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Twenty-Chagrin: Pile of Shame '16

You all know what this is. I write a new one every year: a list of games that I couldn't find time for in the previous year, and so have added to this year's agenda. With the vast amount of brilliant games from 2015, I suspect I'll still be plugging through everyone's recent GOTY picks for the foreseeable future. In that spirit, this list is split up into three parts:

Games labelled with a [B] (for "Backlog") are presently owned by me. A few I'm already partway through, but the majority have yet to be started. It would not be frugal of me to buy too many new games with all these left to enjoy.
Games labelled with a [W] (for "Wishlist") are 2015 games that I've been convinced that I need to check out by the spirited GOTY arguments of the staffers, guests and community members on this site. I make no promises that I will own them all by the end of this year, but I'll be periodically upgrading "W"s to "B"s as they become available.
Games labelled with a [C] (for "Completed") are, naturally, games from this list that I eventually beat in 2016. The date of completion is included.

If there's a 2015 game you feel I must play that isn't on this list or last year's "Games Beaten", be sure to recommend it in the comments.

List items

1. Apotheon

[B] Part of the "It's not GOTY-worthy, but it's a fine enough game that it should be seen through to its end" series.
2. Watch Dogs

[B] Part of the "It came with the PS4, along with Assassin's Creed Syndicate. Might as well stick my iconic cap on and get to work with it" series.
3. Wasteland 2

[B] Part of the "Time to reap the benefits of Kickstarting the new Bard's Tale early. Just as soon as I've played all the other giant RPGs on this list..." series.
4. Tales of Graces F

[B] Part of the "Talking of JRPGs I've been meaning to get around to, it's about time I caught up with the tidal wave of Tales games" series.
5. Yakuza 4

[B] Part of the "Hey, I beat Yakuza 3 last year. Let's keep that streak goin'" series.
[Completed in 2017!]
6. Jagged Alliance 2

[B] Part of the "This is one of those 'you still haven't played this?' games that shows up on every year's pile of shame. Will this be its year?" series.
[Abandoned in 2017!]
7. Kirby's Epic Yarn

[B] Part of the "I still need to clean the disc or something, because it's not playing nice right now. But it's so cute that I wanna play it" series.
8. No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

[B] Part of the "I need more excuses to boot up the Wii U, and this is as fine a reason as any" series.
9. Threads of Fate

[B] Part of the "Might as well stick on one of those PS1 JRPGs I bought a couple years back" series.
10. Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together

[B] Part of the "Sure, I'll pretend that I'm going to play this at some point soon for another year" series.
11. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies

[B] Part of the "It's been years since I played an Ace Attorney game. Let's Wright that wrong." series.
12. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky

[B] Part of the "I gotta play more STALKER at some point. I'm a fan now" series.
13. Ori and the Blind Forest

[B] Part of the "As a fan of SpaceWhippers, I really owe it to myself to get this one" series.
[Completed in 2017!]
14. Xenoblade Chronicles X

[B] Part of the "If it ever drops in price, I'm going to be all over this. Adored Xenoblade" series.
[Completed in 2017!]
15. The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC

[W] Part of the "I loved the first and gotta figure out a way to play the second sometime soon" series.
16. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel

[W] Part of the "Failing that, I could also try this new tLoH offshoot" series.
17. Bravely Default

[W] Part of the "Damn, I've been meaning to play this old-school Square-Enix for a while now. Still don't own it" series.
18. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/Nintendo 3DS

[W] Part of the "I called the 3DS version my GOTY of 2014 for whatever reason, yet still haven't bought its superior Wii U sister" series.
19. Yoshi's Woolly World

[W] Part of the "Dan convinced me that I should play this" series.
20. Just Cause 3

[W] Part of the "More Just Cause? That's a no-brainer" series.
[Completed in 2017!]
21. Cradle

[W] Part of the "GBEast seems way into it and I need more adventure games this year, I should give it a shot" series.
22. Rebel Galaxy

[W] Part of the "Vinny and Austin won't shut up about this one, and they're rarely wrong" series.
[Completed in 2017!]
23. The Magic Circle

[W] Part of the "Two big 'games about games' came out last year, and I'd prefer to check out the one that wasn't made by the Stanley Parable guy" series.
24. Kentucky Route Zero

[W] Part of the "Talking of adventure games in episodic format, I hear this one's not bad" series.
25. Fallout 4

[C] Completed 12/01.
26. Citizens of Earth

[C] Completed 16/01.
27. Assassin's Creed Syndicate

[C] Completed 28/01.
28. Bloodborne

[C] Completed 20/02.
29. Tearaway Unfolded

[C] Completed 14/03.
30. Teslagrad

[C] Completed 18/04.
31. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[C] Completed 20/04.
32. inFamous: Second Son

[C] Completed 26/04.
33. The Talos Principle

[C] Completed 03/05.
34. Transistor

[C] Completed 08/05.
35. The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles

[C] Completed 12/05.
36. Among the Sleep

[C] Completed 23/05.
37. The Next Big Thing

[C] Completed 26/05.
38. Ys: The Oath in Felghana

[C] Completed 02/06.
39. Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

[C] Completed 05/06.
40. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

[C] Completed 10/06.
41. Dreamfall Chapters

[C] Completed 23/06.
42. Tales of Xillia

[C] Completed 06/07.
43. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

[C] Completed 31/08.
44. Divinity: Original Sin

[C] Completed 16/09.
45. Batman: Arkham Knight

[C] Completed 06/10.
46. Final Fantasy Type-0

[C] Completed 23/10.
47. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

[C] Completed 19/11.
48. Axiom Verge

[C] Completed 26/11.
49. Evoland 2: A Slight Case of Spacetime Continuum Disorder

[C] Completed 10/12.
50. SOMA

[C] Completed 12/12.