Best of 2016: Game of the year

2016 saw lots of fantastic game releases— Doom, Inside, Far Cry Primal, X-Com 2, Civilization VI, and tons more. Of course, I'm not a professional game reviewer (although, incidentally, I did write for the webzine GameCritics.com for nearly ten years); I just like to game when I have the time. Accordingly, I'm sure some great games have come out that I missed. I did play quite a few great games this year, however, but when it comes to my pick for best of the year, as the great warriors of Highlander declared, "There can be only one." But first, of course, the biggest disappointment, and the honorable mention. Biggest disappointment: X-Com 2 I absolutely loved the first X-Com . It was challenging, deep, well-balanced, and incredibly addicting. It could be maddeningly frustrating at times, but only because it was so relentlessly engaging. X-Com 2 made a number of significant changes to the game, and I thoroughly enjoyed all of them. On paper, it was a bril