140: Game of the Year 2017

Join us as we finally put 2017 out of its misery! It was a great year for games, if nothing else, and we’re rounding up our favorite short- and non-short-games of 2017. Our Game(s) of the year: 117: Night in the Woods
 129: Pyre Other Games Mentioned: 139: Reigns – Her Majesty
 135: IFComp 2017 pt. 1
 131: Tacoma
 132: Sonic Mania 122: What Remains of Edith Finch 116: Linelight 123: The Sexy Brutale 114: Puyo Puyo (Series) 133: Nex Machina Past GOTY episodes: 110: Game of the Year 2016 70: Game of the Year 2015 29: Game of the Year There were a lot of great games in 2017 that we missed, some of which we hope to cover soon. Here’s our list: Dream Daddy Doki Doki Literature Club Butterfly Soup Gorogoa Rakuen West of Loathing Universal Paperclips Bury Me My Love A Normal Lost Phone/Another Lost Phone Four Last Things Last Day in June Heat Signature Everything Blackwood Crossing Monument Valley 2 Framed 2 Hidden Folks Nidhogg 2 Emily is Away Too Finding Paradise (To the Moon sequel) And a few games we’re looking forward to in 2018: Donut County Manifold Garden Dreams Florence Moss WATTAM The Room: Original Sin The Wolf Among Us Season 2 You can follow our show on Twitter at @_shortgame Like the show? Support us by writing a review on iTunes! Your hosts this year were: Raygan Kelly – @raygank Shane Kelly – @8bitShane Nate Heininger – @natestl Laura Nash – @laurajnash (04:28) - Night in the Woods (14:23) - Pyre (21:06) - Other great short games of 2017 (40:49) - Non-Short GOTYs (57:14) - Listener Responses and Games We Missed (01:09:43) - Looking forward to 2018