We posted this last year following all of our game of the year and best game stuff, but here is the original whole list of games that served as the foundation of the discussion of what should be our Game of the Year, Runner Up, Honorable Mention, and the subsequent Best 25 Games of 2014. People like to point out things we "missed" in the comment threads of those stories, but if there was a game worth considering that came out in the last year that isn't in this list I'm not sure what it would be: 80 Days 99 Bricks A Dark Room Across Age 2 Adventure Beaks Air Supply SOS Aliens Drive Me Crazy Almightree Alone Anomaly Defenders Astro Duel Banner Saga Bardbarian Battle Riders Battle Supremacy Battleheart Legacy Beach Buggy Racing Bean Dreams Bitcoin Billionaire Blackmoor Blek Block Fortress: War Block Legend Bloo Kid 2 Boom Beach Botanicula Bug Heroes 2 Calculords Cally's Caves 2 Candy Crush Soda Saga Card City Nights Card Wars - Adventure Time Cardinal Quest 2 Castle Doombad Castle Raid 2 CastleStorm - Free to Siege Caveman Pong Checkpoint Champion Civilization Revolution 2 Clarc Cosmic Crown CounterSpy Crossy Road Crystal Siege HD Daddy Long Legs Darkin David. Dawn of the Plow Deep Loot Deep Under The Sky Devious Dungeon dEXTRIS Disco Zoo Dodo Master Doug Dug. Drift 'n' Drive Dudeski Eliss Infinity Fates Forever Flappy Golf FlapThulhu Fly Catbug, Fly! Football Heroes: Pro Edition Fotonica Framed FTL: Faster Than Light Galcon 2 Game of Thrones - a Telltale Game Series Gemeni Strike Ghost Blade Glorkian Warrior: The Trials of Glork Goat Simulator Goblin Sword Godfire Groundskeeper2 Guardians of the Galaxy Hail to the King: Deathbat Hearhtstone Helix Hellraid: The Escape Hitman GO Hodappy Bird Hoplite Inferno 2 Jack B. Nimble Jet Car Stunts 2 Joe Danger Infinity JoyJoy Kairobotica KeroBlaster KeroBlaster/Pink Hour Kingdom Rush Origins Kiwanuka Leo's Fortune Magic 2015 Marvel Contest of Champions Metal Slug Defense Micromon Mikey Boots Mines of Mars Modern Combat 5: Blackout Monster Hunter Freedom Unite Monster Strike Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake Monument Valley Motorsport Manager Mr. Particle Man NBA 2K15 Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath Only One Only One OTTTD Out There PAKO - Car Chase Simulator Papers, Please Pixa Pixel Boat Rush PowerPuff Girls: Defenders of Townsville Pumped BMX 2 Puzzle to the Center of the Earth Random Heroes 3 Rapture: World Conquest Reckless Racing 3 Retry Ridge Racer Slipstream Robots Love Ice Cream Rocket Robo Rules! Seabeard Second Chance Heroes Shadow Blade Shadow Fight 2 Shattered Planet Shoot the Moon Skater Skullduggery! Sky Force 2014 Skylanders Trap Team Sleep Attack TD Smarter Than You Smash Hit Sneaky Sneaky Soccer Physics Sometimes You Die Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Space Age Space Expedition: Classic Adventure Spider-Man Unlimited Spooklands Star Horizon Star Realms Stealth Sunburn! Super Glyph Quest Super Splatform SuperPro Snowboarding Swing Copters Table Tennis Touch Tactics Maiden Tales from the Borderlands Tales of the Adventure Company Talisman Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tengami Terra Battle The Firm The Journey Down: Chapter 2 The King of Fighters '98 The Nightmare Cooperative The Sailor's Dream The Sleeping Prince The Taekwondo Game - Global Tournament The Wolf Among Us Threes! Tilt to Live: Gauntlet's Revenge Tiny Space Adventure Tiny Tower Vegas Toast Time Transworld Endless Skater Traps n' Gemstones Turbo Dismount Uncanny X-Men: Days of Future Past Unpossible Vainglory Valiant Hearts: The Great War VVVVVV Wave Wave Wayward Souls Wind-Up Knight 2 World of Tanks Blitz WWE SuperCard XCOM: Enemy Within Yomi Zombie Highway 2
Where's Panzer Corps, Battle Academy 2, Magnifico, Qvadriga, Autumn Dynasty Warlords, and the many other strategy/board games? Obviously TA has a weak spot.
Also Battlelore Command, The Witcher Adventure Game, Sentinels of the Multiverse, and many others. I just don't have the time to list them all.
Desert Golfing. Desert Golfing. Desert Golfing. Desert Golfing. Desert Golfing. Desert Golfing. And Desert Golfing.
More Desert Golfing love in the Guardian (and other stuff too including TxK) http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/30/destiny-threes-and-hohokum-game-developers-on-the-best-of-2014 I'll now scour the right wing press in order to see what to avoid.
I was going to suggest adding these to the Under the Radar thread, but it seems like the So Bad ... That its Good list might be in order.