I don’t do game-of-the-year lists now because games are so varied it’s nigh impossible to compare two games from different genres. Here is a list of every game I played for the first time in 2018. Like last year:
🏆 - my personal favourite game this year
☀️ - loved it, recommend without hesitation
🌧 - didn’t really like it/felt like a chore to pay
everything else - pretty damn good, give it a go if your taste swings that way.
- Gorogoa (PC) ☀️
- Wolfenstein 2 (PC)
- Subsurface Circular (PC)
- The Norwood Suite (PC) ☀️
- Shadow of the Colossus (PS4)
- Celeste (Switch) ☀️
- Stories Untold (PC) ☀️
- Life is Strange (PC)
- Into the Breach (PC/Switch)
- Teleglitch (PC)
- Metro 2033 (PC)
- Metro Last Light (PC)
- Else heart break (PC) 🌧
- The Signal from Tolva (PC)
- Receiver (PC) 🌧
- Beeswing (PC) ☀️
- Rime (PS4) 🌧
- Minit (PC)
- Jalopy (PC) 🌧
- AER (PC)
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (PC)
- Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze (Switch)
- Pokémon Quest (Switch/iOS) 🌧
- God of War (PS4) ☀️
- Hollow Knight (Switch) 🏆
- Shadowrun Returns (PC)
- Hellblade VR (Rift)
- Rez Infinite (Rift)
- Owlboy (Switch)
- Okami HD (Switch)
- Destiny 2 Forsaken (PC) ☀️
- Spider-Man (PS4)
- Windlands 2 (Rift) 🌧
- Hot Tin Roof: The Cat Wore A Fedora (PC)
- Little Nightmares (PC)
- Q.U.B.E. (PC)
- Heat Signature (PC) ☀️
- Forza Horizon 4 (PC) ☀️
- Kentucky Route Zero (PC)
- Vanquish (PC) 🌧
- Accounting+ (Rift)
- Deltarune (PC)
- Gone Home (PC)
- Slime Rancher (PC) 🌧
- Tetris Effect (PS4) ☀️
- Quadrilateral Cowboy (PC)
- GNOG (iOS)
- Sunless Sea (iOS) ☀️
- Donut County (iOS)
- Quarantine Circular (Switch) ☀️
- Mini Metro (iOS) ☀️
- Moonlighter (Switch) ☀️