This is how I play: I find a world, and I embrace it fully-and if it's a 100-hour monster, well, I guess I'll see ya when I see ya. I sometimes wish I could be more efficient and attuned to the latest and greatest game of the moment, but I've come to accept that it's not in the cards for me. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which I started playing in late 2020 and finally wrapped up in September 2021 (390 hours, every one of them glorious), and Strangeland, a bizarre point-and-click adventure from Primordia developer Wormwood Studios.

I'll be honest, everything I played is just to bide the time before for Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker.Īndy Chalk, News Hammer: As near as I can tell, uhh, two. Those few games were squeezed in between playing and watching rounds of Overwatch, gawking at the new Genshin Impact characters and locations, and, of course, rewatching my favorite Souls game playthroughs. I have a bone to pick with Deathloop! The exact count might be somewhere around three or four. Tyler Colp, Associate Editor: I've finished a handful of games this year, but wasn't necessarily enthused about any of them.

Rangers have yet to win the Champions League in Football Manager 22, though.

Laurent Aitken, Deputy Guides Editor: I've managed to finish six games this year, including two Ubisoft games. I don't know what it says about my year that I just dropped multiple things I enjoyed right before the finish line. I can name several things that I've played and wound up putting down at about the 90% mark: Chasing Static, Tales of Arise, and even Toem, which I adored. There was also some Red Dead Online and Sims 4 and such in there. I too spent this year playing a lot of games that you don't exactly finish-Phasmophobia and Valheim, mostly. Lauren Morton, Associate Editor: I think it might be 0 for me also. Just ignore the fact that there are four or five others I've barely dug into yet. I completed I think two Wildermyth campaigns, if that counts. And now that GOTY time is fast approaching, I'm jumping around more than ever trying to get a taste of all the big hitters I missed. I think lockdown really made it hard to stay focused and stick with something, for me, as well as driving me towards familiar old games rather than new releases. I've really flitted from game to game this year, and put a lot of time into games that can't be finished (like Legends of Runeterra and Stellaris) and games that can be finished but only by teenagers and the unemployed (Assassin's Creed Valhalla). Robin Valentine, Print Editor: I think it genuinely might be none.

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