1. Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled - Crash Team Racing is one of my favourite games of all time, and despite some issues with the N.Sane trilogy, I thought they did an excellent job with it so I remain optimistic that they won't fuck it up.
2. Hylics 2 - Hylics was a small, quirky weird game with a striking artstyle and a vague story holding it together. Hylics 2 looks to be firing on all fronts adding in all sorts of features and gameplay changes and I'm eager to see where it will go.
3. Maneater - Promising looking fully featured shark role playing game. What more could I ever want?!
4. The Pathless - I loved Abzu when it came out two years prior and it looks to be a departure from the standard Journey face type of game while retaining the fantastic artstyle of the last game.
5. Ori and the Will of the Wisps - Ori and the Blind Forest was absolutely fantastic and it looks like they're aiming for greatness with this one.
6. Biomutant - Weird game looks like it's doing all manner of odd things and it's gotten me really intrigued.
7. Minoria - Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight really impressed me when it came out and I've been following this game's development and it's looking really good!
8. Sable - I want to explore a giant beautiful fuckin desert.
9. Ooblets - The game is top to bottom adorable, and traditional "we're doing pokemon lol" battles being replaced with dance battles has made the game all the more enticing.
10. Psychonauts 2 - While I still haven't beaten the original Psychonauts, the trailer showed at The Game Awards got me oddly nostalgic for PS2 3D platformer level design. I'll hopefully find the time to beat the first game and get to this one by the end of the year.
Honorable Mentions:
Sekiro
EITR
Morning Star
APE OUT
Indivisible
Shenmue 3
Toe Jam and Earl: Back in the Groove
Pokemon 2019
No More Heroes: Travis Strikes Back
2. Hylics 2 - Hylics was a small, quirky weird game with a striking artstyle and a vague story holding it together. Hylics 2 looks to be firing on all fronts adding in all sorts of features and gameplay changes and I'm eager to see where it will go.
3. Maneater - Promising looking fully featured shark role playing game. What more could I ever want?!
4. The Pathless - I loved Abzu when it came out two years prior and it looks to be a departure from the standard Journey face type of game while retaining the fantastic artstyle of the last game.
5. Ori and the Will of the Wisps - Ori and the Blind Forest was absolutely fantastic and it looks like they're aiming for greatness with this one.
6. Biomutant - Weird game looks like it's doing all manner of odd things and it's gotten me really intrigued.
7. Minoria - Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight really impressed me when it came out and I've been following this game's development and it's looking really good!
8. Sable - I want to explore a giant beautiful fuckin desert.
9. Ooblets - The game is top to bottom adorable, and traditional "we're doing pokemon lol" battles being replaced with dance battles has made the game all the more enticing.
10. Psychonauts 2 - While I still haven't beaten the original Psychonauts, the trailer showed at The Game Awards got me oddly nostalgic for PS2 3D platformer level design. I'll hopefully find the time to beat the first game and get to this one by the end of the year.
Honorable Mentions:
Sekiro
EITR
Morning Star
APE OUT
Indivisible
Shenmue 3
Toe Jam and Earl: Back in the Groove
Pokemon 2019
No More Heroes: Travis Strikes Back