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Hi! Yes, I know, it's like halfway through 2022. Let me explain.

So, about two years ago I did a Top 100 list for games from the decade 2010-2019. It was mostly a list I wanted to write for my satisfaction - I love writing lists, and ranking my favorite games is probably one of the most fun things to do, so cataloguing my favorite games from that decade just seemed like the natural thing to do. I always worry about putting a list like that out into the world comes across as egotistical - oh, here are the favorite games of some random asshole, you should really care about that - but it turned out people were really interested in the project, so that's kind of encouraged me to want to do more writing projects like this. I've been working myself up to doing a companion list of top 100 games from 2009 and earlier, especially since I didn't contribute a list to that big project of people doing games lists before, but I've been sitting on it for a couple of years - I'll probably get to it soon.

MEANWHILE, time marches on, and it is now the year 2022. Which means we're partway into the latest decade. So, here's the thing. I played a lot of games from 2021 that I really liked, so I kind of wanted to do a goty list. But I only had about 10, maybe 15 games to write about, and I wasn't really feeling really satisfied with it - I felt like there were so many games that I was passing up on playing, just out of laziness, or being cheap, or whatever. I decided first to combine it with 2020, since there were a few games from that year I didn't talk about that felt like they deserved discussion, and that brought me up to 20-25 games or so. But then I decided to just buckle down, buy some new games, and actually clear out most of my backlog.

And it got kinda out of hand! I ended up with about 50 games good enough for a list. I ended up not just playing games that I had but I went out discovering new games, too - all throughout 2022 I've just been playing tons of games. Some of these games I played in 2020 or 2021 but a lot of them have been catchup work in 2022. 2021 was a really good year for games, and 2020 had a few good ones too, so I'm excited to talk about them.

So, I hope you'll indulge me one more time. I've been working on just making the list itself for six months and I've been thinking way too much about it. Getting it out there is gonna be a huge load off. Thanks for reading and sharing my obsessive list-making burden with me.