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"It looks awful, I don’t understand what the big deal is."
These are words I said on a fateful day of June 2022 and would come to fiercely regret. Because when it came to choosing my game of the year, it slowly became obvious that there was no escaping that my 2022 was dominated by a £2.09 game that I had never intended to play.
The reality is I've played fewer games this year than I've had in any previous years since I started working in games. The ink on my Game of the Year 2021 for Unpacking was barely dry when I learned that I needed to move house again, for the third time in 18 months. So for most of 2022, I craved relaxation in the games I played, not interested in more complexity than I was already dealing with in real life.