{"id":50693,"date":"2020-07-01T14:55:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T21:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=50693"},"modified":"2020-07-20T21:23:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T04:23:37","slug":"the-top-ten-games-of-2020-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2020\/07\/01\/the-top-ten-games-of-2020-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top Ten Games of 2020 (so far!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that we&#8217;re officially in the second half of 2020, it&#8217;s time to look back at the first half of 2020 and consider which of the games released so far are the best.&nbsp; Because that&#8217;s what calendars are for.&nbsp; They exist to arbitrarily group newly released videogames into time periods in which they&#8217;re pitted against each other on top ten lists for people to argue about on the internet.&nbsp; It&#8217;s the whole reason the Romans or Mayans or whoever invented calendars.&nbsp; Shame they couldn&#8217;t stick around long enough for videogames to get invented and fulfill the purpose of their calendars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10) Alyx and\/or The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Alyx-VR-Saints-and-Sinners.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Alyx-VR-Saints-and-Sinners.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Alyx-VR-Saints-and-Sinners-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Alyx-VR-Saints-and-Sinners-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Alyx-VR-Saints-and-Sinners-701x394.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay, here&#8217;s the deal.&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t come up with ten games worth the list.&nbsp; I tried.&nbsp; Lord knows, I tried.&nbsp; The stuff I&#8217;ve played trying to find a 10th game!&nbsp; Even though I liked what I saw of them, I&#8217;m not going to put Resident Evil 3, Nimbatus, Chimera Squad, Plebby Quest, Fort Triumph, Bloodlust 2, Streets of Rage, Deep Rock Galactic, or Station Flow on a top ten list.&nbsp; I would put The Last of Us Part II on a top ten list, but it would have to be a list of gratingly twee young adult shoot-and-scoot &#8220;games&#8221;.&nbsp; And I haven&#8217;t tried Gears Tactics or Maneater yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought about just adding one of the remastered games that&#8217;s come out &#8212; Patapon 2, Wonderful 101, Black Mesa, Persona 4, Xenoblade Chronicles, Command &amp; Conquer, Saints Row 3 &#8212; but because &#8220;remastered&#8221; means &#8220;it already came out a while ago&#8221;, that would set a bad precedent. So I&#8217;m instead setting the bad precedent of picking two games I really want to play, but can&#8217;t because they&#8217;re VR.&nbsp; I get to feeling really oogie when I play a VR game for more than five minutes at a time, especially when it&#8217;s not a cockpit-based game.&nbsp; So I really want to play Alyx and Saints and Sinners, and I have high hopes for what they&#8217;re attempting in a VR environment, but I think I need to build up more VR tolerance first.&nbsp; Stand by during the second half of 2020 as I work on this, and expect to hear more about these two games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>9) Ancient Enemy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ancient-Enemy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ancient-Enemy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ancient-Enemy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ancient-Enemy-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ancient-Enemy-701x394.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A card battling game, but since it&#8217;s not a deck-builder, you&#8217;re not faced with the agonizing decisions that make deck-builders so compelling.&nbsp; Instead, it&#8217;s solitaire.&nbsp; You&#8217;re faced with the laidback chill of flipping cards to line them up in sequence and sweep them off the table&#8230;combined with agonizing decisions about how best to cultivate those cards to power your abilities instead of just lining them up in sequence and sweeping them off the table.&nbsp; Solitaire where the cards are a resource, not a simple obstacle.&nbsp; There have been a ton of these laidback solitaire RPGs, but Ancient Enemy is the most clever so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>8) Doom Eternal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Doom-Eternal-friends.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Doom-Eternal-friends.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Doom-Eternal-friends-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Doom-Eternal-friends-768x410.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Doom-Eternal-friends-701x374.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s not quite chainsaw ballet.&nbsp; It&#8217;s more like chainsaw jazz dance.&nbsp; The developers at Id continue to take Doom getting further and further from Doom and closer and closer to Ratchet and Clank. And ooh-la-la, what a sleek engine. I love those loading times!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2020\/04\/01\/oh-the-friends-youll-make-in-doom-eternal\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>7) Gemcraft: Frostborn Wrath<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Gemcraft-Frostborn-Wrath.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Gemcraft-Frostborn-Wrath.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Gemcraft-Frostborn-Wrath-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Gemcraft-Frostborn-Wrath-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Gemcraft-Frostborn-Wrath-701x394.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost everything you could want in a tower defense game was in Gemcraft: Chasing Shadows.&nbsp; Now there&#8217;s even more of almost everything you could want in a tower defense game in the sequel, Gemcraft: Frostborn Wrath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>6) Intergalactic Fishing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Intergalactic-Fishing.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Intergalactic-Fishing.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Intergalactic-Fishing-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Intergalactic-Fishing-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Intergalactic-Fishing-701x394.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I never thought I would play a fishing game in which I learned how to tie a lure.&nbsp; Which is something I still haven&#8217;t done.&nbsp; Seems like tying a lure is like trying to enter the mind of a fish.&nbsp; I guess to catch a fish, you gotta be a fish?&nbsp; But in Intergalactic Fishing, I&#8217;ve used the game&#8217;s intricate fish database to build my own lures using the abstract lure-building minigame, and with that lure I built myself, I caught the fish I wanted.&nbsp; Pretty gratifying.&nbsp; The worst videogame fishing is just slot machines where you cast a line rather than pull a lever.&nbsp; The best videogame fishing, like Intergalactic Fishing, is slot machines that give you more control than just pulling a lever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>5) Iratus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Iratus.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Iratus.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Iratus-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Iratus-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Iratus-701x394.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Darkest Dungeon for the rest of us.&nbsp; Darkest Dungeon was punishing.&nbsp; Iratus suggests you don&#8217;t need further punishing.&nbsp; In fact, Iratus says seductively, maybe it&#8217;s time to let you do the punishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4) Shadow Empire<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Shadow-Empire.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Shadow-Empire.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Shadow-Empire-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Shadow-Empire-768x479.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Shadow-Empire-632x394.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fascinating combination of serious wargame, serious resource management, superserious logistics, seriously intricate personnel management, and unserious science fiction.&nbsp; So much detail, so many numbers, so many things to figure out, so many pages in the manual, so many ways for things to go wrong because I don&#8217;t understand them yet. I can&#8217;t tell whether I actually like this game, or whether I&#8217;m just fascinated by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2020\/07\/03\/seven-reasons-i-keep-trying-to-play-shadow-empire\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3) Desperados III<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Desperados-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Desperados-3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Desperados-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Desperados-3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Desperados-3-701x394.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cowboys playing stealth puzzles wouldn&#8217;t normally be my thing.&nbsp; But then Desperados III patiently explained that I&#8217;m supposed to save and reload regularly.&nbsp; It even reminds me while I&#8217;m playing.  It wants me to play this way so I can experiment with different solutions to different situations.&nbsp; So it&#8217;s like a Hitman game, but with a rewind option!&nbsp; And this posse of cowboys has some pretty cool characters with cool powers.&nbsp; So this is why people liked those Commandos games so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2) Zombie Army 4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Zombie-Army-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Zombie-Army-4.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Zombie-Army-4-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Zombie-Army-4-768x396.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Zombie-Army-4-701x362.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gloriously gory, grim, and goofy, all at once.\u00a0 Here are hundreds upon hundreds of Nazi zombies, and so many different ways to mutilate them.\u00a0 Rebellion&#8217;s shooters keep getting better and better, and this is a considerable step up from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2018\/10\/14\/strange-brigade-is-rip-roaring-thrill-ride-but-isnt-equipped-to-soldier-on\/\">Strange Brigade<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2020\/07\/20\/i-wish-dan-obannon-were-here-today-to-see-zombie-army-4\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1) Snowrunner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Snowrunner.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Snowrunner.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Snowrunner-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Snowrunner-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Snowrunner-696x394.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The culmination of the Spintires concept &#8212; trucks struggling through mud &#8212; presents you with a set of logistics quests spread across several maps.&nbsp; And this time with snow.&nbsp; To paraphrase Samual L. Jackson&#8217;s famous last words in Deep Blue Sea, &#8220;You think mud is bad?&nbsp; You should see ice.&#8221;&nbsp; Snowrunner is easily one of my favorite caRPGs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(You might read this list and think it&#8217;s short on information.&nbsp; Fair point.&nbsp; It is just a list, for the most part.&nbsp; But it&#8217;s also a schedule.&nbsp; Expect to see reviews of these games in the coming weeks.&nbsp; With the exception of Doom Eternal, which already got its review.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we&#8217;re officially in the second half of 2020, it&#8217;s time to look back at the first half of 2020 and consider which of the games released so far are the best.&nbsp; Because that&#8217;s what calendars are for.&nbsp; They exist to arbitrarily group newly released videogames into time periods in which they&#8217;re pitted against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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