Ninth Coint & Plick: Best Games of 2015 NOMINATION THREAD

Hi everyone! Now begins the nomination process for games to be included in the ninth Coint and Plick thread, showcasing ILX's favorite video games from the year 2015. I'm making a few tweaks this year, so I'll try to make is as clear as possible below.

No longer is it necessary to post every damn platform a game comes out on. This year, please use these as the "platforms":
1. Console (PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360)
2. Handheld (3DS, VITA)
3. Mobile (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, idk Blackberry?)
4. Computer (Mac, PC, Linux / executable)
5. Browser
6. Other (idk, vr? vr's usually computer anyway)

This will make it clear the nature of how it's played. It might not tell you if it's on Mac or PC but you can look that up once you read about it. I think this'll just make the whole thing more readable. Also make a note if it's free.

As always: games released in 2015 only. If it's a re-release, it's up for debate (I wanna KNOW that you played the re-release, and aren't just voting for e.g. Nathan Drake Collection because you played it on PS3 years ago and didn't play anything this year). No limit on number of nominations per person. If it's a released game with new content, you can nominate the content (e.g. Destiny the Taken King) unless it's not really a notable amount of content (e.g. they added Galactus to Marvel Puzzle Quest). My point here is that if it's on an old nomination list, it's probably not on this nomination list.

If it's obscure, please include a link or something.

Happy nominating!

Sunless Sea
Destiny: The Taken King
Invisible, Inc.
Renowned Explorers
NEO Scavenger*
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
Fallout 4
The Curious Expedition
Prison Architect
Gods Will Be Watching
Hand of Fate
Ironcast

* Came out Dec 15, 2014 - year of impact rule?

Cities: Skylines
Her Story
Heroes of the Storm
Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void
Undertale
Armello
Massive Chalice
Vietnam 65
Steven Universe: Attack the Light!
Fallout Shelter
Alto
Pocket Mine 2
Does not Commute
The Jackbox Party Pack 2

Amazing year for games imho

what if they added Galactus AND Ghost Rider to Marvel Puzzle Quest

Bloodborne
Talos Principle
The Swapper (technically fall of '14 I guess)
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

ios games:

Downfall (multiple platforms)
Lara Croft GO
Landsliders
Alto's Adventure
The Executive
You Must Build A Boat
Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions
Tales from the Borderlands (multiple platforms)
Radical Rappelling
Blades of Brim

Leon's Cool Game (Twitter)
https://twitter.com/leonscoolgame

what if they added Galactus AND Ghost Rider to Marvel Puzzle Quest

let's talk when it's not a 7-color match-3 game featuring marvel superheroes and villains using powers based on built up gems of those colours or something

no frog-fractions style leftfield games this year that i ran into and recall -- maybe i'm just not paying sufficient attention? would welcome any suggestions along those lines.

We had a separate listing for IF [interactive fiction] on some previous years' lists, as those games often require an interpreter. I'd quite like to keep IF as a category in its own right, but I think most new inform/z-code/glulx/whatever they are games are available to play in-browser through Parchment these days, so should I nominate them as browser games?

(And this is the reason why it was IF and not anything else - pretty sure I just conflated script, file type and platform in my examples there.)

For something like that it makes sense to put computer and browser (as some games will have to be computer and mobile, or computer and console), since both are valid ways to access them. I'm mostly only including the platforms to show people how they're accessed.

OK. Will sort my noms shortly.

z-code was designed by inform. iirc last i checked in on it emily short corroborated on a 'natural language' update of that i used after i gave up on tads. speaking of which does anyone still make games in tads? there were also a lot of avant games (i think that's what it was called) when i was writing if that were super simple to use (and generally produced inferior quality pieces ime ymmv) i wonder if it has fallen out of use since.

tads 3 came out after i had switched over to z-code but i got the feeling it was maybe more useful for extensive multimedia integration? and i was not so interested in including music + video and stuff

Rocket League
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Witcher 3 - Console / PC

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

oh man jordan did you get to play this? i love the sound of it but it seems like a lot of work to arrange

You can apparently play with a PC (no VR) and tablets/phones/other copmuters (for the manual), iirc

haha yeah sure but that still means explaining to at least two friends 'so there's this game, it's, er, it's a VR game, but it's not, mostly you look at pdfs on your phone ...'

Wow, I'm realizing that it's entirely possible that Jackbox Party Pack 2 is the only 2015 release that I've played. I might need to submit the stuff I own and haven't played as nominations just to get my ass in gear.

pillars of eternity
darkest dungeon
chrono trigger

...chrono trigger???

it's a tradition

I personally played more Chrono Trigger in 2015 than I did any actual 2015 release.

Hotline Miami 2
Downwell
Life is Strange
Beginner's Guide
Cibele
Sylvio
Read Only Memories
Castle in the Darkness
Grow Home

Helldivers (PS3, PS4, PS Vita)

Most of these are just browser anyway, actually, so yeah...

Brain Guzzlers From Beyond!
Bus Station Unbound
Midnight. Swordfight.
Toby's Nose

Also, mobile:

Neko Atsume

All of these games are free, but Bus Station Unbound has a 'pay what you want' option.

Ori and the Blind Forest (console, computer)
The Room 3 (mobile)
Crank (browser)
Trimps (browser)

oops, Ori is computer-only.

brain guzzlers is funny

>talk to goat
You bleat at him. He bleats back louder. You've been bleaten.

ori is on xbone

marvel puzzle quest : I will vote for it, whether it's allowed or not, so why not just allow it

I played some very shitty "games" too that I won't nominate unless we're doing a shit ballot.

my new year's resolution this year is to play better games, but given current financial realities plus backlogs that won't mean 2016 games

can we just disqualify all ballots including marvel puzzle quest

only if we can also disqualify all ballots that don't include it

hey then i guess we can get coint and plick done early

Goat Simulator (2015 release on PS3)

Goat Simulator came in #2 last year!

Perhaps we can correct that injustice this year.

only if the PS3 version has an unlockable minigame where you can make the goat play Marvel Puzzle Quest

otm

There will be a regular ballot per previous years (with points allotted to games etc)
+ there will be a line to put 1-3 games not released in 2015 which will get a separate mini-rollout, this is where mpq and chrono trigger belong
+ there will be a line to put biggest disappointment/worst game of 2015

there will not be mpq or chrono trigger on the main ballot
goat simulator can be nominated if you want to vote for the PORT TO CONSOLE anyone who votes for it because they played the pc version in 2015 is a poxy fule

an honest ballot for me has to include MPQ and P&D for 2015. don't see why they don't fall under MMO rules because they are being updated literally every week

"guys can i vote for no flex zone in this year's tracks poll? i mean sremmlife technically came out in 2015 soooo"

see i have no idea what you're talking about there

in 2015 we are all filthy casuals let's just own up to it

It's not really the same thing though - I'd be interested on the distinction between say Warlords of Draenor (WoW's fifth expansion, a lot of content for levelling to 100) and Patch 6.2 (some new mechanics and a 13-boss raid). Are they both eligible (or rather would they be if they came out the same year)?

I will vote for MPQ no matter what. if it's not allowed I'll send a ballot with just MPQ. ride or die.

cool i love it when ppl go hardline for dumb shit like voting for a game that came #1 in 2013

Might be the lightest mobile year in a few years. I guess MPQ is sucking up everyone's phone-game time.

― nerd shit (Will M.), Thursday, January 7, 2016 12:57 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not anything really interesting or genre busting for me, which is the fun I have on mobile. just sort of some nice "a-list" titles that play it a bit safe. and of course microtransactions really sucking the "pure fun" out of everything.

xpost I think it was just released for Vita this year, but I'm not crying any tears since it's at the bottom of my 'to play' list.

Borderlands presequel: claptastic voyage dlc

Saints Row: Gat Out Of Hell

o rite claptastic voyage is allowed!

Never Alone (released late last year on a couple of platforms but just recently on others)

couple browser games:

There Is No Game
Ennuigi

anyone play any of the three telltale series this year? i've heard good things about tales from the borderlands, but next to nothing about minecraft story mode/game of thrones.

i thought tales was pretty great, but i have no idea how much of that is due to telltale, and how much of that is due to me enjoying borderlands stuff. any recs on if i liked that one which others i'd like?

(best tales stuff was imho all the franchise-specific gags -- especially playing off the loot & shoot mechanics, either denying the opportunity to collect and use cool guns, or having characters obsessed with the collecting of cool guns in inappropriate situations)

Walking Dead would be your obvious first choice.

Definitely. Never got around to season 2 (sigh someday) but that first season was great.

will i like it if i've never seen the show

the show and comic could only work to ruin the game, the game stands alone & is better than both

I Am Bread (mobile, computer, console)

I just realized I never put a deadline on nominations... would a week today work for everyone (Jan 20)?

then i can focus on making people enter ballots, hopefully we can break 25 this year!

That works for me.

New nominations:

Back To Bed
Velocibox

Fran Bow (computer/mobile)
King's Quest: Chapter 1: A Knight to Remember (computer/console)
Hook (computer/mobile) (browser demo here)

i don't know if i'll end up voting for it, but:

Cluck Yegger in Escape From the Planet of the Poultroid (computer/mobile)

i'm just tickled that the guys who made Space Quest back in the eighties have released a Five Nights At Freddy's parody, of all things.

added em! two more days of nominations, and then voting time!

Oh, haven't got around to playing it yet but

Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger And The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist

good god, these hyper-long names stretchin' out my damn excel sheet

King's Quest: Chapter 1: A Knight to Remember (computer/console)

is this fun if you have fond (and not-so-fond) memories of the original?

if you have PS Plus, I think it's free to find out right now! (unless that was last month)

I was thinking of closing the floor for nominations today.

Anyone else? Going once...?

Couldn't think of anything else, am ready to vote (if a little sidetracked by ILM EoY results).

i think you've got everything i'd vote for there.

80 Days - MOBI / COMP
A Good Snowman is Hard to Build - COMP
Actual Sunlight - HAND / COMP
Agar.io - BWSR
Alto's Adventure - MOBI
Apotheon - CONS / COMP
Armello - CONS / MOBI / COMP
Audiosurf 2 - COMP
Axiom Verge - CONS / HAND / COMP
Back To Bed - MOBI / COMP
Badland 2 - MOBI
Batman: Arkham Knight - CONS / COMP
Beginner's Guide - COMP
Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth - CONS / HAND / MOBI / COMP
Black Closet - COMP
Blades of Brim - MOBI
Bloodborne - CONS
Borderlands Pre-Sequel: Claptastic Voyage DLC - CONS / COMP
Brain Guzzlers From Beyond! - BWSR
Broforce - CONS / COMP
Broken Age - CONS / HAND / MOBI / COMP
Bus Station Unbound - BWSR
Capitals - MOBI
Captain Toad Treasure Tracker - CONS
Castle in the Darkness - COMP
Cibele - COMP
Cities: Skylines - COMP
Cluck Yegger in Escape From the Planet of the Poultroid - MOBI / COMP
Convoy - COMP
Crank - BWSR
CRYPTARK - COMP
Danganronpa Another Episode - HAND
darkest dungeon - COMP
Destiny: The Taken King - CONS
Does not Commute - MOBI
Downwell - CONS / MOBI / COMP
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger And The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist - COMP
Dragon Fin Soup - CONS / HAND / COMP
Dropsy - HAND
Dying Light - CONS / COMP
Elite: Dangerous - CONS / COMP
Ennuigi - BWSR
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture - CONS
Evolve - CONS / COMP
Fallout 4 - CONS / COMP
Fallout Shelter - MOBI
Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward - CONS / COMP
Flywrench - COMP
Forza 6 - CONS
Fran Bow - MOBI / COMP
Galak-Z: The Dimensional - CONS / COMP
Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions - HAND / MOBI
Goat Simulator (PORT) - CONS
Gods Will Be Watching - HAND / COMP
Grim Fandango Remastered - COMP
Grow Home - CONS / COMP
Guitar Hero Live - CONS / MOBI
Halo 5 - CONS
Hand of Fate - CONS / COMP
Hard West - COMP
Helldivers - CONS / COMP
Her Story - COMP
Heroes of the Storm - COMP
Hook - MOBI / COMP
Horizon Chase - MOBI
Hotline Miami 2 - CONS / HAND / COMP
htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary - HAND
I Am Bread - CONS / MOBI / COMP
Interstellaria - COMP
Invisible, Inc. - COMP
Ironcast - COMP
Jotun - COMP
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes - COMP
Kerbal Space Program - COMP
Kick & Fennick - HAND
Kingdom - COMP
King's Quest: Chapter 1: A Knight to Remember - CONS / COMP
Knights of Pen and Paper 2 - CONS / MOBI
La-Mulana EX - CONS / HAND
Landsliders - MOBI
Lara Croft GO - MOBI
Leon's Cool Game - COMP
Life is Strange - CONS / COMP
Lost Constellation - COMP
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime - CONS / COMP
Lumino City - COMP
Mad Max - CONS / COMP
Marvel Puzzle Quest (PORT) - CONS
Massive Chalice - COMP
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - CONS / COMP
Midnight. Swordfight. - BWSR
Minkomora - BWSR
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate - HAND
Mortal Kombat X - CONS / COMP
Mushroom 11 - COMP
N++ - CONS
Need for Speed - CONS / COMP
Neko Atsume - MOBI
NEO Scavenger - COMP
Never Alone - CONS / COMP
Nihilumbra - HAND
nuclear throne - CONS / COMP
Oddworld: new 'n' tasty - CONS / COMP
Offworld Trading Company - COMP
OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood - CONS / HAND / COMP
Operation Dracula - MOBI
Ori and the Blind Forest - CONS / COMP
pillars of eternity - COMP
PixWing - MOBI
Pocket Mine 2 - MOBI
Prison Architect - COMP
Prune - MOBI
Radical Rappelling - MOBI
Read Only Memories - CONS / HAND / COMP
Renowned Explorers - COMP
Republique Remastered - COMP
Resogun: Defenders - CONS
Rock Band 4 - CONS
Rocket League - CONS / COMP
Saints Row: Gat Out Of Hell - CONS / COMP
Satellite Reign - COMP
Soma - CONS / COMP
Sorcery! 3 - MOBI
Splatoon - CONS
Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void - COMP
Stealth Inc. 2: A Game of Clones - CONS / HAND / COMP
Steamworld Heist - CONS / HAND / COMP
steins;gate - HAND
Steven Universe: Attack the Light! - MOBI
Stranded Deep - COMP
Sunless Sea - COMP
Sunset - COMP
Super Mario Maker - CONS
Super Mega Baseball - CONS / COMP
Superbeat: Xonic - HAND
Sylvio - COMP
Tales from the Borderlands - CONS / COMP
Talos Principle - COMP
Tembo the Badass Elephant - CONS / COMP
Teslagrad - CONS / HAND / COMP
The Bridge - CONS / HAND / COMP
The Curious Expedition - MOBI
The Executive - MOBI
The Jackbox Party Pack 2 - CONS / COMP
The Order: 1886 - CONS
The Room 3 - MOBI
There Is No Game - BWSR
Toby's Nose - BWSR
Tower of Guns - CONS
Transformers Devastation - CONS
Trimps - BWSR
Undertale - COMP
Until Dawn - CONS
Velocibox - CONS / COMP
Vietnam 65 - COMP
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut - COMP
We Know the Devil - BWSR
Whispering Willows - CONS / HAND / COMP
Witcher 3 - CONS / COMP
Woah Dave! - HAND
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood - CONS / COMP
xenoblade chronicles x - CONS
Yo-kai Watch - HAND
You Must Build A Boat - MOBI
Ziggurat - COMP

This will be the nomination list assuming there's nothing I missed, going to start making a form like last year. Let me know if I am missing anything.

i am gonna vote the hell outta MPQ because i played it so much on my... CONSOLE... last year

i'm about to go r|t|c on you in this thread my dude

lol oh the purists

hey i could've pushed Puzzle and Dragons Z, be glad I didn't!

How many votes do people generally submit? I've only recently started playing video games again, having bought a PS4, and I've probably played about 12 eligible games (though noticing that AC: Syndicate wasn't nommed so 11, I guess) and I feel like my participation would tilt this in favour of AAA titles which is mostly what I've played (save, I think, 4 titles). I don't want to swing into the hardcore gamers world and muck things up with yet another vote for x or y.

and fair warning, despite the fact that I know it has many, many problems I would probably rank Mad Max pretty high.

imho the joy of the list is that we roll out [almost?] all of it and you have AAA titles next to little indie studio or even hobbyist stuff. idk if f4 is my favorite game of the year but i'll vote v highly for it and my guess is it'll do v well in this poll

even if you rate mad max high, i doubt it will make the top 20 unless we get like NO ballots this year. i am always worried that we won't.

i think last year i rolled out everything with at least 6 points, lol.

Oh wow, AC Syndicate should totally be on the noms list. Also, don't hate me but I've been playing a lot of Pokemon Picross on 3DS the last couple of days and that should probably be on there too.

Oh and Black Ops 3. Not that I've played it, but that should be included surely?

Battlefield Hardline and Star Wars Battlefront both missing! It's probably worth just auto including the top 30 best sellers of the year really because we seem to have forgotten about a lot of them.

Oh and Bastion came out for Vita this year, I might get around get to playing that before voting.

If no-one's thought about them enough to nominate them, what's the point though?

(regarding the manshooties - no beef with Bastion or Pokemon Picross!)

if bastion is one of the best 77 games to come out this year including everything released for everything let's call off the coint and plick and all kill ourselves

And with those ones (syndicate, picross, black ops, hardline, battlefront, bastion port) the floor is closed for nominations. Ballot thread shortly.

80 Days - MOBI / COMP
A Good Snowman is Hard to Build - COMP
Actual Sunlight - HAND / COMP
Agar.io - BWSR
Alto's Adventure - MOBI
Apotheon - CONS / COMP
Armello - CONS / MOBI / COMP
Assassin's Creed Syndicate - CONS / COMP
Audiosurf 2 - COMP
Axiom Verge - CONS / HAND / COMP
Back To Bed - MOBI / COMP
Badland 2 - MOBI
Bastion (PORT) - HAND
Batman: Arkham Knight - CONS / COMP
Battlefield Hardline - CONS / COMP
Beginner's Guide - COMP
Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth - CONS / HAND / MOBI / COMP
Black Closet - COMP
Blades of Brim - MOBI
Bloodborne - CONS
Borderlands Pre-Sequel: Claptastic Voyage DLC - CONS / COMP
Brain Guzzlers From Beyond! - BWSR
Broforce - CONS / COMP
Broken Age - CONS / HAND / MOBI / COMP
Bus Station Unbound - BWSR
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 - CONS / COMP
Capitals - MOBI
Captain Toad Treasure Tracker - CONS
Castle in the Darkness - COMP
Cibele - COMP
Cities: Skylines - COMP
Cluck Yegger in Escape From the Planet of the Poultroid - MOBI / COMP
Convoy - COMP
Crank - BWSR
CRYPTARK - COMP
Danganronpa Another Episode - HAND
darkest dungeon - COMP
Destiny: The Taken King - CONS
Does not Commute - MOBI
Downwell - CONS / MOBI / COMP
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger And The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist - COMP
Dragon Fin Soup - CONS / HAND / COMP
Dropsy - HAND
Dying Light - CONS / COMP
Elite: Dangerous - CONS / COMP
Ennuigi - BWSR
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture - CONS
Evolve - CONS / COMP
Fallout 4 - CONS / COMP
Fallout Shelter - MOBI
Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward - CONS / COMP
Flywrench - COMP
Forza 6 - CONS
Fran Bow - MOBI / COMP
Galak-Z: The Dimensional - CONS / COMP
Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions - HAND / MOBI
Goat Simulator (PORT) - CONS
Gods Will Be Watching - HAND / COMP
Grim Fandango Remastered - COMP
Grow Home - CONS / COMP
Guitar Hero Live - CONS / MOBI
Halo 5 - CONS
Hand of Fate - CONS / COMP
Hard West - COMP
Helldivers - CONS / COMP
Her Story - COMP
Heroes of the Storm - COMP
Hook - MOBI / COMP
Horizon Chase - MOBI
Hotline Miami 2 - CONS / HAND / COMP
htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary - HAND
I Am Bread - CONS / MOBI / COMP
Interstellaria - COMP
Invisible, Inc. - COMP
Ironcast - COMP
Jotun - COMP
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes - COMP
Kerbal Space Program - COMP
Kick & Fennick - HAND
Kingdom - COMP
King's Quest: Chapter 1: A Knight to Remember - CONS / COMP
Knights of Pen and Paper 2 - CONS / MOBI
La-Mulana EX - CONS / HAND
Landsliders - MOBI
Lara Croft GO - MOBI
Leon's Cool Game - COMP
Life is Strange - CONS / COMP
Lost Constellation - COMP
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime - CONS / COMP
Lumino City - COMP
Mad Max - CONS / COMP
Marvel Puzzle Quest (PORT) - CONS
Massive Chalice - COMP
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - CONS / COMP
Midnight. Swordfight. - BWSR
Minkomora - BWSR
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate - HAND
Mortal Kombat X - CONS / COMP
Mushroom 11 - COMP
N++ - CONS
Need for Speed - CONS / COMP
Neko Atsume - MOBI
NEO Scavenger - COMP
Never Alone - CONS / COMP
Nihilumbra - HAND
nuclear throne - CONS / COMP
Oddworld: new 'n' tasty - CONS / COMP
Offworld Trading Company - COMP
OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood - CONS / HAND / COMP
Operation Dracula - MOBI
Ori and the Blind Forest - CONS / COMP
pillars of eternity - COMP
PixWing - MOBI
Pocket Mine 2 - MOBI
Pokemon Picross - HAND
Prison Architect - COMP
Prune - MOBI
Radical Rappelling - MOBI
Read Only Memories - CONS / HAND / COMP
Renowned Explorers - COMP
Republique Remastered - COMP
Resogun: Defenders - CONS
Rock Band 4 - CONS
Rocket League - CONS / COMP
Saints Row: Gat Out Of Hell - CONS / COMP
Satellite Reign - COMP
Soma - CONS / COMP
Sorcery! 3 - MOBI
Splatoon - CONS
Star Wars Battlefront - CONS / COMP
Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void - COMP
Stealth Inc. 2: A Game of Clones - CONS / HAND / COMP
Steamworld Heist - CONS / HAND / COMP
steins;gate - HAND
Steven Universe: Attack the Light! - MOBI
Stranded Deep - COMP
Sunless Sea - COMP
Sunset - COMP
Super Mario Maker - CONS
Super Mega Baseball - CONS / COMP
Superbeat: Xonic - HAND
Sylvio - COMP
Tales from the Borderlands - CONS / COMP
Talos Principle - COMP
Tembo the Badass Elephant - CONS / COMP
Teslagrad - CONS / HAND / COMP
The Bridge - CONS / HAND / COMP
The Curious Expedition - MOBI
The Executive - MOBI
The Jackbox Party Pack 2 - CONS / COMP
The Order: 1886 - CONS
The Room 3 - MOBI
There Is No Game - BWSR
Toby's Nose - BWSR
Tower of Guns - CONS
Transformers Devastation - CONS
Trimps - BWSR
Undertale - COMP
Until Dawn - CONS
Velocibox - CONS / COMP
Vietnam 65 - COMP
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut - COMP
We Know the Devil - BWSR
Whispering Willows - CONS / HAND / COMP
Witcher 3 - CONS / COMP
Woah Dave! - HAND
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood - CONS / COMP
xenoblade chronicles x - CONS
Yo-kai Watch - HAND
You Must Build A Boat - MOBI
Ziggurat - COMP

Ninth annual Point & Click, for 2015 games - BALLOT TIME (due Feb. 12) - Start your stumping!

If no-one's thought about them enough to nominate them, what's the point though?

Yeah, well I'll admit I'm a bit unsure of the intended purpose behind a noms list anyway, but in the past it's definitely worked for me as a good source of "oh wow, yeah I did play that, and it was great" memory jogging. If that's what it's meant to do then it makes sense to keep it pretty comprehensive, no? Presumably we want more ballots than nominators, in which case the list should try to take into account stuff the nominators haven't played but other people might want to vote for.

I do indeed want a comprehensive list but not at the expense of readability in the end. Which is why I don't find lists of every eligible game of the year. I could come at it with a like of 500 or 1000 or whatever games, with hundreds probably being ports, but that just makes it harder to actually sort through and go "oh yeah, that!"

I'm also not going to discount a write-in.

Yeah that's fair.

So under those criteria I don't think it's a foul to suggest we include the first and fourth best selling games of the year, heh.

(xp) oh good because I also forgot Disney Infinity 3.0, oops.

And Lego Dimensions, and Lego Jurassic World.

I hope the new Lego Marvel game will be eligible next year since it came out at the end of 2015. I'm sure it's fantastic but there's no way I'm paying new game prices to find out.

this game? says it isn't out yet

Ohhhh, duh. I'd seen it for sale online and didn't realize it was for preorders.