While a “certain someone” wanted nothing more than to praise 2023 for its “gaming excellence,” people who actually lived and worked during that period know that it was hardly flawless. One of the biggest issues is that the games released that year had a huge pendulum swing when it came to quality. Plenty of titles were “Game of the Year worthy,” and then there were titles that made people wonder why they came out. One such title that helped end the year was The Day Before, a game so bad that its studio shut it down in just two months.
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That’s a wrap on 2023, everyone! This list is coming out much later than I would have liked, primarily because 2023 decided to hit me with a nasty cold in the last few days of the year. So it took a few more days of battling the chest congestion demon and my cold meds before I was able to finish the overall rankings. Of course, it didn’t help that I played so many games this year.
2023 was a bountiful year for games, and it showed the longer and longer this list became when I was tallying everything up. Being honest, I liked most of the games this year — well into the 70s on this list, in fact, my feelings go lukewarm at worst. A lot of this list is going to be one big ol’ disgusting lovefest, which is going to make it all the more obvious when we get to the games I really don’t like.
Just to be clear, I didn’t finish every game on this list, but I feel that I at least had enough of an impression of them to put here. Sadly, that means that I didn’t get to every game that came out — in fact, the list of games I didn’t play is as long as this one. Here are some games that, sadly, I either didn’t play or didn’t play enough of to make the list:
Also, here are a few Honorable Mentions:
Without further ado, here’s my year-end ranking for all of my games in 2023. Just as a reminder, I’ve already published my Top 10 games of the year, so this list will start with No. 11 and go down from there. See you all in 2024!
Usually when I attempt to describe my thalassophobia, at least to a fellow gamer, the best example I can give is Subnautica (a game I can’t play or even watch others play). But Subnautica is not intentionally scary, or at least not all the time, so it’s not a perfect example. But now that Dredge is out, it’s the perfect game to point to and say, “That. That is what having a deep and abiding fear of the sea is like.” Dredge is somehow both unsettling and absorbing, with just the right edge of eldritch horror.
There’s nothing like a good, old-fashioned story about a super-hero saving the day. Spider-Man 2 is not any more complex than that (for all it might imagine it is), and it doesn’t need to be. I had more fun swinging around New York than with any other traversal mechanic in a game this year, and the actors put their hearts into the performances. That’s all I need from a Spider-Man game.
Full disclosure: I’ve never actually played a Pikmin game before. But I’m glad that I finally got the chance, and that Pikmin 4 is so wonderful, because it’s a great introduction to the series. It’s got great art and puzzle design, which helped keep me hooked, and I enjoyed the variety of
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