Without further ado, I’m honored to present you the complete, fully clicky enabled, list of every Bestest Best ever (or Advent Calendar) thus far.
**2014 Bestest Best…
**Racing: Qvadriga
FPS: Wolfenstein: The New Order
Tactics: Doorkickers
Puzzles: Hexcells Infinite
Word: MGR: Revengeance
Combat: Neo Scavenger
Landscape: Mountain
4X: Endless Legend
Exploration: Salt
Adventure: The Wolf Among Us
Co-op: Far-Cry 4
Kickstarter: Divinity: Original Sin
Worldbuilding: Dark Souls 2
Strategy: Distant Worlds: Universe
Words: Sunless Sea
Action: Shadow of Mordor
Horror: Alien: Isolation
Gosh What? A New eSport? Good: Smite
Being Pleasantly Lost: Bernband
Something: Legend of Grimrock 2
WHAT: Secret Habitat
RPG: Dragon Age: Inquisition
CCG: Hearthstone
Best: Endless Legend
The Contributors Picks:
Tim Stone - Combat Mission: Red Thunder
Cara Ellison - Kentucky Route Zero Act III
Ben Barrett - World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor
Brendan Caldwell - Elite: Dangerous
Konstantinos Dimopoulos - The Talos Principle
Rob Sherman - With Those We Love Alive
Cassandra Khaw - This War of Mine
Rich Stanton - Eve Online
Marsh Davies - Dark Souls 2
2013: Don’t Starve, Hexcells, Desktop Dungeons, Papers, Please, Card Hunter, Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons, The Swapper, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs, Dishonored DLC, Eurotruck Simulator 2, Rogue Legacy, XCOM: Enemy Within, Call Of Juarez: Gunslinger, Proteus, Monaco, Spelunky, Knock, Knock, Europa Universalis IV, The Stanley Parable, Saints Row IV, Teleglitch, Gone Home - GOTY: Kentucky Route Zero
2012: FTL, Borderlands 2, Waking Mars, The Walking Dead, Stacking, Thirty Flights Of Loving, Guild Wars 2, Legend Of Grimrock, Lone Survivor, Dark Souls, Dear Esther, Thomas Was Alone, Mark Of The Ninja, The Secret World, Torchlight II, Mass Effect 3, Tribes: Ascend, Planetside 2, Day Z, Crusader Kings II, Dishonored, Hotline Miami, XCOM: Enemy Unknown - GOTY: Far Cry 3
2011: Total War: Shogun, don’t take it personally etc, Serious Sam 3, The Witcher 2, The Dream Machine, Orcs Must Die, Cthulhu Saves the World, Battlefield 3, Saint Row The Third, Portal 2, Fate of the World, Terraria, Batman: Air Conditioning, Dead Island, Realm of the Mad God, Isaac, Rage, LEGO Star Wars III The Clone Wars, To the Moon, Dredmor, Bastion, Spacechem, DX: Human Resources - GOTY: Skyrim
Honorable mentions: Frozen Synapse, Bulletstorm, MoW Assault Squad, Limbo, Dead Space 2, Magicka, Brink, Driver: SF, AC: Brotherhood, Trine 2, DoWII Retribution, Bloodline Champions, Atom Zombie Smasher, Alice: Madness Returns
2010: Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Just Cause 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Space Funeral, Neptune’s Pride, Dead Rising 2, VVVVVV, Digital: A Love Story, Bioshock 2, Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale, Plain Sight, Dragon Age: Awakening, Alien Swarm, Metro 2033, Warhammer 40,000 Dawn Of War 2: Chaos Rising, Sleep Is Death, Desktop Dungeons, Lara Croft & The Guardian of Light, R.U.S.E., Super Meat Boy, Starcraft II: Wings Of Liberty, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Mass Effect 2 - GOTY: Minecraft.
2009: Zeno Clash, Canabalt, Dawn of War II, Machinarium, Burnout Paradise, Arkham Asylum, ArmA II, RF: Gorilla, Time Gentlemen, Please, Men of War, The Sims 3, Blood Bowl, Aaa - Gravity, Saints Row 2, Risen, Spelunky (the free one), L4D2, AI War, Empire: Total War, Torchlight, Borderlands, PvZ, Solium Infernum - GOTY: Dragon Age
2008: GRID, Mass Effect, Trials 2, Sins of a Solar Empire, Audiosurf, Far Cry 2, Spore, You Have to Burn the Rope, Wrath of the Lich King, King’s Bounty, Left 4 Dead - GOTY: World of Goo
2007: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Sumotori Dreams, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, Penumbra Overture, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy!, Minerva Metastasis, Bookworm Adventures, Team Fortress 2, Gears of War, Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, DEATH WORM, Tabula Rasa, Knytt Stories, Half-life 2: Episode 2, STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, Armageddon Empires, World In Conflict, Crysis, Peggle Deluxe, Bioshock - GOTY: Portal
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Revision history:
05: added 2014, reversed sort order, appended solution.