My Year In Review of Gaming for 2023.

 My gaming experience this year has been pretty exciting. I have to confess that few of them were cracked, but most of them were either from Steam, Epic Game Store and Amazon Prime Gaming. Most of the games, I got for free, thanks to the free game giveaway on Epic Store, and monthly free games on Amazon Prime Gaming.

Steam Year In Review - 2023

I'll list the games I played and finished this year:

1. Dishonored - Definitive Edition

I got this game on epic store for free. I had heard good things about this game, and so I wanted to check it out for myself. I had absolute blast playing this game, specially for the power-ups and sneaky kills I got to execute. Thanks to the aspect of good blood and goriness in kills, I kept coming back to the game, and completed it.

Rating

Story - 9/10

Combat - 9/10

Blood and Gore - 10/10

Overall - 9/10

2. Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

Any Wolfenstein game, it's a winner for me. I am totally biased towards Wolfenstein series. The game, as usual, was nerve-wrecking, with it's necessarily stealth aspects, which meant waiting and executing moves that were crucially dependent on time and speed. It was kind of scary too, which is, again, a common thing we see in a game like Wolfenstein.

Rating

Story - 10/10

Combat - 10/10

Blood and Gore - 10/10

Boss Fights - 10/10

Overall - 10/10

3. Wolfenstein: The New Order

Again, absolutely loved this game. Had a blast killing the Nazis. Story was nice as well in this game. The boss fights were too scary, thanks to the ferocious looking bosses. I'll remember this game, because I started playing it on the night before my 

Quantum Mechanics semester exam ;).

Rating

Story - 10/10

Combat - 10/10

Blood and Gore - 10/10

Boss Fights - 10/10

Overall - 10/10

4. The Evil Within

This was a weirdly beautiful game. At first, it was all confusing, but later on, everything made sense (at least, it seemed like it made sense). So many questions unanswered, super confusing story line. Overall, it was a scary game, with it's dystopian world feeling. The boss fights were extremely difficult, but in the end it was worth it.

Rating

Story - 9/10

Combat - 8/10

Blood and Gore - 8/10
Boss Fights - 10/10

Overall - 8/10

5.  Dying Light: Enhanced Edition

I never thought that zombie game would be this fun to play. Dying Light will be remembered by me for the entirety of my life. It was seriously good. I have to admit that most of the things were kind of repetitive, but apart from that, the boss fights were nice, and the challenging tasks were really challenging. Night time in the game was really where the action was at (even thought I didn't manage to explore the map at night, because it got crazy with dangerously aggressive and fast running zombie-alien creatures)

Rating

Story - 8/10

Combat - 10/10

Blood and Gore - 10/10

Overall - 9/10 

6. Doom (2016)

 This game had always been in my radar for a long time, ever since it was released back in 2016. Totally fun, filled with blood, aliens, gore, fight, scary boss fights. Similar to Wolfenstein, I am totally biased towards Doom. No doubt, the story in the game was awesome.

Rating

Story - 10/10

Combat - 10/10

Blood and Gore - 10/10

Boss Fights - 10/10

Overall - 10/10

7. Doom Eternal

Just like 2016 Doom, this was super fun too. It did meet all my expectations I looked forward to in a game like Doom. End boss fight was very nicely designed. Overall it was a very nice experience.

I had this game in my radar ever since I saw this E3 trailer for Doom Eternal.

Rating

Story - 10/10

Combat - 10/10

Blood and Gore - 10/10

Boss Fights - 10/10

Overall - 10/10

8. Payday 2

If you like games that include robbery, heist etc. you might like this. Initially, playing the game was fun, but it got repetitive super fast. But, I did complete the career mode in the game. The multiplayer aspect of the game is nice, tagging along with 3 other people, completing objectives, and getting hefty cash at the end.

Rating

Story - 5/10

Combat - 7/10

Blood and Gore - 7/10

Overall - 7/10

9. Phasmophobia

 This is a ghost hunting single/multiplayer game. The game is really-really fun and scary at the same time. Really scary if played alone, and very funny if played along with friends.

Rating

Overall - 8/10

10. Destiny 2

This is the game I spent most of my time on, nearly 60 % of the time I spent on games in Steam. My brother recommended to try this game out. This is a nice game to be played with friends or family. You can get exotic weapons, skins, spaceship when completing missions and getting the drop loot. There are seasonal challenges as well. The lore is really complex, and I haven't even begun to understand it yet.

Rating

Lore - 9/10

Combat - 10/10

Boss Fights - 10/10

Overall - 10/10

11. Dishonored 2

 

 

I played this sequel of dishonored 1 after a very long time I completed the first one. The graphics were almost the same, this time we got to choose one among two characters to play as the protagonist. The combat, kills etc. were similar to the first one, and the story was nice. 

Rating

Lore - 9/10

Combat - 9/10

Blood and Gore - 9/10

Overall - 9/10