Amazingly, I finally finished my big, long Game of the Year wrap-up this week. So I figured whipping up another one of these would be a fun follow-up. There’s just something satisfying about agonizing over one post for three months, only to turn around and finish another in one sitting.
This series (it’s a series now) started as a post marking the games I’d Played in Quarantine So Far, but now it strikes me as sort of a fun companion piece to the annual beefy GOTY post. Remember 2020? Remember the concept of “quarantine?” Remember people doing their best to help each other in uncertain times? Quaint.
I also want to try to write smaller posts in an effort to write more this year, and this fits that bill.
I record this list in the back of my Hobonichi Techo as the year goes on, and now also on Backloggd! Which is a very cool website!
As was the case last year, a game gets recorded to my list IF:
- It has not yet been recorded this year, AND…
- Is a new game I’m starting fresh, OR…
- Is an old game that I finished or otherwise made progress in.
Games I completed in 2022 are bold.
Previously played games are italicized.
(Platforms) are given in parentheses to differentiate where necessary.
I will also just say before starting the list, that I think this system is a bit too loose, as evidenced by the sheer number of games on this list that I didn’t really spend a meaningful amount of time with. I’m tightening my criteria up this year, so that next year’s list more accurately reflects how I spent my time.
I played 108 games in 2022. Here they are:
- Umurangi Generation
- Namco Museum (Switch)
- Boktai 3
- Unsighted
- Death’s Door
- Chicory: A Colorful Tale
- Pokémon Fire Red
- Sable
- Vampire Survivors
- Pokémon Legends: Arceus
- Box Boy!
- Terraria (3DS)
- Minecraft (3DS)
- Picross e
- Mario Golf (3DS)
- Pokémon TCG (3DS)
- Tetris (3DS)
- Kirby’s Pinball Land (3DS)
- Kirby’s Block Ball (3DS)
- Plants vs. Zombies (3DS)
- Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine (3DS)
- Bust-a-Move Universe
- Tetris Ultimate
- Bit.Trip Saga
- Digimon World Re:Digitize Decode
- Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (3DS)
- Picross 3D: Round 2
- Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D
- Chrono Trigger
- Tunic
- Pokémon Crystal
- Digimon Universe: App Monsters
- Dragon Quest 1+2
- Dragon Quest Monsters 2
- Final Fantasy Adventure
- Mini 4×4 GB Let’s Go!
- Star Communicator
- MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries
- Knotwords
- The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX (GBC)
- Steel Assault
- Casual Birder
- Whitewater Wipeout
- Fortnite (PC + Switch)
- Gunman Clive
- Gunman Clive 2
- Mighty Switch Force! 2
- Crankin’s Time Travel Adventure
- Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World
- Rhythm Heaven Megamix
- Boogie Loops
- Lost Your Marbles
- Pick Pack Pup
- Clubhouse Games
- No Man’s Sky (PC)
- Adventure Time: Hey Ice King, Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?!
- Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don’t Know (3DS)
- Adventure Time: Secret of the Nameless Kingdom (3DS)
- Echoic Memory
- Escape Simulator
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker
- Flipper Lifter
- Demon Quest ’85
- Omaze
- Poinpy
- Zipper
- Executive Golf DX
- Hyper Meteor
- ElecHead
- Sonic Generations (3DS)
- Saturday Edition
- Star Sled
- Questy Chess
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D
- Last Call BBS
- SpaceChem
- Botanicula
- Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
- Flotilla
- TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge
- Neon White
- Citizen Sleeper
- In Other Waters
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade
- Digimon Survive
- Civilization V
- Civilization VI
- Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX
- IMMORTALITY
- Splatoon 3
- Dorfromantik
- Eastward
- Disco Elysium
- Wizorb
- No Man’s Sky (Switch)
- System Shock Enhanced
- Stories Untold
- Signalis
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel
- What Remains of Edith Finch
- Sonic Frontiers
- Pokémon Scarlet
- Tetris DX
- Pokémon Puzzle Challenge
- Motorsport Manager
- Pid (Switch)
- Mr. Driller
- Mixolumia
There you have it!
You can really tell when I learned how to hack my 3DS, and when I got my Playdate! It’s a shame I didn’t like the vast majority of those Playdate games. Again, as I said, this is far more games than should probably be on this list. Many of these entries were just me checking a game out for a bit, and then dipping. Next year will be tighter.
Until then!
Dream Avenue 
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