What are your top 3 games of the year?

[Dolemite]

1) Horizon Forbidden West

2) God of War Ragnarok

3) Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (yes it’s that good).

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[The Mars Volchenkov]

Elden Ring
Tinykin
Tunic

 

[TheDoldrums]

1. Xenoblade
2. Chronicles
3. 3

 

[Shareefruck]

I assume Elden Ring, but I haven't taken a big enough bite out of it yet.

Tactics Ogre Reborn
Tunic

Also curious about Citizen Sleeper maybe sneaking in there later.

 

[Andrei79]

My top 2 is clear : Elden Ring then Tunic.

Third place, would probably be between Chained Echoes and Expeditions:Rome, once I finish them.

Some HM: Vampire Survivors, Nobody saves the world, Cult of the Lamb, TMNT.

 

[syz]

Elden Ring
Vampire Survivors
Xenoblade 3

Need to check out Citizen Sleeper, Pentiment, Chained Echoes, and Signalis.

 

[Blitzkrug]

God Of War: Ragnarok
Horizon: Forbidden West
Marvel: Midnight Suns (pleasantly surprised with how good this turned out)

 

[Unholy Diver]

Horizon Forbidden West
Dying Light 2
High on Life

 

[Seedtype]

Heh, a lot of Japanese titles outside of what I regularly play:

1) Persona 5 Royal (PC)
2) Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Nintendo Switch)
3) Nier: Replicant ver.1.22474487139... (PC) Also made me finally finish Nier: Automata(only had the first ending done before).

Now, I also typically play the racing sim iRacing continuously but I consider that a sub-hobby of gaming.

 

[Commander Clueless]

I'm a little surprised how few games I played this year, looking back.

In terms of pure fun:

1) Midnight Suns
2) Elden Ring
3) Pokemon Scarlet

Elden Ring was the "best" game this year in terms of design and enjoyment, but I've had more pure fun with Midnight Suns (late entry - possible recency bias).

Pokemon Scarlet had terrible graphics and horrible technical issues....and yet I had an absolute blast playing it in a way I haven't enjoyed the franchise for a long time. Best 6/10 game I've ever played.


HM: Potion Permit, Escape Academy

Also: God of War Ragnarok seems pretty great, but my own motion sickness is holding me back and preventing it from grabbing me. I only played a few hours so far so I disqualified it from the list.

 

[Beau Knows]

1) Elden Ring
2) Tunic
3) Rollerdrome

 

[Mikeaveli]

This year was a backlog year for me, I have yet to beat a single player game that came out in 2022. There were some I tried and enjoyed (Sonic Frontiers, Elden Ring, Tunic) but I have yet to play them enough to properly judge them. Therefore I can only really list the one multiplayer game I enjoyed:

Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel

If you're counting re-releases/remasters/ports, a few others come to mind:

Portal with RTX
Persona 5 Royal (PC)
Monster Hunter Rise (PC)

 

[93LEAFS]

God of War: Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West, and Shredders Revenge have probably been my favorites from this year. Played a lot of backlog stuff though, and I also enjoyed Sonic Origins but that's just a port of Genesis era Sonic games.

 

[JaegerDice]

As far as games released this year:

1) Elden Ring
2) Vampire Survivors
3) Tunic

HM: Horizon TFW, God of War Ragnarok and Norco

At the end of the day though, the games I spent the most hours on this year were Destiny 2 and Halo Infinite.

 

[Mantis]

Elden Ring

I think the only other new games I played were Ninja Turtles and CoD. Chel and Overwatch 2 don’t really count as new games.