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Move the doomsday clock back a few seconds. I got fanart into an official love live stream.
 
I mean it's not competitive or anything, they just check the stream hashtag and print out whatever people posted, plus this is the newest group without an anime and only a few small performances so far so there's even less people going hard on fanart, but still. Wild to see something I drew put up with the voice actresses.

I think everyone can agree that if Geoff kept his mouth shut, this game wouldn't be kicked down so hard.

Look at this glooby mf I got

oh my god you guys are so needy

Hey at least you got mentioned. I guess Huff doesn't appreciate my concise, no-nonsense reviewing style.

Stuff I played this year: https://s.team/y25/ccqdkdb?l=english
I try to play a lot of short games, but I chunked out a couple old and big RPGs this year.
 
GOTY is probably Look Outside, because I just randomly found it one day and was entranced by it for like a week.
 
The Good
 
Games played this year, I didn't Finish but want to
 
The Potato Chip Games
 
The Bad
 
Stuff I'd like to finish from the backlog
 

MY TURN!
 
Donkey Kong Bananza good.
Deltarune ch. 3+4 good.
Battlefield 6 alright, I guess, if you're into FPS's where you don't play as a cartoon character. (Weirdo.)
Deadzone Rouge good.
Shape of Dreams good.
Nightreign good, if you hate yourself.
Silksong PHENOMENAL, if you hate yourself. If not, it's still pretty good.

Happy New Year to everyone who still sometimes checks in here! 2025 was a wild year for me and 2026 seems like it will be wild too

I played very few games this year due to lack of time, my most played game was probably just TF2 because obliterating valve servers for an hour as soldier is just very zen. That and Balatro. I started a bunch of games I really liked (Baldur's Gate 3, Slay the Princess and Silksong) but didn't get very far yet, I hope to change that now I got a Steamdeck. Oh and I did FINALLY finish Bloodborne in February funnily enough, which was absolutely amazing.
 
So I guess Bloodborne GOTY 2025

Hmm, what did I play this year...

uhhhhhhhhhh yeah pretty much the same as every year
 
I guess I played the second half of Ghost Trick, and that was pretty awesome. I already talked about it in January though. I've also been playing through the Ace Attorney trilogy which is also pretty cool. I've come around on Pulsar: Lost Colony after really not liking it at first when my friend asked me to buy it for his birthday to play with him but I don't know if it something I'd recommend. Risk of Rain Returns sure is risk of rain 1, bogus-feeling difficulty and everything. I haven't completed Sonic x Shadow Generations yet but I plan to once I get the new Steam Controller. It's cool but I really never liked boost sonic gameplay. ENA Dream BBQ was cool to get that itch of wanting to play Temptation Stairway but I haven't done a second runthrough yet. I've watched so much Balatro and Nubby's Number Factory gameplay this year and those have also been similarly awesome, but I gotta agree with Corv that Nubbys really lacks a ton of depth/skill that Balatro has making it much less replayable.
 
I guess my favorite game of the year I've played has got to be Deadlock (aaaaaaaaa a moba) but the reasons why are too complicated to really discuss. I quit it last year in November and started coming back to it around March of 2025 and haven't stopped playing since. I think way too many people that hate-play the game are trying way too hard to want to like it just because its a Valve game (they've still got it with the writing and worldbuilding), or they're just not used to playing a game where there's such high highs and low lows. They've even did some really touching surprise events for Christmas and New Years, with a bunch of new heroes (allegedly) coming in January. I wonder how well this game will do if/when it gets more casual game modes.

"GOTY" goes to Expedition 33 yada yada let's get onto some other stuff I played this year. My "top lists" tend to be "whatever games I happened to remember" so I'll repost mine from another forum.

Oh and my Steam Replay is like...none of these. But here.
 
 
"Best game i Played That Didn't Come Out This Year" is probably Ghost of Tsushima, I liked it a lot. Can't wait for Yotei to hit PC in a  few years when Sony needs money again.

Ok, big year. For other people. Like Silent said above and the rest of you have demonstrated, 2025 was pretty insane for games. I think Clair Obscur was the only videogame released, though maybe. The issue is that I didn't have any time to play any games!!! I got hit with multiple underways and got multiple final middle fingers from the Navy in the form of going underway LITERALLY until my separation date, loads of time spent doing dumbass maintenance, and other stuff. So I just couldn't play many games! I'm hoping that 2026 rectifies that. My backlog is huge. My goals are mostly to play a few PC games I didn't have time for, but also to dive into the GCN and SNES libraries. Maybe some PS2 as well.
 
I can not be poetic during these because I have been so fucking mad over the last few years. But maybe I can dredge up the tiny little wavering bit of optimism and hope I have left and use it to play some fucking VIDEO GAMES.

Backloggd
You don't get my Steam Replay because I just played a lot of Overwatch.
 
Honorable Mentions
 
The Top Ten
 
The Bad
 
Awards
 
Music
 
Backlog/Frontlog
 

I WAS going to gush more about Deltarune, but I decided to put it short.
 
But that said:
 

The Year That Was Too Good
 
What am I even supposed to say here man. We are talking about a year on par with 2017 and 2019, I have like five GOTYs on my hands, one of which is my new favourite video game of all time, and per my own self enforced rules I have to RANK them. Last year I said, “Oh I'll just do that with Hades 2 when it hits 1.0”. What a FOOL I was. But aren't I excited? Aren't I happy?
 
Video games are going to be good.
Steam Replay
Backloggd
 
I probably wait until Huff posts then reply to some of these. Nice to see someone enjoying Tunic.
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Honorable Mentions:
 
Top 10:
 
The Rest:
 
Extras?
 
Backlog/Frontlog for 2025 (thank you copy paste)

MY TURN!
 
Donkey Kong Bananza good.
Deltarune ch. 3+4 good.
Battlefield 6 alright, I guess, if you're into FPS's where you don't play as a cartoon character. (Weirdo.)
Deadzone Rouge good.
Shape of Dreams good.
Nightreign good, if you hate yourself.
Silksong PHENOMENAL, if you hate yourself. If not, it's still pretty good.

MY TURN!
 
Donkey Kong Bananza good.
Deltarune ch. 3+4 good.
Battlefield 6 alright, I guess, if you're into FPS's where you don't play as a cartoon character. (Weirdo.)
Deadzone Rouge good.
Shape of Dreams good.
Nightreign good, if you hate yourself.
Silksong PHENOMENAL, if you hate yourself. If not, it's still pretty good.

Games I remember playing this year (not including demos):

The Good:
 
The Meh:
 
The Best:
 
The Worst:
 
(THIS USER HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO CLEAN THE ENTIRE ISLAND OF ISLE DELFINO OF HIS VILE HANDIWORK)

Stuff released this year:
 
 
Stuff I played this year but wasnt released this year:
 
My pick for GOTY of all of these would be Stalker: Call of Pripyat. This series of games is just something I wish I knew about earlier and they all hold a special place in my heart despite all their flaws. I plan on doing another playthrough and checking out the really popular conversion/standalone mods for them too.
 
If it's only stuff released this year Deadzone Rogue kind of wins by default, but it's still a fun game that I'll definitely come back to now and then. A lot of my nitpicks with it are minor, and some of the more glaring issues I think are hard for the genre to fix.
 
(Disclaimer: it's highly possible I missed something [actually there's a lot of porn games I didn't put in here and might cover since moby covered several of his own] and might edit this later or reply or something idk)

MY TURN!
 
Donkey Kong Bananza good.
Deltarune ch. 3+4 good.
Battlefield 6 alright, I guess, if you're into FPS's where you don't play as a cartoon character. (Weirdo.)
Deadzone Rouge good.
Shape of Dreams good.
Nightreign good, if you hate yourself.
Silksong PHENOMENAL, if you hate yourself. If not, it's still pretty good.

Dishonorable Mention
 
 
Honorable Mentions
 
 
The Top Ten
 
 
Other games I play a lot but which I played in previous years:
 
 

Alright, uh, lets see my list here... (Huh? No, I wasn't writing my thoughts through the entire year, shut up.)
 
Tried to make a dent on my backlog, even with Humble Choice filling it more and more each month. I tried to finish all I played, but some I decided to stop midway for several reasons.
College wasn't that bad the first semester, so I had time to play stuff, and I only started working in the last two months of the year.
Also decided to pirate some games, either because of lack of money, lack of interest, or lack of wanting to give money to the dev.
Marked pirate games with (P).
 
THE GOOD:
 
THE EHHHH...:
 
THE DOGSHIT:
 
THE ADULT STORE, ONLY CLICK IF YOU ARE ABOVE 18:
 
For my GOTY, I think CrossCode was my favorite, followed by Arum's, BALLxPIT and Tiny Terry's. Deltarune was cool, but its only halfway done. Probably will be my GOTY 2028/2029.
 
And what do I have in store for this next year? Let's say I have a few ideas up my sleeve.
"Like what?"
I'd rather not get into it right now.
"Why not?"
Alright, I don't have any ideas for the future. I got nothing. Happy?
 
 

MY TURN!
 
Donkey Kong Bananza good.
Deltarune ch. 3+4 good.
Battlefield 6 alright, I guess, if you're into FPS's where you don't play as a cartoon character. (Weirdo.)
Deadzone Rouge good.
Shape of Dreams good.
Nightreign good, if you hate yourself.
Silksong PHENOMENAL, if you hate yourself. If not, it's still pretty good.

>Decide to check Ad Awards
>Big announcement
>From the creators of Titanfall
>Another fucking F2P Hero Shooter
>Close Ad Awards
 
Serves me right.

I couldn't keep myself away...

 

 
I wasn't planning to redraw the pirate outfit too, since it wasn't worked into the initial sketch (usually when I do alts, I start with them in mind, and have them as part of the sketch). So this was a new experience; I just sketched it on top of the final drawing and worked it in. Deep down I knew that I was going to end up doing this eventually, since secretly I always did like his pirate outfit more...