The RPS Advent Calendar Guessing Game - 2017 Edition

[FunnyB]

I have played exactly… ZERO games on my list.
I have not played a lot of new games this year, mainly crossing things off the old backlog (or adding to it of course).

There’s also been A LOT of Factorio, Stardew Valley and Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin this year for me…

[Henke]

Ok, here we go.

West of Loathing
Rime
What Remains of Edith Finch
Night In The Woods
Superflight

Shadow Tactics
Hellblade
Nier Automata
Absolver
Rez Infinite

Lone Echo
Plunkbat
Midnight Ultra
Stories Untold
Rain World

Road Redemption
Heat Signature
Kingsway
Cuphead
Hidden Folks

Slime Rancher
Wolfenstein 2
Scanner Sombre
Prey

[Vandelay]

Oh Absolver! Forgot that one. Edited my list again to replace Alwa’s Awakening (that one seemed a bit of a long shot, as I expect John’s love for it mainly came from stumbling on it at random.)

Shadow Tactics is in a couple of people’s lists. Will that be eligible? Great game and deserving of accolades, but it was out last December.

[and_its_man]

Hello everyone.

Well I’m gonna make an attempt at doing this a little differently and just pick the games that both me and my awesome tastes would like to see listed in this year’s edition of the Advent Calendar.
Might be lazy of me, but on the other hand: I did finish Rain World. And it features the most beautiful audiovisual-voyage-ending I’ve seen in 35 years of playing video games. That’s Rain World. A game where you play as a slugcat and which is called Rain World.
I’ll fill the rest of my list with obvious stuff, and things unashamedly stolen from your own picks.

Here we go:

1. Baobabs Mausoleum, Ep.1: Ovnifagos Don’t Eat Flamingos, by Celery Emblem
2. Bokida - Heartfelt Reunion, that zen sculpture game where you karate-chop cubes, by Rice Cooker Republic
3. Bucket Detective, by Jesse Barksdale/The Whale Husband
4. Darkwood, by Acid Wizard Studio
5. Don’t Make Love, by Maggese
6. Everything, by David O’Reilly
7. Future Unfolding, by Spaces of Play UG
8. Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, by Ninja Theory
9. House Party, by Eek! Games (Hey John!)
10. Jettomero: Hero of the Universe, by Ghost Time Games
11. The Long Dark, by Hinterland Studio ('cause completed with Story Mode)
12. The Long Journey Home, by Daedalic Studio West
13. The Mooseman, by Vladimir Beletsky & Mikhail Shvachko
14. Rain World, by Videocult, who also made Rain World, and this game about a wandering slugcat named Rain World.
15. Scanner Sombre, by Introversion Software
16. Snake Pass, by Sumo Digital
17. That Blooming Feeling, by Tot’s Team
18. 8-(or so?)-neat-ideas-of-gameplay-loosely-tied-together-as-parts-of-the-family-story-of-Mrs-Edith Finch, by Giant Sparrow

Now let’s add:

19. Cuphead, by StudioMDHR Entertainment Inc.
20. Kingsway, by Andrew Morrish
21. Night in the Woods, by Infinite Fall
22. Opus Magnum, by Zachtronics
23. Tacoma, by The Fullbright Company

and er:

24. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, by Blue Hole

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Bonus thoughts for those games I really enjoyed but were not mentioned in RPS:

• Legend of Hand, by Cloak and Dagger Games
• Metropolis: Lux Obscura, by Ktulhu Solutions
• MilkMaid of the Milky Way, by Mattis Folkestad
• Saucer-Like, by Fosfatina Ediciones

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Pick of the year for the first place, “compartment 24”, is
David O’Reilly’s Everything
I mean, think posterity.

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Now since it’s the internet, and if someone enjoys this list: would you mind being my friend?

[alms]

Will that be eligible? Great game and deserving of accolades, but it was out last December.

I think so, OTOH interest in games that have come out a long time ago has probably cooled down by now, whereas enthusiasm for recent releases is way more likely.

[Henke]

Yeah I hope they include December games from last year, mainly because it’ll give me more of a reason to include Shadow Tactics on my own personal goty list.

[Herzog]

Almost forgot to make a list… but here it is!

A Normal Lost Phone
Caveblazers
Dead Cells
Dishonored 2
Divinity Original Sin 2
Hellblade: Senuas Sacrifice
Hidden Folks
Nex Machina
Nier Automata
Night in the Woods
Opus Magnum
Playerunknowns Battlegrounds
Prey
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Superhot VR
The Norwood Suite
Thimbleweed Park
Torment: Tides of Numenera
Unexplored
West of Loathing
What Remains of Edith Finch
Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen

[and_its_man]

It is happening.

The RPS Advent Calendar, Dec 1st

[Vandelay]

And first pick is one that I think most of us went for. A fairly obvious one probably, but sounds worthy.

New Order was great, so really need to get around to picking this up.

[Fumarole]

I’ve pasted in the entries. Thanks to those of you that made my job easier per my request to just list the titles alone. For those of you that didn’t and created extra work for me, tsk tsk. I’m slammed at work now so I’ll have to edit things later to make them look pretty.

Also, I’ll be traveling for a few days starting Sunday, so if the list isn’t updated in a timely manner I’ll get to it later in the week.

[and_its_man]

For those of you that didn’t and created extra work for me, tsk tsk.

I do apologize.
My list is kinda pretty though, don’t you think?
I do apologize.

[Aerothorn]

It’s okay, Fumarole, we all appreciate that you take your time to do this at all

Well, vinraith, I guess it’s a good thing you changed your GOTY! But yes, even in a hard year like this, my list had about 8 “I’ll eat my hat if this isn’t on it” games and another ~3 “I am very highly confident.” The New Order was in the latter category, so not a 100% shoe in but pretty likely. And we all get an early win before it inevitably goes bad and they give awards to Assassin’s Creed Origins and Destiny 2 and I yell at RPS for giving best-of-the-year awards to games that they themselves said weren’t all that and I go on a big rant about the fundamental problems in a collated-list ranking system.

deep breath

[Tikey]

Oh crap, I totally forgot about updating my list.
At least now I have an excuse for when I lose.

[vinraith]

Well, vinraith, I guess it’s a good thing you changed your GOTY!

Exactly what I said when I saw today’s pick.

[and_its_man]

Good job, MiniMatt, we’re already ruining the group score.
Come here and let’s sit at the back row.

[Aerothorn]

David O’Reilly, is that you?

[alms]

mod edit: RPS Tag now live

^ a wild link appeared.

[Aerothorn]

Thanks! I also encourage everyone to go to the main Calendar post and click on an unopened door. Good fun

Also: WOOO Norwood Suite! I got more and more confident as time went on and Alice threatened to injure people who didn’t play it, but it was still a risky pick.

[Graham]

Alice threatened to injure people who didn’t play it

This was true for staff also.

[Aerothorn]

Welcome to the party, Graham! Please enjoy our celebrations and don’t pay too much attention to our hair-pulling (we all know it’s just fun and games, and I am 100% confident that RPS will not repeat the sin of naming Far Cry 3 the Game of the Year). Honestly your GOTY picks have been remarkably brave and hard to argue for a few years running.