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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. It made me realize that the future is not going to be people on spaceships. It will be bizarre and beautiful post-human intelligences. That's what made me choose to study biology (although in retrospect I should have bet on silicon rather than carbon).
I'll vote for the Civilization series as something that changed my life. It wasn't a single profound experience when I "completed the game". I've done that a number of times in multiple different versions of Civ. It was more the "aha" moments along the way. Learning about wonders of the world, hearing about different cultures. Thinking about how X led to Y. Civ taught me a lot of things, but more importantly, it made me curious so that I learned things outside the game.