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Starting to put together a list of good games from 2026 since it's getting closer and closer to the end of the year. Nintendo's had a hell of a year, huh? Like I'm not even a Fire Emblem guy but it's easy to imagine Top 10 lists with three or four Nintendo releases on it.

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Splatoon Raiders is my surprise of the year. Played over 40 hours. It's a nearly perfect striped down looter. Short levels, constant loot, lots of build options, and a nearly endless endgame.

Apparently the only games I played this year from 2026 were Retro Rewind, Cairn and Star Wars: Zero Company. Big end of the year with Control Resonant and Silent Hill Townfall. My most played time is going to be in something dumb like Satisfactory.

I've got a couple games that I haven't played yet that I think will probably end up on my list. Right now I think I'm at Finished: Star Wars Zero Company 007 First Light Pragmata Cairn Started: Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter Esoteric Ebb Fields of Mistria Palworld

Not started, but owned and hopefully list worthy: Control Resonant Ace Combat 8 Final Fantasy Resonance Zero Parades: For Dead Spies Incident at Galley House Mina the Hollower Perfect Tides: Station to Station Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave

It's hard to make a personal top 10 list when I probably only finish like, 12 or so games that release in a given year, lol. It ends up being less "what are the best games this year" and more "what games did I play this year."

despite 35 years of being maybe 80 percent of a full on dan style nintendo fanboy I just havent enjoyed any of their stuff since odyssey (except metroid prime 4, that was fine)

I still chuckle at everyone freaking out on the Switch 2 $449 launch price, and now at $500 that thing looks like a bargain compared to what Sony and Microsoft offer.