Looking at this list now, I think if you only had to play one game from this
list, make it:
The Swapper
It's a puzzle platformer with a self-cloning mechanic. There
I had never played any of the Legend of Zelda games. Of course, I knew a lot
about them from hearsay, as probably any gamer on the web does, but that's
I've picked Trading in Danger
[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/284658.Trading_in_Danger] by Elizabeth Moon
more or less at random. It's the first instalment in the