Generation zero
Pretty easily Hunt Showdown with honorable mention to Remnant II, Northgard, and Age of Wonders 4
Outer Wilds + DLC. Not just one of the best games I’ve played this year, but one of the best games I have ever played.
Honorable mentions:
- Cruelty Squad
- Life is Strange: True Colors (really wish it were longer)
- Budget Cuts 1 and 2 (VR only)
LOVED Cruelty Squad
Hate LiS Colours—loved the first game.
Need to try budget cuts.
Out of curiosity, why did you dislike True Colors? I really loved 1/BtS, but really disliked 2. True Colors felt like a proper spiritual successor to 1
It was soooooooooooo cheesy. So much more than the first. The second was terrible, definitely worse than True Colors. But True Colors was just cheese after cheese.
Based Cruelty Squad Enjoyer.
Outer Wilds and its DLC is my absolute favorite game of all time and the best I might have ever played. Full stop. There is just so much to it that one doesn’t expect from the surface. It was an experience I still think back to every now and then.
Currently playing Cruelty Squad and enjoying it quite, too.
Outer wilds is definitely one of my favorites too. I went in blind which was awesome. Completely caught me off guard right after the tutorial. I didn’t expect such intricate mechanics
City Skylines 2
Y’all gotta play The Finals. It’s so much fuckin fun. I’d honestly been pretty bored with games until recently when it was released
Counterpoint: that game was so boring, it briefly made me play OW2 again just for contrast.
Uh ok. You don’t have to like it, dude 😅
Let me know what game you’re currently enjoying, so I can shit all over it, if that’s your thing
Haha, sorry. That’d be Avatar Frontiers of Pandora so no need, Ubisoft did all the shitting over it already.
I don’t know Finals was just weird for me. Granted I played the demo they ran a few months ago, that was way before release, so I don’t know what changed since then. But back then it had cool feel with the destruction but everything else felt very weightless and floaty and as a result the core gunplay felt discouraging. If hat makes sense.
But eh, different games for different people.
The environmental destruction is what makes this game so amazing. There are so many ways to approach the enemy. The bank it mode is super fast paced and exciting to run in, grab the coins, and run away. Im enjoying creating different builds/classes and finding their effectiveness on the team. My friend group never plays FPS games but we are addicted to this one!
Dead space. The remake was just as good as the original but with updated graphics and mechanics.
Tears of the Kingdom
It’s not perfect, but still excellent
I enjoyed the hell out of it but quit playing at the final boss fight. I fucking hate that corrupted Lionel that’s in the way of the last boss and I can’t get around it without getting murdered. I know I just need to go darn a bazillion sunflowers for the anti gloom potions but I can’t be bothered
If you got stuck on a lynel on the way to the final boss, that tells me you were going for the final boss too early. Did you 100% the side quests? Upgrade your armor a bunch?
There’s a colosseum in the depths full of lynels; that was harder for me.
You could always place a warp point as far as you can get into the final boss area, so you don’t have to go through it all again.
I actually just beat the waves and waves of silver lynels so I’m low on everything. You’re right though I just need to restock
A Plague Tale: Requiem.
Ah, fellow masochist.
Really enjoyed valheim. Not sure it was my fave but really enjoyable. A game I can just keep going back to.
From this year: BG3
From before this year: Dwarf Fortress
Sludge Life. Was such a fun little world with a killer art style. Has some really funny moments in it. I saw there were achievements for different endings so I may go back to it at some point to and try for those. Oh and a cool OST to go along with it
Spider-Man: Miles Morales got its Steam release in November of last year, but I didn’t get to it until after New Years. The Steam Deck handled it really well, which just makes me pissed that Insomniac signed a PlayStation exclusivity agreement for Spider-Man 2.
Roadwarden
I love Roadwarden! My only issue is that I’ve taken a break for a while mid-playthrough, and now I don’t remember what I was doing. I may just have to start fresh. I also just picked up Vagrus: The Riven Realms, which is similarly awesome.
Resident Evil 4 Remake
My most played game this year is definitely my favorite, loved it from start to end.
This but with Cyberpunk for me.
I’ve tried W3 so many times but I just can’t get into it.
Try again and stick with it. I had to do it three or four times and now I’m hooked. Just about to finally beat the game which is rare for me. And it took a year, but it’s one I always want to come back to
I know, I know. It’s not a knock against the game or anyone who likes it. Maybe I’ll come back to it in the far future. There are almost too many games available at the moment so I’ll be ramming my flaccid dong against another wall until I love it.
That’s… you… okay. Ram that dong.
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