Game of the Year Voting Opens Now! Category #1: Old Game of the Year (Patreon)

OK, friends, it's time to vote! And by vote I mean comment! I'm going to be posting one post for each category here on Patreon, and you can pick your winner by commenting. Feel free to write a bit about it if you want, I'll pull some quotes if any jump out at me. Be sure to sign them with whatever name you want me to read out loud, in case your Patreon Name is not the name you want me to use.

Our first category is Old Game of the Year. This is for the game you loved the most in 2022 that didn't have any meaningful, big updates that would make you consider it for Actual Game of the Year. For me, in past years, that might've meant something like a Trackmania United Forever or Windjammers. That sort of thing. I don't know that I have an immediate pick for this category, so I'm really curious to see what you'll choose!

To try to anticipate a question or two: I would consider Dwarf Fortress's appearance on Steam to make it more of a Game of the Year contender, rather than an Old Game of the Year contender. The rules we're using for the overall Game of the Year are similar to the ones Keighley uses for The Game Awards, which is to say that if a game didn't ship in 2022 but still had enough of a meaningful update in 2022 to still matter, that's enough to consider it for that final category. This would mean that, for example, if you think that Warframe had an amazing 2022, you could absolutely vote for it in the overall Game of the Year category.

By that token, this category, again, is for games that didn't really have those sorts of meaningful updates last year. It's just a game from a previous year that you still love and played a lot of during 2022.

So have at it! Give me your old games in the comment section below!