Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew - I usually hate tactical strategy games, but this one’s good. The quicksave/reload feature makes it pretty fun to experiment and goof around.
Dead Cells (I’m behind)
Grounded
Tears of the Kingdom
Mediocre
Dredge - It was a unique experience, but I never really understood the fear/consequences despite fully finishing it.
Armored Core 6 - The balance in this series always ruins them, even though I try to love them every time. Being forced into a specific build takes the fun out of customization.
I played a bunch of the new releases and some older indies.
Best (in no particular order)
Tears of the kingdom - Game was very good. I can’t imagine going back and playing breath if the wild after this, it improves on pretty much all the gameplay in that game.
Armored Core 6 - This was very fun, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I played through it 4 times to get all the endings (i messed up a choice when trying to get the third ending and had to play through a fourth time).
Starfield - This was really fun for awhile when it originally released. It has some issues, but I really like it.
Factorio - I got super into this during this summer. It’s the best factory game.
Sanabi - Indie released last month. It’s incredibly fun with a touching story. It’s an action platformer where you swing around the levels with a chain arm.
Omori - As a game this is just alright, but it has probably the saddest plot of any game I’ve played.
Signalis - Survival horror indie game that’s like resident evil crossed with dead space, complete with cool eldritch horror vibes.
Library of Ruina - Intense deckbuilding game with an interesting setting. There are a lot of strategies to build decks around that are super viable.
Cassette Beasts - Fantastic indie Pokemon type game that is miles better than anything gamefreak has pushed out lately. Has interesting battle mechanics, a great soundtrack, and a cool throwback art style.
Worst
Shadow of war - couldn’t get into it. I played the first one when it released, but I just couldn’t get into this one.
Spelunky - I got this one in a bundle a long time ago and decided to boot it up. I couldn’t really get into it and only did a few runs.
Spyro Trilogy - I don’t know why I finished the first two. I don’t think Spyro’s gameplay has aged super well.
Outward - I want to get into this, but the game is frustratingly difficult. I feel like if I play it some more I’ll get it and it’ll be fun, but I don’t like playing to get to that point.
Sorry to hear you had a bad experience with Spelunky! I guess it takes a special kind of masochist to enjoy it, but Spelunky 1 and 2 are two of my all-time favorite games, having put several hundred hours into both.
The difficulty makes the wins feel extremely satisfying to me.
I played a few games that were just really mediocre.
Warhammer 40k: Inquisitor was a super boring ARPG and I couldn’t put in more than a few hours. The levels were super short and just corridors.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker started out ok, but was just far too long, terribly paced, and the last third was a complete slog. This was probably the one I’d call a “stinker” the most.
Crisis Core Remake (FF7 spin off) had a boring story and lame characters. The bulk of the “content” were 300 side missions that were usually less than five minutes long in one of like six stages. I picked it up after I enjoyed the FF7 Remake far more than I thought, but this game adds nothing to the overall story. To be fair to the game though, I did complete all 300 side stories, because from time to time I like a mindless grind.
I’m continuing my four-year-old save of Octopath Traveler, where I got a third or so in. I dunno if it’s the Steam Deck, but there’s just tons of aliasing, shifting sprites and flickering, it just looks bad, and the detailed enemy sprites were the only thing I really liked about the game in the first place. Combat is also a slog at times, so I don’t know if I have it in me to finish the game.
Baldur’s Gate 3 was the best I played this year. There might be recency bias, but I genuinely think it’s one of the best games I’ve ever played. Persona 5 Royal isn’t super far behind, was also great.
Worst game I finished was Starfield. Did not see that coming. Worst overall was Vambrace: Cold Soul. Incredibly gorgeous game with a complete disaster of a core gameplay loop.
After some plays it got frustrating when you’re going along fine but a massive monster spawns right next to you and kills you with one hit before you have time to react
Bloodborne. I’m glad i finally got to play it, because holy hell it is good. Orphan of kos can f**k off tho, definitely the one of hardest bosses in any game i’ve ever played.
Yakuza 0. Super happy i liked as much as i did, since i bought 0 thru 7 before even playing a yakuza game, stupid i know.
Can’t really think of any other games that wow’d me.
Edit:
I also played the ps3 ratchet and clank games and come on, they’re ratchet and clank, what’s not to like.
Also played resident evil remake, which got me into og re2 and 3.
“Bad” games:
Metro 2033. It’s not a bad game, i just ran into alot of bugs that hampered my enjoyment.
White knight chronicles1/2. From the boring ass story to the giant maps that are cancer to traverse, i really didn’t enjoy it.
That’s about all the “bad” games i can think of, especially since i don’t go looking for them.
I always have fun with Don't Starve until the winter season/section comes along. Then unless I very closely follow a guide or customize the world heavily in my favor at the beginning of the game, I always end up dying.
I definitely second don’t start together as being the best way to play. I also heavily edit the settings so that it’s not as punishing as the default. It makes the game experience feel a little more open world and less full-time grind.
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