Fortnite

The first Killing Floor

Ghost Recon as made by Red Storm Entertainment before Ubi started making the game.

LittleBigPlanet Vita best game ever or Katamari Damacy if you want a pc game

Out of curiosity, does this exclude open world maps and large maps? If so then I do have a few, namely Portal, simple in their design, they all have a very well designed functionality to them, plus some creative surf maps from either CSGO or TF2 look rather nice as well.

But out of the games I've played I'd say my personal favorite in level design is Doom and Wolfinstine, taking on how you didnt say graphics, I'm guessing this means by how understandable, laid out, how little people get lost and fun the map "rooms" are, and if we go by that prospect I'd say Quake 2, Doom (2016) (I have yet to play Eternal so no comment on it) and Hexxen 2

If you like Dark Souls design you might like the new game High On Life too that game has crazy level design and if you like to explore its great but not too much where it waste your time like some other games such as Assassin creed vahalla takes like 2000 hour to see the entire map nah its a good game

stalker clear sky is also another game if you like the dark style games

Originally posted by The Revenge of Suicide Jockey:

Out of curiosity, does this exclude open world maps and large maps? If so then I do have a few, namely Portal, simple in their design, they all have a very well designed functionality to them, plus some creative surf maps from either CSGO or TF2 look rather nice as well.

But out of the games I've played I'd say my personal favorite in level design is Doom and Wolfinstine, taking on how you didnt say graphics, I'm guessing this means by how understandable, laid out, how little people get lost and fun the map "rooms" are, and if we go by that prospect I'd say Quake 2, Doom (2016) (I have yet to play Eternal so no comment on it) and Hexxen 2

No it doesn't, level design is still level design. It's just that with that genre quality is often sacrificed for quantity.

I would also say that more complex maps that make a person think are often better than simpler maps. But the more complex something is the more context and the more sense it has to make, this is something that Half-Life 2 perfected.

Tetris

theres another game like dark souls i know thats an RPG almost like skyrim but handled in a more dark souls way with cool level design similar to dark souls might even be the same devs but i cant find it i know you can steal horses in the beginning after escaping jail cant remember it wasnt a superpopular game back than but youll find more games that are older sorry i know these are alot of responses this is the last one

Originally posted by Grim Reaper:

Originally posted by The Revenge of Suicide Jockey:

Out of curiosity, does this exclude open world maps and large maps? If so then I do have a few, namely Portal, simple in their design, they all have a very well designed functionality to them, plus some creative surf maps from either CSGO or TF2 look rather nice as well.

But out of the games I've played I'd say my personal favorite in level design is Doom and Wolfinstine, taking on how you didnt say graphics, I'm guessing this means by how understandable, laid out, how little people get lost and fun the map "rooms" are, and if we go by that prospect I'd say Quake 2, Doom (2016) (I have yet to play Eternal so no comment on it) and Hexxen 2

No it doesn't, level design is still level design. It's just that with that genre quality is often sacrificed for quantity.

I would also say that more complex maps that make a person think are often better than simpler maps. But the more complex something is the more context and the more sense it has to make, this is something that Half-Life 2 perfected.

Gotcha, ty Reaper, I gave ya an award (choose wholesome because I actually do mean thanks for the clarity but none of the awards seem...to imply it without sarcasm x.x)

Pretty much any immersive sim. They typically have everything there for a reason. I'd have to give mine to "Prey" just because of that reason.

Any game with seven to eight.

For me:

• Many of the Super Mario games, particularly SMB3 and SMW. (And imo NSMBU has slept on level design due to the unpopularity of its visual style. Easily my favorite 2D platformer in terms of level design since SMW personally.)
  
• Many of the classic Doom and Doom 64 maps.
  
• Many OG Quake maps.
  
• Many Legend of Zelda dungeons over the decades.
  
• Some of the later maps in Prodeus are actually really impressively designed imo. (Just in the sense that they achieve the "see something but not how to get to it, with a lot of distant geometry that entices you to experiment and explore, and then lo and behold it works and leads to something" effect that many classic FPS games did so well back in the day.)
  
• Some of the areas in both Deus Ex and Deus Ex Human Revolution are very satisfyingly designed to take into account player actions imo.
  
• Hexen (at the time, the portal system and backtracking, plus the puzzles, were really compelling to me. If a bit annoying and opaque sometimes.)
  
• Speaking of portals... Portal 1 and 2. Needs no explanation.
  
• Many metroidvania games have great level design imo, including Shadow Complex, and of course many if not all of the Metroid games themselves.)
  
• The Dishonored games (and honorable mention to Thief while I'm thinking of it.)

Edit: Someone mentioned a game I totally forgot to include in my list. Shadow of the Colossus.

Originally posted by Aikido:

For me:

• Many of the Super Mario games, particularly SMB3 and SMW. (And imo NSMBU has slept on level design due to the unpopularity of its visual style. Easily my favorite 2D platformer in terms of level design since SMW personally.)
  
• Many of the classic Doom and Doom 64 maps.
  
• Many OG Quake maps.
  
• Many Legend of Zelda dungeons over the decades.
  
• Some of the later maps in Prodeus are actually really impressively designed imo. (Just in the sense that they achieve the "see something but not how to get to it, with a lot of distant geometry that entices you to experiment and explore, and then lo and behold it works and leads to something" effect that many classic FPS games did so well back in the day.)
  
• Some of the areas in both Deus Ex and Deus Ex Human Revolution are very satisfyingly designed to take into account player actions imo.
  
• Hexen (at the time, the portal system and backtracking, plus the puzzles, were really compelling to me. If a bit annoying and opaque sometimes.)
  
• Speaking of portals... Portal 1 and 2. Needs no explanation.
  
• Many metroidvania games have great level design imo, including Shadow Complex, and of course many if not all of the Metroid games themselves.)
  
• The Dishonored games (and honorable mention to Thief while I'm thinking of it.)

The SNES and N64 games are definitely Nintendo's finest, in terms of pretty much everything.