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I wrote reviews of these games as I finished them on BlueSky, but in combination with the limited character count plus evolving opinions over the course of the year, what I’ve written here is an edited version of what I originally published.

This year, I’ve added descriptive brand genres, like “tactical espionage action” or “after-death school adventure” (these are real brands from real published games) to each entry. Hopefully this helps people get a quick one-line description of what the game is actually about instead of needing to look them up individually.

I also started using a rating system this year! But instead of just being normal and assigning each game a straight number score, I’m adding and subtracting and multiplying and dividing the score like some sort of arithmetic freak. The four types of score modifiers are:
+1 (liked)
-1 (disliked)
*1 (liked but with an asterisk)
/1 (disliked but divisive)

Ultimately the net score is pretty much meaningless other than as a general barometer for my attitude towards the game as a whole. I don’t really know what the possible min/max of this scale could end up being, but based on my attempts this year I think I would have difficulty ever rating a game above +3.