Your favorite games by year

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1989: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1990: The Secret of Monkey Island
1991: Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
1992: Pinball Dreams
1993: Day of the Tentacle (close second: Return to Zork)
1994: UFO: Enemy Unknown (One Must Fall: 2097 and Jagged Alliance are contenders)
1995: Descent (close second: Star Wars: Dark Forces)
1996: Duke Nukem 3D (close second: Resident Evil)
1997: ???
1998: Baldur’s Gate (StarCraft is close second)
1999: Heroes of Might & Magic 3
2000: Baldur’s Gate 2 (close second: The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask)
2001: Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land (close second: Pikmin)
2002: Resident Evil Zero
2003: Beyond Good & Evil
2004: Resident Evil 4
2005: ???
2006: Okami (close second: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess)
2007: Etrian Odyssey (contenders: Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn and Hotel Dusk: Room 215)
2008: Mario Kart Wii
2009: Demon’s Souls (contenders: Monster Hunter Tri and Little King's Story)
2010: Xenoblade Chronicles
2011: Pandora's Tower (close second: Deus Ex: Human Revolution)
2012: Fire Emblem Awakening (contenders: Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan and Kid Icarus: Uprising)
2013: Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl
2014: Hyrule Warriors (contenders: Mario Kart 8 and Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth)
2015: Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE (close second: Pillars of Eternity)
2016: Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth
2017: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild