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Always interesting to see what other people played so just like last year list your top 3 games of 2016. If you can't find 3 games worth mentioning this year feel free to fill it with games you played during 2016.

Mine would be:

#1 Darkest Dungeon
#2 Dark Souls 3
#3 Doom (2016)

• Grim Dawn
• Shadow Warrior 2 (deeply flawed but fun)

That was about all from 2016 that I played, I'm sure Witcher3 would be on there, but I'm waiting for it to be dirt cheap. After paying full price for the first 2 janky entries I feel they owe me.

 Top 3 in terms of time invested are probably:

1.    Overwatch
2.    Stardew Valley
3.    Enter the Gungeon

I also dove into Salt and Sanctuary, Dark Souls 3, X-Com 2, and Doom.  No great games this year but lots of good ones.

I don't think I've bought a new game in forever. I'm cheap. What I have played this year that was good:

Football Manager 2016 (just bought 2017 so can't judge it yet)
League of Legends
Endless Legend
NBA 2k16 (and I can actually recommend this as a good game since I don't even watch much NBA)
The Long Dark
Out of the Park Baseball 17

When I'm not manically beating my genitals into a garnet-colored pâté with an Xbox controller The Division is actually a solid videographed gaming experience.

At the same time Dark Souls III offers hours upon hours of character dress-up, challenging gameplay, and inscrutable plot. Still waiting on sci-fi PC Bloodborne.

Third place for Mad Max blasting off a ramp and ragdoll-smashing a bad dude's spine in half! It may not be the best game but everything about it feels right.

Honorable mention to Dishonored 2 which has a great variety of stealth/murder mechanics and is pretty as hell, but suffers a shit-basket full of weird bugs and astonishingly terrible campaign writing. twist ending spoiler alert: you really just want to play Thief [2] again

If I limit it to games that I wouldn't have played in previous years then I'd say:

1. Overwatch
2. Sunless Sea
3. Grim Dawn


But in terms of actual play time this year it'd be Minecraft, Overwatch, Minecraft.

If I'm limiting it to 'played in 2016 but not previously':

1. Subnautica
2. Civ VI
3. Mafia III

And copying Apoc, in terms of 2016 time played: Minecraft, Rocksmith 2014 and SWTOR (with honorable mention to GTA V).

Based on hours played:
Hex (1046 in the Steam Client Alone)
Diablo 3 (probably about 400 hours in the first few months of the year)
Grim Dawn (22 hours)
Fallout 4 (20 hours)

1. The Long Dark
2. Fifa 17 (I know EA, but it's the best one since 13)
3. Firewatch

Oh, Firewatch was this year?

1. Firewatch.
2.

Games I didn't play before 2016:
1: Overwatch, unless you count the betas (probably in the 150 hour range)
2: Battleborn (201 hours)
3: Metal Gear Solid 5 (168 hours)

Honorable Mentions:
Heroes of the Storm (played a bunch in 2015 too)
Firewatch (fun but only lasted four hours)
Valley (also fun but only lasted ~5h or so)
Way of the Samurai 4 (only just started playing this one but I think it might be the best game ever made?)

edit: to be clear, my my top three are by time played, not by total quality or anything like that

1) Firewatch










2) Titanfall 2
3) The Division

Is that the full picture?

Thought there'd be more X-COM 2 love.

For me, I'm not sure anything else even comes close.

Sort of.

As shitty and schizophrenic as the implementation has been, it's still a fun time waster and with the world is still beautiful and compelling. 

This is the right answer.

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I mainly buy in Steam sales, so this years completed/mostly completed games are:

- Witcher 2, which I started, put down, forgot about, and then completed (wow/awesome etc) because everyone was raving on about
- Witcher 3, Im at the Scottish Island bit but havent played in a while. Mainly due to new games. Perhaps its only fault is that is bit too big in scope, with too many side quests and my time is limited.

- Shadow of Mordor. Actually finished it. The third area wasnt really an area. Interesting tale though, and nice combat and stealth dynamics.
- Just Cause 3 - Another one that I maxed out the map and completed story line. These are a good series of games.
- Full Van Helsing. I prefered this as my ARPG choice of the year to Grim Dawn, whose end boss remains unkilled because i cant be arsed to grind my druid up to a level i can complete the game.

TW: Warhammer - everything i like about TW and Warhammer in one game. They really did a good job on this one. I'll just pretend Age of Sigmar never happened and leave my mind in the time of Karl Franz's empire and Archaon.

Gemcraft, Infested Planet and Dungeon Warfare are probably my most played TD games.

Honestly?

(1) Minecraft
(2) GW2
(3) Warframe.
(4) Dishonoured.
Warframe just feels right when I want to do some shooty. Modded Mincraft just lets you do stuff like summoning spirits and crazy shit, and Dihonoured is just close to that Thief experience. GW2 is just a smooth as silk fantasy hit. Though they have started the raiding shite and I will honestly that there are 20 miles of circuits on my mainframe and every one of them is filled with nothing other than HATE HATE HATE for Raiding. Its my first experience with it and FUUUUUUUUCK.

1) Hitman
2) Doom
3) Firewatch

Uh...for games I played that came out in 2016 I would say...Dragon Quest Builders?

The released in 2016 game I think I played the most is The Division but I wouldn't say it's Game of the Year material.

Top of technically 2016 games (updated or expansion)

1. Diablo 3
2. FFXIV

(Did we play Warframe this year as a group or was that 2015?)
Way below that was the OK, but not great:

3.  Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Games I enjoyed the most would be

1. Witcher 3
2. MGS V: TPP
3. Life is Strange

I just bought Firewatch.  Guess I'll see what all of the hubub is about.

Guess I should probably try The Division again. It really didn't click with me at all the first time. I just didn't get the appeal of it.

That was last year before I had a kid and still had time.  So was FFXIV for you for the same reason.

1) Bastard Bonds

If you like rpgs at all, try the demo.  It scratched an itch I didn't know I had.  Warning:  pixelated wang

2) Deus Ex:  Mankind Divided

Wish the game would have at least acknowledged that man killing robot monster I actually was.

3) Pony Island

Art wank done right.

1. XCOM 2
2. MGSV
3. Darkest Dungeon

honorable mentions: Dishonored 2, The Division, Titanfall 2

1. Titan Quest Anniversary Edition
2. Dark Souls III
3. Grim Dawn (which I only just started a couple days ago).

Honestly, I didn't spend a lot of time playing games this year (watched a shit ton of movies though). Most of the time I spent playing games was Rocksmith, Hex, and fucking around with emulator stuff.

My game list this year:

1. GTA Online (newest DLC got me back this month full force)
2. Witcher 3 (complete edition sale $25)
3. The Division (after the D3 loot patch)

Total Warhammer, Xcom 2, Fallout 4.  Not giving them an order, played the shit out of all of them. Honorable mentions to Grim Dawn which was way better than it had any right to be, Sunless Sea entirely for the writing and Shadow of Mordor for the nemesis system.

I did, too, been meaning to get it for a while. Trying to get past the protagonist being a total douchebag is difficult.

Total Warhammer, Xcom 2, not sure I played/liked anything else enough this year to mention it.

I think my favorite artsy game of the year was Oxenfree (miles better than Firewatch IMO). 

Favorite studio game and the one that's sucked up the most of my time by far is Overwatch.

Hex



Diablo 3

Civ6
Minecraft

1) Firewatch & Oxenfree
3) Stardew Valley

Also Rimworld, but technically it's still in Early Access.

This was kind of a shitty year for new games for me. For 2016 releases I'd go with:
1. 7th Dragon III: Code VFD (The only new game I actually beat this year)
2. Pokemon Moon (Might deserve better or worse but I just got it on Xmas so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
3. Final Fantasy Explorers (I actually forgot this game even existed until I went to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_in_video_gaming#Game_releases) but I guess I beat it too).

As for what I played the most of:
1. Hex
2. Path of Exile
3. Minecraft

Same as it ever was.

Stardew Valley
Dark Souls 3
DQ Builders

Honorable mentions to Hyperlight Drifter, Furi, Devil Daggers & SFV.

For new games that were released in 2016 it would probably be:

1. Doom
2. Titanfall 2
3. Overwatch

Going by how much time I spent playing it would be:

1. World of Warships
2. World of Warcraft
3. The Division

The only 2016 game I really played was Deus Ex and I even failed to play that thru.
As for time spent Paradox games (EU4, CK2, Stellaris) are the clear top 3 of the year for me.

Seconding Ginaz. World of Warships for my by a WIDE margin. Followed at a distant second by Planetside 2.

I'm surprised at the enthusiasm for Firewatch. I was not particularly grabbed by the game, quite a few hours in. I'm curious as to what folks found so great to nominate it so many times.

Quite a few hours in Firewatch? So, you finished it? It's a four hour game.

Firewatch was not a fun or particular good "game", but it is probably my favorite example so far of using the medium to tell a story about realistic characters. It's just a nice little romp around the mountains that mainly exists to get you thinking about some of the things the characters were dealing with and to experience some of that. Gone Home is probably the other candidate for best game like that in my opinion, while other games like Dear Esther haven't had enough going on for me.

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is another, which is definitely on my list of favorite "games" that I played last year.

I had fun for six weeks with the WoW expac and *almost* thought I was hooked again. It's not game of the year status though. I'm going to go with


1. Witcher 3
2a. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
2b. Firewatch
3. Skyrim?? The remaster on PS4 has grabbed me again. Hyper Light Drifter

I'm still playing Waash_Dogs_2(mixing snake & camel case edition), DeusEx:MD, Titanfall2, Final Fantasy XV all on PS4, and Tyrrany on PC.

I also just realized that I played the first few hours of a LOT of games this year and never actually beat many.

New games in 2016?

1. XCOM 2
2. Civ 6
3. Invisible, Inc. (new to me in 2016)

That's it.

Most played?

1. CS: GO.

Just got FIFA 17 on Christmas night, but have put several hours into it already. It is fun.

Have played a lot of HEX (I think I am finally starting to get a feel for the new set), and a ton of theHunter. Civ VI is fun, and will be even better when expansions and patches hit. Planar Conquest is even sorta fun now, if you can't find Masters of Magic anywhere. Thinking about starting in on the old Bard's Tale games that were packaged with the new one on Steam.

Stardew Valley.
Overwatch.

If Minecraft mod packs released in 2016 count, then Minecraft by a mile.

Otherwise, Stardew Valley.

I just don't feel compelled to buy games when they come out anymore, between "Early Access" crap, the inevitable DLC, and multiple rounds of bug fixes or mods to fix egregious consolitis.

For anyone who doesn't have it, Master of Magic is on GoG (https://www.gog.com/game/master_of_magic). Well worth the $6 it normally goes for, and it often drops to a couple of bucks during various sales.

Wow. I finally finished a game under a schild given estimate.

I liked it.  Wouldn't say GOTY for me, but again, didn't really play many 2016 exclusives. I seem to like walking sims. Loved Gone Home(all 90 minutes of it). Life is Strange had more actual gameplay, but not much, and that was thoroughly enjoyed as well.

Witcher 3 was released so late in 2015 it should count.  So, overall, I'm going with that.

No one has mentioned FFXV so I might surmise that the local thread for it has blood-smeared walls.

I can tell you that the Firewatch PS4 theme is by far the best one that I have found.

XCOM2 and not much else.

If late-2015 games count, then Underrail is definitely my GOTY... probably the best Fallout-like game I've ever played and didn't get old even after 130+ hours. Yea, the game is janky as shit, but I can deal -- and hey, there's an expansion pack coming out this year too!

XCOM2 I found myself wishing for Long War features. Espeicially recovery time for troops and a campaign clearly balanced for you to lose some missions.

Still enjoying Total Warhammer.

Although Marvel Heroes has gone downhill while Gazilllion prep it for consoles, it is still the thing I play most when I wish to click on things until they die.

This is a much more varied thread than it usually is, which is nice.

Wow, what a crappy year for games. I only have over 8 hours played on one game in steam that came out in 2016 and that's Civ VI at 28 hours.

So I'll go with games that got the most play from me this year:

Fallout 4
MGS V
Hex
Civ V


(pokemon go)

I'm going to go off the page a bit here.

1. Motorsport Manager - If you love Football manager and you love formula 1 racing, you'll quickly become addicted to this game.  Plenty of flaws, but very addictive.

2. American Truck Simulator - Euro Truck sim in Cali/Az/Nv area.  Fun and relaxing.

3. Football Manager 2016 - 'nuff said

Overwatch would have made the list, but I'm old and too fucking slow to enjoy it.

I started Hitman in one of the last weeks of the year and it's absolutely my favorite thing I played in 2016.  Replaying levels for comedic value (the car lift in Colorado had me laughing so hard it hurt) has sort of become a thing now, and that's on top of the stuff it has for you to do with a straight face.

Oddly, chatting with my brother while streaming it for him to watch has become a thing as well.  He just had a girl, so he doesn't have time to play games, but can watch The Hitman Show and yak while keeping an eye on the baby.

Congrats to your brother.