Game of the Year 2023. We played Baldur's Gate 3, Fallout, Hades, Colony Ship and Many others!

06:31 – Character Creation & Character Progression
10:19 – Gameplay
17:05 – Story & Lore
22:26 – Companions Lorewise
25:52 – Companions Gameplaywise
29:35 – Secondary Mechanics & UX
32:44 – Sound Effects & Mix
35:02 – Music
39:31 – Voice Acting
41:10 – Graphics
44:28 – Performance & Stability
45:27 – GOTY
My, my… this has been a year for the Old and the New.
And we are here to celebrate all of them! So Welcome to Ye Old Entertainment’s Game of the Year Award.
For this list we take into account every game that we’ve played and covered here on the channel (spoiler… not all of them are RPGs). Many of them came out this year, but many more have been around for a long time. That means that we have everything, from timeless classic video games to BG3, from card battlers to CRPGS, from greek mythology to space sci-fi.
So just so that you know what you are dealing with… these are the games that we played and covered in 2023:
-Hades
-Inscryption
-Wildermyth
-King Arthur: A Knight’s Tale
-Lost Eidolons
-Monster Train
-Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
-Fallout
-Fallout 2
-Mahokenshi
-Deliverance & Reign
-Baldur’s Gate 3
-Everspace 2
-Deus Ex
-Dark Envoy
-Moonring
-WarTales
-Star Traders: Frontiers
-Vagrus: The Riven Realms
-Death Roads Tournament

And these are the categories
-Character Creation & Character Progression
-Gameplay
-Story & Lore
-Companions Lorewise
-Companions Gameplaywise
-Secondary Mechanics & User Experience
-Sound Effects and Mix
-Music
-Voice Acting
-Graphics
-Performance & Stability
This time we got a couple of new categories for you:
-Game of the year that ACCCCCKTUALLLY came out this year
-And The big one of course… Game of the Year.

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