Year Walk is another adventure game, though much more in the vein of The Room-style puzzles than anything youвЂ™d find in a Monkey Island game. Filling time until my friend got off work to meet me turned into looking over my shoulder, not sure if the noises were coming from behind the trees or from Year Walk. Sitting on a bench as the sunset, headphones on and staring at my iPad, I flinched and damn near yelped aloud, scaring the couple walking by to the pier.

It made talking less of a data-mining process and more of a reward. And the way you naturally shape the story through conversation is brilliant. ItвЂ™s a strange little adventure game from Cardboard Computer that looks spectacular and is altogether alluring, disturbing, funny, sad, and twisted. If there was ever a game to pin the words вЂњstylishвЂќ, вЂњslickвЂќ, and вЂњcoolвЂќ to, it would be Kentucky Route Zero. But considering all that and knowing that I still wanted it to be on the list should tell you something: itвЂ™s unbelievable. There are a few things standing in the way of Kentucky Route Zero being on the real list: 1) only two acts of the planned five have been released, 2) I havenвЂ™t gone back to play since its January release and IвЂ™m not sure if I remember it being better than it actually was, and 3) I never played Act II. ItвЂ™ll also tickle your pickle as to what I have in store for the real list. However, weвЂ™ll start with the honorable mentions because I like them a whole lot, god dammit, and youвЂ™re going to hear about them. Over the course the next two weeks, IвЂ™ll be delving into the yearвЂ™s most significant trends, the biggest news stories, and my personal top ten games of the year. For all the amazing things IвЂ™ve heard about Save the Date and Icarus Proudbottom Teaches Typing, I wonвЂ™t get around to playing either of those by the end of the year, and they could just be waiting to be my favorite games of ever, let alone the year.Д«ut here we are. Other journalists whose sole job is to review games (and not just talk about whatever floats their boat) donвЂ™t even manage that. Getting a hundred people to agree on a single pizza topping would be easier.Д«esides, the likelihood of you playing every game out in the course of a year is unlikely. If the interminable deliberation podcasts and livestreams werenвЂ™t proof enough, just go asking your friend what they think of your pick for the year. Making lists for yourself is one thing, but throwing around a label like itвЂ™s a medal seems wildly irresponsible for something so volatile and intimate. Picking the Game of the Year never seemed to make a lot of sense to me.

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