybe TOEE as well.

Do you realize that To The Moon ending is sequel bait that is actually being made? Of course, that without it would be a excelent stand alone game.

 

[DementedSheep]

...wow this is much harder than I thought it would be. Most games I play are or have sequels.

Planescape: Torment is good and doesn?t have a sequal.

Mirrors edge doesn't have a sequal but they intended there to be one, it just got canned and you can tell so I don't know if it really counts.

The Void which I am currently playing doesn?t have a sequel but I'm still trying to decide if it?s good or not.

 

[Mordekaien]

Oni
Silver
Binding of Isaac
Super Meatboy
Minecraft

There's a whole lot of them

 

[ultrachicken]

Does Dark Souls/Demon's Souls count? There's a bit of canon welding going on, and the gameplay is similar, but otherwise they're completely standalone.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Psychonauts, Jade Empire, Bastion, the Maw, The Legend of Dragoon, Painkiller? (it never had a proper sequel, I think, Magicka, Minecraft, Terraria, Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale, Fortune Summoners (I think), Chantelise, Ib, Yume Nikki, Limbo, Jamestown...

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Psychonauts, Jade Empire, Bastion, the Maw, The Legend of Dragoon, Painkiller? (it never had a proper sequel, I think), Magicka, Minecraft, Terraria, Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale, Fortune Summoners (I think), Chantelise, Ib, Yume Nikki, Limbo, Jamestown, LA Noire, Braid, Republic Commando, Asura's Wrath, Catherine...
If I think any more, I might make something in my head burst, so I'll leave it at that.
Edit: sorry for double post. Stupid fuckup internet...

 

[Twilight_guy]

Games made by Team Ico.... other people have gotten the other pones I was thinking of.

 

[Gennadios]

Grim Fandango
Master of Magic
Fantasy General
Space Marine
Braid
Minecraft
Terraria

(Alpha Centauri) It does have an expansion pack.

I could probably go on for a while if I went through my attic or game related sites.

Technically Alpha Centauri *is* a sequel to Civilization, the whole concept of the game that the starship that seeds the colonists is the one that Civ players build during the science victory.

Also, Fantasy general, while not a direct sequel, is a spinoff of the Panzer General series. It's more a total conversion than a standalone product.

OP: By your definition, would games that don't have sequels or aren't sequels, but have settings licensed from existing products, like D&D and the Warhammer series qualify as standalone?

 

[mooncalf]

Outcast and Tyrian spring to mind, Advent Rising if games-that-were-meant-to-have-sequels-but-didn't count (was severely underrated I think.) Also Shogo M.A.D, Silver, any of the unique lucasarts adventure titles like DoTT, Full Throttle and Grim Fandango. Interestingly gets harder the more I think of RECENT games, apart from the tons of indie titles.

 

[KarlMonster]

Alan Wake

(blah blah blah)

Far Cry (Neither Far Cry 2 nor Crysis were even close to sequels)

Look, if Alan Wake's American Nightmare doesn't count as a sequel, then I'm nominating Far Cry 2, and following your logic FC2 is acceptable anyway.


Do not repeat this to anyone: I'm willing to assert that Metro 2033 might have been good...
IF the developers promise never to make a sequel. Ever. Not even a FC/FC2 kind of thing.

DayZ - yes, its a mod based on ARMA II, so its an MMO that is based on an existing game with a much different objectives. But its being developed to be a standalone game.

 

[Nouw]

L.A. Noire is an outstanding stand-alone game. A must-have for fans of the noir-esque detective.

 

[Reaper195]

I'd say Mirror's Edge, but it was announced a while ago that there would FINALLY be a sequel.

 

[Baron_Rouge]

XIII, Catherine, Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, Shadows of the Damned, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Heavy Rain, From Dust, Journey, El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron...

 

[SweetShark]

XIII

Forgot about that. Damn, now I want to play it.

Amnesia TDD

Isn't Amnesia getting a sequel, though? That's why I didn't put it in my list.

Yes, but it is a stand-alone title.
You don't need to know about the first Amnesia game.....I think...
*Plot Twist?*

 

[DoPo]

XIII

Forgot about that. Damn, now I want to play it.

Amnesia TDD

Isn't Amnesia getting a sequel, though? That's why I didn't put it in my list.

Yes, but it is a stand-alone title.
You don't need to know about the first Amnesia game.....I think...
*Plot Twist?*

So-o-o, you're saying that you can have amnesia about the first game and still play the other one. How very...appropriate.

 

[dystopiaINC]

Kingdoms of Amalur
Star wars: republic commando

this thread has made me notice that most of my games ended up having a sequel and thus wouldn't count here... funny since i picked most of them up with out ever thinking they would have sequels...

 

[DementedSheep]

I'd say Mirror's Edge, but it was announced a while ago that there would FINALLY be a sequel.

Really? you?re not just playing with heart? Awesome!

 

[Reaper195]

I'd say Mirror's Edge, but it was announced a while ago that there would FINALLY be a sequel.

Really? you?re not just playing with heart? Awesome!

Yep. After all these years of finding out almost everyone didn't like it because 'there wasn't enough guns and combat', turns out enough people liked it to get a sequel. As long as it doesn't end up devolving into guns. I hope the gunplay is as shitty as the first, since that was one of the main reasons I ended up running on walls to escape.