As editor of GameCritics.com and host of the So Videogames Podcast – and also as a person who just generally loves videogames – I strive to sample as much of the industry as I can.
What’s the new hotness? What’s the current design trend? What’s everyone talking about?
I’m also always on the lookout for hidden gems or indies that fly under the radar, so it basically means that I try a ton of titles every year.
For anyone who’s curious what 12 months of plays looks like for me, here it is in the order that I played them. There are no notes (except if I rolled credits – that’s mentioned in bold) but you can hear my thoughts on nearly everything on the podcast.
Also, if you’re curious what my official top 10 were after playing all of these, you can catch me counting them down on the So Videogames Podcast, Episode 468.
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Total Played: 240
Total Finished: 23
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1 – Marvel Puzzle Quest, Android
2 – Unicorn Overlord, XBX
3 – Welcome to Paradize, PS5
4 – Gato Roboto, Switch
5 – Aegis Defenders, Switch
6 – Agent A, Switch
7 – Amazing Superhero Squad, Switch
8 – Enduring Mountain, Switch
9 – Fullmetal Furies, Switch
10 – Bloomtown: A Different Story, PS5
11 – Hell Warders, Switch
12 – Moon Hunters, Switch
13 – Gurgamoth, Switch
14 – AWE, Switch
15 – 60 Seconds: Reatomized, Switch
16 – Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, PS5
17 – Dragon’s Dogma 2, PS5
18 – Naiad, PS5
19 – Blasphemous 2, Switch – FINISHED
20 – Tap Wizard 2, Xbox X
21 – Zombie Watch, Xbox X
22 – Vampire Survivors, Xbox X
23 – The Last Zone, Xbox X (demo)
24 – Crime Boss: Rockay City, PS5
25 – Slitterhead, PS5 (demo)
26 – Slitterhead, PS5
27 – Lightyear Frontier (Early Access), XBX
28 – Codename: Ocean Keeper, XBX
29 – Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders, XBX
30 – Synduality Echo of ADA, PS5
31 – While We Wait Here, XBX – FINISHED
32 – Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, PS5 – FINISHED
33 – The Stone of Madness, PS5
34 – Red Solstice 2, PS5
35 – Athanasy, Switch
36 – Inside Her (Bedroom), Switch
37 – Helldivers 2, PS5
38 – OTTTD, Switch
39 – Z Escape, Switch
40 – Rogue Star Rescue, Switch
41 – Genome Guardian, Switch
42 – Gears Tactics, XBX
43 – Moons of Darsalon, PS5
44 – Bullet Trail, Switch
45 – Barrage Fantasia, Switch
46 – Cardful Planning, Switch
47 – Dog Gone Golfing, Switch
48 – Guards, Switch
49 – Henosis, Switch
50 – Undying, PS5
51 – Hilm, Switch
52 – Darkness Maze Cube, Switch
53 – Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog, PS5 – FINISHED
54 – Hook, Switch
55 – Terry’s Other Games, PC
56 – Viviette, Switch
57 – Void Scrappers, Switch
58 – Age of Mythology: Retold, XBX
59 – Wolfstride, Switch
60 – Tiny Terry’s Turbo Trip, PS5
61 – Urban Myth Dissolution Center, PS5
62 – Necrosmith, Switch
63 – Mini Trains, Switch
64 – Rogue Waters, PS5 – FINISHED
65 – Down in Bermuda, Switch
66 – Hakoniwa Explorer Plus, Switch
67 – Feudal Alloy, Switch
69 – 3000th Duel, Switch
70 – Behold the Kickmen, Switch
71 – Child of Light, Switch
72 – Luck Be a Landlord, Switch
73 – Break the Loop, PS5
74 – Cabernet, Switch
75 – Monster Hunter: Wilds, PS5 – FINISHED
76 – Sorry We’re Closed, PS5 – FINISHED
77 – Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, XBX
78 – Fights in Tight Spaces, XBX
79 – Centum, Switch
80 – Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, XBX
81 – Expelled!, Switch
82 – Astrologaster, Switch
83 – Split Fiction, PS5 – FINISHED
84 – Laraan, Switch
85 – Trailmakers: Pioneers, PS5
86 – Lonestar, SW
87- The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy (demo), Switch
88 – Blue Prince, PS5
86 – South of Midnight, XBX
87 – Rusty Rabbit, Switch
88 – The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, Switch
89 – Bionic Bay, PS5
90 – Steredenn: Binary Stars, PS5
91 – Promise Mascot Agency, PS5 – FINISHED
92 – All-In Abyss: Judge the Fake, Switch
93 – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, XBX – FINISHED
94 – Starless Abyss, PC
95 – Mycelium Heaven, Switch
96 – Shieldwall, PS5
97 – I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, PS5
98 – King Arthur: Legion IX, PS5
99 – CATO: Buttered Cat, PS5
100 – Cooking Companions, PS5
101 – Kiborg, PS5 – FINISHED
102 – Leila, PS5
104 – Preserve, PS5
105 – Sunderfolk, PS5
106 – Knock on the Coffin Lid, XBX
107 – Blades of Fire, PS5
108 – American Arcadia, PS5
109 – Into the Restless Ruins, PS5
110 – Power Sink, Switch
111 – WH40K: Battlesector, Deeds of the Fallen, XBX
112 – Fantasy Life i – The Girl who Steals Time, SW
113 – Run Goddess, Android
114 – Old Skies, Switch
115 – Bomber Crew: USAF DLC, Switch – FINISHED
116 – Trials HD, XBX
117 – Cryptmaster, PS5
118 – Annie (demo), PS5
119 – Lies of P: Overture, XBX – FINISHED
120 – Through the Nightmares (demo), PS5
121 – Section 13, XBX
122 – The Alters, PS5 – FINISHED
123 – Carrier Deck, PS5
124 – Lost in Random: the Eternal Die (demo), PS5
125 – Wizard of Legend 2, PS5
126 – Turret Girls (demo), PC
127 – Tales from the Arcade: Starship Murder, SW
128 – Locomoto, SW
129 – Death Kid, PS5
130 – Rooftops & Alleys, PS5
131 – Lost in Random: the Eternal Die, PS5 – FINISHED
132 – Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, PS5 – FINISHED
133 – Punch Club, Switch – FINISHED
134 – Marvel Mystic Mayhem, Android
135 – God of Weapons, XBX
136 – Cronos: the New Dawn, PS5
137 – Cairn (demo), PS5
138 – Vasilisa & Baba Yaga, PS5
139 – Get in the Car, Loser!, Switch
140 – Missile Command Delta, PS5
141 – Decarnation, Switch
142 – Neon Noodles, PS5
143 – Nova Hearts, PS5
144 – Dustwind Resistance, PS5
145 – To a T, XBX
146 – Curious Expedition 2, XBX
147 – Traveler’s Refrain, Switch
148 – Date Z, PS5
149 – Cats Away, PS5
150 – Achilles Survivor, PS5
151 – Wheel World, XBX
152 – Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, XBX
153 – Turbo Kid, Switch
154 – Emily Liveshow, Switch
155 – Time Flies, Switch
156 – Discounty, Switch – FINISHED
157 – Lords of the Fallen 2.0, XBX – FINISHED
158 – Hell is Us (demo), PS5
159 – Tiny Bookshop, Switch
160 – One-Eyed Likho, PC
161 – Herdling, PS5
162 – Grit and Valor: ‘49, PS5
163 – Curse Rounds, PS5
164 – Far: Changing Tides, XBX
165 – Is This Seat Taken?, Switch
166 – Hollow Knight: Silksong, XBX
167 – Otherwar, PS5
168 – Above Snakes, PS5
169 – Chip n’ Clawz vs the Brainioids, PS5
170 – Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion, PS5
171 – Sword of the Sea, PS5
172 – Ritual of Raven, Switch
173 – The Rogue Prince of Persia, XBX
174 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown, XBX
175 – Immortal Planet, Switch
176 – Metal Eden, PS5
177 – Day of the Shell (demo), PS5
178 – Scarlet Hood & the Wicked Wood, Switch
179 – Frostpunk 2, PS5
180 – About an Elf, Switch
181 – Legend of the Skyfish, Switch
182 – Strange Antiquities, Switch
183 – Wander Stars, PS5
184 – Hotel Barcelona, PS5
185 – Endoparasitic, Switch
186 – Hades II, Switch
187 – Avowed, XBX
188 – Xenotilt, PS5
189 – Yet Another Zombie Survivors, XBX – FINISHED (?)
190 – Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3, XBX
191 – Castle of Heart Retold, PS5
192 – Bermuda Survivor, PS5
193 – Spindle, Switch
194 – Ball x Pit, XBX
195 – Bye Sweet Carole, PS5
196 – Inmost, Switch
197 – Ila: a Frosty Glide, PS5
198 – Detective Dotson, Switch
199 – Bounty Star, PS5
200 – Space Chef, PS5
201 – Halls of Torment, PS5
202 – Windswept, PS5
203 – Battle Suit Aces, Switch
204 – Lumines Arise, PS5
205 – Dark Quest 4, PS5
206 – Deep Rock Galactic: Survivors, XBX
207 – Dead Static Drive, XBX
208 – A Pizza Delivery, PS5
209 – Arc Raiders, PS5
210 – Kentum, PS5
211 – Choices That Matter: And the Sun Went Out, Switch
212 – Dying Light: The Beast, XBX
213 – Deathless: The Hero Quest, PS5
214 – Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, Switch
215 – Instruments of Destruction, PS5
216 – Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, PS5
217 – Full Metal Schoolgirl, PS5
218 – Blood West, PS5
219 – Silly Polly Beast, PS5 – FINISHED
220 – Unhatched, Switch
221 – Dispatch, PS5 – FINISHED
222 – Clover Pit, XBX
223 – Sworn, XBX
224 – Ultimate Zombie Defense, XBX
225 – Sektori, PS5
226 – Meg’s Monster, Switch
227 – Skate Story, PS5
228 – Night Swarm, PS5 – FINISHED
229 – Demonschool, PS5
230 – Saborus, PS5
231 – Morsels, PS5
232 – Keep the Heroes Out, Switch
233 – Pacific Drive, PS5
234 – I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival, PS5
235 – Echoes of the End, PS5
236 – Shadow Labyrinth, PS5
237 – Voidtrain, XBX
238 – Despelote, PS5
239 – Graveyard Keeper, XBX
240 – Golden Idol Investigations, PS5
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This post sounds like a fantastic overview of your gaming experiences! It’s always interesting to see how different games shape our perspectives. Looking forward to hearing more about your journey in 2025!
Thank you! I’m glad you think so. It’s fascinating how gaming evolves each year, and I noticed that many titles in 2025 really pushed the boundaries of storytelling and interactivity. It’s exciting to see how developers are innovating!
You’re welcome! It really is intriguing to see how new technologies shape gameplay and storytelling. I’m curious to see how upcoming trends, like AI in game development, will further change the landscape in the next few years.
Absolutely! The advancements in AI and graphics really do elevate immersion in games. It’s fascinating to think about how these innovations will influence not just gameplay mechanics, but also player experiences and emotional connections in future titles.