Well, to close things off, I'll post some statistics from my list, starting with the final results for the guessing game! It was a bit of a non-contest really, but here are those of you who guessed my games:
13 guesses: @UnderwaterFunktown
7 guesses: @drbunnig
6 guesses: @S.Peelman and @Veknoid_Outcast
5 guesses: @Darashiva
4 guesses: @Machina
3 guesses: @Mnementh and @TruckOSaurus
1 guess: @BonfiresDown, @psychicscubadiver and @Jpcc86
I think my hints may have been on the easy side this year, which made it basically a "who knows the game and gets there first" contest, but anyway, that's credit to UnderwaterFunktown for always being there to pounce! I stepped back from the audio hints I did last year, but I might wanna bring that back sometime, we'll see.
Now, some tidbits about the list itself:
- This was my first list to have no new entries - the previous fewest amount of new games was 4. That said, there was a "sort-of-new" game with Kingdom Two Crowns (#50) moving into the list after going three years unranked since I first played it.
- With Hyper Light Drifter (#48), Mario Kart 8 (#46), and Rock Band 3 (#44) also coming back into the list, this ties with 2015 as the list with the most games returning from unranked positions.
- Despite the general stability all over the list, there was still a game that broke into the Top 10, with Metroid Prime (#9) rising three spots to change this group of games that was unchanged since 2021, largely due to the remaster it received this year. It was its first Top 10 placement since 2017!
- No Man's Sky (#31) recorded the second-highest leap in any of my lists so far, having jumped a whopping 19 spots up from last year. The only bigger leap came when Thumper (#20) rose 21 spots in 2018's list.
Now, since this is my 10th year of doing this, I decided to make a "compilation" here, a list based on the average position obtained by each game over this decade! It's interesting seeing the wild changes some games went through over the years, or how stable they stayed throughout. I've listed 101 games in total over these years, but I'm only posting the ones that broke into the Top 50 and had at least 3 appearances (sorry, last year's newcomers!). Anyhow, here goes:
| Rank | Game | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
| #50 | Bully | #25 | #25 | #31 | #34 | #45 | H.M. | Unr. | Unr. | Unr. | |
| #49 | Star Fox Zero | #22 | #27 | #33 | #47 | #49 | H.M. | Unr. | Unr. | ||
| #48 | Football Manager 2020 | #38 | #43 | #44 | #41 | ||||||
| #47 | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | #30 | #33 | #39 | #43 | #41 | #43 | #41 | H.M. | #46 | #43 |
| #46 | The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks | #19 | #19 | #30 | #37 | #44 | #46 | #46 | H.M. | Unr. | Unr. |
| #45 | AM2R: Return of Samus | #16 | #29 | #35 | #38 | #40 | H.M. | Unr. | Unr. | ||
| #44 | Hyper Light Drifter | #22 | #27 | #31 | #44 | #44 | H.M. | #48 | |||
| #43 | Mario Kart 8 | #18 | #24 | #26 | #36 | #36 | #41 | #45 | Unr. | Unr. | #46 |
| #42 | Persona 3 | #43 | #35 | #37 | #36 | ||||||
| #41 | Metroid: Zero Mission | #29 | #32 | #39 | #39 | #37 | #38 | #42 | #45 | ||
| #40 | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | #14 | #15 | #28 | #33 | #38 | #35 | #42 | Unr. | Unr. | Unr. |
| #39 | Cyberpunk 2077 | #34 | #38 | #37 | |||||||
| #38 | Castlevania: Symphony of the Night | #24 | #29 | #36 | #36 | #43 | #49 | ||||
| #37 | Splatoon | #21 | #32 | #25 | #31 | #40 | #39 | H.M. | #34 | #35 | |
| #36 | Pokémon Black Version 2 & White Version 2 | #23 | #30 | #33 | #38 | #37 | #36 | #32 | #33 | #36 | #38 |
| #35 | Super Mario Odyssey | #11 | #12 | #20 | #26 | #47 | Unr. | Unr. | |||
| #34 | Splatoon 2 | #30 | #22 | #27 | #28 | #28 | #35 | Unr. | |||
| #33 | The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess | #26 | #20 | #27 | #34 | #32 | #34 | #31 | #31 | #41 | #40 |
| #32 | Super Meat Boy | #15 | #14 | #21 | #24 | #29 | #33 | #34 | #45 | #45 | H.M. |
| #31 | Metroid: Samus Returns | #20 | #21 | #24 | #27 | #32 | #39 | #42 | |||
| #30 | Metroid Prime 3: Corruption | #16 | #24 | #26 | #30 | #32 | #33 | #30 | #32 | #34 | |
| #29 | Portal | #10 | #12 | #14 | #28 | #28 | #30 | #30 | #29 | #31 | #33 |
| #28 | Metroid Prime 2: Echoes | #38 | #20 | #18 | #18 | #22 | #22 | #21 | #25 | #29 | |
| #27 | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time | #17 | #23 | #23 | #23 | #23 | #25 | #25 | #27 | #26 | #22 |
| #26 | Thumper | #40 | #19 | #18 | #16 | #24 | #19 | #20 | |||
| #25 | Ori and the Blind Forest | #10 | #16 | #26 | #28 | #24 | #19 | #21 | #26 | ||
| #24 | The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker | #9 | #13 | #15 | #17 | #25 | #26 | #23 | #26 | #27 | #25 |
| #23 | The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask | #11 | #10 | #13 | #14 | #16 | #23 | #29 | #37 | #24 | #28 |
| #22 | Pokémon Gold Version & Silver Version | #16 | #18 | #17 | #21 | #20 | #17 | #18 | #20 | #23 | #21 |
| #21 | Metroid Fusion | #18 | #15 | #15 | #16 | #19 | #18 | #22 | #27 | ||
| #20 | Astral Chain | #19 | #21 | #14 | #16 | #17 | |||||
| #19 | Pokémon Black Version & White Version | #13 | #17 | #19 | #19 | #17 | #15 | #15 | #16 | #17 | #19 |
| #18 | NieR: Automata | #17 | #17 | #15 | #16 | ||||||
| #17 | Super Smash Bros. for Wii U | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 | #21 | #20 | #25 | #29 | #24 | |
| #16 | Star Fox 64 | #8 | #8 | #11 | #9 | #10 | #13 | #14 | #22 | #28 | #18 |
| #15 | Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze | #7 | #11 | #12 | #12 | #13 | #14 | #13 | #23 | #18 | #14 |
| #14 | Metroid Dread | #11 | #11 | #12 | |||||||
| #13 | Metroid Prime | #12 | #9 | #9 | #10 | #11 | #12 | #12 | #12 | #12 | #9 |
| #12 | The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past | #4 | #3 | #6 | #8 | #9 | #10 | #11 | #15 | #14 | #23 |
| #11 | Pokémon X & Y | #5 | #6 | #7 | #13 | #14 | #7 | #8 | #10 | #10 | #11 |
| #10 | Portal 2 | #3 | #5 | #8 | #7 | #8 | #9 | #10 | #13 | #13 | #13 |
| #9 | Super Metroid | #6 | #7 | #3 | #5 | #5 | #8 | #9 | #9 | #9 | #8 |
| #8 | Hollow Knight | #6 | #5 | #6 | #7 | #8 | #7 | ||||
| #7 | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | #2 | #4 | #6 | #7 | #8 | #7 | #10 | |||
| #6 | Persona 5 | #3 | #3 | #5 | #4 | #5 | |||||
| #5 | Shadow of the Colossus | #2 | #2 | #2 | #3 | #3 | #4 | #4 | #6 | #6 | #6 |
| #4 | Ori and the Will of the Wisps | #5 | #4 | #3 | #3 | ||||||
| #3 | The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword | #1 | #1 | #1 | #1 | #2 | #2 | #2 | #3 | #5 | #4 |
| #2 | Ōkami | #4 | #4 | #1 | #1 | #1 | #2 | #2 | #2 | ||
| #1 | Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy | #1 | #1 | #1 |
Ahem.
Admittedly I'm not too happy with how the colors turned out on that spreadsheet, but it's too much of a pain to go back and rework now.
Anyways, that'll be it from me on here, see y'all on the Results thread! 
