Best games you played in 2023.

BG3. ❤

Edit: hmm... gameS... Dragon Quest 11 was awesome too. 🙂
Wasteland 3 also very nice. (started playing 22 and finished 23)

Let's see, for me it'd have to be (in no particular order):
Mafia DE
Forza Horizon
Watch Dogs 2
RDR2

Clannad
watch_dogs 1 (underrated gem)
Beamng (stupidly fun and chaotic)

I'm guessing you mean new ones, instead of something I'd already played before? Well here goes then (keep in mind, not everything is from steam) -

Cyberpunk 2077
Dead Space (2023)
HiFi Rush
Sniper Elite 5
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition
Vampire Survivors
Yakuza Kiwami

These are definitely the top of my list. There're quite a few more just below them, but none of them are something I'd feel comfortable in putting them in the 'best games I've played this year' category.

While I don't particularly fancy roguelikes, my top two picks this year would be:

1. Hades - it's a masterpiece and probably one of the best games I've played, like, ever. Top-notch experience all around.
2. Everspace - I first played it few years back and absolutely hated it. I thought that the roguelike system is what ruins the game, the controls were weird and I could never hit anything. After getting a Steam Deck I've decided to give it another go and my opinion of this game made a U-turn. I still think that roguelikeness does not give this game a space (pun intended) to breath, which, from what I heard, was corrected with its sequel. But great experience nonetheless.

The other 3 games I've actually played before, and liked, but decided to do another playthrough - and all are still one of the best games ever:

1. Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
2. SOMA
3. GRIS

And one last would be Syberia - The World Before. While the game lacks any kind of technical polish and runs quite poorly - wow, what an experience that was. This is while I hated Syberia 3 and did not really like the first 2 games

Dredge
Dave the Diver
Vampire Survivors

Although there are actually a lot of games scheduled to release in November and December, I can't imagine any will be as good as Baldur's Gate 3, so that's my GOTY. It'll probably be my GOTY next year as well after I play through it a couple more times.

I did playthrough NG+ in the Last of Us II this year as well, so that's my runner up.

Honorable mentions: A Plague Tale: Requiem; Dredge; The Corridor; Baldur's Gate II

Disco Elysium

Hades.
Unavowed
Hitman 3

Back 4 Blood
Deathloop
9 Parchments
Gotham Knights

Top 5, in no particular order:

Doom Eternal
Quantum Break
Livelock
Zombie Army Trilogy
Norco

Top 5, from most recent play:

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (ongoing)
A Plague Tale: Innocence (Aug)
Outer Wilds (Jul)
The Last of Us Part I (Jun)
Superliminal (Jan)

Lies of P
Stardew Valley
Tinykin
Coromon
Tunic

Elden Ring
Last of Us part 1
SIMULACRA

Diablo 2(resurrected... with some mods(randomizers or remodded this year, median xl and project diablo 2 for previous years and no resurrected)
Legend of Zelda... Ocarina of Time... randomizers

now for games on steam uh....

RDR2 - 90 hours in and like in the middle of single player, its masterpiece
Yakuza Kiwami 2 - slowly getting through series and that one not disappointed
Days Gone - probably best zombie game i played

Here is my take!

Out of 70 beaten games this year I can make the following top:

1. Metro Exodus
2. Titanfall® 2
3. Batman Arkham City
4. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
5. Rayman Origins

Yap, a bunch of old games... But they were best for me :)

And honorable mention (as these games can't compete with the listed above but still worth mentioning as I really enjoyed playing them and both were very interesting gaming experiences for me):

• Torn Away
• Bookwalker

Baldur's Gate 3 (Coop)
Persona 5 Royal
Casette Beasts
The Last Sovereign
Sun Haven
Chrono Ark
Yakuza Like a Dragon

Detroit: Become Human
Ato
Hob
Lone Fungus
Ghostrunner

Batman: Arkham City
Dead Space (2023)
Inscryption
Risk of Rain 2
Slay the Spire

^Probably my top 5 :)

Hrot

these are my top 5 games (not in particular order) that i start played this year :)
Everhood
Undertale
Hades
Hollow Knight
Mafia: Definitive Edition

Excluding replaying old favourites, these were my favourite new ones this year:

• Remnant: From the Ashes (I had to uninstall it to stop playing >_<)
• Dread Templar
• Boneraiser Minions

Played a few good ones this year:
Age of Empires IV - The campaigns were great, some of the best RTS campaigns I've played in a long time.
Age of Empires II - A classic. I still have a bunch of campaigns left to beat, and so I'll probably be playing this next year as well. One of the best RTS games ever made.
Total War Warhammer III - Sure it's still more buggy than I would have liked, but it's a genuinely great grand strategy game with a stupid amount of content if you also own the first two games, and even if you don't, there's a lot of stuff in here.
Metroid Dread - I've been a fan of the Metroid series since the first one, and this might well be a contender for "best game in the series". Can't decide between this and Super Metroid.

Chained Echoes