Top 5 Games I Played in 2018
I'm not really one able to play games as soon as they come out. As such, I'll start listing off games I was able to play this year, regardless of when their actual release came out. Because when it comes to video games, age is just a number.
5. Read, Write & Type!
This typing game from the 90's was surprisingly fun to stream. It was a game from my childhood I never was able to beat until I streamed it for Virtual Nostalgia. As annoying as the characters were, I actually do feel like my typing has improved from streaming this game. Hunt down an ISO from Archive.org and run it in a virtual Windows 95 PC and enjoy an obscure gem hidden in the past.
4. SWEATER? OK!
I played this game during my Friday Before Christmas stream, and I am amazed by how good it was! It's essentially Pac-Man vs Snake on an ugly Christmas sweater, where you play as the square Pac-Man button eating the smaller star mini-buttons while avoiding the larger buttons that grow tails from eating the mini-buttons ala Snake. Buy it!~
3. Death Road to Canada
I streamed this game a couple times (and plan on streaming it again this week just so you all know) and every time I do is always a blast. It's essentally Oregon Trail meets zombie slaying action meets Roguelike meetss RPG meets weird. This game is really weird. All sorts of weird events happen and how well your characters do at them is entirely dependent on their pre-generated stats. Play it; you'll never know what kinds of weird would happen.
2. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Wow! A game from this year! Even more surprising is a game I didn't stream (but that's justified by no capture device). The latest installment to the Super Smash Bros. series, this game is not kidding when it claims to have everything you'd need from a Smash Bros. game. The World of Light single-player campaign has an interesting premise: all the characters become Spirits that posess clones of the game's Fighters that Kirby must free. Although clones of Kirby get possessed too, which is odd because Kirby was the only Fighter not captured- but anyway! If you have a Nintendo Switch, getting Smash Ultimate is an Ultimate choice.
1 (Say it with me). Axiom Verge
This game I cannot shut up about. It has it all for me; great characters, good story, fascinating lore, fun gameplay, fantastic music and sound design and wonderous pixel art. I'm still writing the fanfic Multiversal Axioms and I've been talking about this game on Tumblr with fellow fans. I just love this game so much, and I loved doing the Draw & Play Twitch playthrough. This game rules, and it will always rule.
And that's my Top 5 Games I played in 2018! Here's hoping I play enough games in 2019 to make a Top 10 list.
5. Read, Write & Type!
This typing game from the 90's was surprisingly fun to stream. It was a game from my childhood I never was able to beat until I streamed it for Virtual Nostalgia. As annoying as the characters were, I actually do feel like my typing has improved from streaming this game. Hunt down an ISO from Archive.org and run it in a virtual Windows 95 PC and enjoy an obscure gem hidden in the past.
4. SWEATER? OK!
I played this game during my Friday Before Christmas stream, and I am amazed by how good it was! It's essentially Pac-Man vs Snake on an ugly Christmas sweater, where you play as the square Pac-Man button eating the smaller star mini-buttons while avoiding the larger buttons that grow tails from eating the mini-buttons ala Snake. Buy it!~
3. Death Road to Canada
I streamed this game a couple times (and plan on streaming it again this week just so you all know) and every time I do is always a blast. It's essentally Oregon Trail meets zombie slaying action meets Roguelike meetss RPG meets weird. This game is really weird. All sorts of weird events happen and how well your characters do at them is entirely dependent on their pre-generated stats. Play it; you'll never know what kinds of weird would happen.
2. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Wow! A game from this year! Even more surprising is a game I didn't stream (but that's justified by no capture device). The latest installment to the Super Smash Bros. series, this game is not kidding when it claims to have everything you'd need from a Smash Bros. game. The World of Light single-player campaign has an interesting premise: all the characters become Spirits that posess clones of the game's Fighters that Kirby must free. Although clones of Kirby get possessed too, which is odd because Kirby was the only Fighter not captured- but anyway! If you have a Nintendo Switch, getting Smash Ultimate is an Ultimate choice.
1 (Say it with me). Axiom Verge
This game I cannot shut up about. It has it all for me; great characters, good story, fascinating lore, fun gameplay, fantastic music and sound design and wonderous pixel art. I'm still writing the fanfic Multiversal Axioms and I've been talking about this game on Tumblr with fellow fans. I just love this game so much, and I loved doing the Draw & Play Twitch playthrough. This game rules, and it will always rule.
And that's my Top 5 Games I played in 2018! Here's hoping I play enough games in 2019 to make a Top 10 list.