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Darashiva said:


2017:
1. Horizon Zero Dawn
2. Nier: Automata
3. Hollow Knight
4. Yakuza 0
5. Tales of Berseria
(This is a difficult year to rank. I'm already leaving out games like Trails in the Sky the 3rd, Gravity Rush 2, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and Breath of the Wild, all of which I love.)

I know what you mean about 2017! I'd have actually preferred to list more games for each year actually, but I felt like requesting more than five per year might be too unreasonable or overwhelming a task for many if not most, so I opted for a consistent rule of five per year.

Had I NOT gone with a consistent rule for the sake of there being any structure here, my list of favorite games from each year would've instead looked like this:

2016:

1) Diaries of Spaceport Janitor
2) Ittle Dew 2
3) That Dragon, Cancer
4) Pony Island
5) The Last Guardian
6) Inside
7) Stardew Valley
8) The Flame in the Flood
9) Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
10) VA11-Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
11) Dishonored 2
12) One Night Stand
13) 1979 Revolution: Black Friday
14) Oxenfree
15) Hyper Light Drifter
16) Overwatch
17) A Little Lily Princess
18) Virginia

2017:

1) Butterfly Soup
2) What Remains of Edith Finch
3) Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
4) Night in the Woods
5) Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
6) Nier: Automata
7) Dream Daddy
8) The Shrouded Isle
9) Tales of Berseria
10) Cosmic Star Heroine
11) Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
12) Little Nightmares
13) Sonic Mania
14) Star Fox 2
15) Hollow Knight
16) Persona 5
17) Metroid: Samus Returns
18) A Hat in Time
19) Pyre
20) Horizon Zero Dawn
21) Super Mario Odyssey
22) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
23) Life is Strange: Before the Storm

2018:

1) Celeste
2) Donut County
3) Return of the Obra Dinn
4) Alwa's Awakening
5) God of War
6) Florence
7) Shadow of the Tomb Raider

2019:

1) Knights and Bikes
2) Death Stranding
3) A Plague Tale: Innocence
4) Gato Roboto
5) Untitled Goose Game
6) A Short Hike
7) Cadence of Hyrule
8) Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
9) Control
10) Mutazione
11) Deadeus

2020:

1) The Last of Us Part II
2) Spiritfarer
3) Hades
4) Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
5) ScourgeBringer
6) Streets of Rage 4
7) There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
8) Mission: It's Complicated
9) Demon's Souls
10) Animal Crossing: New Horizons
11) Ghost of Tsushima
12) Astro's Playroom
13) Ori and the Will of the Wisps

2021:

1) It Takes Two
2) Returnal
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3) Oddworld: Soulstorm
4) The Medium

Honorable Mention: Kentucky Route Zero

That's not all my games from any of those years, it's just a list of the ones I replay or intend to. Crash 4 is excluded from this version of the 2021 list because I haven't replayed it and don't really plan to in the foreseeable future. Anyway, as you can see, this version of the list is a little unwieldy and thought it might get that way for other people too, so that's why I went for the rule of five.

Last edited by Jaicee - on 29 June 2021