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I'm gonna have to actually work to remember what games I've played this year. Let's see... In approximate reverse chronological order:

-Secret of Mana (Wii VC) - Just started, can't really comment on it

-Factorio - Had it for a while (Early Access since 2016, formally released in August), started a new map a while ago. It remains one of my favourite games period, let alone this year.

-A Hat in Time (PC) - Delightful game. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

-Finding Paradise (and also a replay of To the Moon right before it) - More of the same as To the Moon, which was great. Manly tears may have been shed.

-The Bridge - Artsy indie puzzle platformer. Nothing special. Reasonably entertaining for a couple hours of lateral thinking, but I'm more glad to have cleared it from my backlog than to have had the joy of playing it.

-Subnautica (PC) - This is a really cool game. A little rough around the edges, but thoroughly enjoyable.

-Disgaea 5 (Switch) - Lots of disgaea-licious fun there. The grindy SRPG thing isn't for everyone, but I like it, and this does it very well.

-Daemon X Machina (Switch) - I've liked what I've played of it, but it's generally ended up taking a back seat to other games and I haven't played all that much. I should play more of it.

-Phantasy Star Online 2 (PC) - Played this for like four months straight. Tons of fun right up until it started feeling like I was playing it because I felt obligated to complete daily tasks instead of because I wanted to play it, at which point I dropped it hard for Disgaea. This often happens with "live service" games for me; I had almost exactly the same experience with Warframe, Animal Crossing, and probably some others I'm forgetting. Still, great fun.

Crystalis (Switch NES Classics) - I was enjoying it, right up until my Switch's battery died and my in-game save disappeared, meaning the only one I had was the save state I'd made a few hours prior. I kinda ragequit after that. I'll go back some time and redo the parts I lost, but the experience of losing a save kind of soured me on that.

-Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Tons of fun, drifted away because I hit a point where all I had left to do was execute a design for my island/house, and I never really nailed one down (not helped by the sense that I had to wait for more items to show up in the shop to be able to maximize my options and end up with something perfect, which was a slow process) and also because PSO2 came out.

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon - Been in my backlog roughly since it came out. I made it about halfway through before Animal Crossing stole my handheld focus. Generally pretty fun, though it hasn't hooked me like the first one did and the mission-based formula has gotten a bit stale (it results in a lot of repetitive backtracking). I'd like to finish it at some point, but it's not a priority.

Dark Souls 3 (PC) - Lots of fun, started drifting away when I got stuck on one of the DLC bosses, and PSO2 put the nail in the coffin because trying to play both at the same time wouldn't work (there are enough similarities in how they play that I'd just get their controls confused). I keep meaning to go back now that PSO2's out of the picture, but distractions abound.

Zelda: Oracle of Ages (3DS VC) - Had it for ages (pun not intended), finally finished it. Good stuff, I quite enjoyed it. At some point, I'll play through Seasons as well (also on 3DS, since I never had the original GBC games).

Zelda: OoT 3D - Had it as long as I've had my 3DS, finally felt like replaying OoT and did so. It's OoT, which I like. Big fan of the improvements made in this version, otherwise, not much more to say about that.

Duck Tales Remastered (PC) - A fun, classic-style platformer. I quite enjoyed it. Not much more to say than that.

Yooka-Laylee (PC) - I remember this getting a lot of hate back when it first came out for not being as good as Banjo Kazooie, and while I'd say it definitely falls well short of that bar, it was pretty enjoyable. A little rough around the edges, and it just didn't have the same level of character that BK/BT had (the comparison to A Hat in Time is inevitable, and it beats YL handily in this regard), but I enjoyed playing it well enough to want to play any more 3D platformers Playtonic puts out (I've got Impossible Lair in my free Epic library, but haven't played it yet).

Transistor (PC) - Enjoyable, but not my favourite. I definitely liked Bastion better in pretty much every regard. A lot of it just felt kind of awkward to play, which wasn't ideal. Still, a reasonably good time.

That takes me back to February, which is as far back as Steam has records of me playing new stuff. My 3DS activity log only has entries this year as far back as March, and while the Switch doesn't give dates on its activity log, I think I've covered everything from this year (possibly Diablo 3 at the start of the year, which I could believe, but I don't remember when I last put time into that one). I think that's it. To pick any sort of actual favourites from that list (again, reverse chronologically):

-Factorio
-A Hat in Time
-Finding Paradise/To the Moon
-Subnautica
-Disgaea 5
-Phantasy Star Online 2
-Animal Crossing: New Horizons
-Dark Souls 3
-Zelda: OoA
-Zelda: OoT 3D
-Maybe Yooka-Laylee, but it's borderline

... I guess it's been a pretty good year. Some of those have been in my backlog for a long time. Being laid off and staying home for large chunks of the year has been pretty good for working my way through my library.

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