Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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Hi gamers, what did you play this year? What was your favourite game?
bonus question - Are you going to grab anything at the Steam winter sale?
BG3 is probably GOTY, not on its own merits, but because it made for really good conversation with friends.
AC6 slaps and is a close second, though it is definitely marred by balance issues (which have largely since been fixed).
I picked up some vampire survivors ripoffs and Yakuza: Like a Dragon plus some DLC.
What is your favourite Vampire Survivors ripoff? Mine is Halls of Torment. I think I like it even more than VS
So far it's still VS, lol. The main three elements I'm looking for are a long list of things to unlock (preferably in interesting ways rather than just with currency), auto-aim over manual aim, and that it escalates into an absolute clusterfuck in the endgame. I'd rank the ripoffs I've played as follows:
I don't play any new games ever. I played RE2 which was excellent, I played Last of us concurrently with the TV show and now I'm playing Elden ring.
BG3, ESO, Going Medieval, Dead by Daylight, and WOW Season of Discovery
i'm not going to pick anything up from the steam sale tbh, everything i want to check out i'll just pirate. games on my list in no particular order are: black geyser, citizen sleeper, crusader kings 3, grounded, little witch in the woods, stoneshard, horizons gate, kenshi, knights of the chalice 2, and ultima 9.
the one game i'll probably pick up is tainted grail the fall of avalon. (there's another tainted grail game by the same dev so beware and don't get confused) seems like a dark ass skyrim and looks cool.
Haven't heard of Fall of Avalon, it looks like exactly my type of game. I am always modding Skyrim to have more realistic and deadly combat, this sounds like it's going for that vibe. I will definitely be checking it out, thanks for the recc!
I think the only game I played this year that came out in 2023 was Armored Core 6 but that game rocks
I really liked The Wandering Village, which I think is from this last year. It didnt do anything particularly wow but i lost so many hours to it, its just really fun and sweet.
I really enjoyed Secrets of the Obscure expansion for Guild Wars 2. It's been pretty fun and I'm liking some of the characters in that. Also some of the maps are really nice looking. But it felt like a fresh of breath air? Besides that, Project Zomboid was fun earlier this year with some past friends I had. but my most favorite was probably Signalis, minus the anticommunism. The anticommunism that's present in it is really frustrating. But like I wanted to try it last year but couldn't until this year, and I really enjoyed it, and the game just hits the right notes? also I've also played it in a time where im dealing with my own stuff to like grief, like my mom having passed earlier this year. so like I dunno, I just vibed a lot with that game
I effin loved sonic frontiers