Hello there!

The purpose of this thread is to give community members a platform to report their GOTY contenders for 2026. The idea here is to 1) inspire each other to play games we may have otherwise skipped and 2) give each of us a larger pool of experiences to pull from during the forum's GOTY voting process in December.

A few tips:

• Your nomination doesn't need to be the GOTY of 2026. Think of the games as GOTY contenders — titles that would make your top 10-12 games list at the end of the year
• We are looking for games that saw their first international release in 2026
• Feel free to list collections, remasters, and DLC, but we mainly want new games, including transformational remakes like Resident Evil 4 (2023)
• Please list the game, the platform you played it on, your score, and a short blurb about what makes it special

Please feel free to come here and post every time you finish a new GOTY candidate! I'll track total mentions in the post below.

I figured I'd get this up early, even though I expect not a lot of folks have played a GOTY contender 18 days into the new year

Hopefully I get to play some really winners this year.