Ranked, Pre-2022 Games Played in 2022
This is my ranking of the games I played for the first time in 2022 that came out before 2022.
This is my ranking of the games I played for the first time in 2022 that came out before 2022.
To be fair, I played the PS5 version after a lot of bugs had been fixed. If this was the game that came out at launch, it easily would have been up for GOTY. This game is gorgeous, fun and I cannot stop playing. Even after finishing the game, I went back in to get the platinum which includes doing every "gig," which is to a side mission what a side mission is to a main mission. It's been a long time since I have played an open world RPG and didn't reach the point of, "I'm ready to be done, let's just finish the story."
This game was an emotional JOURNEY. Fantastically done. Wow. I think this was better than Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. It would have been my #2 game in 2021 if I had gotten around to it then, just behind Resident Evil Village.
Specifically, this is Monster Prom XXL. Wow. This game is hilarious. It only takes 30-60 minutes (depending on length you choose) to play through a run. I'm not sure if it's highly replayable, or I just want to see all of the things, but the repeats lose effect.
Really enjoyed playing this with my wife. Played through multiple episodes and had a blast playing co-op NES Castlevania. Highly recommend.
Holy cow. This game was really interesting and didn't over stay it's welcome. Had the right level of creepiness without feeling like too much. Interesting story.
It's like they took the gameplay from Doom 2016/Doom Eternal, but made it good! They also made a grappling hook that is way better than Halo Infinite's. This game was a lot of fun.
This is the most relaxing game I think I have ever played. There's something so cathartic about playing this on easy and kicking someone in the head until they collapse into a pile of unconsciousness. I don't think there's another sports game that's fun at lower difficulties. Winning in Madden 100-0 or something is really boring. This has not gotten boring yet. The pre-game hype make me think, "Haha. This computer AI thinks they have a chance. Now they have brain damage."
This game is bat crap insane. The story is wild, and the gameplay is a lot of fun. Slicing people up gets really cool.
Played through this with my wife. It was difficult, but surprisingly soothing a lot of the time. Some times the game was BS and broke its own rules. Overall, a lot of fun.
This was an adorably fun platformer and free! Totally forgot to play this in 2020 when I got the PS5. I see why it was on so many people's top ten games of the year.
This is the sequel that took everything from the first game and made it better (or scrapped it). I had a lot of fun with this.
Played DDLC Plus. This certainly went in interesting directions.
Never heard of these games until recently. Fun, short side scrollers.
A top-down horror game where you play an exorcist. I had a lot of fun with this, but there are definitely areas that it could be better. Would totally play a sequel.
This is good, but something about it is just not as charming as the first game. I can't quite put my finger on it.
Watched my wife play this, while providing some help against certain bosses. It was super cute and she really enjoyed it.
This was pretty fun. It went on a little too long though, but I liked how it rounded out some of the lore.
This was a fun, cute game. About 2 hours long, which was the perfect length. It's like a significantly less stressful Minit. Lots of fun!
This was a surprising amount of fun. Again, rewind made it better than it would have been otherwise, because it's full of that NES shenanigans.
Wow! This game had a lot of fantastic ideas and concepts! It was bogged down with way, way, way too many fetch quests. It was really cool though. Turning into a dragon was awesome.
This was a fun adventure. It was an interesting little story. I enjoyed my time with it.
This was a fun puzzle game. I enjoyed it, but it went on slightly too long.
A 2D, level based Castlevania game that I had not previously played. It was a 2D, level based Castlevania game.
This game was really cool. You can crouch AND run at the same time. Played it on NES Switch Online, and without rewind this would have not been as fun.
A short, chill horror game made like a PS1 game. I enjoyed my time with it.
It's such a breath of fresh air to see a free game not bogged down by ads or trying everything to get you to spend your life on it. One puzzle a day, just a few minutes to play. I played a lot of Lingo 20 years ago on game show network's game website, so this has been a little bit nostalgic as well.
This is definitely how you make a sequel to My Name is Mayo. There were fun little mini games to help with the clicking.
Hard to split GC 1 & 2 apart. Had fun with them. Took about 90 minutes to beat both.
This was cute, but ultimately I got bored. I don't think point & click adventures are for me, but I loved all the cat puns.
This was cute and fun. It only a couple hours long, but that is just fine. It stayed the right amount of time and had some fun variety.
It's interesting to have a siren in a horror game. I kept expecting this game to build to something, but it just kind of doesn't. It was alright.
Chill game, ran a little long in the tooth, but only by an hour or so. Also, I thought the game was really dark (lighting not tone) at points. I later realized that my tv settings were messed up. I think I would have enjoyed certain sections more if I had thought to check.
This game felt like an endless series of fetch quests. I thought it was going to be scary, but it wasn't. It's kind of killing my interest in a remake as well as in Calisto Protocol.
Simple, but well designed. This was fun.
This format was not for me. It felt more like 8 mini games in one. They were well done, but just felt lacking.
Got this free. It was decently fun to play through.
This was a fun NES Online title to spend an hour with. Rewind helps.
For as dumb of a concept as this game is (click a jar of mayo, change its outfits to continue the "story"), I actually had fun with it.
This was alright. Short space SHMUP.
It was ok. Short game that would have been really annoying if I hadn't played it with rewind on NES Switch Online.
This game was not very good and too long (even at less than 90 minutes). It was free though. Would rather play it than more Star Fox.
Played this for the Super Switch Club. It's not good. As I add this, the question becomes, is it worse than Halo Infinite? Boy, it's pretty close, but this game is much shorter, so it gets the edge.
This game is unnecessarily hard. Thanks to the Switch Online Expansion with rewind and save states, I actually played through the whole thing for the Super Switch Club. It has moments that are fun, but it has too many unnecessarily difficult things. Still better than Halo: Infinite.
Garbage. Absolute garbage. Whoever was in charge of the campaign should be fired.