What a year for games. A signature year. One of those signpost years that people will talk about for a long time. I didn’t play as half as much as I would’ve liked, 🍃but out of those I did, these are my top ten of 2023. A few of these are also responsible for eating most of my time.
10 ෴ Cities Skylines 2
Despite its performance issues on launch, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Cities Skylines 2 is another one of those generational games. I will play this for a decade - can I realܫly say that about many games? No. So it gets a spot. It would be higher if i𓃲t worked.
9 Stranded: Alien Dawn 𓆏 ꦏ
3D Rimworld, but not quite there yet. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Stranded: Alien Dawn is a game that hopefully has many years of support ahead of it. Its most recent DLC and free update set the tone for future content, and I’💫m excited❀ for what that will bring.
8 Diablo 4
It’s such a shame that Diablo 4 doesn’t appear higher on this list. I put a lot of faith into Blizzard for this one, and that was, of course, a complete mistake. An absolutely outstanding campaign destroyed by some of the♔ worst endgame content I’ve ever seen in a live-service title. Season 2 made some amends, but it’s too late to send it any higher. What a campaig♚n though.
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7 Baldur&rsqu♔o;s Gate 3
This is a bizarre pick for me, because I’ve only played about 30 hours of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur’s Gate 3 - in fact, I bought the game and didn’t play it for like three months. It doesn’t matter. Sometimes you need to take a step away from subjective opinions and just go with someth✅ing objective: Baldur&ℱrsquo;s Gate 3 has changed the genre forever. I just suck at it, and I’m not really into snogging virtual characters. Sorry gang.
6 𒊎 Halls Of 🦩Torment
On the other hand, I’ve played 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Halls Of Torment fo✱r over 100 hours this year. It’s a Vampire Survivors-like. I hope that explains to you what sort of gamer I am.
5 𒈔 Lethal Company
If this had come out earlier in the year 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:it would pro🏅bably end up being my GOTY. I just haven’t had the time to get stuck into it yet, appreciate its oddities, or get to grips with its spooky monsters. I did, however, scream so loud that my housemate came upstairs to check that I hadn’t acciꦇdentally cut my hand off.
4 Dredge
This was my fishing year. I can’t really explain that: it just is. Dredge is a wonderfully atmospheric game that is as spooky as it is charming, and compelling. I hope it receives all the love and support it deserves from players, so that the developers can ke꧙ep releasing more content for it.
3 Dave The Diver ꦏ
See? I told you. It’s my fishing year. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dave The Diver is a titan of its genre, with a fine-tuned gameplay loop that might be one of the best I’ve ever found myself sucked into, like a whirlpool at the🦂 bottom of a deep gully, full of beautiful fish and glittering treasure. And sushi. Man. So much sushi.
2 Bramble: The Mountain King ♛
Pipped to the post is Bramble: The Mountain King. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:This game is chillingly good. The music, the monste🐭rs, the atmosphere. I loved the production of this: it felt like stepping right into a fairy tale with an enormous pig butcher, an🐽d a boiling cauldron of guts. Love it.
1 BattleBit💮: Remastered
I’m a shooter guy, always have been. When I’m not fishing, at least. BattleB🌳it: Remastered takes everything I love about the genre and boils it down to one key fundamental trait: this game is just so much fun. With Battlefield 2042 now but a distant, faintly sad memory, despite its recent con🌳tent updates, BattleBit: Remastered filled a gaping hole in my heart with full-scale chaos. Hearing over 100 players screech battle cries at the start of the round is probably my top gaming moment of 2023.
