>>717689532
No. I don't think any game ever rivaled the top 50 best books ever written.
The biggest contenders for me would be Ace Attorney games, Deus Ex, Mass Effect 1, and idk probably Disco Elysium but I haven't played it.
Xenoblade gets the boot. It's a fucking bloated narrative, and 1 isn't even that much better than 2, now that I've finally played through it. And 2 is cute but it really is just a lot of tropes at the end of the day.

And a lot of pre-emptive choices I'm going to disqualify right away
>Zero Escape games
>Persona
>Kaname Date games
>Danganronpa
>Radiant Historia
>The Last of Us
A lot of the best-considered narratives in vidya fall flatly into the category of "you think they're good just because there's a lot of text and it seems complex". Or in TLOU "it seems emotionally compelling but it's just navel gazing."
Dear Me, I Was has better "writing" than games I've played in the last, idk, 8 years maybe, and it's a 50 minute long game.