It's the time again! What were our favourite games this year? Come check it out and listen to reasons why one game is better than another! We're all here: Chris, Kinnon, Jackie, and Tim!

Spoilers below; don't scroll down if you don't want to be spoiled with results.

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Honourable Mentions

Halo Infinite Blaster Master Zero 3 Toree 3D Speed Limit Cyber Shadow Forza Horizon 5

Didn’t Play

Persona 5 Strikers Bravely Default II Returnal Battlefield 2042 Lost Judgement Deathloop Forgotten City Kena: Bridge of Spirits Guardians of the Galaxy

Awards

Hype Then Die Metroid Dread (Chris) Resident Evil Village (Jackie/Tim) Dungeon Encounters (Kinnon)

Most Feels Endwalker (Chris/Kinnon/Tim) Nier (Jackie)

Best Companion Leshy (Tim) Frincess (Chris) Emil (Jackie/Kinnon)

The Show Me the Bordens Award (best purchase/deal)  Holiday Steam Sale (Chris) Frincess&Cnight (Tim) Game Pass (Kinnon) Final Fantasy 14 (Jackie)

Biggest Surprise  Frincess&Cnight (Chris) Aeterna Noctis (Tim) Inscryption (Kinnon) Nier (Jackie)

Best Music  Endwalker (Chris, Tim, Kinnon) Nier (Jackie)

Worst Music Dungeon Explorers (Tim)

Kid Picks Unpacking/Lost Words: Beyond the Page (Chris) Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 (Kinnon) Breath of the Wild (Jackie) Minecraft (Tim)

Best Mobile Game Wordle (Chris/Jackie) Life in Adventure (Kinnon)

Your Choice (ONE 2021 game you want to talk about that would otherwise get buried)  Astalon (Kinnon) Nuclear Blaze (Chris) Aeterna Noctis (Tim) SMT III: Nocturne Remaster (Jackie)

Most Anticipated for 2022 Final Fantasy XVI (Chris/Jackie) Elden Ring (Tim) Stranger of Paradise: FF Origins (Chris/Tim/Jackie) Triangle Strategy (Chris/Tim) Dragon Ball: The Breakers (Chris) Bayonetta 3 (Chris) Sea of Stars (Tim) Monster Hunter Rise (Tim)

Official List

1. Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker
2. NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139…
3. No More Heroes 3
4. Frincess&Cnight
5. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
6. Metroid Dread
7. Astalon: Tears of the Earth
8. Elec Head
9. It Takes Two
10. Dadish 2
11. Hexceed
12. Actraiser Renaissance
13. Unpacking
14. Inscryption
15. Shin Megami Tensei V
16. Resident Evil Village
17. What the Dub
18. Nuclear Blaze
19. Loop Hero
20. Kaze and the Wild Masks
21. Ys IX: Monstrum Nox
22. Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights
23. Psychonauts 2
24. Dungeon Encounters
25. Fuga: Melodies of Steel
26. The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
27. Aeterna Noctis
28. Record of Lodoss War -Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth-     
29. Death's Door
30. Beast Breaker
31. Jack Axe
32. Library of Ruina

Full results here:  Link Cable Podcast Best of 2021 ~RNG Edition~