While the 2021 GC wasn’t as epic of a gaming experience for me as 2020 was, it was still pretty good. I got several games in that had been sitting around, such as Portal 2, Mirror’s Edge, Bastion, Transistor and Pyre. I finally played Dragon Warrior II (lol) and COMPLETED STALKER LOST ALPHA ( a game that i started in spring of 2018, and had to start over several times because they updated the game and I updated my system)
I played a healthy mix of different genres such as arcadey SHMUPS, janky Sims, retro RPGs and classic FPS mods… 2021 was a rather good year for those with everything from Romero’s SIGIL to Half-Life’s The Tower, to the official expansions for Quake. Not just mods but I even picked up the ARMA series, advanced in Sniper Ghost Warrior, Metro Redux, and Terminator Resistance (Did I mention i completed the most long-winded stalker game ever? lol) but hands down my favorite game of the year was Superhot: Mind Control Delete.
And while little of it was truly completed, lots of time was wisely wasted in various sim games such as Fishing Planet, Cooking Simulator, and PC Building simulator.
So all in all not a bad year of gaming, while overall less titles were completed, and i didnt force myself to tackle on retro systems as heavily, (or completing grouvee challenge tiers) it was a good time of cleaning out lots of stuff on the PC back burner (and just chiling by fishing for panfish, overclocking something, or trying to make the most ridiculous looking cookies or obscene cakes to display in the shop window!)
GOTY: Superhot: Mind Control Delete
