Darashiva on 01 January 2023
Just sitting doing nothing important right now, so here's a quick summary of my top 50 for 2022.
What changed:
- There were a total of five new games on my list this year:
- Spiritfarer (#37)
- The Last of Us Part II (#31)
- Valkyria Chronicles 4 (#30)
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV (#24)
- Elden Ring (#10)
- This naturally means that five games fell off the list as well, those being:
- Batman: Arkham City (#50 last year)
- Portal 2 (#48 last year)
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (#47 last year)
- Super Metroid (#46 last year)
- Command & Conquer (#45 last year)
- Many games also moved around quite a lot:
- The biggest fall was reserved for Grandia II, which went down 9 spots to #50, while Ni No Kuni, Kingdom Hearts 2 and Super Mario Bros. 3 each fell 7 spots
- Only a few games went up from last year, with God of War (2018) and Final Fantasy VII Remake having the biggest jumps, both going up two spots
- In addition, there was one game I considered putting in the top 50, but which just barely missed it in the end. That game was Super Mario Galaxy.
Platform breakdown: (I've played some games on multiple platforms, hence the numbers not adding up to 50)
| PC | PS1 | PS2 | PS3 | PS4 | NES | SNES | Switch | Xbox 360 |
| 9 games | 6 games | 5 games | 13 games | 26 games | 1 game | 1 game | 1 game | 1 game |
- The PS4 is by far the most represented platform on my list, including all the new games that I added this year.
- However, that includes 10 games that I originally played on a different platform, so technically the actual number for PS4 is 16.
- PC is down two games from last year, while the PS3, SNES, and Switch are each down one.
- The highest ranking games for each platform, going by the first platform I played the game on:
- PC: Freespace 2 (#3)
- PS1: Final Fantasy IX (#1)
- PS2: Shadow of the Colossus (#6)
- PS3: Dark Souls (#4)
- PS4: Bloodborne (#8)
- NES: Super Mario Bros. 3 (#38)
- SNES: Final Fantasy VI (#17)
- Switch: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (#39)
- Xbox 360: Lost Odyssey (#44)
Developer breakdown:
- Certain developers appear on my list quite a few times, so here's a list of ones that have more than one game in my top 50, followed by their highest ranking game:
- Squaresoft/Square Enix: 7 games (Final Fantasy IX at #1)
- Nihon Falcom: 7 games (The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC at #7)
- FromSoftware: 5 games (Dark Souls at #4)
- Naughty Dog: 4 games (The Last of Us at #13)
- Sega: 3 games (Valkyria Chronicles at #5)
- Nintendo: 2 games (Super Mario Bros. 3 at #38)
- Konami: 2 games (Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater at #23)
- Game Arts: 2 games (Grandia at #27)
- In addition to those, Asobo Studio, Santa Monica Studio, Mistwalker, Ninja Theory, Level-5, Clover Studio, Thunder Lotus Games, Cavedog Entertainment, ConcernedApe, Bandai Namco Studios, Media.Vision, Atlus, Team Cherry, PlatinumGames, Guerrilla Games, Team Ico, Volition, and Sony Japan Studio each have one game on the list
Finally, here's my full top 50 if you're interested in checking it out.
That's all I can think to write about right now. Hopefully that's interesting to at least some of you.
