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What were your favourite games of 2023?
(hexbear.net)
Hi gamers, what did you play this year? What was your favourite game?
bonus question - Are you going to grab anything at the Steam winter sale?
The only game released in 2023 that I played is Void Stranger, and it was very good but I didn't like the meta-puzzle part of the game (I am too impulsive / inattentive to catch that stuff) so that soured my experience a bit. The actual sokoban puzzles I liked a lot though, as well as the music and story (the ending was meh though).
Of those that I played this year, my favorite games were:
Very good narrative and a unique setting AND the party felt like something out of a JRPG instead of something out of a western game which I really liked
The 5.0 MSQ is a good story about overcoming loss and despair, our near future climate change troubles and class consciousness. The dungeons and trials were really good this time. So far the post-launch patches (I have played 5.1-5.3) were a bit redundant / fanservicey but I enjoyed them.
Nothing to say that hasn't been said a million times here.
Japanese Diablo / Zelda fusion RPG with a good story and a great world which is revealed little-by-little as you progress. This isn't a well known game but I wholeheartedly recommend it.
The dev is very horny and the game features many instances of problematic sexualization but I can't help but adore the game for the batshit insane time-travel story which somehow makes sense and holds up, the unique combat system and the amazing soundtrack compiled from various royalty free tracks (I discovered Shimajiro through it, who is a great artist). Also, I admire the dev's dedication, he worked on the game for 15 years before releasing it.
For multiplayer games, I enjoyed playing Guild Wars 2 and Final Fantasy XIV with my girlfriend, and also Deep Rock Galactic and the Calamity mod for Terraria. We also tried Rabbit & Steel's demo, which is a co-op bullet hell roguelike with MMO mechanics (similar to FFXIV) and it was pretty good, so I am looking forward to its release in 2024.
OH HOLY FUCK FINALLY SOMEONE IS TALKING ABOUT ASTLIBRA!
The story was convoluted and fun, and once I found a build I liked, it was fun to just make it as powerful as possible. I really liked the leveling up system! Reminiscent of the sphere grid in FFX, but only for one person.