Path of Exile came out in 2013 from taoaxue's blog

Zelda: Breath of the Wild

This is my Game of the Year, easily. This isn't an ordered list, but BotWwas just unlike anything else. I am vehemently against most open world titles, yet here I am, with an open world title as my GOTY. I simply cannot spend enough time in this world, exploring every single nook and cranny. In fact, I get frustrated with every other game that doesn't include a parasail to make elevation changes 100,000 times easier to POE currency trade explore. Again, nothing to add here that others haven't said a million times over. Zeldais better than it has ever been, and once again re-invented a genre.

Persona 5

To be honest, I wasn't all in on Persona 5early on. Persona 4is easily one of my favorite games of all time, and the sequel simply didn't capture me in the same way from the get-go. But oh man, over time, I grew to love everything about it. Well, except Mementos. I get why it's there, but I hated every single time that I had to waste a day and explore it. But the blending of JRPG and Social Sim has never been better, and many of my weekends were dominated by Persona 5. I would go out on my weekend run (I was training for a marathon), and come back feeling drained. So I would just grab a Gatorade, plop into my Bunjo, and boot up the PS3.

Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

Fuck this game and everything about it.

Path of Exile

Path of Exile came out in 2013, but with the release of the expansions Fall of Oriath, which more than doubled the amount of story content, and War for the Atlas, which completely revamped the end-game content, this more than deserves a spot on this list. It also released on consoles, and it's not completely terrible! I likely spent more time in PoEthis year than I did when it first released; I fell in love all over again. A few friends and I dove deep into the mechanics and really got swept away buy Path of exile currency. We even randomly selected skill gems and challenged each other to build a comprehensive build around them. Even now, as I make my way through the game once again in the newest Breach League, I find myself discovering new things that I absolutely love. I don't think I will ever grow tired of trying to build an elaborately precise passive tree for wacky builds that I go for.