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@ -12,13 +12,27 @@ The yearly Game Of The Year (GOTY) voting threads are starting to pop up everywh
If you're interested in hearing what I have to say about each game, consult my dedicated gaming blog where the reviews reside, at https://jefklakscodex.com/games/.
Without further ado, I present to you a collage of 40 games I (re)played this year:
I present to you a collage of 40 games I (re)played this year:
![](../gamecollage.jpg "The GOTY contestants. ")
Do you recognize them all? You'll immediately notice the many Game Boy games in there---that's because of this year's Hardware Toy Of The Year, namely the [Analogue Pocket](/post/2022/04/analogue-pocket). I love that thing. It's been completely worth it to cough up even the extra taxes. They're shipping the Q4 2022 pre-orders as I type this, I hope you all get to enjoy the Pocket during the holidays!
The collage seems impressive---40 games in a year, you must have endless seas of time! Not really. I play when my wife watches TV, probably about an hour a day, if that? In addition, most Game Boy games are finished in an hour. So in a manner of speaking, I kind of cheated this year! For comparison, in 2021, I have played 13 games. I only count the ones I wrote a review about, but I try to be consistent with that as for me it's part of the gaming fun.
The collage seems impressive---40 games in a year, you must have endless seas of time! Not really. I play when my wife watches TV, probably about an hour a day, if that? In addition, most Game Boy games are finished in an hour. So in a manner of speaking, I kind of cheated this year! For comparison, in 2021, I have played 13 games (the longest one then was Hollow Knight, clocking in about `25` hours). I only count the ones I wrote a review about, but I try to be consistent with that as for me it's part of the gaming fun.
Some more useless stats, based on user input from How Long To Beat:
- Total hours spent: `194.5` (compared to 2021: `161`)
- Average hours spent per game: `4.86`---that's not a lot!
- Average per day (counting each day of the year): `0.55`
- Longest game: Axiom Verge (`10.7`---still quite a short game)
- Shortest game: Pilgrims (`0.8`)
- Division by platform:
+ Switch 20/40 (!)
+ Game Boy 7/40
+ Game Boy Color 6/40
+ PC 6/40
+ NES 1/40
I approached my GOTY by introducing two categories: a **Recent GOTY** list, which includes games released in _the last two years_. A traditional GOTY list only contains games released in this year, but that would reduce it to less than a handful, so whatever. The second list is a **Vintage GOTY** one, where games older than that have a shot. The problem with replaying classics like _The Secret of Monkey Island_ is that it would probably end up on top each year, so I eventually decided to scrap those (_Day of the Tentacle_, _Monkey Island_ 1 & 2).