Games of the Year 2021: The Playlist
My #GamesOfTheYear articles are solely for games that were released that calendar year because I want to grade them against the prevailing sentiment of game developers at that time. But I keep a list of all games I play regardless of their release date because I don't want to lose track of how I felt about a game just because I didn't play it the year it came out.
The Good
- Monster Hunter Rise
- Hades
- Monster Train
- Control: Ultimate Edition
- Lost Judgment
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Persona 5 Strikers
- Deathloop
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
- New Pokémon Snap
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
- Ratchet & Clank (2016)
- Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town
- World of Demons
- SongPop Party
- Survival Z
The Medium Place
- Back 4 Blood
- Twelve Minutes
- Age of Empires IV
- Orcs Must Die! 3
- Slime Rancher
- Sunset Overdrive
- Ori and the Blind Forest
- Taiko no Tatsujin Pop Tap Beat
- Spaceland
- Beyond a Steel Sky
The Bad
- Destruction AllStars
- Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance
- Infamous Second Son
- Oddworld: Soulstorm
- Tales of Memo
- Forza Horizon 5
- Metroid Dread
- Hollow Knight
- Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin
- Halo Infinite