TMNT Shredder's Revenge is prob the only game released this year that I've played, so it wins by default! However, the best game I've played (and completed) this year was Metroid Dread.
Forbidden West by a mile. It’s mostly more of the same but that’s what I wanted and I only played the original last year. It strips out the Metroid-y loneliness of the original for a few small bits of Zelda and Valhalla. It looks utterly gorgeous, even on my base PS4 unit. I know some people find her annoying but I quite like the way Aloy is written. Her put-downs to the more pompous characters are hilarious.
Elden Ring - played it too much and got to new game plus 4 and then stopped. Not touched it since. Will return one day but I played too much and need a long break. It's a truly epic game and a BOTW event like game. It made everything else look boring and small.
I also enjoyed Kirby, Horizon 2, Fire Emblem Three Hopes, Shredders Revenge, Shadowman Remaster.
I suspect my game of the year will be either Saints Row, Xenoblade chronicles 3, Metroid Prime Remaster (if it's real) or Elden Ring.
The only games released this year that I've played are Legends Arceus, Rune Factory 5 and Tunic.
Rune Factory 5 is a bit pants- the 3D ones always are- and Legends Arceus is the best Pokémon game in years, but Tunic stands head and shoulders above them both.
I've been delving into my backlog a lot this year so AC Valhalla, Origins and Odyssey are all up there for me along with Immortal Pheonix Rising, I'm onto the last part of main game, have all the DLC as it was on sale for €20 so lots more to do.
Yesterday I finally bit the bullet and started Death of the Outsider, mainly cos it has FPS boost and it's glorious. Arkane are soooooooo good at these games, getting hyped for Deathloop in a couple of months and Redfall next year.
Other than those, on the switch I've enjoyed Kirby and the N64 back compat catalogue, I finished Ocarina and I've nearly got the Swamp Dungeon done, oh and Ni No Kuni is a lovely JRPG on the Switch, visuals by Studio Ghibli no less plus Grandia HD collection, the opening of Grandia 1 is amazing, the music especially.
It's gonna be Elden Ring for me. Not even finished it yet (Stalled agonisingly close to the end), but nothing else has come close to it so far. Don't see anything else in the next 6 months beating it to be honest.
Shredders Revenge was great, but I played through it in Co-op once and I don't really feel any need to go back to it.
Beyond that I'm struggling to think of any games I really spent any time with. Arceus I bounced off within a week. I just can't get past it's technical shortcomings.
LEGO Star Wars would probably be the only other 2022 game I've spent any amount of time with. That was quite fun.
