Tried it ages ago, but never sat down and committed myself to completionating it until this year. This game is a blast and deserves every bit of praise it gets.

I play through this game once a year around my birthday and this year was no exception. It's not the best game out there, but I love it regardless.

One of my top three favourite games of all time. It jockeys for position with Chrono Trigger and Super Metroid depending on my mood. X-X!V''Q ftw

Another older release that technically belongs more on a 2018 list for me, since I played through 95% of the game last year, but stalled at the end for... reasons. Picked it up to finish things off earlier this year and can say it's easily one of the better games I've played in my extensive gaming career (at least until I catch up and play some of the more highly acclaimed blockbusters in my backlog like Horizon, Spider-Man, etc...)

I've been playing this off and on for a couple of years now. It's good, but far from great. Finished it already, but kept coming back every time they'd drop some new content.

There isn't a year that goes by where I don't play Minecraft at some point to try out new (to me) interesting mod packs that come out. So on that note, the ones I tried out this year were:
Enigmatica 2 Expert (Well-rounded questbook-based modpack) 8/10
Stoneblock 2 (Goofy as hell with resource producing chickens/cows and breeding, but interesting) 7/10
Sevtech Ages (Obnoxiously slow start for most players and devolves into generic kitchen-sink modpack after a bit) 6.5/10

Gonna keep it to a single entry, but I played through this and Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward on the Vita over the course of the year en route to finally getting around to playing the third installment: Zero Time Dilemma, which I am still puttering away at. I really liked 999, liked VLR even more, and was super stoked for ZTD only to feel pretty underwhelmed by it so far. Not a fan of the weird 3-way branching fragmented story format, but hopefully it will all come together in some way to blow my mind and make me re-evaluate it, but so far, it feels like the weakest of the three.

A very solid and pretty looking puzzler that's only marred by the complete lack of storyline and the addition of some pretentious nonsense that you most likely won't run across unless you're being extremely thorough with your playthrough. I enjoyed it enough to do a second playthrough in 2019 on the ps4 after beating it some time ago on PC.

This game is great but grindy as all heck (as to be expected with Monster Hunter though.) The grind drove off a couple of my friends that I was initially playing with and kind of took the momentum out of me wanting to keep playing. We'll see if I go back to it or not, but I really thought it was a fantastic entry in the series during the time I spent with it.

Snagged this one used for $15 as I've been wanting a copy of my own for a while (tried out the demo when it first came out.) I really like the DQ series as a whole, and figured this would be a fun casual game in the same universe to play around in. Feels pretty hand-holdy like you're on some kind of extended tutorial for a lot of the game so far, but I think I'll like it regardless as I put more time in.