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(TL;DR: Felt like making a list; not super important to me if anyone finds it interesting, but I figure some people like reading about games other people like; I'm mostly doing it for my own sake, and you're welcome to come along with me)

At the end of 2009, I was at probably the lowest point in my gaming career. 2008-2009 had been a dark period for me; the current generation of consoles felt like they were leaving me behind, the indie revolution had not gotten fully underway, and I was starting to wonder if I was starting to outgrow gaming a bit, or if they were outgrowing me, somehow. There were still a few things I looked forward to playing but they were growing fewer and further between.

My fears turned out to be for nothing. The 2010's have been an incredible decade for me; they completely revitalized my interest in the current state of games, and have possibly been my favorite decade of games ever. I played hundreds of games, and deeply enjoyed well more than 100 of them. So I am writing a list! It's a list of my 100 favorite games released from 2010-2019 that I played during the years of 2010-2019.

Please understand that I am not creating this list because I think my opinions are terribly interesting or that anyone should put much stock into them. Quite otherwise! I'm burdened with the knowledge that there's like, millions of games released this decade that I might possibly have enjoyed, if only I set time aside for them, or worse, if only I knew about them. This list is not even remotely a definitive attempt to crown the best 100 games of the decade - it isn't even definitive *for myself*, because I know I missed playing some games that definitely would have made this list, and if I write this list a couple years in the future it will look different as I add 10's games to it, or complete ones that are already on it that I haven't finished yet.

This list is two things:

1) A comprehensive list of my favorite 100 gaming experiences, of games released during the 10's, that I played during the 10's. Now that it is January 1, 2020, I have decided to completely cut this list off. It is done; no games I play after this shall be eligible. If I don't set this stipulation, then I'd never finish the list. What's done is done now - if I didn't play the game during the 10's, it ain't on this list, whether or not the reason I didn't play the game is stupid or not. This will do away with the paralysis I have of creating a list when I feel like there's good games I haven't played that I need to play before I can make my list.

2) A cry for help. I am afflicted with list-making disorder, as are many of you here. I have a demon inside of me, and this demon is absolutely obsessed with taking groups of things it has seen and ranking them in an orderly fashion from 1 to whenever it gets tired. I sometimes write these lists only for myself, out of sheer boredom. I am going to share this one so that I'm no longer shouting into the void; while I don't think my list is particularly fascinating, I feel like I have enough friends and acquaintances here who will give it a look over and help share the burden of my list madness by giving me an audience.

Basically, I thought it'd be fun to talk about my favorite games of the last ten years, so here I am. Talk about them with me! I encourage everyone to do this. Making lists and talking about them is a fun activity. I might be fucking crazy and haunted by a list demon.