The finest games in 2022: One clear winner, many comebacks

Wait, you realize two of them – and the third one (on the correct) in some way as nicely. Well, 2022 was the 12 months of comebacks.

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It’s change into a practice that we let the Pointmmo group vote on the very best games of the previous 12 months. And it is simply as conventional that The Witcher 3 all the time takes a prime spot within the course of, if the Witcher role-playing game is in some way eligible. In 2019, for instance, the Switch model received the trophy for finest role-playing game of the 12 months.

Since then, now we have restricted our option to PC games, however in 2022, the next-gen model of The Witcher 3 was launched – additionally for the PC.

What this implies on your vote and which different games you’ve gotten chosen as the very best in school of 2022, Micha discusses within the podcast with Géraldine “Oblivion is best” Hohmann in addition to Manu Fritsch from the podcast veteran “Insert Moin”.

There are loads of surprises in retailer for us – together with Manu, who mourns the absence of Marvel Snap and the modest efficiency of Tunic, for instance. Need for Speed Unbound additionally takes a beating and does not even make it into the highest 40 – not a whole failure, however weak for a collection that was as soon as one in all Pointmmo’s group favorites.

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Piranha Bytes games are amongst our group favorites, however Elex 2 fails to make the minimize in your ballot as both finest RPG or finest German game – the latter honor goes to an indie gem.

In common, you present a number of love for indie games – okay, not less than for sure indie games. Vampire Survivors and Stray, for instance, storm into the highest subject, whereas games like Tunic, Chained Echoes or Micha’s story secret tip NORCO flounder round or had been even chosen by just one individual (!).

It additionally speaks for the overall blockbuster weak spot of the game 12 months 2022 that many aged PlayStation games, which bought a PC model final 12 months, transfer into the highest subject within the voting. Even as much as second place – whereas first after all goes to the one, anticipated winner.

No, it is not The Witcher 3, fortunately.

The outcomes of the election can be revealed as an article subsequent week, however listed below are the highest 25 for many who need to spoil the podcast: