- Persona 5 Royal (Switch version)
I already spent like 200 hours with the PS4 version but I bought it on Switch and played all the way through it again because I'm a weirdo. I'm currently on a new game plus so I can fuse the one last persona that you can only get that way. - Dwarf Fortress
Recency bias might be a factor here, but I've been having a lot of fun with Dwarf Fortress, not only playing it, but writing up my progress in it and also hearing other people's stories about it. I'm actually still bumbling through my first attempt at a fortress starting from the tutorial, but I'm kind of looking forward to starting a new one now that I have a better idea of what I'm doing. - AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative
I didn't find this quite as memorable as the first one, but it's still pretty good, and I still can't get that damned song out of my head. Perhaps even more memorable than the game for me was hanging out in the Uchikoshi Discord leading up to its release and watching the chaos of the promotional ARG. - Last Call BBS
The 20th Century Food Court game in this is probably my favorite Zachtronics game. For whatever reason, it just clicked with me in a way that some of the more abstract ones haven't. But I also spent a lot of time with the solitaire game (not the one that everybody likes; the other one). - Splatoon 3
aka Locker Decorating Simulator 2022. I had basically the same experience with this one as the previous two Splatoons, where I played a lot of it at first and then dropped off precipitously, but I enjoyed my time with it. The lockers are my favorite part. - Norco
Pretty neat, strange adventure game that reminded me of the area where I grew up, for better or worse. - Soul Hackers 2
I still haven't actually finished this, but I was having a reasonably good time with it until I got distracted by other things. I want to go back to it. That being said, both the story and the battle system feel a little half-baked... or maybe just kinda low-budget compared to Persona or mainline Shin Megami Tensei. But it's cool to see demons like Mad Gasser and Turbo Granny in 3D for the first time, not to mention the various "shaved ice" flavors of Jack Frost. - American Truck Simulator The Texas DLC came out (and also maybe Montana? I think that was this year), and they had World of Trucks events for Halloween and Christmas and I participated in both. I continue to enjoy this game.
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses
I played through the Golden Deer route when this game first came out, but this year I went back and played through one of the Black Eagles ones and part of the Blue Lions one. It's pretty good. - Coffee Talk
I bought this after the untimely death of its writer, Fahmi. I didn't think it would really be my kind of thing, but I actually ended up liking it a lot. It was also one of the first things I played on Steam Deck and was very well suited to that.
Honorable mention: Kirby and the Forgotten Land. It was fun and I don't have anything bad to say about it, but I didn't remember that it came out this year until after I was done with the list.