Jingle Jam GA's + Tell me what games you enjoyed this year

INSIDE
Damn, enjoyed it every second. Loved the creepy atmosphere and puzzles.

The ROOM
Definitely hands down, it is the best escape room game ever made! Try it :)

Dirt 2 - Probably the best game in the franchise, i was really not looking forward to it based on the first hour spent adjusting to the difficulty and weird physics, but after adjusting it was really one of the most fun racers i’ve played in a while. P.S. The rally stages were the best :P

Mirror’s Edge Catalyst - Pretty much the definition of a mediocre game, but i still quite enjoyed it. The story is really boring and not even worth mentioning, but oh man is the gameplay fun. Running around the city just doing random shit is so enjoyable, that the story doesn’t even matter :D

I played more than 2 great games this year.

1. Kingdome Come Deliverance. Finally finished it, and I think it's in my top10ever. It's just brilliant...modern AAA are never that deep neither mechanically, nor from the research standpoint. No other game can put you in a historical setting that well. And its made with love and dedication
2. Let's say Deep rock galactic. It's just the best co-op on steam. Period.

Honorable mentions I would recommend any day: Hades, RE8, Prey, Undertale, Factorio, Baba is you and Barotrauma

Crusader Kings 3: awesome simulation, offering endless sandbox possibilities to either grow your empire or just mess around with family connections... not to mention a character creation to feed the Sims nostalgia in you.

Yooka-Layle: a love letter to N64 platformers. Perfect to scratch that Banjo-Kazooie itch I had. Very lighthearted and fun, although a bit short. I even bought a controller just for this!

Stardew Valley. Child of love of a single dev, that allows modders to do whatever they want with his kid. You don't like the fishing minigame - use a mod to automate fishing. You don't want to being pressured by time flying by - use a mod to freeze it. Build your farm, grow crops, care for your animals, interact with fellow villagers, fight mobs and just be happy.

Forager. Simplified Stardew Valley on steroids. Gather resources and expand your territory to be able to build and craft more stuff to gather more resources and further expand your territory to be able to build and craft even more stuff, so you can gather even more resources... It's hectic, it lacks replayability, but hell it's at least 30 hours of incredible fun :)

Hand of Fate - The game loop is so satisfying. The joy of unlocking new cards... I actually did not think this game would be that a good hit for me

Do Not Feed the Monkeys - Fantastc immersion with such a simple concept. I dicovered I really like spying on random people. The mystrey here is what drives the game forward and it captivated me.

1) The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Obviously, It is a cool game that a lot of people play, including me. In a nutshell i like this game due to this medieval atmosphere, breathtaking OST and fascinating tale.
2) What Remains of Edith Finch. This game plucked my heartstrings. I saw a very interesting story with an sudden plot twist.

Hard to select 2 only :)

First of all Omno for its enchanting universe, so peaceful and captivating, I loved it
And secondly Loop Hero for its unique and addictive gameplay.

The two games for me that really describe my year are Slay the Spire and Hollow Knight.

Slay the spire was an absolutely addictive deckbuilding roguelike. I ended up putting hundreds of hours into it and getting every character to the highest ascension (highest difficulty). I still play it ever few days and watch runs at night as I go to sleep. Never fully done with it, but getting there was when I stopped playing it so much.

After doing that, I started getting back into Hollow Knight. Hollow Knight is my favorite game, but aside from difficult late game things, I felt finished with it. I heard about randomizers and decided to try it. It was absolutely new and exciting, but it got me back into it. From there, I got into speedrunning the game and that got me into streaming, which has consumed most of my time over the past few months.

I played alot of games this year that I enjoyed and they were almost all SG wins. The last 3 to pop im my mind are Hard West, Undead Horde, and Railway Empire.
Hardwest did a nice spin on XCOM with a western/super natural spin.
Undead Horde, casual grind to raise things you kill into your army.
Railway Empire, realtime logistics game moving people and material from town to town in the US.

1) A Hat in Time! A cute as heck platform, you can see it was heavily inspired on Windwaker (specially the explosions)

2) Syberia 2: Really old point and click adventure. I played the first one last Christmas, so it has become a tradition c: I will play the 3rd one next year!

Released this year:

• Black Book: it's a delightful story-driven card RPG about a Russian witch who's trying to get her dead fiancee back. The level of attention and love to the Russian folklore is amazing here, such an awesome combination of pagan and Orthodox Christian motives.
• Opus: Echo of Starsong: an insanely beautiful and deeply touching sad Chinese space fairy-tale about a boy, a girl and an eternity. I rarely actually enjoy Eastern games, but this one is definitely an exception.

Released a bit earlier:

• Heaven's Vault: an adventure game about the joy of discovery (I'd actually recommend it to teenagers: the game doesn't welcome violence, but instead teaches that libraries, observatories and other places of knowledge are basically cool). Includes a huge all-game-long linguistic puzzle about deciphering and ancient language from scratch.
• Röki: a very warm and sincere Northern fairy-tale about family values. I hadn't touched it for a long time because I'd though it was yet another interactive movie, but apparently it's an old-school puzzle adventure game (and I don't mean boring mechanical puzzles). Such a nice surprise.

Urban Trial Tricky GA added.

hades - atmosphere roguelike with historical storyline
quantum break - film with good game mechanics
also got 100% achievements in this two

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Best game I have played in years. Really nice tactics, good story, great characters, good visuals and sounds. Not a single complaint about this game.

Control Ultimate Edition
Finished yesterday. Great game. The game mechs are good and kind of "fresh". The story/world building is interesting as well, though I hope the sequel will answer the remaining question, which there are lots of.

Styx: Master of Shadows : because I like sneaking around, and... credit where it's due... what other games have vomit as a murder weapon?

Control: it's almost like a saber-less Jedi game, in modern times, fighting extra-dimensional intrusion (which I would swear is how spiders got started here in the first place). I really enjoy all the findable items to read, watch, listen to -- they really add to the game's universe and atmosphere.

1) Elite Beat Agents — Mindblowing rhythm game with an awesome music selection and great presentation.

2) Doom (1993) — It's never too late to get familiar with the classic. Especially, since the Steam version got updated before the Doom Ethermal release. The soundtrack by Bobby Prince is godlike.

Bonus: Dark Souls Remastered. It's not about enjoyment from the game, as about enjoyment from finally beating it. I have a kind of love/hate relationship with the original version. I've started playing it about 5-6 times, or even more, but dropped it every time after the first half of the game for different reasons. Silver knight with a giant bow on the ledge, probably, was the main reason. But now I've closed this annoying little page and I'm ready to move on. I even unlocked all of the achievements. And I still think that Demon's Souls, despite all its flaws, was better.

I played Unravel 2 and It takes two - both are beautiful games to play together with the fiancée of mine. It's quite hard to find local coop games that don't focus on violence.

The Henry Stickmin Collection - very funny choose-your-own-adventure game where failing is really satisfying.
In Sound Mind - a new psychological horror, very well done. I like it because it has a good story and you can defend yourself with weapons (well, only a pistol and shard of glass), as opposed to most other first-person horror games. I play it now and really enjoy it.

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