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UnderwaterFunktown on 29 December 2023
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Since it doesn't seem like there'll be any threads for the 2020s I'm gonna go ahead and leave my answers here for now.

2020

Very underrated year in my book with a lot of incredible games, but that's probably also since it has some lesser known games I love on top of the big titles of the year. Case in point my game of the year is Black Mesa with OMORI as the runner up. My full top 5:

  1. Black Mesa
  2. OMORI
  3. Ori and the Will of the Wisps
  4. DOOM: Eternal
  5. Hades

Also a shoutout to Last of Us Part II. I played the climax of that game during an actual thunderstorm and that's an experience I won't soon be forgetting.

I haven't even played FF7 Remake yet due to my damnable patience, and if that lives up to my expectations this year might actually compete with 2017 as the GOAT.

2021

A somewhat slower year overall which makes Metroid Dread the easy choice for me (and like 90 % of the site apparently). Also shoutout to Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy which is almost as good as the racoon would have you believe. My top 5 for the year:

  1. Metroid Dread
  2. Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
  3. Tales of Arise
  4. NieR Replicant ver.√1.5
  5. Psychonauts 2

2022

Now we're getting to the years where I haven't played enough to fill out a top 5. Anyways my choice is God of War: Ragnarök, but I can understand why Elden Ring was the more popular choice since I do consider that a pretty big step forward for FromSoft while I actually consider Ragnarök a small step down from God of War (2018), but that mostly just speaks to just how incredible 2018 was. Top 3 for the year:

  1. God of War: Ragnarök
  2. Elden Ring
  3. Kirby and the Forgotten Land

2023

Seems like there's been a pattern of absolutely packed years every third year since 2017. I've still only played half the game I want to this year but for now my choice has to be The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. For now my runner-up is Hogwarts Legacy which I'm still in the middle off, hard to rank a game in the midst of it of course, but I'm absolutely engrossed in it at the moment so something would have to go fairly wrong for it to not land among my favorites. My top 3 for the year would be:

  1. Tears of the Kingdom
  2. Hogwarts Legacy (in progress)
  3. The Talos Principle II

2020s Game of the Decade (so far)

Tears of the Kingdom is actually the one I've ranked highest on my top 50, but on the spot right now I think I'd say Black Mesa. The greatest remake ever of an already excellent game. Either way we have a really strong list of games after only 4 years. My top 10 for the decade so far:

  1. Black Mesa
  2. Tears of the Kingdom
  3. OMORI
  4. God of War: Ragnarök
  5. Ori and the Will of the Wisps
  6. Hogwarts Legacy
  7. DOOM: Eternal
  8. Metroid Dread
  9. Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
  10. Elden Ring


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