This year was a good yet weird period of gaming for me, for many reasons. The weirdest one is that I’ve tightened my personal gaming budget so much that I’ve barely played any of this year’s brand new games, including several I’ve been looking forward to. This gave me the chance to dive into many games I missed last year, and to revisit some that I did play but still wanted second helpings of. Thankfully for me, many of 2017’s greatest releases got second helpings in 2018.
Be it thanks to rereleases, DLC, or other new developments of interest, games worth playing these days rarely stay confined to a single release year. It’s too easy to get caught in the tidal wave of hype and buy a game you’ll forget about a week after release, but the best games remain great to explore an entire year after their launches. I want to discuss why the games I played this year were worth picking up back when they first came out and what made them particularly relevant this year.
Source: Destructoid Hovermale’s best games of 2018 from 2017