2023 in Review: Every Video Game I Completed This Year

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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The Entertainment Dome Episode 210 – Only Bugs Bunny Could Stop The Rumbling

This week on The Entertainment Dome, we discuss the trailers for the new seasons of Attack on Titan and The Mandalorian before moving onto the newest Marvel game, Midnight Suns.

My Ten Most Anticipated Games of 2022

I feel like it’d be an over exaggeration, if not outright inaccurate, to say 2021 was a bad year for video games. Quite frankly, there were plenty of awesome new games or updates to existing ones. On a personal level, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart properly demonstrated the potential of the PlayStation 5, both Great Ace Attorney games finally made it to the West, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate truly made the impossible possible by completing its roster with Sora from Kingdom Hearts.

But I will admit the industry itself has made it hard to be optimistic about 2022. Over the last twelve months, we’ve seen outright abysmal releases like the Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy remasters, the likes of Ubisoft and Square Enix committing to incorporating NFTs (the newest environmentally damaging grift) into their games, and then there’s just everything about Activision, which has once again highlighted how horrible the industry can be behind closed doors.

While it is important to acknowledge all the bad parts of this industry, even if it’s painful to do so, that doesn’t mean there’ll be no joy to be found in it either. As always, there are already a number of select games I’m looking forward to this year and I’m sure there are a number of amazing titles that haven’t been announced yet. Plus, this is a yearly tradition at this point so let’s get on with things and get to my ten most anticipated games of 2022.

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