Dragon Quest Heroes II: Would you believe this was a Xmas present? A little too late for this feature but I'll get into some DQ Musou later in the new year no doubt.

I might double-dip on one of its console ports eventually I've seen it go on sale for pennies before now. My PC could just about run it, but it was one of those explormers with a heavy combat quotient and very much needed to be slowdown-free. I'd played Sundered previously back in 2020 for an Indie Game of the Week entry ( #174) but never got around to finishing it.

Sundered: Eldritch Edition: A stylish explormer from Thunder Lotus, which recently earned a lot of award buzz as the developers behind Spiritfarer.

I might have to circle back around to some of them eventually after all, while I successfully completed my top 1 back in October (rendering this star-studded finale somewhat anticlimactic), there's always more tweaking and shuffling to do. Games that had technical issues (mostly on my side, mostly potato-related) or were just not what I was in the mood for at that moment.

We've got picross!īefore I launch into those, however, I want to briefly highlight a few 'honorable mentions': games that, for whatever reason, I couldn't bring myself to finish, or even start. Talking of gross incompetence, I only managed to complete three more games to conclude this project but boy howdy and land of goshen are these three every bit the showstoppers a finale could ask for.

Wowzers, what a year, huh? I'm referring to 2017, of course, which despite all its problems didn't involve actual plagues, just metaphorical ones of bigotry and gross incompetence. For more information and statistics on this project, be sure to check out this Intro blog.

As my backlog-related project for this year I'm looking to build a list of a hundred great games that debuted at some point in 2017, making sure to hit all the important stops along the way. When it comes to game releases every year has its big headliners and hidden gems, but none were more packed than 2017.

2017 legacy dredge