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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:

RankGame2014201520162017201820192020202120222023
#50Bully#25#25#31#34#45H.M.Unr.Unr.Unr.
#49Star Fox Zero#22#27#33#47#49H.M.Unr.Unr.
#48Football Manager 2020#38#43#44#41
#47Sonic the Hedgehog 2#30#33#39#43#41#43#41H.M.#46#43
#46The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks#19#19#30#37#44#46#46H.M.Unr.Unr.
#45AM2R: Return of Samus#16#29#35#38#40H.M.Unr.Unr.
#44Hyper Light Drifter#22#27#31#44#44H.M.#48
#43Mario Kart 8#18#24#26#36#36#41#45Unr.Unr.#46
#42Persona 3#43#35#37#36
#41Metroid: Zero Mission#29#32#39#39#37#38#42#45
#40Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas#14#15#28#33#38#35#42Unr.Unr.Unr.
#39Cyberpunk 2077#34#38#37
#38Castlevania: Symphony of the Night#24#29#36#36#43#49
#37Splatoon#21#32#25#31#40#39H.M.#34#35
#36Pokémon Black Version 2 & White Version 2#23#30#33#38#37#36#32#33#36#38
#35Super Mario Odyssey#11#12#20#26#47Unr.Unr.
#34Splatoon 2#30#22#27#28#28#35Unr.
#33The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess#26#20#27#34#32#34#31#31#41#40
#32Super Meat Boy#15#14#21#24#29#33#34#45#45H.M.
#31Metroid: Samus Returns#20#21#24#27#32#39#42
#30Metroid Prime 3: Corruption#16#24#26#30#32#33#30#32#34
#29Portal#10#12#14#28#28#30#30#29#31#33
#28Metroid Prime 2: Echoes#38#20#18#18#22#22#21#25#29
#27The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time#17#23#23#23#23#25#25#27#26#22
#26Thumper#40#19#18#16#24#19#20
#25Ori and the Blind Forest#10#16#26#28#24#19#21#26
#24The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker#9#13#15#17#25#26#23#26#27#25
#23The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask#11#10#13#14#16#23#29#37#24#28
#22Pokémon Gold Version & Silver Version#16#18#17#21#20#17#18#20#23#21
#21Metroid Fusion#18#15#15#16#19#18#22#27
#20Astral Chain#19#21#14#16#17
#19Pokémon Black Version & White Version#13#17#19#19#17#15#15#16#17#19
#18NieR: Automata#17#17#15#16
#17Super Smash Bros. for Wii U#4#5#6#7#21#20#25#29#24
#16Star Fox 64#8#8#11#9#10#13#14#22#28#18
#15Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze#7#11#12#12#13#14#13#23#18#14
#14Metroid Dread#11#11#12
#13Metroid Prime#12#9#9#10#11#12#12#12#12#9
#12The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past#4#3#6#8#9#10#11#15#14#23
#11Pokémon X & Y#5#6#7#13#14#7#8#10#10#11
#10Portal 2#3#5#8#7#8#9#10#13#13#13
#9Super Metroid#6#7#3#5#5#8#9#9#9#8
#8Hollow Knight#6#5#6#7#8#7
#7The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild#2#4#6#7#8#7#10
#6Persona 5#3#3#5#4#5
#5Shadow of the Colossus#2#2#2#3#3#4#4#6#6#6
#4Ori and the Will of the Wisps#5#4#3#3
#3The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword#1#1#1#1#2#2#2#3#5#4
#2Ōkami#4#4#1#1#1#2#2#2
#1Marvel'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!

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