One of my favorite parts of this sub used to be the GOTY threads because there’d always be a handful of games that I never heard of that would be passionately championed by just a couple of people, and those games would often go on to be some of my favorites of the year. Last year, I made a thread asking people for their niche recommendations, and I learned about a ton of awesome games. So, I wanted to do that again this year!

Everyone knows about Expedition 33 and Donkey Kong Bananza and Silksong, but what are the titles that you place up there with those titans that everyone else seems to ignore?

For me, it’s got to be Labyrinth of the Demon King. The best way that I can describe it is as a mix of King’s Field and Resident Evil. Like RE, you’re exploring a haunted castle with interconnected rooms, finding key items to use in other locations, solving some light puzzles, and fighting grotesque monsters. The combat is methodical, committal first-person melee …

I know the Emperor is super massive, so it would probably need a much bigger map to really work properly.
But I’ve seen some rumors that the maps we have now were originally part of one giant map, split up later during development.

If that’s true, it might actually be possible to make something like the Emperor work even if it’s just as a rare event or something

What do you think realistic one day, or completely off the table?

I really like it. What do you think guys? Are you ready for the other side?

I have zero assertiveness skills and there’s this one friends who keeps sending me party invitations whenever I log in, I just want to play solo sometimes but I feel like an ass when I ignore/reject ppl 😂 Putting this under meme bc I guess I’m a joke for that lmao