As you know, I’m into the Blackwell games now too. As usual, you add an awesome additional spin to the experience by inviting me to see the whole series as just chapters of the same big game. Somehow that adds a welcome bit of additional cohesion to a series that really is about a family “legacy” of supernatural…

Thanks for this. I really like your thoughts about horoscopes, etc., by the way. I personally can’t stand horoscopes in particular (except for Rob Breszny’s Free Will Astrology column, which is a whole different kind of thing), but I am kind of into reading the Tarot ever since my wife got me a book (the Tarot Handbook…

This is so crazy that you are going back and playing all of these really old classics, year by year. Hats off to you, I think your Backlog Quest is even more daunting than mine.

What were your favorite pre-2018 games that you played this year? (whether for the first time or not)

I already posted my “Favorite New Games of 2018” in the AV Club’s Favorites article, but the fact is, those were not my very favorite games that I played this year. I played some older ones— some for the first time,…

I grabbed Overcooked on a whim last week— I was going to buy a physical copy but ended up downloading it straight to the Switch so my son and I could play right away (he had been bugging me to get various Halo games like his friend Ben, oh but first we need an Xbox, please Dad please... so I wanted to put him back on…

Awesome, I’m glad you jumped in! Staying up to 1 a.m. to post stuff about video games just doesn’t seem to be my thing anymore...

Like Dead Cells, this is another game that I really enjoyed for a number of hours and can definitely respect, but probably have no hope of ever beating. Plus, the whole thing of having to walk 5 miles back to the site of your death every time you die (which, for me, was really frequent especially when it came to boss…

Hey, I made it into Keyboard Geniuses! As always, seeing my writing above the “Discussion” line reminds me why I don’t do this game journalism thing professionally.

I liked it a lot but somehow the gameplay wasn’t as rich as at could be. I’m not even just saying that to be silly (I mean, it’s just a cute game about throwing an entire county down a hole), but I was actually frustrated by the puzzle-type mechanisms which were teased in a few levels but never really went anywhere. I…

Awesome, I haven’t gotten around to Celeste ywt but I will want to try that out. One thing I really love about one of my favorite games that I played this year, Transistor (which, of course, came out several years ago), was that you can add “Limiters” to set up your own à la carte difficulty setting. Other Supergiant…

Well, shoot, not only am I super-late to this party (by Internet posting standards), but my two top games of 2018 are already covered in the main article. What the heck, here I go anyway for my top 3— or at least, my favorites released in 2018, since my favorites played this year were all a few years older.

I love both XCOM games, and I highly recommend War of the Fallen. As a DLC add-on, I think it might even be better than the Enemy Within add-on for the first (current-generation) XCOM game, which is really saying something. Recommended!!

DX:HR is totally on my backlog! I’ve heard so many good things about this game, so I can’t wait to sneak around in air ducts but, like, with telekinetic sneak powers. 8^P

That makes total sense! Now that my backlog has gotten this extremely out of control, I’m getting a very different perspective on these things too. Like, OH BOY IT’S 75% OFF! Yes, but by the time I get around to playing it, there will have been two more sales like that anyway. I’ve got plenty of awesome stuff already…

Congratulations! That’s always a cool experience when you have to rethink a fight like that, and then you have that breakthrough. Hard work but effective!

As for backlog, I probably shouldn’t count the free games on Twitch that I got by being on Amazon Prime, but there are only 10-12 of those so far. The real problem is Steam.

I meant to say that if there was one thing cooler than the general comparison of Worf/kid vs. Kratos/kid, it was that you picked that awesome cowboy-themed image! I don’t have specific opinions about TNG episodes... I watched it halfheartedly at the time and then my stepmom got way into it again years later, so it’s…

That’s great to hear about the third Blackwell game! I liked the second one much better than the first, just because it seems to “gel” much more effectively in what it’s trying to do, so I’m pleased to hear that the series may continue to get even better.

I was about to mention Oxenfree, but for the opposite reason! It did have quite naturalistic dialogue, which I liked a lot, but I thought I remembered something very different about the interrupting thing specifically. Like, if someone was talking to me and I was stupid enough to try and read a sign or something, my…

I still have a backlog as long as my arm— I did a meticulous count last week, and it came to exactly 120 games I’ve paid for but not played for more than an hour or so, for a total about 2800 hours according to my personalized adaptation of “HowLongToBeat.com” estimated play times. But my usual wintertime nostalgia…