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Use topsters to list your top 25 video games.
Honorable mentions:
Katamari
Animal Crossing
Castle of the Winds
Persona games
Horizon Zero Dawn
Journey
Kingdom Hearts
Ni no Kuni
any Supergiant game (husband plays them, I enjoy their music)
Lunar Silver/Blue (I have so many core memories of laughing to the bloopers during the credits; we need more voice actor blooper reels!)
I'm sure I'm forgetting a game or two somewhere, ugh.
If you don't do many games, feel free to do shows or something!
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I played a lot of games last year!!! I think it’s more than the usual years at this point. Played like 30 or 40 games?? That’s a lot! I’m glad I discovered and played so many games. I feel enriched seeing what other artists want to say through their games, experiencing their well-crafted worlds and mechanics.
I wanna talk about ten of the best games I played from 2025. I know it’s already around the middle of 2026, but hey, better late than never right? Let’s get to it.
#10: Wide Ocean Big Jacket
Read my review here!
This game felt like a chill time. Just a day in the life of a few people in a camping trip. The art is nice and cute, and the story is low-stakes yet compelling. It’s nice to see the differences between childhood and adulthood in this story, what they prioritize, what they get worried about, what they enjoy. It’s a roughly 1 hour experience that I enjoyed a fair bit!
#9: The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
Read my review here!
A chill game where you play as a witch and make tarot cards, it has lovely music, great art, and nice vibes. I love that this game allowed me to express my creativity in making the tarot cards! And I loved the little stories that the game presented through its various characters. This game stuck with me because of how nice it felt playing it. It felt cozy and chill, and I need more coziness in my life.
#8: In Stars and Time
Read my review here!
Time loop stories, my beloved. While the gameplay of this game had some flaws for me, the storytelling for me was very strong. I got emotional at various points in the story, and even cried a couple of times. It’s a story about friendship, perseverance, insecurity, and trust, and that resonated with me a lot, as most time loop stories tend to do. I’m excited for the next game the dev is making!!!
#7: DEAD LETTER DEPT.
Read my review here!
I always have a hard time with horror games. I usually steer clear of them, but lately there have been so many good ones in the indie scene!! I get so tempted to experience them. Such was the case with Mouthwashing, and such is the case with DEAD LETTER DEPT. It’s an interesting typing game that injects horror into the mix, a more modern, urbane kind of horror that I find refreshing. I was properly spooked that at one point I just couldn’t continue playing and my friend had to finish the game for me!!! But that speaks to how easily scared I am more than anything. It’s a good game!!!
#6: Type Help
Read my review here!
I’ve gotten into text-based games sometime last year, and this one I would say is the one I most enjoyed. It’s a detective game where you have to unravel the mystery, and BOY what a mystery it was. The gameplay was understandable enough for me, and once I got in the groove of it, I just devoured the whole thing in pursuit of the mystery. It was GRIPPING. At one point I just wanted to know what was next! I started trying to get hints and answers online just so I could progress the story! It was such an enjoyable horror-thriller of a game.
#5: The Roottrees are Dead
Read my review here!
This was another fun detective game I played! It was such a fun experience mapping the family tree of an old, powerful family via Ye Olden Internet Explorer and various other items. I felt like SUCH a gossip reading all of this TEA about the various people in the family who had fucked up one way or another. And all of this just to maintain a family trust fund!! It’s an amusing mystery, and a fun game!
#4: Perfect Tides
Read my review here!
This game was made by one of my fave webcomic artists Meredith Gran. She made Octopus Pie, a webcomic about twenty-somethings navigating life. Here, she made a game about teens navigating life. This point-and-click game brought me much nostalgia, making me remember the ISP modem sounds, the fashion of emos and goths, the music… Sometimes though it’s hard to figure out what to do next in this game, which I guess is similar in experience to other point-and-click games back then. I found that the story more than makes up for it, however. A strong coming-of-age story with good humor and good themes.
#3: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Read my review here!
A coming-of-age story where you carefully choose how you spend your day-to-day, this game emphasizes the importance of your actions. Do you go to class or explore outside? Do you tell your parents of your adventures or keep them to yourself? Do you go out and fight the monster invading your colony or leave it to the adults? Each action leads you to a different branching path, and all of them are important. You get to mold the person you become, however you want yourself to be. You can choose to be different each timeline, or stay the same. I like this dynamism in terms of the story. The art and music are beautiful, and helps produce a chill vibe, despite how intense the game can become. And I liked how cozy it felt! Like I said earlier: I need more coziness in my life, and this delivered.
#2: Nine Sols
Read my review here!
This game was HARD. Felt like the same difficulty as Silksong, but IMO more fun. Parrying felt good to get right, and the fights felt more fast paced. The boss fights are well-made, and feel good to beat. The art is great! It really pops, and the gore feels striking against the art. The music SLAPS, a good fusion of Chinese aesthetics and cyberpunk vibes, which could be said of the art direction in general. What really got this high in my rankings though is the striking story. It got to me in a personal way, and it made me think and see things in a new light. I think this game has both great mechanics and great story, and I like it a lot because of that.
#1: Slay the Princess
Read my review here!
This is the game I was most enamored by!! It’s a good exploration of relationships and character archetypes. It plays around with the concepts of the Hero’s Journey and the Love Story, and does it with care. There’s some lovely humor, but it doesn’t detract from the seriousness of its story. It’s great finding out the twists and turns of the story, seeing how far the devs are willing to explore the themes. I really love the voice acting!! Jonathan Sims did a really good job with The Hero and the Narrator. The overall vibes are immaculate, and I really enjoyed the game. I’d talk about it more, but it’s hard to talk about this game without spoiling the experience, so I invite you, reader, to experience this game for yourself. It’s a great visual novel!
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And that’s it! I enjoyed a lot of games last year, and plan to enjoy more this year! I haven’t played as much as I like to be honest, but I’ll just play when I can. Can’t enjoy your hobbies when you’re forcing yourself to. But yeah, games are fun!!! I hope to enjoy more.
This was fun to do and I really had to think about it for a bit. I can't really claim that these are in any particular order besides the top 5 being the top 5 lol
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Hi guys, I know I've missed a couple of years of doing this, but life has been wild.
10 - Saints Row
This may be a controversal option for some people as the newest Saints Row wasn't as liked as the previous but I really liked it! I grinded through all the collectables, the character customisation was fun and there was plenty to do in the world!
9 - Persona 5 Royal
LISTEN WAIT! Before you all come for me, this is only so low on the list because I haven't finished the game yet! However I love it! The stories can be surprisingly dark, the world is quite open in terms of what you do with your time, I'm just starting the romances. The characters are great, and it still has humorous moments, also a BANGING soundtrack!
8 - Dark Souls 3
Okay so 2024 I played a lot of Souls games as my boyfriend loves them, I'm currently playing the first DS. This was super stressful but felt great when you finally killed the bosses. I literally couldn't defeat the last boss though :( quite big worlds, never been so happy to return to the fire watcher woman.
7 - Undertale
I love this game so much, I will never do an evil run. I first watched Dan and Phil play it years ago and then my boyfriend declared a race to who could platinum undertale first, he won by like an hour. Everything is perfect, the story, popping battle music, the characters are so cute too! 10/10
6 - Elden Ring
Our next souls game, I was so scared to play this as I had heard a lot about how hard it was. Don't get me wrong, it is hard but I managed to platinum the game on ps4 and currently trying for the ps5 version. It's SO open world! I really need to play the DLC. The battles are so different and everyone finds various bosses the hardest, besides my enemy...Malenia. She kicked my ass in way I didn't think were possible. I liked how different storylines change the characters and what happens in the Roundtable Hold. Alexander the Jar has my heart <3
5 - Balders Gate 3
Ohmygod, this game was the whole reason I got a PS5! It's amazing, Astarion, my twinky vampire, I love you. Also Karlach, my sweet girl. I put so many hours into it, I needed a break. You can play the game however you want, do the quests however you want. It's getting a new patch soon, and I also need to try the mods! 10/10
4 - Phoenix Wright Games
I know I'm cheating with this as this is counting several trilogies and spin-off games, but it's my list. My two favourites are the original Phoenix trilogy and the Miles Edgeworth Investigations. I have loved this franchise for years and have read A LOT of Miles/Phoenix fanfiction. I still need to play the Victorian game. I would do whatever if I could kiss Miles Edgeworth on the mouth. A girl can dream...The characters go through insane trauma but come out so strong and hopeful. Also the trials get insanely wacky, questioning a parrot has to be up there. Will happily replay any day!
3 - Resident Evil Village
A hot massive vampire lady, Neil Newbon who voices my vampire boyfriend Astarion voicing a character, and fun combat - CHECK. The factory level is the worst area, but that didn't stop me from playing this game at least 5 times. The knife run was brutal, but I was so happy when I finally got the platinum. The castle was the best area by far, I also liked hunting the animals for the duke. Ohmygosh it is such a fun game, and relatively short.
2 - Bloodborne
This was a really hard decision for the top spot, this was the very first souls game I ever played and it's amazing! Gothic world, memorable bosses and a pretty doll lady. Can't believe that guy didn't need his wheelchair... Also that magic King guy who you fight on a roof, CHRIST, that fight was rough. Though the mental guy with a cage on his head had a really fun fight! Even the optional dungeons were really fun! I got the platinum guys don't worry.
1 - Silent Hill 2 Remake
Clearly this had to be the top spot! Silent Hill 2 has always been one of my favourite games, I was nervous for the remake as they had changed a lot but as soon as I played it - oh wow - it's amazing! I still have 3 more endings left to get for the platinum, but I'll happily play it again. The chainsaw is a game changer and is great, pyramid head is gonna get smacked up, Angela breaks my heart everytime, also the Abstract Daddy boss fight is much better in the remake! Different puzzles, lots of mementos to the original and fantastic graphics. I got jump scared so often.
What A Year For Games! Top 10 Games of 2023 For Little Lesbians Like me!
I am on and off again with video games often switching between years where I am really into games and years where I am snoozing but I started to dedicate myself to finding and sharing more sapphic art so people can stop saying it doesn't exist lead me to playing tons more games and wow I played so many fucking amazing games this year it was an extremally hard year to pick a top 10 games. Now these aren't a top 10 sapphic games, it's just the best 10 games of the year, on an objective scale because I am the goddess of this world and there for right. Not all of these games will have come out in 2023, it's games I played in 2023 why limit ones self?
These games are roughly in order by how confident I am to put them on this list but each of these games did something different than me so I wouldn't say that a game is "better" rather than what I got out of it at the end of playing felt biggest.
Stray Gods
It's a musical, it's a video game, it's Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical. This game is a really fun little Greek myth story telling experience with an neat interoperation of myth and the characters to provide a fun experience to people with or without attachment to the stories. The dynamic music changing to your choices is a really cool concept although I wish more of the songs were a bop. I also wish the game explored the idea of polyamory like the Greek gods were not monogamous and I see no reason I can't kiss Freddie and Persephone in the same playthrough. What is there though is still compelling, fun, and engaging with a great set of characters across the board romanceable and not.
Pokémon Emerald Rouge
Pokabbie's amazing Pokemon Rom Hack that shows the utterly wild shit possible for Pokemon experiences we could get. It's amazingly fun to do runs of Pokemon where you catch new pokemon, fight trainers and get to then recatch that species to use in later runs. It's a really great gameplay loop that really just uses what's fun about pokemon and allows for a lot of different run customization which leads to the loop not getting stale and makes it easier to find particular pokemon you want. This was my favorite Pokémon experience this year.
Street Fighter 6
Street Fighter 6 has some of the worst monetization to date in fighting games. However, despite that it provided a lot of fun to me this year playing the base game's amazing World Tour mode and in enjoying the greatly designed new characters who I hope become Street Fighter staples. All while making my favorite SF character Juri even better with new interactions, a little bit of progress to her story and more. I hope that World Tour mode encourages a lot of other fighting game devs to step up the single player experiences in Fighting games and I also hope [as seems to be the industry trend] that "modern" controls take over. It was so nice to be able to do all the special moves consistently and more easily feel like I was in control of the game rather than feeling light I was fighting my hands to move out an input.
Drums Of War
I sure do wish a Fire Emblem game came out in 2023, it's been so long since Three Houses and Hopes is amazing but not the SRPG gameplay I came to love. Well if there was a Fire Emblem game I am sure it would have ENGAGED me, wait, there was the amazing Fire Emblem rom hack Drums Of War. Parrhesia utterly killed it with this take on Fire Emblem. The heart of the story being an emotionally damaged lesbian and the dancer with a big secret who fell for her makes for an utterly captivating romance paired with a real "war is hell" story that really does it's best to show you how fucked all sides of this conflict are until the player finally gets to forge their own path forward. Roxelana and Calista would be among my most favorite Fire Emblem lords if I was ranking them alongside all the lords of the series with both characters being utterly delightful and some charming side characters too like Estrelle. The gameplay itself aired a bit on the harder side to what I like but regardless I had a great time with the majority of maps and by the end of it I think I finally managed to get with the curve of the difficulty even if I wish there was an easier mode.
Cassette Beasts
The soundtrack alone would put this game on this list but luckily it has even more than a soundtrack. The whole cast are really charming, I totally fell for Viola and the other characters all have their own special charms. The game has plenty of faults I talked about in my review of it but despite the flaws of the game basically right until the very end where it massively declined for me this was one of the best games in all of monster tamers for me. The DLC was sadly not so great that came out later in the year but I didn't mind giving the extra money to the devs when the core game was so good. The monster taming is fun, the gameplay feels flexible enough for you to find the niche you like to play in and become really good at that niche, it allows for a lot of flexibility from folks who wanna swap partners all the time to people who will find their favorite characters and monsters and stick with them. I really hope the developers keep moving forward with Cassette Beasts and making new strives forward with their concepts because of all the indie monster tamers I've played this is leaps and strides above the rest.
En Garde!
This extremally short little romp is a compelling experience that is just a little bit longer than your average modern block buster. It's a simple and sweet swash buckling game where you play as a bisexual vigilante woman with a big crush on a sexy pirate woman trying to stop the oppressor of the people's evil schemes. Each chapter is like another adventure of Zoro short and puppy, fun and with ever so slight tension but you know the hero will come up on top. It's a really good experience and it has some great accessibility features for folks with reflex issues like me to still be able to enjoy it. The music is staller, the voice acting is fantastic, it's a great package that instead of padding itself out fills every second with greatness.
Luxaren Allure
I am a massive fan of turn based RPGs, I love getting to look at menus and think about my actions, being able to multitask while I play, enjoy a big juicy narrative and so I was very happy to play a JRPG style experience that's all about lesbians. An amazingly fun concept for a JRPG plot where one woman's beloved whom she chickened out of confessing too gets corrupted by an evil power and she is tasked with being the hero to take her out. This gives the interactions and the end goal a sense of uncertainty, will this be a sad case of tragic yuri, will she find joy with someone else, will she be able to save the woman she loves from this evil power, will she submit to the evil herself to be by her side? Everything feels uncertain with just this little angle added to a fairly typical JRPG formula. All while on the side having an adorable romance between a naga and a human girl giving us the good good lesbian sweetness between the dramatic tension.
Baldur's Gate 3
I am so often the contain, the noted hater but not on this day, nay I say, it was pretty fucking fun. The game is flawed, pretty flawed, like it's got a lot or fantasy racism shit I hate, it's tied to an IP I hate, it's got so many bugs that happened on my own run but if there is one game from this list I will probably think of the most and play the most in 2024 and beyond from this year it's probably this game. The games depth of interactivity, the wide breath of options, and the mods, oh the mods, the many many many mods, this game has so much to do and will for a very long time. It's rare to get a truly great multiplayer game and this game also provides that, this is a fantastic experience for playing online with others and makes for really great runs. Then there is the romances, oh the romances are really great, the girls are all fantastic and the side queers are super brilliant too. It's just a really fun video game and it does a good job exploring trauma and different takes on abusive relationships and overcoming [or succumbing] to them.
Thirsty Suitors
What a fucking great game, while the gameplay is mostly quick time events it does an amazing job of making each aspect of the game feel distinct from each other. While skateboarding in general kinda sucks in this game the combat and cooking all feels really great. Then there is the vocal performances and writing which are all fucking stellar. It's really great to see a fully fleshed out and fully real feeling queer woman who has had messy exes of all genders and has done a lot of fucked up things in her time. Jala's road to redemption with her family and exes all feels really great and this is a special story and I realized sometime after there is some level of variance too that I could have seen if I made some different choices. It's really great and even if it's not a dating sim like I thought it might be it's still a really great little thing. Then you factor in all the cool queer brown people in this game and wow, like I felt so scene by this game like the angry mess Tyler is speaks to my little transbian heart, the high fem lesbian struggle with family that Diya has I could feel echoed in my own life, I just, wow, it was great. I am so happy this game exists and I will likely always see this among the best narratives in all video games.
The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
My game of the year, The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood fucking blew me away. In a shocking twist of fate while I complained about a lot of endings this year I didn't like my original ending for The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood either but then that drove me to go from liking the game to loving it as I ran the game again in spite of it, fueled by spite alone I felt a sense of determination, I would change my fate! This thematic fortune telling game where you make your own cards, help people or end up seeing a fate that only hurts them, I knew how to play it, I knew the systems now, I understood how the cards worked, the truth of my powers and the price I agreed to pay and I'd use all of that to make the happiest fucking story possible for Fortuna aka ME. So I dart through the game, I help the trans woman be herself and happy, I get my hot butch girlfriend, I help everyone out with their life problems crafting only the best cards possible to make sure I can give the best fates possible and then I hit the end point, the time to pay the price. I say no, the game says, you have to, I keep saying no, and then I draw my cards again and shape fate and in that I defied fate, made an ending I could be happy with, a better world for all my fellow witches, and so my story ends with my friends back by my side [probably gonna be a polycule] and a whole lot to look forward to. What a fucking experience, what a cool fucking game.
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It's hilarious seeing my gaming stats because there is a huge hole when dog sports happens then it creeps back up as we slow down on the outdoor sports (September was a break from sports entirely)
Number 1 game for me this year was The Invincible. A short 6-7 hour game based on the book by Stanisław Lem. It was an incredibly compelling story that reminded me of Choose your Own Adventure novels and the movie Mars. Very immersive and is now one of my top favourite games of all time.
Second game was Elite Dangerous. I started this last year with a friend and its just hooked me as a night time wind-down game where for an hour all I do is travel the galaxy. It makes a good activity to do when cleaning or reading as travelling through space includes a lot of waiting. This game got the most hours. I won't say how many, just one hour a night tallies up to a lot.
Third game was Alien Isolation. Which I started 10 years ago and was only able to finish this year because of a godmode mod so I was less frightened of dying and more just frightened of being frightened. It was a terrifying game.
Fourth game was revisiting the Dishonored franchise, simply because it is one of my favourite games and I wanted to try and complete all the achievements. Didn't quite get there, the last 3 are proving very difficult (flipping city trials!). But I did get very good at headshots, for someone who hates combat games.
Fifth game was Palworld, because it’s a cute little game with a little farm I can manage and a world to explore. I appreciate I don’t have to personally do the grinding and can instead focus on just exploring the world. Also that I can use a lance as my go to weapon and ride my pal around wild ones and stab em.
Book wrap up to come tomorrow, as I might finish one of the current books or might not…
