When the game did not get anywhere, but I want to say a few words about it.
This year there were many games worthy of attention. Not everyone had enough “full -fledged” awards, so here we collected twenty more small nominations – especially for those games that our authors would like to note separately.
Oleg Chimde
At first glance, “Tuk-Nick-Night” seems like a simple cavity for five kopecks, but, as in the case of other Ice-Pick Lodge games, appearance is deceiving. A small game about how to manage everything and not get caught on the eyes of the monsters, turns into a complex and unpredictable story about reclusion and solipsism. The house in which the main character lives is not a house at all, but his own mind, and walks in the forest is not a walk, but an attempt to get out of imprisonment in a dungeon of his own thoughts. “Tuk-Nyuk-Nutka” is a box in which not two bottoms are far away.
Andrey Skochok
It is difficult to say what has been holding me for Pokemon Y for more than fifty hours. Either a huge worldwide world, on which you can impoverish a walk, collecting new Pokemon, or space for an almost endless grind that does not bother stubbornly. Probably all at once. Balancing between all the possibilities, you can play for Pokemon for a very long time: until all the monsters are caught, and all the players are online – defeated.
Anton is white
It is difficult to believe, but the massive "cookie" began in 2013. Cookie Clicker, in which it is enough for years to press the same point for years, captured computers, tablets and mobile phones. Thousands of people kill mice, nails and sensory screens daily, to quickly bake a couple more billion digital cookies. We were left aloof from this dubious fun, but it was noted by the nomination.
Anton is white
The hooligan act of the year remained with Platinum Games, masters of shocking and epileptic cat-scenes. And although their Wonderful 101 did not allow herself such wilds as sex with a robot from Saints Row 4, she still enjoyed from the heart – she mocked the mass culture and players left without Bayonetta 2 and received a detachment of hundreds of maniacs in return.
Danil Kalyupa
Card Hunter is an incredibly serious browser that, from the point of view of filling and not a browser at all. One gets the impression that the developers do not think about earnings at all and just try to do interesting. Come in a witty campaign, if you get tired – go to the multiplayer. Fortunately, there are no social little things like "for the invited friend – half a monitor as a gift".
Zakhar Bocharov
Among the Pati-IGR hardcore this year, it is difficult to find something more pierced than Battleblock Theater, where your heroes fall into slavery to Nazis cats and perform in deadly theatrical performances. You can play alone, but the most relish is to get through all the traps with friends, accidentally (or on purpose) pricking them on the spikes, pushing them under the falling stones, protecting them with bodies from enemy fire and arguing their behavior with the innocent “I am not deliberately!".
Stanislav Stepanchenko
Lightning sparkle, streams of water pour from the sky, waves whip through the deck. Swigs with abuse of boatswain, sailors are shouted, and the captain soaked to the thread clung to the helm and with the last forces unfolds the brig with his nose to a huge water shaft ..
I did not expect anything good from the new Assassin’s Creed – and I was mistaken. Here are the most beautiful, most spectacular sea adventures of all that is in video games. It is a pity that the game consists not only of them.
Stanislav Stepanchenko
Monaco is a magicka from a cooperative stealth. Explore the level for half an hour, remember the routes of the movement of the guards, plan the perfect crime ™ … And then someone is sure to get into something and rushed. The siren howls, the police, roar, fingertips, flashes, and grief warriors are running panicky, are panicky, unsuccessfully trying to at least somehow coordinate actions. True, in Magicka, such sluggishness was the basis of gameplay and was encouraged in every way, but here it almost always leads to defeat … but less fun from this does not become.
Stanislav Stepanchenko
A quiet and modest guest with Kickstarter came out unnoticed and became a very pleasant surprise. King’s Bounty mixed with Eador, added a drop of Fire Emblem – and received a real simulator of the expedition commander. The jungle here can be killed as true as the arrow of the native. Between battles you need to solve dozens of household problems. And most importantly – under our command there are not nameless fighters, but living people. With motivation, with beliefs, with their strengths and weaknesses.
Evgeny Baranov
Total War: Rome II is able to delight and terrify at the same time. If you dare not to swing the settings of the graphics to the maximum or spare money for a new video card, they will come for you. Legionnaires of darkness. Their faces are crippled with a crooked code and a rusty dust knife, stuffed into a cooler. Their souls are black, like a soot on a corpse of a burned motherboard. Their views rush through the monitor right on you! And they will rush until you abandon the game to escape to the store of components.
Evgeny Baranov
Donette Starve – “survival” about the hardships of life in the supernatural world, where the hero fights not only with God Odds Casino the world, but also with his own brains. Hard of harsh: night carries death, light leads to salvation, you need to fight with frost, and food should be eaten. There is no need to look for death here – it will come at the most inopportune moment, ignoring all your achievements and successes. And in addition, Don’t Starve is charmingly stylized at once for the animation and dumb horror of the time of the American "dry law".
Rodion Ilyin
Fist of Awesome bribed not only a picture and gameplay from the nineties, but also with bold jokes. Unpleasant rustican, lumberjack Tim Barr, puts his asses of uzurpatra, deer-catfish and visits a strip show with a bear in a bikini, and his speaking fist continuously sprinkles with caustic pearls. It is glorious that on mobile phones this year also found its own Trevor.
Artemy Kozlov
This year, to any independent developer, it was enough to say “we are making a pungent!"To immediately be in trend. The guilty of this, apparently, Spelunky, FTL and The Binding of ISAAC. Among the fashionistas were quite good things – like Risk of Rain. Let it be impossible to play in it for a short-sighted paladin or a magician of a home-X-like wizard (as in Rogue Legacy), but there is a online cooperative and truly different classes. This was enough to make Risk of Rain truly durable.
Artemy Kozlov
The independent duet of Cardboard Computer failed to fit into the schedule “according to the episode in the quarter”, this year only two Kentucky Route Zero series were released, but each of them is an absolutely amazing audiovisual work. Someone will find in these works a mountain of allusions and metaphors, someone will see in the bureau from the second act a parody of office humanity, which has become mired in the bureaucracy … However, Kentucky Route Zero will remain beautiful, even if you cross out any subtext from it.
Artemy Kozlov
Everything is bad. Everything is bad. Everything is just terrible!
If you play only for the sake of fun, it is better not to try the Cart Life – this is a gloomy, causing despondency and, as luck would have it, terribly uncomfortable game. The life of her heroes consists of problems, bad habits and little joys, which is easier to lose a steamed turnip. Cart Life is a poor life simulator. Unique.
Evgeny Peklo
Previously, it happened, you will go out in a pure field, you will wave a grenade launcher – and the guts will fly in all directions. You print the last shortcom for a heavy army boot, take a delicious quote from the film on the last journey – and go, look for the level of cunning secrets in the level. Now you can only dream of such romance, but the Polish Flying Wild Hog fulfills dreams – this year these wizards realized a brilliant game about demons, katana and a plague rubilovo.
Alexander Pushkar
I still guess where in the creators of the new Tomb Raider So much bloodthirstiness. Over the poor Lara, as soon as they do not mock – they drown, drop off the rocks, put on Christmas trees, crush stones. In Crystal Dynamics, they frankly savor this good tradition, which, starts, which has begun in Dangerous Dave 2: if the main character dies, he must do it beautifully and inventively, in blood splashes and terrible torment. Of course, it’s sorry for Lariska, it’s still a girl … But Dexter rejoices in my soul and rejoices.
Andrey Skochok
War Thunder has become the only domestic project that fell into the starting line for new generation consoles. Moreover, in the poor, while the list of games for PlayStation 4, he turned out to be the most long -playing. What if Killzone and Assassin’s Creed 4 have long passed, Knack did not like it, and FIFA is not your genre?.. And so PlayStation 4 does not dust on the shelf in anticipation of new games, but is operated in the tail and in the mane.
Denis Mayorov
This year, survival simulators came into fashion, and in almost each of them the walking dead lit up in one form or another. The best in this field, perhaps, was State of Decay. There is, it seems, everything – skirmishes with the hordes of the dead, a large open world, sorties behind supplies, arrangement of shelter. Drama, after all!
Egor Kuklin
Once upon a time, little green men simply tried to overcome the attraction of their own planet, and now give them grandiose space projects-from shuttles to planetary colonies! Kerbal Space Program gives you a chance to realize children's dreams – for example, fly on your own rocket on the moon. True, no one guarantees that the fruit of design works will not repeat the fate of the Mir station, and much faster.
Over the past year, KSP was enriched with a lot of lotions – a tree of technology, collecting resources, a career regime – and at the same time it is still in the "early access". If she was ready, I would probably immediately fit in some nomination for the top.