Top games of 2018: Twelfth Coint & Plick RESULTS

holy shit there was a cliff Johnson style puzzle game released last year? Woooooow thx ilg!

I also played System's Twilight in the 90's which based just on that screenshot was almost certainly a direct influence upon System Syzygy! It was a good game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%27s_Twilight

I found out about System Syzygy from andrew plotkin's blog (he created system's twilight and also he was the guy who turned mafia into werewolf).

I threw Detroit a vote but definitely don’t recommend it unless “Quick Time Event: The Game” sounds up your alley or you’re a Clancy Brown superfan. Humorless, self-important, cliche, very clownable! AND YET the gimmick of pressing a series of buttons to make characters do boring things like set the table or gather wood eventually made me care about them more? It’s like, I tucked in this orphan girl and told her a bedtime story you’re damn right I’ll murder every human between her and the android haven of Canada.

lol

(1 vote) the Last of us

HI DERE. If not for TLOU, I would definitely have voted for ace rhythm game Yakuza 0 (though if not for TLOU, I may not have gotten back into console gaming).

There's an iOS game called Calculator:The Game, it's got wacky buttons, so on the level I'm on now you start with 91 and your goal is to get to 19 in 6 button presses and the buttons available are '+5', 'Mirror' (12->1221) and 'Sum'

The Room is the OG very fancy looking room escape / object manipulation games, yes?

I did actually play System Syzygy last year, it was great but I would have completely forgotten about it if I'd voted (which I didn't)

Also I will probably repeat this later but I heart ILE as somewhere that loves games but will give an industry behemoth like MHW 5 points total (NB this is not in any way a reflection on the quality of MHW)

(xp @silby) if you're patient, wait for them to put Atelier Ayesha on switch which is both an entry point and the best game in the series according to several people i trust on this stuff (i haven't played it yet myself). if you're impatient, rorona is a fine entry point / litmus test, and totori is a bit harder but my favorite of the ones i've played

I can be pretty patient considering I still have to beat Octopath or at least beat someone's chapter 4 I'm so slow lol

holy shit there was a cliff Johnson style puzzle game released last year? Woooooow thx ilg!

― lumen (esby), Monday, April 15, 2019 4:43 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is making me immediately interested as well

though it also made me realize that i've stopped getting the monthly emails from cliff's mailing list that i've been on for years and he stopped updating his site, hope he's okay

Moved too fast! I haven't heard of like 90% of these!
hole.io was fun.
I loved Theme Hospital, flaws and all, Mordy. But I am a cheapskate who will wait for that game to go under $5 or be included in a bundle for pretty much any PC game.

that's fair. i don't regret paying for it - it had a good amount of content and my 7yo loves playing it too.

bad north reminds me of ftl a lot

None of my votes have shown up yet, but I played a bunch of NGU Idle after I saw it on the nominations thread. It's exactly what you'd expect an idle clicker thing to be in 2018 I guess? Both a parody of older idle clickers and a much more complex version of the same. It got it claws into me for a week or two but in retrospect I'd have been happier not picking it up in the first place.

NGU Idle was my nom and vote. I played it more than any other game in 2018, which was enough for me to give it a few points. It starts out very fiddly with the active game being much better than the passive game -- but there comes a point where the best strategy is to play it once briefly every 24 hours to collect some powerful tree fruit, then rebirth.

xxp

bad north like ftl is the kind of game I'll play for years cos I'm easily sated!

although a criticism is the random generating islands delays can be way too slow.

i'm back and ready for more countdown! Let's start with a game that barely missed being tied for 44th with a microslice of a first-place vote!

#43. Dragon Quest XI — 10 Points — 1 Vote — 0.1 First Place Votes
https://i.imgur.com/62j30AO.png

No one else played Dragon Quest last year?!?!?

no one that voted!

0.1 first place votes? hrm!
i wanted to play this but it got buried under everything else coming out. and Spider-Man iirc

I will play it eventually but not at full price

i played it! it's perfectly fine but left me a bit cold

felt like playing a jrpg greatest hits collection, every story beat was recognizable and i didn't find any meaningful throughline to tie it all together

when someone ranks 10 games at 10 points each, i give them all 0.1 first place votes. it's fun! we get some weeeird decimals sometimes

anyway sorry im back i had to do a real work there for a minute

#42. Blazblue Cross Tag Battle — 10 Points — 2 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/Vfbeunj.png

fighter?

the only tag fighter i've ever gotten into

also deserves props for raising the profile of under night which is the best active fighting game right now as it turns out

It's fun! Wish I had time to play it beyond the demo, but it still made my list. There were SO many fighters this year.
And yes, Under Night rules.

yeah that demo weekend was so fun that it basically singlehandedly got me back into fighting games after like 10 years of ignoring them

Is that the first to get multiple votes? WE'VE CROSSED THE RUBICON.

#40. Lumines Remastered — 12 Points — 1 Vote
https://i.imgur.com/U3Rwgma.png

back to 1 vote! (sorry i spaced on this for a bit there!)

hi I played Lumines for the first time last year, guess what it's good

much like tropical freeze, i think this is possibly the best game ever of its genre but it's not really a 2018 game

yeah yeah :P

i'm fine with them being on the list i just play too many games so its a much needed point of disqualification for my own ballot

still think u should blog

#40. Northgard — 12 Points — 1 Vote
https://i.imgur.com/WiRgySe.png

ilx is my blog

i think i said that last time though, i don't have a new witty comeback sorry

that's my vote. northgard is an RTS but the way it's designed it's more slow and methodical. you can overextend and when winter comes it'll destroy you which means that strategic considerations for expansion are more importantly than inputs per second. it's v clever. i haven't played much multiplayer with it but the campaign is definitely worth playing through.

veering into "someone really liked this" territory!

#39. Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana — 15 Points — 1 Vote — 0.5 First Place Votes
https://i.imgur.com/jKZtiWG.png

#38. Captain Toad Treasure Tracker — 15 Points — 2 Votes — 0.1 First Place Votes
https://i.imgur.com/1yQdTG4.png

what kind of game is captain toad treasure tracker

two player puzzle diorama intended for children and mario nerds

#37. Holedown — 15 Points — 3 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/YTaPqvw.png

i hope that screenshot is accurate because it looks goofy as hell