GOTY 2019
Last year, I wrote that the year felt like it lasted forever. That may have been a curse, as 2019 has flown by. My first full year as a professional gaming critic saw my time eaten away by trying to make such a ridiculous profession pay the bills. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world, but it doesn't leave a whole lot of time for spending hours with big AAA releases.
Not that there weren't a lot of them to go around, but I found most of them not worth making time for. Even the ones I liked ended up on the backburner for better or worse. I'm only a few levels into DMC V, Apex was a passing fancy, and I barely touched Borderlands 3. No, my 2019 was full of compact experiences that let me fit gaming in where I could. It's a different type of gaming, but I had fun all the same. Here are the best games I played in all of 2019.
Runners Up or 15-11 (In that order): Creature in the Well, Hell is Other Demons, RAD, Dicey Dungeons, Gears 5