Hm. This is tougher than I thought.
5. Final Fantasy: Crystal Defenders - Why is this here? I'm not sure, except that I enjoyed it a lot more than I imagined I would. Just trying to improve each time I played kept me entertained.
4. Divinity: Original Sin - The game is flawed, certainly, but it also offers so many positives. I put 100+ hours into it before I got bored. With a bigger budget and more polished mechanics, this could have been GOTY quality.
3. Dishonored - Really just an excellent game. Awesome atmosphere, fun powers, and a good story.
2. Fallout 4 - This should probably be my top pick, to be honest, but I'm putting it at #2 because I knew what I was getting and I expected that I would love it. I'm over 400 hours now (though some of that was spent in idle) and still discovering new places.
1. This War of Mine - I put in over 100 hours and, for awhile, I played obsessively. I've seriously never come across anything like it. It could be unfair and unforgiving but that's part of the struggle, like the real world it is intended to represent. I still remember the shock I felt the first time one of my survivors was killed, shot by a drunken soldier who was trying to rape a girl. I tried to help her, failed, and the character I'd been trying so hard to keep alive was gone. No respawn, no second chance. In another play-through, when I ran across the same scenario, I quietly ran away and left the girl to her fate--which, in turn, left all my survivors dangerously depressed.
It was a unique experience and deserves a huge amount of praise for bringing something new to gaming, which is why it's at the top of my list.
