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Least Worst Award
Least Worst Award
for least worst game of the year
The meme and the wait paid off in the most satisfying way. If only every single other long dev cycle delivered in such a way.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Team Cherry
The leader of the pantheon comes back for another try at the title. Will our 2020 Least Worst winner manage to get its second crown?
Hades II
Supergiant Games
3D Platformers this good are truly Rare!
Donkey Kong Bananza
Nintendo EPD, 1-up Studio, tri-Crescendo
The media and industry darling, will this one also be /v/'s prise du jour?
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Sandfall Interactive
I'll take a high skill hack n' slash game, dip it with optional moves and weapons you can buy, deep fry it in combat arenas with middling enemy variety and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Ninja Gaiden 4
Team Ninja, PlatinumGames
Another deep dive in a world broken by life with Sam Bridges. Don't forget, we are all connected.
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Kojima Productions, Guerrilla Games
All we wanted as a classic superhero story that let us romance hot chicks and maybe some gameplay, to spoil us. It delivered and we liked it.
Dispatch
AdHoc Studio
Removing the last excuse people had to get into Trails. Do it now or you'll have to wait another 20 years for the re-remake.
Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter
Nihon Falcom
Puzzles, Roguelike mechanics and unique setting, all mixed perfectly together.
Blue Prince
Dogubomb
GATE approved fun for the whole team. Survival not guaranteed
Abiotic Factor
Deep Field Games
What a realistic simulation of trudging your way up from peasant to the right hand of a nobleman, and it only took wading through shit and a grand robbery of the kingdom's treachery!
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Warhorse Studios
Sakurai's 256-part how-to on making games culminated into a master thesis
Kirby Air Riders
Bandai Namco Studios, Sora Ltd.
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