What's your personal Game of the Year™?

This year I went mostly for retro and indie.

The best retro: Empire Earth Gold Edition.

The best indie: The Dream Machine.

Currently playing System Shock 2 and might go to the top of the list if I get to finish it before the year ends.

Corpse Party: Book of Shadows it is. I've waited to play it for years, before it even got a Steam port. The plot jumps all over the place, but it's not a bad addition to the franchise. Plus, nothing else that I've chosen to play so far this year could possibly compete with how much I like the series.

Oh, you don't mean only games that were released in 2020. Because I think it was a rather lousy year for games so far (on PC anyway).
I've played relatively many games this year (no wonder because of the circumstances). It was way over 20 games, but I'd like to point out 4 of them that I would see as GOTY contender, in the order that I've played them this year:

• DOOM (2016)
• Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim
• The Witness
• Evoland 2

The one that stuck with me the most was The Witness, I think it's one of the most polished puzzle games that exist, and I put wonderful 30 hours into it.

Factorio is a fantastic game i can recommend to any fan of management/ automation games.

Doom Eternal

(Didn't play many due to busy work schedule.)

Yakuza 0 .

Maincraaaaa

Jedi Fallen Order, I think it's one of the top 5 SW games. I think it's even a better lightsaber game than Jedi Academy.

Also Graveyard Keeper is like Stardew but fun AND funny, it removes a lot of the daily mid/late game grind while keeping the same core gameplay.

Released in 2020 GOTY = Super Mega Baseball 3

Played in 2020 GOTY = Megaquarium

Honorable Mention = Brick Rigs (my son is obsessed)

For me, it's Death Stranding. I haven't been hooked by a game like that in forever. The last time it happened was when I checked out Rakuen and got so hooked that I finished it in one sitting.

I haven't finished any games released this year, but I had a few personal favorites from other years that I finished in 2020:

• Ever Oasis (3DS)
• Solatorobo (DS)
• Celeste
• The Liar Princess and The Blind Prince (Switch, PSV and PS4)
• Minoria (Steam, GOG and all current gen consoles)
• Phoenotopia (the flash version; haven't played the remake)
• Tanglewood (Steam, GOG and Genesis for sure)
• Final Fantasy II (PSP/Android)
• The Rainsdowne Players (Steam, Itchio and Switch for sure)

1. Code Vein
2. Horizon: Zero Dawn
3. Jedi Fallen Order
4. Death Stranding
5. The Outer Worlds

Honorable Mention: RE2 remake.

I really enjoyed playing AC Odyssey in January as everything was still alright

borderlands 3
metro exodus
satisfactory

• Anodyne was a lot like Yume Nikki slammed together with oldschool Zelda, and I loved it for how weird it was. The postgame was tedious, though, and really held it back.

• The .hack//G.U collection took a bit to get into, but it was a very worthwhile experience; let me turn my brain off and just go adventuring whenever I wanted, and had some pretty entertaining characters. Good, solid combat, too, and it was fun how the game kept one-upping itself until it was straight-up ludicrous.

• Moonlighter is an overhead Action-Adventure Roguelite that is half exploring and battling your way through randomly-generated dungeons and half managing an item shop, but the latter is more compelling than you'd think. As you progress, more complexities arise, so everything is kept fresh.

• World's Dawn is the first Harvest Moon with excellent writing, and gender/sexual orientation options; it sounds silly, but I grew very fond of my lesbian wifey by the end of the experience, doing nice things for her, even though I knew full well that the game's algorithms didn't care.

• Anodyne 2 switched it up and took place in a 3D world with tiny 2D dungeons, and there's a lot of variety. So much, in fact, that the game as a whole is a weird, dreamlike experience.

• Borderlands 2 changed up a lot of things, while keeping the core intact. It wasn't better or worse; just different, and though I like the first one better, I can always go back to that, because there are still 3 more playable characters. This is the Shooter I've wanted since Turok 2.

• Borderlands just knocked me right upside the head; it just hit the perfect spot for me with great characters, great writing, crazy guns, and enough RPG elements that even I had a chance. It's the Shooter I've wanted since I first played Turok: Dinosaur Hunter.

• Transistor was technically a replay, but while I had issues with it the first time, this time it became one of my all-time favorite games. The environments, the combat, the music, just EVERYTHING finally came together for me. #1 without question.

Death Streanding

Ghost of Tsushima, the game was a pleasant surprise to me, i thought nothing could beat the marvelous The Last of Us part 2, but i was wrong. I've always dreamed to be able to play an Assassin's Creed game themed on feudal Japan, filled with samurai and ninja stuff, and Ghost of Tsushima is exactly like that.

A classic: MediEvil

danganronpa saga

Waiting Cyberpunk 2077 and WOW : Shadowlands first
Edit :so people give GOTY to older games that was released long time ago too ?

Picking one is too hard so I'll choose 3. :D Gris, A Way Out and Mario Odyssey.

Man I really need to finish Cuphead, I stopped during the third world but replayed the first 2 twice and absolutely loved it. Kudos on 100%ing it, very impressive!

• Kingdom Come Deliverance
• Salt and Sanctuary