Your Game of the Year 2018

My GOTY is Spiderman. Rich details, nice combat system, epic campaign and probably the best Spiderman game ever released. I love the first one on the PSX, but Spiderman ps4 is definitively great.

But overall 2018 wasn't a memorable year, the first half had barely any GOTY-worthy games aside from God Of War and, maybe, Phantom Doctrine. 2019 seems an improvement overall, with those many releases. Metro Exodus, Kingdom Hearts 3, Anthem, Ori Will of the Wisps, Devil May Cry 5, Control and Days Gone. Not to mention that The Last of Us might come at the end of the year.

Oh yeah, Yakuza 0 easily my GOTY as well.

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i've must have played around 10 games from 2018 and not anywhere close to AAA.
With that said, Yoku's Island Express was the best one by far.

Definitely Railway Empire

Came out in January, had so far three not too pricey and meaningful DLCs and has great continuing support.

I came in late, just recently, when all the kinks were already worked out and I'm very happy to see that Railroad Tycoon 3 has a worthy successor. This is a very rare case of doing it right when it comes to reviving an old franchise.

The controls however are not sufficiently explained in the tutorials and you'll definitely need to watch some YouTube-guides (e.g. by Adekyn) to optimize your network or maybe even make it work at all.

Acutally, I think I'll just copy-paste this as my Steam review now. :)

Don't think I've played a single one yet. Will know in couple years.

CrossCode for me, I've owned it for a while but just started seriously playing through it now that it's come out of early access.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/578080/PLAYERUNKNOWNS_BATTLEGROUNDS/
with all the flaws he had

I actually managed to play not a single release of 2018 although they are in my library..... Kind of sad. :(

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lets vote already for 2019: Metro Exodus or Mount and Blade Bannerlord if it gets released lol

im trying to think of games i played and honestly I cant really think of any that stood out. so checking yes life is strange before the storm was this year (that i played this year) so that game. I really cant say much about anything else I played but I loved that especially the music. It did come out last year but with the dlc it didnt fully come out until march of this year

Kingdom Come Deliverance

Red Dead Redemption 2 by a country mile.

But if we're only talking PC games, Kingdom Come Deliverance.

I haven't played too many games from 2018 though so it's a small list to choose from. Still intend to play AC Odyssey and Shadow of the Tomb Raider at some point.

Dragon Quest XI. Pre ordered it for PS4, spent nearly 100 hours playing it to get all the trophies.

In this regard 2018 is quite empty for me. I love watching things like The Game Awards or BAFTA, last year there were many outstanding contenders, but this year I only really see one game worthy of calling it a GOTY (God of War) and one "Indie GOTY" (Celeste). Pretty disappointed :/

Self-bumping without any shame at all

Dead Cells maybe? I'm not sure, this year I missed a lot of stuff...

Diablo Mobile.

where is potato for vote?:P

Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Far Cry 5
Red Dead Redemption 2 (no PC release so far?)
God of War
Spiderman 2018 (no PC release I don't think)

3 Games come to mind. Kingdom Come Deliverance, FF XV Windows Edition and the new Tomb
Raider.

I picked Kingdom Come as GOTY in Steam

Red Dead Redemption 2 by an absolute mile. It manages to top even the first game - which is still fantastic even now, 8 years later.

Honourable mentions to:

1) Yakuza Kiwami 2 - far superior to Yakuza Kiwami (it uses the new engine).
2) AC Odyssey - built upon the very solid foundations of Origins.
3) Kingdom Come Deliverance - immersive but accessible.
4) Marvel's Spider-Man - best superhero game since the Arkham series.