My GOTY in this year filled to the brim with the best games of all time. I say this about a lot of things but god genuinely there wasnt a single minute of this game where I didnt think that it wasnt a pure work of genius.

I went through their backcatalog VERY fast but never have I trusted a developer/writer combo more than Remedy and Sam Lake.

Also as a Finnish person i just outright cannot state just how fucking amazing was it to see a work of fiction of this scope celebrate being Finnish as brazenly as Alan Wake 2. The entire game was filled with a bunch of scenery, jokes and memoribilia that could have been taken right from a small Finnish town with a major cabin population.

This game is just a pure masterpiece of wonder that's worth playing every single game that lead up to it.