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The Community 2016 Game Of The Year Voting Starts Now

Get your vote in for the Community Game Of The Year using the handy form inside.

This game, and many others, are eligible for the 2016 Community Game Of The Year!
This game, and many others, are eligible for the 2016 Community Game Of The Year!

Hey, it's been a good year for games! And it's time to celebrate that with another star-studded entry of the Community Games Of The Year. We have an entry form right over here, if you'd like to vote. Here's some quick questions and answers about the whole thing!

When does voting end? January 4th!

Can I change my votes later after I play more stuff? Sure, up until voting ends! Just clear out your choices and select new ones, then hit Submit again.

I haven't played ten games this year; can I still vote? Sure, just vote for whatever your favorite games were. You can just vote for one game, if you want.

How does this work? This is a weighted-voting system, so your first-place game will be weighted more heavily than your tenth-place game when we tally up the votes in the end. We'll also include pure voting results without weights for the data nerds.

I can't find my favorite game in here! Our search system is very special and might not always return the expected results. Some games might have older-than-expected release years in the search, or may not appear at all. Check the comments on this article and I'll try to add any weird search results to the first reply if you have any weird cases pop up.

Hah, I'm going to vote for Superman 64 ten times, suckers! Feel free! You can add any games you want to your list, but we'll just remove anything that wasn't released in 2016 when we run the final results. We're mostly focused on American release dates here; Jeff will ultimately decide on any edge cases.

Let me know if you have any more questions and I'll try to deal with them in the comments here.

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WEIRD SEARCHES:

If you want to find The Witness from this year, the release date in the drop-down will appear as The Witness (2013).

DOOM will show up as DOOM (2015).

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I played one game released in 2016. Easy.

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Does Blood and Wine (Witcher 3) count?

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Blood and wine should count, easily in my top two favorite games this year

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@cfilipec said:

Does Blood and Wine (Witcher 3) count?

"You can add any games you want to your list, but we'll just remove anything that wasn't released in 2016"

If it has its own page on the wiki, you can add it.

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@cfilipec said:

Does Blood and Wine (Witcher 3) count?

"You can add any games you want to your list, but we'll just remove anything that wasn't released in 2016"

If it has its own page on the wiki, you can add it.

But it does not appear in the drop down menu. Only the 2015 release. Doom also is noted as 2015.

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@cfilipec said:
@finaldasa said:
@cfilipec said:

Does Blood and Wine (Witcher 3) count?

"You can add any games you want to your list, but we'll just remove anything that wasn't released in 2016"

If it has its own page on the wiki, you can add it.

But it does not appear in the drop down menu. Only the 2015 release. Doom also is noted as 2015.

As noted above, some of the years in the search menus are going to be off. Just pick the games you want and we'll check the dates manually when we tally everything up.

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@rorie said:
@cfilipec said:
@finaldasa said:
@cfilipec said:

Does Blood and Wine (Witcher 3) count?

"You can add any games you want to your list, but we'll just remove anything that wasn't released in 2016"

If it has its own page on the wiki, you can add it.

But it does not appear in the drop down menu. Only the 2015 release. Doom also is noted as 2015.

As noted above, some of the years in the search menus are going to be off. Just pick the games you want and we'll check the dates manually when we tally everything up.

Thank you =)

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Oh boy, I still have so many games to play. Good thing this closes on January 4th!

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Time to counteract the Overwatch avalanche.

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@rorie Hey, just so you know, when submitting it switches the site from the dark theme to the light theme. That's kinda annoying

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Guys, The Witness isn't showing up in the dynamic dropdown list!

Also Doom 2016

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DOOM has to win this year. That game was freaking amazing yo!

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Hitman

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"Rise of the Tomb Raider" was feb 9, 2016 according to the Steam store page (shows as 2015)

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Are episodic games of which the first chapter was released in a previous year but the last chapter released in 2016 eligible for GOTY?

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Guys, The Witness isn't showing up in the dynamic dropdown list!

Also Doom 2016

I had some funky time searching for The Witness. Try clicking the search box a couple of times and seeing if that helps.

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I'm just going to put the PC release of Final Fantasy IX down as my GOTY and get uppity when it's not in any of the data :)

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Doom, easily best game of the year for me. After that Overwatch. Anything else is still a total mess for me :D

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This is the time when I realize how few games from the current year I played.

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Game of the Year, go!!

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@austin_walker I made sure to put Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen (PC) on my list for this year

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Finally!

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I just realized I have to pick a favorite out of Overwatch, Doom and Hitman. I can't handle this pressure right now. Those are uniquely special to many in such different ways...

I need alcohol before I can be trusted with this level of decision making...

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Have a feeling my list is going to be pretty different from most other folks since I only played maybe 12 games that came out this year, and a lot of them were ones targeted at younger audiences since I spent a lot of time with my 10 year old sister playing stuff. But then again everyone's going to vote for Pokemon so maybe not.

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@nightriff: No. That is DLC for a game that came out in 2015. Much as you may love it, you cannot bend the will of time itself.

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Dots & Co isn't in the database even though its inferior sister game, Dots: A Game About Connecting, is. I'd rank it sixth if I could.

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Y'all worrying about DOOM and The Witness when I'm here hoping Pocket Card Jockey doesn't get disqualified for having been released on mobile in 2013.

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So it begins.

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Just so nobody thinks I'm some loon who voted for Kentucky Route Zero even though Kentucky Route Zero isn't a new release - a new Act totally came out this year! Nobody really paid attention to it but it's another stellar entry in a stellar series.

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@rorie said:
@enemymouse said:

Guys, The Witness isn't showing up in the dynamic dropdown list!

Also Doom 2016

I had some funky time searching for The Witness. Try clicking the search box a couple of times and seeing if that helps.

Hmm, I tried again but no success. Even the main site search doesn't find it.

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@eloj: it came out on Xbox One in 2015 tho

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Man, I put together a preliminary list and this has been a great year hasn't it?

I also must join the 'sad I can't vote for Blood & Wine' camp. Proper expansion packs are great (Mask of the Betrayer is one of my favourite games of all time) and they should make a come back.

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@enemymouse: try adding a space to the end of the name? It comes up for me pretty consistently.

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@rorie: Ah, it turns out The Witness and Doom are the correct ones even though they say 2013 and 2015 in the search result.

So all is good, thanks!

(Edit: Wish I had read the entire thread first. Sorry about that)

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I'd like to add the Witcher 3 DLC blood and wine. That is longer than most games out this year - also MUCH better than any game out this year.

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Same, Blood and Wine was a masterpiece and the length of a full rpg. Easily my GotY.

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Oh man, now I feel like a games journalist and gotta finish up a couple more games.

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That moment when you spent all of 2016 playing games from other years, Like Xenoblade Chronicles. Makes no sense to waste people's time with joke votes.

I'll root for the winner! That'll make me happy no matter what!

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@rorie: Monster Hunter Generations is listed as a November 2015 game but that was for the Japanese release, we didn't get it outside of Japan until July 2016. Would that still count for this vote or is it going by the original date regardless of territory?

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I'll fly a lone flag for Tokyo Mirage Sessions.

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What if i want to include a game that was released in december 2015 in north america but in 2016 in europe?
I.e. Trails of Cold Steel. (the first one).

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Filling this out made me realize it hasn't been a great year for me. Not bad, but not much I'll look back fondly at five years from now.

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Giantbomb lists Superhot as a 2015 game but it was officially released this Feb, hope it still counts!

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The obsession may have passed, but dont forget how many hours you sunk into Stardew Valley this year.

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Is there a good link on the site to show games that were released this year? Some of the earlier games kind of run together in my head.

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Ladykiller in a bind shows up but with a weird title.