You know those Twitter threads where people list off every video game they’ve completed throughout the year? It’s something I’ve always been a bit keen on doing, but I figured summing up each game in a single Tweet wouldn’t do them justice. So, throughout 2023, I decided to keep a record of every game I completed, composing what are essentially mini reviews to try and cover every facet I liked or didn’t like about each one… and that was a mistake.

This wound up taking far more time and effort than I expected. And between a new job, other real world responsibilities, and me wanting to play more and more games, I failed to get this done before we rolled into 2024. Sunk cost fallacy meant I didn’t want to abandon all the work I already put in so, screw it, I’m putting this out even though we’re already a quarter of the way into 2024. Just know I will not be attempting something like this again, at least not to this degree.

For the record, this list isn’t exclusive to games that launched in 2023. No matter how old it was, if I beat it, I included it here. What counts as clearing a game is often up to interpretation but, for me, it’s at least hitting the end credits, though sometimes I made a point of clearing post-game content as well. Right, with the preamble out of the way, let’s run through every game I beat in 2023.

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