Man, I don't think this is it, but this is very applicable to Resident Evil 5.

Tifa Lockheart! 

No, unfortunately. I've never actually played RE5.

Guessed by @Jpcc86

One of the most emotionally deep stories I've seen from a big studio game, Nier: Automata is something I feel can't accurately be described, it must be experienced. Those who played it, know.

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Guessed by @Machina

This was the hardest game for me to rank last year, partly because it's very much unlike most games I play, making it difficult to compare to the others around here, but also simply because I played it so late in the year that I barely had time to process my thoughts on it before slotting it somewhere into the list. Well, those thoughts have been mostly processed now, and they read "masterpiece".

That's the only way I can describe this. How it masterfully translates the atmosphere and dread of Alien, one of my favorite movies, into the even more terrifying interactive format, this game had my thumb glued to the spacebar and my senses glued to that motion tracker, I can still hear its sounds over a year later. I've played very few horror games but I doubt I'll ever play one that makes me as tense as scared as this did. Even in its few quieter moments, everything about this game makes you feel uneasy, and I love how, in good Alien spirit, everything here is something to look out for - the xenomorph is an unstoppable murder machine, but it also brings out the very worst in humanity and its androids, making anything and everything a threat.

I know I often judge games here on how much I'm willing to replay them, but Alien: Isolation is something I never want to revisit and that only makes me rate it higher. Though I'd be lying if I wasn't interested in watching other people suffer through it.

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Guessed by @drbunnig

Tropical Freeze makes waves back up the list and I'm not even sure I replayed it this year? It's just such a great game. Sometimes I'll be bored, or stressed, or sad, and I don't really know what to do with my time, then I see this on the Switch menu and boot it up. I don't think there's been a single time that I've started up this game and backed out of it, it's always so much fun, I could replay it over and over - indeed, I have - and I'd never get bored of it. I love every level, I love every song by David Wise, the gameplay and the level design and the art, it all combines in a way that's honestly magic. I'll never stop enjoying Tropical Freeze.

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Guessed by @Darashiva

This is such a classic. I remember being completely mind blown by it some dozen years ago, and it's held up on each time I've revisited it. It's got a great story, as great as a game like this can have at least, the single-player campaign flows in such a wonderful way and explores the idea of portals so deeply it makes its predecessor look like a demo (which, in truth, it kinda was). Then there's the co-op campaign, which I haven't played it since way back then with my brother, but it was great times too and I'm hoping to replay it sometime soon and as for the PC version, that awesome level editor, I can't believe how people make such amazing levels on it, there's basically endless Portal content and it's crazy that this game usually goes for about as much as a potato. Or maybe that's just fitting!

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Sorry for the spam y'all, I keep falling behind on this!

#12 - We finally got to see and interact with the people of a lost civilization that was presumed dead throughout this franchise's long history.
#11 - Whether you face the embodiment of destruction or the embodiment of life, in both of them you're trying to prevent destruction.
#10 - This game was criticized for having its main quests be too repetitive and samey looking. The developers heard the complaints and ensured that in the sequel, the main quests were repetitive and different looking!

10 might be Breath of the Wild?

In fact it is!

(edit: and this continues the trend that every single time I posted multiple hints here, the first one to be guessed is the last )