Next time you need to actually vote for the damn game, you factoring hectopascals!
NEO: The World Ends With You (2021)
Square Enix Creative Business Unit 1, h.a.n.d.
2
HA! HA! HA! There is no need to vote in the glorious state of Arstotzka!
Papers, Please (2013)
3909 LLC
3
Turns out you can make cover shooting fun when headshots aren't the solution to everything.
Binary Domain (2012)
Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio
4
Eat your heart out, Rance.
Black Souls 2 (2018)
Sushi Yuusha Toro
5
"There are nominees like you in every generation, and I fell every last one of them."
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown (2019)
Bandai Namco Studios
6
"DON'T FORGET ME!"
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (2017)
Monolith Soft
7
All you need to do to enjoy it is play through the 100 hour high-stress eldritch horror management sim and then read through five books of esoteric Jewish cosmology.
Library of Ruina (2021)
Project Moon
8
No, this isn't the standing in line simulator; that was Watch Dogs.
Sleeping Dogs (2012)
United Front Games
9
You'll never see it comin'.
Persona 5 (2017)
P-Studio
10
Hear that, industry? Endorsing fangames IS a good idea. Now let me handle the Shining Force IP for a little bit, pretty please?
Sonic Mania (2017)
Christian Whitehead, PagodaWest Games, Headcannon
11
You got an anime, you're getting a sequel: is it finally time to get an award, too?
Dragon's Dogma (2012)
Capcom
12
Easily confused with that OTHER space game that came out in 2019