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The "BEST GAME EVER!!!" Project's Off-Season: Game of the Year series will be a simple exploration of the best games from recent years. It can often be difficult to remember which games came out in which years, so reflecting on what we've played and then compiling lists here can help hone our collective memories.

These threads will be organized in three sections:

1. long lists (a list of all the great games that came out in a given year),
2. short lists (narrowing it down to the ones you genuinely think are the best), and
3. the overall Game of the Year.

The administration will make an effort to compile everyone's picks for these three sections into the main post, so we can see which games float to the top, which games make the cut, and the kinds of difficult decisions people had to make in selecting an overall favourite.

2015

Long List



Short List



Game of the Year

Reserved for Kong.

Based on EU released games for Nintendo systems ...

Long List:

• Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Wii U)
• Underground (Wii U)
• Citizens of Earth (Wii U/3DS)
• Shantae and the Pirate's Curse (Wii U/3DS)
• Mario Party 10 (Wii U)
• Trine: Enchanted Edition (Wii U)
• Affordable Space Adventures (Wii U)
• Kirby and the Rainbow Curse (Wii U)
• Teslagrad (Wii U)
• Yoshi's Woolly World (Wii U)
• Legend of Kay Anniversary (Wii U)
• Gunman Clive HD Collection (Wii U)
• Super Mario Maker (Wii U)
• Freedom Planet (Wii U)
• Fast Racing Neo (Wii U)
• Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D (3DS)
• Azure Striker Gunvolt (3DS)
• BoxBoy! (3DS)
• Fullblox (3DS - aka Stretchmo)
• Tappingo 2 (3DS)
• ...

Short List:

• Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Wii U)
• Shantae and the Pirate's Curse (Wii U/3DS)
• Kirby and the Rainbow Curse (Wii U)
• Teslagrad (Wii U)
• Yoshi's Woolly World (Wii U)
• Super Mario Maker (Wii U)
• Freedom Planet (Wii U)
• Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D (3DS)
• ...

GotY: Super Mario Maker (Wii U)

Short List
Ori and the Blind Forest - PC
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse - Wii U (2015 PAL release)
Splatoon - Wii U
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons - Xbox One
Yoshi's Woolly World - Wii U
Halo 5: Guardians - Xbox One
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker - Wii U (2015 PAL release)

GOTY
Ori and the Blind Forest - PC

List of notable releases:
Woah Dave!
Life is Strange
Grow Home
Ducktales Remastered
Dark Souls II
Axiom Verge
Rogue Legacy
Batman: Arkham Knight
N++
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Flywrench
Until Dawn
MGSV: Phantom Pain
Undertale
The Talos Principle
Tales of Zestiria
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate

Short list of Sharecrow honorable mentions:
Woah Dave!
Life is Strange
Brothers
Flywrench
Assassin's Creed Syndicate

BGFTWFY of 2015:
Life is Strange

My Shortlist:

Life is Strange
Treasure Tracker
Woolly World
Super Mario Maker

SMM is probably my GOTY. Got into it a lot easier than its sequel for some reason. Life is Strange was also amazing. As I get older, I'm starting to really enjoy those kind of visual novel type of games.