Touch Arcade forums Game of the Year: 2015 Nominations Starting December 21, 2015 and ending December 28, 2015 Participants may nominate up to 10 titles for game of the year; multiple nominations are cool but games nominated should be those that are viewed as THE best game this year or close contenders - not a top 10 count but only your best of the best. If someone nominates more than 10 games or posts nominations twice then only the first 10 will be counted. Nominations will close after December 27, 2015 and the top contenders will be used in a poll for final voting. The voting time frame will be from December 28, 2015 January 4, 2016 with the highest vote count winning. Developers should not nominate or vote for their own games; recruiting outside votes is also uncool please do not vote for your own game or ask Twitter/Facebook/etc to register just to vote. However, no votes/nominations will be disqualified. 2014 Game of the Year Poll: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=249263 Credit to Crex for originating Touch Arcade forums Game of the Year
Touch Arcade forums’ Game of the Week Results [Listing 1st place then 2nd-3rd only if the results were close] January 15: Logic Dots Link January 22: Adventure to Fate Battle Arena Link January 29: Particle Mace Link February 5: Odd Block Out Link February 12: Auro: A Monster Bumping Adventure, Planet Quest Link February 19: Alto’s Adventure Link February 26: Prison Life RPG, Flop Rocket, iNethack 2 Link March 5: Blockshot Revolution, .Decluster: Into Bullet Hell, Blockwick 2 Link March 12: Card Crawl, Pocket Mine 2 Link March 19: Rally Rush Link March 26: Final Fantasy Record Keeper, Star Wars Rebels: Recon Missions Link April 2: The Quest Keeper Link April 9: Implosion - Never Lose Hope Link April 16: Rex Rocket Link April 23: Forgotten Memories, Sorcery 3 Link April 30: Marvel Future Fight Link May 7: Legends of Grimrock Link May 14: Heroes and Castles 2 Link May 22: Drylands, Capitals Link May 28: Sproggiwood, Zombiebucket, Nub’s Adventure Link June 4: You Must Build a Boat, Hitman: Sniper Link June 11: Transistor Link June 18: Xenowerk Link June 25: The Abduction of Bacon at Dawn - the Chronicles of a Brave Rooster, Furdemption Link July 2: The Executive, Heroki Link July 9: Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition Link July 16: Warhammer 40,000: Deathwatch – Tyranid Link July 23: Guardian Sword, Cally’s Cave 3, Pac-Man Collector’s Edition DX Link July 30: Cosmonautica, Race the Sun Link August 6: .Decluster: Bullet Nocturne, Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon Link August 13: Battlestation: Harbringer Link August 20: Horizon Chase - World Tour Link August 27: Lara Croft Go Link September 3: Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville, The Deer God Link September 10: Devastator, Deponia Link September 17: Starseed: Origin, Super Happy Fun Block Link September 25: Land Sliders Link October 1: Storm Casters Ultra Link October 7: Dust: An Elysian Tale Link October 14: Downwell Link October 22: Evil Kineval Link October 29: Templar Battleforce RPG Link November 5: The Room Three Link November 12: Wizards and Wagons Link November 19: Super Dangerous Dungeons Link December 10: Pending, Vote Now Link December 17: Coming Soon, last GOTW 2015
Wow what an AMAZING year of gaming on this all encompassing little iDevice! Will be back to this spot with my noms. Thanks for this thread...
Participants are discouraged from nominating games before all releases of the year have made it in. If you need to make a change to your nominations it's preferred that you edit your original post and not make a second post. Open to feedback on rules/wording in original post and timeframes...
Ugh. I don't think I can decide on just 10 games! This is gonna be so though. There were so many good games this year. All I can say is that WE ARE ALL WINNERS this year! Lol
Pretty much. What i have been doing since the start of the year was create my own growing list, so i have a smaller list to filter through.
Let's get the ball rolling then: HoPiKo Prune Her Story Edit: just noticed that you didn't want noms yet. I'll definitely review my list before the end of the voting period, and I've got a couple if spare slots in case something does blow me away between now and the end of the year. Edit2: Added Rust Bucket as a late contender. Edit3: Decided to prune my list. The other games on my list were games I would consider voting for if these don't make the poll, but not at the same level as these three.
It's probably got be something like don't starve, or one of these premium ones. Downwell was amazing in its pure innovation but hate to say the mobile version came second to the PC version. Not sure about don't starve, only ever played PC version. It'll be exciting who wins!
I got a ton of play out of roller coaster tycoon 3. Although it's a remake so idk haha. I had a lot of fun lately with tiny rogue. Was a huge fan of Knights of pen and paper 2 as well. Roller coaster tycoon 3 Tiny Rogue Knights of pen and paper 2
Particle Mace Alto's Adventure Blokshot Revolution Galactic Nemesis Sword Of Xolan Pac-Man 256 Incurve Sector 1 Land Sliders Super Sharp Domino Drop
Will edit this when I have time to properly pore through everything I've played, but for now I'll add a stop-gap top list from looking at metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/year/ios/filtered). I can already tell there'll be far too many ports. Heroes & Castles 2 Transistor Her Story Five Minutes Before Horizon Chase Downwell Land Sliders Space Marshals Hitman: Sniper Beneath the Lighthouse
Here are my noms for 2015: 1.Cut the Rope:Magic. 2.Lara Croft Go. 3.Beneath the Lighthouse. 4.Inch by Inch. 5.Tilt:Quill's Quandary. 6.Gunbrick. 7.Cobe the Gallery. 8.Super Sharp. 9.Agent Auzzle in disguise. 10.Badland 2. I played 200 games this year out of the more than 100.000 that are released every year, and out of that 200 there are 50 good ones and 10 top games, so can you imagine what a load of crap there is on the Appstore unbelievable. These are all puzzle and puzzle action games my fave genre, a great year for puzzle fans, on to 2016. Happy New Year everybody.
Final Fantasy Record Keeper Dust: An Elysian Tale I Am Bread Heroki Operation Dracula Deer God Radiation Island
The Room 3 Dark Echo Downwell Warhammer 40K: Deathwatch - Tyranid Invasion Geometry Wars 3 Implosion - Never Lose Hope Hero Emblems Lara Croft GO PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX Dragon Quest V
All Touch Arcade 5 star reviews of 2015 Dragon Quest 5 - review Particle Mace - review Radiation Island - review Dark Echo - review Auro: A Monster-Bumping Adventure - review Pinball Acade: The Addams Family - review Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition - review Blokshot Revolution - review Flop Rocket - review .Decluster: Into the Bullet Hell - review Ryan North's To Be Or Not To Be - review Final Fantasy: Record Keeper - review Star Wars Rebels: Recon Missions - review Attack the Light - Steven Universe - review Implosion - Never Lose Hope - review Sorcery! 3 - review Does not Commute - review Test Chamber - review Legend of Grimrock - review Capitals - Free Word Battle - review Grim Fandango Remastered - review Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions - review Chaos Rings 3 review You Must Build A Boat - review Nubs' Adventure - review Xenowerk - review Transistor - review Piloteer - review Furdemption - review The Executive - review Don't Starve - review Cally's Caves 3 - review Pac-Man Championship Edition DX - review Prune - review Angry Birds 2 - review Race The Sun - review Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon - review Operation Dracula - review This War of Mine - review .Decluster Zero - Bullet Nocturne - review Pac-Man 256 - review Galactic Keep - review Horizon Chase - review Sage Solitaire - review Land Sliders - review Mos Speedrun 2 - review Gamebook Adventures 12: Asuria Awakens - review Dust: An Elysian Tale - review Subterfuge - review Downwell - review Five Card Quest - review The Room Three - review
Downwell - Absolute blast in every way, simple to play, but a deep convo system and high skill ceiling makes it set a new bar for me in terms of scrolling action games Grimrock - haven't played that much, mostly because I already know that something of such high quality will suck up too much of my time This War of Mine - I game about war that puts real emotional value on a civilian life Geometry Wars 3 - Addictive, gorgeous, but lacks real change compared to previous titles Horizon Chase - Beautiful Retro Racer, I've lost many a race because I was just staring at the background Implosion - AAA game, great quality and gameplay all around Pac Man CEDX - loved it on PC, pleasantly surprised when it came on iOS, really fun game Altos Adventure - unoriginal, but incredible presentation and fun and simple scroller GOTY will be Downwell imo.
