>is widely considered the Greatest Game Ever Made for years running in your path
Came after Wizardry, yet Dungeon Master was considered THE epitome of dungeon crawling across the western world when Wizardry itself was far from a household name. Nothing else came close, until the era of nostalgia took hold and "retro gamers" revisited Wizardry after reading about how it inspired Horii Yuji and thus every jrpg.