Baldur's Gate 3 does a big save-the-world-from-great-evil RPG quest, but it's such a dense tapistry woven from so many threads: companions like a nerdy wizard and an emotionally wounded vampire an assassin woman in a meat dress big brains hags politics talking to cats sentient mushroom civilisations goblins getting tanked multiple murders. It's been a year of very good games, but one did stand out (and not because, disclosure, Adam Smith, the man I killed to get this job, was reincarnated as the lead writer on BG3). It's Baldur's Gate 3! Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Larian StudiosĪlice Bee: Sometimes at RPS we like to swerve expectations by picking an indie game with levels half an hour long and that costs a fiver instead of the biggest game of 2022, and sometimes we swerve the swerve by picking the same Game Of The Year as everyone else. Do I actually have to do a tease for this? Do we not all know what it is? Fine.
Check the main calendar post to see the full list.Īlright folks, it's time for our actual Game Of The Year reveal. It's the most wonderful time of the year, the RPS Advent Calender 2023! Each day reveals a new favourite game from this year, leading up to our GOTY.
