I think Splatoon is the only game released this year that I've played.

1. Undertale
My love for Undertale is well documented. Amazing music, fantastic characters. I might have cried at the end. I mean, what? Shut up.

2. King's Quest 2015
Amazing graphics, and a fantastic return to form. Makes even the best Telltale game look awful. It would have been a bigger competitor to Undertale if more than two episodes had come out this year.

3. Super Mario Maker
An infinite supply of new Mario Levels? Yes, please. Check out CzarTim's levels. They're awesome.

4. Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain
Amazing open world game. The story wasn't what I wanted it to be, but the gameplay is amazing.

5. Fallout 4
I'm going to get lynched for having this so far down the list, but it didn't grab me. I'm supposed to be going on this epic quest, but all I really wanted to do was decorate my house.

6-10. Destiny
I spent waaaaay too much time playing Destiny this year, until I finally pulled away shortly after Taken King. But I'm sure I'll be back for the next expansion.

Doesn't matter, any game you played this year counts.

With the small exception destiny 2 will probably be on pc and another destiny add on will not

List incoming

1. Bloodborne
+ DLC if I can count both at once. Spectacular gameplay with incredible music, art style, story, and boss design make this my GOTY. 

2. Undertale
I'm not crying you're crying.

3. Metal Gear Solid
This game has held up really well over the years. Hopefully going to start MGS 2 soon but I have high hopes for the rest of the series considering how amazing the first one is.

4. Witcher 3
It scratched an RPG itch I didn't know I had. Still don't have the DLC though. :(

5. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Not a big fan of the BioWare combat system but the writing makes up for it. If you aren't spoiled on the game's plot I highly recommend playing it.

6. Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D
Why I put this off for so long I will never know but MM is an A+ Zelda game and the 3DS version cleans things up really nicely.

7. Rocket League
Wow! Great shot! 

8. Destiny: The Taken King
Still isn't the game I hoped it would be but it's still a damn good shoot-bang.

9. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
something something What is a man? something something

10. Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin
I really should play Dark Souls 1, also fuck Dragon Aerie.


Honorable Mentions: Star Wars Battlefront ( PS4 ), Super Mario Maker, Splatoon, and Shaq Fu.

damn it, I need to play SOMA. Thanks for reminding me yeeny.

Oh man this'll be tough...

1. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate - so much content, so much freee dlc, probably sunk the most time here.
2. MGSV - the gameplay was sooooo good.
3. Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy - I only finally played it this year, but I love Layton.
4. Fallout 4- ugh I'm such a ssucker for apocalyptic 50s settings (or just 50 settings). I enjoyed this a lot.
5. NBA2k16- I just like basketball games a lot.
6. Rocket League is fun despite my terribad
7. Sonic the hedgehog 2 3d
8. Trails in the sky second chapter - holy shit it actually came out.

Oh also 2 entries that I didn't play for the first time this year, I just like to make people listen to their existence when I can:
9. Zombies ate my neighbors
10. Toejam and earl in panic on funkotron

Last minute contender - Contradiction, the FMV murder mystery game. Played it over the last day or so, and had a great time. Hoping for a sequel.

It's not the best game ever made, and it has a few "so bad it's good" moments, but the main character was loveable, (the actor was clearly having a great time,) and the plot is very swervy.

Since I am lazy, this will just be a copy/paste job of my list on GAF:

1. The Witcher 3: Wild hunt ; I had very high expectations for this game, and it delivered in spades. The combat may not be the best ever (but still is more than adequate), but the world and universe are some of the best I have ever seen in a game. It is gorgeous yet feels like a terrible place at the same time, it is believable yet fantastical. I completely fell in love with the world of the Witcher, I even start reading the books! It is just amazing. But that is not even the best part of the Witcher 3, that would be the quests. So many open world games have way too many standard, busy work fetch quests, and while the witcher has some of those here and there, yet the huge number of quests that ARE interesting, DO have depth and great characters and hard choices is kinda absurd. It shows that quality AND quantity are not necessarily at odds with each other, something that is extremely impressive. Just the sheer breadth and number of interesting stories that you can find in the game is truly unparalleled and sets a new standard for open world games. Not only is this my GOTY, it is a strong front runner for GOTG right now. Truly a masterpiece.

2. Ori and the blind forest ; Man, that opening. MAN, THAT OPENING. One of the most emotional strong scenes I have ever seen in a game. A near perfect mix of amazing animation and a fantastic soundtrack immediately shows that Ori is incredibly ambitious. And when the game actually starts, it turns out that not only does it sound and look absolutely stunning, it plays great too. Controlling ori feels almost perfect, and when you die in one of the games many hard as nails platforming segments it never feels that happened because of something out of your control. The game really does feel like a sort of metroidvania version of super meat boy with absolutely stunning 2D graphics and animation. Not only one of the best games of the year, but one of the best 2D platformers I have ever played period. This game is a work of art.

3. Grand theft auto V ; Finally came to the PC this year and the port is actually good! The game looks great and Los Santos may be the most detailed open world I have ever seen. The gameplay and missions are also vastly improved from GTA IV, which a lot more over the top crazy stuff happening. The story and characters, while good, could have been better though. Especially the story has some pacing problems. Still, holy shit Los Santos is so full of details it is almost unbelievable.

4. Metal gear solid V: the phantom pain ; The “anti metal gear”. Previous entries in the series I played for the story and characters while the gamplay was so-so. This game I played for the gameplay while the story and characters were…..almost non-existent. Assaulting a base, either while using stealth or going full on rambo, feels amazing, the game is truly a joy to play. But the story just isn’t there, and especially the characters are just….flat and boring, they do jack shit. Especially in chapter 2 that becomes apparent, and that last mission that forces you to redo that segment is just really boring and such a stupid idea. The final twist was….OK I guess but also felt really forced and just there to have a twist, it didn’t really serve any purpose. But damn if this game doesn’t feel great to play.

5. Tales from the borderlands ; I didn’t care about the borderlands universe. I now care about the borderlands universe. Not only is this by far the funniest telltale game, it also has the best characters. I really did care about what happened to them, something I never thought I would say about characters in a borderlands game. Sure, your choices don’t seem to have that much of an impact, and there isn’t really much gameplay, but I didn’t care, I was more than happy to just sit back and watch this like a really good TV-show about borderlands. One of telltales best games.

6. Fallout 4 ; This game was a bit of a dissapointment. Sure, the shooting is 10x better than in fallout 3, which is great! but outside of that bethesda games just seems to have stagnated or at some aspects even gotten worse! There are way too many loading screens and they are way too long, the performance on pc fluctuates ridiculously, the graphics aren’t that great, the level up/skill system has become worse (no leveling up specific skills by using them?), there are still way too many fetch quests and the new dialog system is an abomination. A lot of past bethesda games had the same issues, but I guess I just expected more of it considering the length of this games development cycle and this being a new generation of consoles. I still love this type of game, and that is the reason why it is still relatively high up on this list, but all the other bethesda games were GOTY candidates for me. Fallout 4 is a great game, but is certainly not a GOTY candidate.

7. Undertale ; Undertale may not be the best looking, best playing or most ambitious game of the year, but it is one of the smartest games I have ever played, is funny and has a shitload of personality. Almost every character in the game is interesting and fun, and it has more than a few genuine funny moments. But the real strength of undertale is how it plays with it’s own gameplay elements in smart and unexpected ways, and even uses your own presumptions about game elements you have seen 100 times in such a way that turns them on their head and surprises you. I didn’t care for the core gameplay, and it really speaks for everything surrounding it that this game still made it onto my list. It’s surprising, full of personality, funny and above all very, VERY smart.

8. Starcraft II: Legacy of the void ; I like RTS games with base building. Unfortunately, that genre has almost completely died out. Starcraft II is one of the last remaining signs of life of the genre. And with this add-on Blizzard created another great campaign filled with fun missions and...eh...a story that makes no sense and is kinda bad. But I don’t care, I just want to play a bunch of fun campaign missions and this add-on delivers exactly that. The co-op missions are a great addition and it is a blast to tackle missions with a friend.

9. Batman: arkham knight ; I love the batman series. Asylum and City were my GOTY in their respectable years. Arkham knight still has the great combat, fun stealth encounters, interesting villains, amazing graphics and fun collecteton (yes, I am one of those persons that actually like the riddler stuff!) that made me fall in love with this series. It also has a bunch of additions I really didn’t care about. The batmobile in particular felt like just adding stuff to add stuff. Driving around is fine, but man the tank combat is boring as shit. And there is soooo much of it, even most of the bosses are now tank battles. It really sucks. Even the combat had some things added to it which imo made it to complex. There are so many button combinations you have to remember and counters to specific enemies, it just all has become a bit to much. They needed to scale it back, more options is not always better. It still shows signs of the brilliance that is the arkham series, unfortunately it is buried beneath a pile of boring stuff this time around. And then there is of course the fact that it took THREE FUCKING MONTHS before I could actually play the game on my pc without it stuttering like a madman. That was just embarrassing.

10. Lara croft Go ; Looks great, plays great, very fun game for if you have a couple of minutes to spare. I love the way the Go series reinvents well known series into fun little mobile puzzle games. Keep them coming!

I actually had been wanting to try this and Hitman Go, because they looked like little fun diversions.  Had no idea they were out on Windows.  Will pick up soon.