2025 auth Community Game Awards2025 auth Community Game AwardsOrdered by most submissions to least. Click through to expand the categories.
Best puzzler - Cara
Best Game to play with a physical notebook handy - cinn
The Billy Mays Award for Added Value - ImpliedKappa
Largest volume of handwritten notes taken - Jeeves
Best game that makes me think everything is a puzzle, even that weirdly shaped rock over there - PidgeonRat
Best Mansion (dire) - ratamero
"400 screenshots deep down the rabbit hole" award - Shardforce
Worst House Layout (sibling you made the layout) - toonhead904
"Making Me Sound Like A Conspiracy Theorist" Award - Vivi Valentine
second best game with hampter - voidlily
Best Puzzle Game with Friends - walkingeye
Also played by: Aspeon
- Aspeon
Tied for favorite game of the year - Cara
Game of the Year - Clyceer
Best New Indie Game - elianora
The "kept you waiting huh?" award for most worth the wait - Jeeves
Best blind gaming experience - Pandakar
Best Sequel - PidgeonRat
best yuri - rosencrantz
"Suffering for my birthday" award - Shardforce
Best "I don't know what's going on, but I'm here for the chaos" game - arcen
- Aspeon
best racing game; best hamster in a video game - bdjeffyp
Very fun with friends - Kindest Weapon
best game with hampter - voidlily
- magitek
best monke destroying property game; best unexpected conclusion - bdjeffyp
Game that feels like eating popcorn (iykyk) - Chocolate Dave
Best game that lied to me about when it's going to end since Okami - Colin
I went in being indifferent toward Donkey Kong and now I like Donkey Kong - Kindest Weapon
Best offering of a coloring book that you really can color any way you'd like - Pandakar
Best game to play while Dimension 20 is on in the background - Colin
Most well timed release coinciding with events in my own life - Jeeves
This is very close to being a Yakuza/Like A Dragon game (positive). The flat window PNGs are wicked distracting though. - Kindest Weapon
The Good Game When You're Not Focusing on Distant Window Polygons™ Award - Lawso
Best city day and night themes - Pandakar
- Ajogamer
best music game; best cop puncher simulator; best game soundtrack (runner up) - bdjeffyp
Best producer of ugly tears - Pandakar
Best 12-year old guitar player - ratamero
best cop fighting - rosencrantz
best game I purchased and started playing before I learned about the generative AI pre-production assets; best non-Final Fantasy RPG with a dodge/parry mechanic; best story - bdjeffyp
Best voice acting - Cara
Game I was enjoying and then had no interest in finishing - Kindest Weapon
worst fenching postures - rosencrantz
- twiz
best game I finally completed on a different system many years later; best game with a late game character that I didn't like at all - bdjeffyp
Still probably my least favorite MonolithSoft game I've played, but the QoL improvements carried me to the end this time - Kindest Weapon
- magitek
"Most (only) time I spent on my Switch this year" award - Shardforce
It has potential. I have no idea why doing cool parkour tricks is slower than just driving normally 95% of the time. Wild decision - Kindest Weapon
- LaytonLoztew
Best use of random shooting stars - Pyryn
- twiz
- Aspeon
Tied for favorite game of the year - Cara
Best use of outdated technology - Pyryn
Best mythology-based crossover fanfiction - Jeeves
Best Sequel that isn't Silksong - PidgeonRat
Most Bisexual Game Ever - SweetPotatoSophie
Best Roguelike with Friends - walkingeye
Best "wait this idea actually worked???" game - Vali/Claire
Best roguelite multiplayer (not indie) - Cara
- Aspeon
Highest Rate of Housewives - ratamero
best game featuring 90s internet - voidlily
- Aspeon
Best mystery/Detective game - Cara
Best Mansion (regular) - ratamero
Most Emotional Jigsaw Puzzle Moment - Arashi
Puzzle Game of the Year (For Non-Sickos) - Aspeon
"Precision-made" award - Shardforce
Best game to chill out to for 30 minutes after work - Colin
Game I feel like I should have liked but didn't really get into (Runner up) - Dasterin
- twiz
best game to piss me off at the ending; best Metroid game that isn't really a Metroidvania game - bdjeffyp
I personally would have just canceled this game. - Kindest Weapon
- magitek
A blast to play with friends every time - Kindest Weapon
Favorite game that came out in 2025 - PidgeonRat
Best Game A Friend Bought Copies For Everyone And We Only Played Once - toonhead904
Game I most wished was more like the previous game(s) in the series (Winner) - Dasterin
Most Disappointing, Least Frames - toonhead904
- twiz
Most rewarding boss gauntlet - Pandakar
Best Pogo Attack - toonhead904
Successor to Stardew (there were like a billion farming sims recently) - Chocolate Dave
My favorite cozy farming sim - Kindest Weapon
best version of Final Fantasy XII - bdjeffyp
Absolutely not a Star Wars game - mimicmatter
Zachtronics Award for Totally Being Zachtronics Revived - Arashi
- Hempuli
Best Catchy Musical Scene - cinn
the majima award for the best videogame of the year featuring majima - voidlily
- Aspeon
The I Love Your Puzzles Enough to Suffer Through Your Mazes Award - ImpliedKappa
Funniest Little Guys - Chocolate Dave
The Pikmin love working in a factory - Kindest Weapon
Game of the Year. Best Accessibility Options. Most Rats. - cinn
Best rat charity - Pyryn
Spoopiest Victoriana (Again) - Arashi
- Aspeon
- Aspeon
Most Lesbian Game Ever - SweetPotatoSophie
Ys I - Game that made me most feel like I needed a guide - Pandakar
Ys I&II Chronicles - best game that is new to me; best game soundtrack - bdjeffyp
Ys II - Game that made me remember I hate following guides for first playthroughs - Pandakar
Ys Origin - best prequel game; best game to continue a plot that is ignored in all following games (as far as I'm aware) - bdjeffyp
Ys Origin - Most satisfying action combat game - Pandakar
Best Gateway Game to a Series That's Not Actually Very Representative of the Rest of the Series - Arashi
Not for franchise sickos, for a general audience - Kindest Weapon
Best shortstack goblin simulator - Dasterin
Most Horny Character Creator - toonhead904
The best *Das Uberspeedvan* game - arcen
fantastic vibes all around - magitek
- Aspeon
Best Pokemon Game (with no pokemon) - cinn
Best Game I Played for the First Time in 2025 - PidgeonRat
it felt like a one-of-a-kind experience and became one of my all-time favorite games - Ajogamer
Best Yakuza Business Minigame to Gain a Life of Its Own - Arashi
Best weird little guy (positive) game that is also a serious crime drama? - Cara
Best use of hackneyed anime tropes - ImpliedKappa
the 100 award for the game with 100 in the title - voidlily
HARAKITE IKOU! Award - Vivi Valentine
Best racing game I can't directly control - Pandakar
Most clever core gameplay idea (Winner) - Dasterin
"Endless round 44 (is a slow death)" award - Shardforce
- Aspeon
The "Peak" Award - GPoutine
Thing I Continue to Want the Most More Of - Arashi
best game DLC - bdjeffyp
- twiz
Best recreation of the Civilization classic "oops I kept playing and now it's 2am" experience - Pandakar
No particular order. Click to expand the category.
| 30xx | Best megaman game I've played | Pandakar |
| 7'scarlet | Most Unreasonably Absolute Banger 2D Idol Song | Arashi |
| A Solitaire Mystery | Most Solitaires, Best Solitaires | toonhead904 |
| A Way Out | Best Schnozz | toonhead904 |
| Abiotic Factor | Best Co-Op, Best Half-Life Ripoff | toonhead904 |
| Absolum | Best roguelite multiplayer (indie) | Cara |
| Absolum | Pick-from-three-choices roguelite of the year (Runner up) | Dasterin |
| Advance Wars: Days of Ruin | Best Advance Wars on the DS | rath |
| Against The Storm | Best Citybuilder I Didn't Know I Needed | toonhead904 |
| Age of Wonders 4 | Game that most makes me remember I suck at tactical RPGs (Winner) | Dasterin |
| AI: The Nirvana Initiative | Somehow has both the best and worst main characters in a story-driven game | Pandakar |
| AI: The Somnium Files | Best AI assistant | Pandakar |
| Alan Wake 2 | One of my favorite games of all time. If you love games-as-art, you will love Alan Wake 2 | Kindest Weapon |
| Angeline Era | Ajogamer | |
| Anno 1800 | 7.8/10 Too Much Water | toonhead904 |
| Ape Academy | Best mascots made main characters | Pandakar |
| Apocalich | Hempuli | |
| Aran's Bike Trip | Hempuli | |
| Astlibra Revisions | a side-scrolling Action RPG with a lot of different aspects that make it stick out and feel really satisfying to play | Ajogamer |
| Awakening Sarah | 2D platformer that draws inspiration from Yume Nikki | LaytonLoztew |
| Balatro | Most time lost to playing "one more game" on phone at night | Pandakar |
| Batman: Arkham Asylum | Most Accurate Depiction Of The United States' Mental Health Care System | toonhead904 |
| BAZR | turns SM64 into a rougelike deck-builder | LaytonLoztew |
| Beastieball | Best story about prioritizing your funny little guys above capitalism | Pyryn |
| Beyond the Edge of Owlsgard | Best 9-Verb, 320x200 Adventure Game Made In The 2020s | BaronHaynes |
| Billionaire | Best Luck Be a Landlord for Other Forms of Gambling | Arashi |
| Bits and Bops | Hempuli | |
| Boulder Dash EX | Cute puzzler I was gifted | Kindest Weapon |
| Buckshot Roulette | Best Streamer Bait Game That's Actually Good | toonhead904 |
| Case/Rise of the Golden Idol | Best Mystery Game To Drop Literally Everything And Watch Someone's First Playthrough Of Since Outer Wilds | BaronHaynes |
| Castlevania Rondo of Blood | Best game that let's you throw birds at monsters | DisasterMillennial |
| Castlevania: Curse of Darkness | Best "it's like a Castlevania with musou controls" | Vali/Claire |
| Castlevania: Symphony of the Night | Aspeon | |
| Cauldron | Best Incremental Game | Clyceer |
| Clues by Sam | Logic and verbage I've most disagreed with in a puzzle game | Pandakar |
| Cobalt Core | Hempuli | |
| Combat Mission Shock Force 2 | Most Anti-Tank Weapons, Most Tanks | toonhead904 |
| Competition – Romhack Jam 1 | LaytonLoztew | |
| Crash Bandicoot | Worst PSX save system (can only save after getting optional collectables) | Pandakar |
| Crash Twinsanity | FISH ? | mimicmatter |
| Cryptmaster | Game I Am Too Stupid For | toonhead904 |
| Cupid Parasite: Sweet & Spicy Darling | Most Single-Route Whiplash from Annoyance to Delightful Absurdity | Arashi |
| Cyberpulse | Best Game Almost Nobody Has Heard Of | Clyceer |
| Daemon Masquerade | Aspeon | |
| Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin | Best souls-like | rath |
| Dear Me, I was | Kindest Weapon | |
| Deep Rock Galactic | We're Rich!, Best Barrels | toonhead904 |
| DesperaDrops | Leverage Award for Excellence in Crime Found Families | Arashi |
| Detective Instinct: Farewell my Beloved | I found this game consistently fun and enjoyable, since it felt well-written and with characters that were generally likable, there were plenty of fun interactions and bits of flavor text, and pacing was pretty good | Ajogamer |
| Devil Survivor 2 | Best tactical RPG | Pandakar |
| Diddy Kong Racing | Best racing game I can control | Pandakar |
| Digimon Story: Time Stranger | Champion Award | Vivi Valentine |
| Diplomacy is Not an Option | Most Writing In Between Missions | toonhead904 |
| Dobbel Dungeon | "Most promising demo" award | Shardforce |
| Double Trip | Didn't expect to like it as much as I did | Hempuli |
| Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 | Never Ending Award | Vivi Valentine |
| Dragon Quest I HD-2D Remake | best game to remake a whole game; best game remake; best game to update its story from one nearly non-existent | bdjeffyp |
| Dreams of Aether | Best April Fools Game | toonhead904 |
| Dynasty Warriors 2 | Lu Bu Is A Motherfucker | toonhead904 |
| Dynasty Warriors 5 | Best "remember the old PS2 musou games?" | Vali/Claire |
| Einstein's Cats | Best Game You Can Probably Finish Within Steam's Refund Period (but don't refund it if you liked it that's mean) | Arashi |
| Elden Ring | Best Self-Imposed Challenge Mode | elianora |
| Elite: Dangerous | Space Truckin' | toonhead904 |
| Epigraph | Aspeon | |
| Etrian Odyssey HD | Most Trees, Most Rubbing My Face Against Every Wall To Find Secret Passages, Best Map (edited)Wednesday, January 14, 2026 5:37 PM | toonhead904 |
| Europa Universalis V | Grandest Strategy, Most Map, Game I Will Spend Hundreds of Hours And Dollars On In The Future | toonhead904 |
| Eve Online | Best MMO with Friends | walkingeye |
| even if Tempest | Most Arashi-bait Otome Protagonist | Arashi |
| EXAPUNKS | Hempuli | |
| Fae Tactics | Game that most makes me remember I suck at tactical RPGs (Runner up) | Dasterin |
| FAITH: The Unholy Trinity | Ajogamer | |
| Famicom Detective Club: Emio The Smiling Man | Weirdest pacing in a mystery game. It just ends and then lets you explore the missing details as a separate post-game movie | Kindest Weapon |
| Fantasy Maiden Wars | Best "game I already played but now it's in English so I can appreciate the writing now" | Vali/Claire |
| Fate Stay/Night | The "Big Fan of Franchise reads it for the first time" award | GPoutine |
| Final Fantasy III | Ajogamer | |
| Final Fantasy Mystic Quest | best game with a shrugging main character; best game with a main character named Benjamin | bdjeffyp |
| Final Fantasy VII Rebirth | best game to remake a portion of an older game; best Kleenex award; best game with a protagonist that you want to punch in the face for being a big jerk dummy head | bdjeffyp |
| Final Fantasy XIV | Least Improved | Pandakar |
| Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade | It's a classic Fire Emblem! | Kindest Weapon |
| Football Manager 2024 | Best Spreadsheet Simulator | toonhead904 |
| For the Frog the Bell Tolls | best Nintendo game not released in the US; best game with curses that aren't actually curses (runner up) | bdjeffyp |
| Frog's Adventure (Sokpop Collective) | Hempuli | |
| Garbanzo Quest | Most Charming | Clyceer |
| Gauntlet IV | Best Speedrun with Friends | walkingeye |
| Gentoo Rescue | Bird Game of the Year AND Puzzle Game of the Year (For Sickos) | Aspeon |
| Ghost of Yotei | Great sequel! The new mechanics make the game feel very fresh | Kindest Weapon |
| Ghost Trick | Best Boy | ImpliedKappa |
| Glowkeeper | Aspeon | |
| Gorgon's Garden | like Hypnospace Outlaw, but you play an abandoned MMO and browse an old forum on a virtual desktop straight out of 2008 | LaytonLoztew |
| Grunn | Hempuli | |
| Hacknet | Best Use of Carpenter Brut | toonhead904 |
| Hamtaro: Rainbow Rescue | LaytonLoztew | |
| Helionaut | Hempuli | |
| Heliopedia | Hempuli | |
| Helldivers 2 | Best Shooty Game, Best Dive Button, Best Game I Played This Year(?) | toonhead904 |
| Hi-Fi Rush | Best Game I Let Sit Unplayed For Months | Clyceer |
| HoloCure | "Most surprising and inspiring dedication" award | Shardforce |
| Hololive Holo's Hanafuda | Best Traditional Table Game Adaptation (for When You're Sick of Mahjong) | Arashi |
| Home Run Derby for the Jaguar | Most accurate recreation of a terrible experience | Pandakar |
| Honkai: Star Rail | Best story padding | Pandakar |
| House of Necrosis | Most Resident Evil but Mystery Dungeon and Legally Distinct So It's Fine Game | SweetPotatoSophie |
| Illusion of Itehari | Best Surprise Villain Swerves | Arashi |
| In Stars and Time | Best castle to explore multiple times | Pyryn |
| Is This Seat Taken? | Best Shapes Museum | Arashi |
| IXION | Best Frostpunk In Space That's Way Too Hard But I Still Play For 12 Hours Straight | BaronHaynes |
| Juufuutei Raden's Guide for Pixel Museum | Most "You Want Me to Solve How Large a Picross? Already?" | Arashi |
| Kingdoms of the Dump | Best love letter to SNES era JRPGs | Cara |
| La-Mulana 2 | best lead character; best supporting character; best puzzle game (runner up); best game with hilarious ways of dying | bdjeffyp |
| Labyrinth of the Demon King | Most Dirty Looking Piece of Priceless Treasure | SweetPotatoSophie |
| Last Epoch | Game I feel like I should have liked but didn't really get into (Winner) | Dasterin |
| Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered | Best remake of a thing | DisasterMillennial |
| Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth | Singleplayer game I replay after 12 months and it's still good | Chocolate Dave |
| Locomoto | You get to steal a train and then spend the entire game using it to help people | Kindest Weapon |
| Logic Town | "Most hours in a game I thought my mom might like (30, and she didn't, alas)" award | Shardforce |
| Mahjong Soul | Worst Game with Friends | walkingeye |
| Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story | Best mario and luigi game | rath |
| Mario Goes Skateboarding 64 | really cool, its not real polished or technically advanced but the concept is very charming. | LaytonLoztew |
| Mariomon | Best pokemon | rath |
| Medieval II: Total War | Best Game Ending With Total War | toonhead904 |
| Metal Gear Solid | Youngers nowaday will never know what a CD case is. | mimicmatter |
| Metal Max 2: Reloaded | Best game that is not game of year | rath |
| Metal Max Returns | Game of year | rath |
| Metaphor: ReFantazio | Best "we did press turn in a persona for once and it's good" game | Vali/Claire |
| Metroid | Best Rude as fuck but strangely enjoyable game | DisasterMillennial |
| Metroid Prime | Most nostalgic replay | Pandakar |
| Metroid Prime 2 | Most improved opinion on replay | Pandakar |
| Mina the Hollower | Best demo of a game that never came out this year | Pandakar |
| Mistonia's Hope: The Lost Delight | Hatsune Miku Award for Character with Giant Twintails and Saki Fujita's Voice | Arashi |
| Monster Hunter Stories | Most Railroady Game | toonhead904 |
| Monster Prom 4: Monster Con | Best parody of hackneyed anime tropes | ImpliedKappa |
| Monster Rancher | Cutest sprite work | Pandakar |
| Monster Rancher 2 | Best and only net new RetroAchievements set I've released | Pandakar |
| Monster Tale | LaytonLoztew | |
| Mosa Lina | Hempuli | |
| MultiVersus | "Garnet never stopped punching" memorial award | Shardforce |
| Muramasa: The Demon Blade | Best highest difficulty setting in a game | Pandakar |
| Neon Clash: Echoes of the Lost | Best Yakuza Plot That Also Sort of Brushes Up Against Watchmen and/or SMT a Little Maybe? | Arashi |
| Nier Replicant | Coolest OST paired with the sleepiest combat system | Pandakar |
| Nostalgia 64 | Best game to remond me that Banjo Kazooie is real fuckin' good, actually | Colin |
| Not for Broadcast | Aspeon | |
| Nuworm | Hempuli | |
| Octopath Traveler 0 | Best Game to Escape Mobile Gacha Jail | altabiscuit |
| Of the Devil | Best toxic yuri Ace Attorney that I am obsessed with | Kindest Weapon |
| OFF | Best remake that I never played the original version of | Cara |
| Okami HD | Best Zelda game that isn't Zelda | DisasterMillennial |
| Once Upon A KATAMARI | had a good time with this but it may just be a testament of how much I like Katamari in general | LaytonLoztew |
| Öoo | GotY | Hempuli |
| Oshinui Tune | LaytonLoztew | |
| Otome Daoshi: Fighting for Love | Best Zombie (man I know people usually render "jiangshi" as "hopping vampire" or something but most of the time they usually feel way more like zombies) | Arashi |
| Outrun (2006) | I know why auth likes this game. It's good | Kindest Weapon |
| Over RequiemZ | Most Times I Went "Oh Man This Shit Is Fucked Up It Rules" | Arashi |
| Pacific Drive | Best STALKER Driving Sim | toonhead904 |
| Patrick's Parabox | Coolest brain bending puzzle game | Pandakar |
| Pear Quest | Hempuli | |
| Persona 2 Innocent Sin / Eternal Punishment | The "Persona did not start at 3" award. | GPoutine |
| Persona 5 Royal | Most Played JRPG | toonhead904 |
| Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero | Game I most wished was more like the previous game(s) in the series (Runner up) | Dasterin |
| Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy | Most Objections, Most Unrealistic Law Sim, Best Writing | toonhead904 |
| Pillars of Eternity | Game I Tried Hardest To Get Into Without Success | toonhead904 |
| PlateUp | Best fire I could produce in a game | Pandakar |
| Pocket Watch | One of my faves this year | Hempuli |
| Pokemon Scarlet | Best game i rushed through because I needed a Koraidon for my Nationals Team | Lawso |
| Pokemon Snap | Most pictures taken in a game | Pandakar |
| Pokémon Uncanny Version | LaytonLoztew | |
| PowerWash Simulator | Instilled the biggest "need to clean" urge in real life | Pandakar |
| Primal Planet | Best Open-World Platformer Where You Play As A Caveman Family And Fight Dinosaurs/Aliens | BaronHaynes |
| Quest 64 Barbarian Mode | best RA mastery badge; best way to play Quest 64 | bdjeffyp |
| R.E.P.O | Quickest multiplayer game I've bounced off of | Pandakar |
| Ratatan | Funkmaster | Chocolate Dave |
| Ratchet and Clank (2002) | Game of all time | DisasterMillennial |
| Refind Self: The Personality Test Game | Ajogamer | |
| Rematch | Game Closest To Being Truly Great But Falling Just Short, Worst Netcode, Most Cracked Out Of Their Minds Brazilian 8 Year Olds, Most Slurs I've Heard In A Multiplayer Game In A Long Time | toonhead904 |
| Repubicube | Best Programming Game I Played Until I Felt Way Too Stupid | Arashi |
| Resident Evil 3 : Nemesis | Original better than the Remake | mimicmatter |
| Resident Evil 5 | Best Zombie Boulder Punching | toonhead904 |
| Resident Evil 6 | Terrible | toonhead904 |
| Reverie | best Super Mario World romhack; best puzzle game; game of the year | bdjeffyp |
| Rhythm Doctor | Aspeon | |
| Rift of the Necrodancer | Best reminder that I am Sickos.png for selective games | Pandakar |
| Rose and Camellia | best slapping simulator; best waggle controls; best La-Mulana cameos | bdjeffyp |
| SaGa Frontier | The "RPG that will be a yearly replay" award. | GPoutine |
| Senna and the Forest | (can't think of an award but most of this was kinda fun!) | Arashi |
| Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew | Best Game More People Should Have Played Before the Studio Closed | toonhead904 |
| Shadowrun Dragonfall | Ajogamer | |
| Shadowrun Returns | Most Cyberpunk, Game I Really Actually Should Go Back And Finally Beat | toonhead904 |
| Shadows of Doubt | Most Vent Crawling | toonhead904 |
| Shelldiver | Best game under 5 hours for under 5 dollars | Chocolate Dave |
| Silent Hill | Spookiest video game | DisasterMillennial |
| Skate. | Most Annoying Tutorial, Most Broken | toonhead904 |
| Slay the Spire | Most Cards, Game I Will Never Be Good At And That's Okay | toonhead904 |
| Sniper Elite | Most Annoying To Get Running On A Modern PC, Most Ahead Of Its Time | toonhead904 |
| Sol Cesto | Funkiest visual aesthetic | Hempuli |
| Sonic Adventure 2 Battle | Game that looks the most playable when someone else plays it but feels like garbage when I try to play it | Pandakar |
| Sonic Racers Crossworlds | Great kart racer. Good successor to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. | Kindest Weapon |
| Souldiers | Best Castlevania 2 Set In The Afterlife With Dungeons 5 Times Longer Than Necessary But It's Fine, Still Had A Great Time | BaronHaynes |
| Soulframe | Best Game That's Not Out Yet | toonhead904 |
| Spider-Man 2 (PS5) | A lot of cool gameplay ideas. The two Spider Men feel very different to play, a lot of cool story beats uplifting people, I like what they cooked here. | Kindest Weapon |
| Springblades | Hempuli | |
| Star Fox 64 | Best on rails (re)-experience | Pandakar |
| SteamWorld Dig | Best "dig down, possibly forever" game | Pandakar |
| Stories from Sol: The Dog | Great visual novel, I can see there is more if I explore alternate scenes to fill out the timeline chart, but I'm good | Kindest Weapon |
| Stray Children | Most You Gotta Play This I Swear It's Good | SweetPotatoSophie |
| Sunset Kingdom | Inspiring game | Hempuli |
| Super Mario Wonder | Best game where flowers talk like comedians | rath |
| Super Mariomon | Most polished hack | Pandakar |
| Super Metroid | Best Randomizer | Mohrcas |
| Super Robot Wars Y | "Most robots I've built models of (I ain't buying a Xenoblade model, lmao)" award | Shardforce |
| Tactical Breach Wizards | Best writing | Chocolate Dave |
| Tales from the Shire (a Lord of the Rings game) | what it says on the tin award (cozy with light jank edition) | cinn |
| TCG Card Shop Simulator | Most cards collected | Pandakar |
| Terraria | Game I Finally Understand Why So Many People Love It | toonhead904 |
| The Descent of King Hesper | Aspeon | |
| The Electrifying Incident | Best Shoving Blocks Around While Not Being a Sokoban | Arashi |
| The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily | Glorious Yuri Award | Vivi Valentine |
| The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II | The plot has zero stakes due to how the story is presented. Gameplay lets you be pretty sicko though | Kindest Weapon |
| The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom | Most fun game I have zero desire to replay | Lawso |
| The Legend of Zelda: Hylian Modding Hack | LaytonLoztew | |
| The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time | Biggest comfort food randomizer | Pandakar |
| The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages | Strangest randomizer I have attempted to learn | Pandakar |
| The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker | Best ocean in a video game | Pandakar |
| The Red Bell's Lament | Virche Evermore Award for No Good Ends Until After the Credits | Arashi |
| The Secret of Varonis | I've always been a big fan of the Final Fantasy Legend/SaGa games on Game Boy (the second one especially), and this game is pretty much the closest you can get to a direct continuation of those, probably even more than the actual SaGa series games that came afterwards in many respects | Ajogamer |
| Tokimeki Memorial | I understand why this game is an influential as it is | Kindest Weapon |
| Total War: Pharaoh Dynasties | Best Game Starting With Total War | toonhead904 |
| Transball | best homebrew game | bdjeffyp |
| Type Help | Aspeon | |
| UFO 50 | Best 49 sidequest DLC | Pyryn |
| Uncharted Waters: New Horizons | Ajogamer | |
| Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop | Most time spent reading the manual | Jeeves |
| Unfair Flips | Most Brainworms | ratamero |
| Urban Myth Dissolution Center | Ajogamer | |
| Valkyrie Profile | The "Oh this is really good" award | GPoutine |
| Vib-Ripple | LaytonLoztew | |
| Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus | Best Intro Cinematic, Best Sound Design | toonhead904 |
| Warno | Best Styyyyyyle, Best Soundtrack That Has No Right Going As Hard As It Does | toonhead904 |
| Wild Arms | Forgotten RPG of the Gold Era of Gaming | mimicmatter |
| Wirehead | Beat game that kills you for being too horny | Colin |
| Wonder Boy The Dragon's Trap | best Metroidvania game; best game with curses that aren't actually curses | bdjeffyp |
| Wonder Trek | Click off this page right now and go play Wonder Trek. | LaytonLoztew |
| WWE 2K25 | Sweatiest People | toonhead904 |
| Xenonauts 2 | Best spiritual successor to a classic game | Dasterin |
| Yakuza 0 (original) | Best delisted | Chocolate Dave |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories | Coziest card game to mindlessly farm in | Pandakar |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards | Least interesting leveling system in a card game | Pandakar |
| Yume Nikki PS | LaytonLoztew | |
| Haste | twiz | |
| Nubby's Number Factory | twiz | |
| Returnal | twiz |