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List your top 5 favorite games of the year here. I’ll start with mine:

1. Pokemon Legends Arceus
2. Live a Live remake
3. Kirby and the Forgotten Land
4. LEGO Star Wars the Skywalker Saga
5. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

5. Anno Mutationem
4. Pokemon Scarlet/Violet
3. Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
2. Xenoblade Chronicles 3
1. Pokemon Legends Arceus

1. Signalis
2. Expeditions: Rome
3. Evil West
4. Faith: The Unholy Trinity (Released in 2017, but Final chapter released in 2022)
5. Elden Ring

The only 2022 releases I've played were Elden Ring, Yu-Gi-Oh: Master Duel, and Little Witch Nobeta

And I hate both Elden Ring and Yu-Gi-Oh so I guess Little Witch Nobeta wins by default

The only game from 2022 I have played was Evil Dead The Game. That's the only game from 2022 I have played.

I did not play enough 2022 released games to rate them

So instead I'm gonna break the format and give out awards to games I played this year

McDonald's Award for Best Fortnite Battle Pass: Deep Rock Galactic
Burger King Award for Best """""Licensed""""" Game: Madness: Project Nexus
killer7 award for being killer7: killer7
Sonic Award for Best 7.5 out of 10 Game: C.A.R.L.
Fuddruckers Award for Most Unfortunately-Named Game: Drainus
Pizza Hut Award for Biggest Disappointment: Dead Cells
Little Caesar's Award for Not Really A Disappointment: Rogue Legacy 2
Raising Cane's Award for Game of a Year: Axiom Verge 2

Game of the Year: Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend

I didnt play enough 2022 releases not on switch to make 5. I did a lot of backlog stuff on steam, still am a bit.
of what I did play though:
1. Xenoblade Chronicles 3
2. Kirby and the Forgotten Land
3. Pokemon Legends Arceus
4. Splatoon 3
5. Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes. The only fire emblem game ive ever played but its Warriors so not really.

1. MHRise Sunbreak
2. Vampire Survivors
3. Lego Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker
4. Halo Infinite
…

for the rest i mainly played some older games

Note I'm NOT putting anything in a ranking order, just listing what five games in 2022 I enjoyed the most:

1. Elden Ring
2. Stray
3. Splatoon 3
4. Bayonetta 3
5. TMNT: Shredder's Revenge

Note there are a good number of games from 2022 I still haven't played yet, though I do have them such as the Live A Live remake (haven't finished it yet), God of War: Ragnarok (haven't started), and Horizon: Forbidden West (probably wasn't the best idea to come out so close to Elden Ring, I didn't even pick it up until Black Friday where it was on sale for $40).

You gotta finish Live a Live

It’s honestly amazing and if it weren’t for Legends Arceus, it would’ve been my GOTY

Cultic

For any games released in 2022, I'm just gonna say Elden Ring, Weird West, and Postal: Brain Damaged. For games not released in 2022 but I enjoyed playing: Cyberpunk 2077 and STALKER Anomaly.

Postal Brain Damaged is fun yet I only played a demo.
Also, Postal 4 was a massive disappointment. Even a guy called this a love tragedy: https://youtu.be/RIgzjXeIoF4

It's going to be hard to decide. At this point it's just better to make top 5 for each month and then decide.

Myself Jozef Behr, Here's My top 5 favorite games of the year here.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

God of War: Ragnarok

Pokemon: Scarlet/Violet*

Sonic Frontiers

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