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I hadn’t played a point & click game before Lost Ark Gold since Simon The Sorcerer. That’s not a joke. Maybe that little magic prick and his unfathomably difficult puzzles to solve as a ten-year-old really put me off. I couldn’t resist Norco, though, because of the art style, setting, and its pertinent themes. It oozes details with its witty writing and heavy-hitting punches of philosophical thinking that, for once, didn’t leave me wanting to chop my ears off.

Lost Ark might seem like the odd-one-out on this list, but I spent four-hundred hours with it this year. That makes it my most played game by some margin. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s an excellent, excellent game, but it does its job of hooking you up to that MMO IV drip of endless, constantly grindable content brilliantly – it’s stylish and developed side-by-side with its community, but I’ll probably never play it again. You never complete a game like Lost Ark, and I just ain’t got time for that anymore.

Stray blew me away. When I finished it, I was certain that it would find its way into my top five, but it’s been beaten out by some seriously stiff competition. In Stray, you play as a cat. We all know that by now. The cat is excellently designed, but it was the greater world and style of Stray I loved. I felt inspired by the game at the time (I wrote lots of pieces on it), and yet looking back, I feel like its potential was never really hit. That’s not to take away from Stray’s brilliance, and, cat-lover or not, you should play it and get lost in its soft, furry underbelly of androids and gasoline soup.

My colleague Eric Switzer has been asking people to play Hardspace: Shipbreaker all year. So I did, and I loved it. These sorts of simulation games are never really my bag (Lawnmowing, Powerwashing, etc., I just don’t really get it), but when it involves pulling apart a derelict spaceship with a jetpack and an array of tools it’s pretty fucking cool. Hardspace had me living the life of cheap Lost Ark Gold a little space mechanic, and I’d do it all over again, even though you get paid like total shit, live in a coffin, and will never, ever pay off your debt. Sounds a bit like real life. Talk about escapism.

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