We know we say this every year, but 2018 really is our biggest Christmas schedule ever. Like, frankly it’s flabbergasting how much content we’ve prepared for the next 10 or so days – there’s everything from holiday editions of Indie Bin through to Soapboxes, Polls, and much more. We’re really proud to be ending the year on such a high, reflecting the incredible year Push Square has had on the whole.
Of course, we’ve also got our Game of the Year countdown, which will begin in a few hours with the first of our Personal Picks articles. As with previous years, we’ve got our whole team together and asked them to tell us about their five favourite PlayStation titles from the past 12 months, and while there’s a recurring theme this year, there are also some surprise selections.
But how did we pick this year’s overall Game of the Year? Well, it was a challenging process. We started out with a shortlist of 82 games, which we then cut back to 50 of the very best. We got each staff member to vote for their favourite five, and assigned points based on their position. There was one tie in the top ten, and we gave the advantage to the title with the higher-placed votes.
We didn’t stop with an overall Top Ten this year, though, as we’ve also run standalone categories for Best Story, Best PSVR Game, and Best Indie Game – you can look forward to those, as penned by our very own Liam Croft, shortly after Xmas. We know that you’re going to be spending the next week and a bit with family and friends, and we wouldn’t have it any other way, but we do hope you’ll check back regularly to see all of the awesome content we’ve got lined up.
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2018 has been an incredible year! I personally love open world games, and this year gave me some of the best I've ever played. Far Cry 5 is a gorgeous world and Red Dead 2 is simply a phenomenal achievement on so many different levels. I haven't even gotten around to Spider Man yet, but that is one handsome game too. Now I just need Avalanche to patch Just Cause 4 on console so I can give that one a go too. GREAT time to be a gamer. And 2019 already looks like an incredibly exiting year as well...
Monster Hunter World better be somewhere in that list 😌
2018 has been a good year, not quite as good as last year but some stellar titles such as God of War, Spider-Man and Astro Bot.
I'm currently playing Dragon Quest XI which so far has been bloomin' ace. The only other games I've played from this year are Detroit and RDR2 which i thought were both dynamite.
@BrettAwesome Avalanche have patched Just Cause 4 on consoles; there have been minor improvements to texture and object pop-in, as well as a motion blur toggle and slider in the options. It doesn't transform the game into the gorgeous experience we saw in the pre-release material, but I doubt anything ever will. It'll forever be one of those games where you're kinda not supposed to look too closely at things, it seems.
Is it possible that more than one game could be the game of the year? Games of the year? I guess genre differences allow the narrowing of multiple candidates. Good luck deciding
Thanks Push Square for another awesome year of coverage. You help to keep me sane through the challenges of everyday life in the real world.
@RogerRoger
Fantastic news! I just picked it up a couple of hours ago 🙂 thanks for the update!
@Th3solution That's good to hear!
This was such an amazing year for gaming! 3 of my top 5 all time PS4 games were released this year, and then there were other outstanding games like Detroit!
I reckon Detroit will be in the bottom five and Spider-Man will be in the top five. And I don't think I've played any other games released this year apart from Mega Man 11, a game that really delivers the goods but I think its budget may keep it away from any GOTY listings...
Dragon Quest XI, Detroit, God of War, Spider-man, Yakuza 6/Kiwami 2, Shadow of the Colossus, Ni no Kuni 2...not to mention all the great PSVR titles released this year. 2018 has been pretty awesome!
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