Pretty predictably lame list, from my perspective, but it is what it is. Shredder's Revenge and The Quarry have pretty shallow appeal (even though I love the spritework of SR), and Stray is cute and conceptually nice but lacking, in my opinion. Elden Ring being as low as it is seems off, considering the games listed ahead of it, and I'm skeptical of God of War Ragnarok because I recently played a chunk of the 2018 God of War and thought it was thoroughly unimpressive (don't know how much better or worse this one's supposed to be).
That said, I think it's been a pretty nice year for videogames, personally. Usually I might be really impressed by one or two things at best, but Elden Ring, Tunic, and Sifu all strike me as legitimately great games, Tactics Ogre Reborn is a standout labor-of-love remaster that dramatically improves and fixes all the issues of a pioneering classic that was already way ahead of its time, and even with something typically dismissible like pure Mobile Games, I was very impressed by how well something like Poinpy is designed, too. Plus there's interesting stuff that I haven't looked at yet like Citizen Sleeper.
