Shacknews Top 10 Games of the Year 2020

The time has finally come to count down the very best games to be released in 2020. Please take a look at the Shacknews Top 10 Games of the Year 2020.

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There were a ton of great games that didn't make the cut for our Top 10 Games of the Year 2020 list, but we wanted to give them a proper shout out. Here's a list of our honorable mentions in no particular order:

  • Doom Eternal
  • Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2
  • Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
  • Factorio
  • Resident Evil 3
  • Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics
  • Valorant
  • Deep Rock Galactic
  • Demon's Souls
  • Granblue Fantasy VS
  • Genshin Impact
  • Crusader Kings 3
  • Risk of Rain 2
  • Hyrule Warriors
  • Marvel's Avengers
  • Desperados 3
  • F1 2020 
  • Spelunky 2
  • Ori and the Will of the Wisps
  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection
  • Carrion
  • NHL 21
  • Diabotical
  • Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
  • Ghostrunner
  • Huntdown
  • Journey to the Savage Planet
  • SnowRunner
  • Super Mario 3D All-Stars
  • Star Wars: Squadrons
  • Bugsnax
  • Super Mario Bros. 35

And now for the main event...

Shack Staff stories are a collective effort with multiple staff members contributing. Many of our lists often involve entires from several editors, and our weekly Shack Chat is something we all contribute to as a group. 

From The Chatty
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    December 31, 2020 2:00 PM

    Shack Staff posted a new article, Shacknews Top 10 Games of the Year 2020

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      December 31, 2020 2:03 PM

      PGA 2K21 was robbed.

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        December 31, 2020 2:07 PM

        Again, not even the best golf game to come out this year.

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          December 31, 2020 2:10 PM

          You need friends to play your dumb game. Checkmate, atheists.

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            December 31, 2020 2:54 PM

            Golf With Friends has been out! Oh. technically I have played a 2020 game. GOLF WITH YOUR FRIENDS DEFAULT GOTY 2020.

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              December 31, 2020 3:11 PM

              It went 1.0 this year, so it was totally eligible.

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                December 31, 2020 3:49 PM

                Oh. That doesn't change my rankings, but it was one of the highlight games of the quarantine for our group.

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      December 31, 2020 2:50 PM

      Needs more pages. I don’t think I clicked “next” enough.

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        December 31, 2020 2:58 PM

        I kinda like it. It's way too easy to just look at a list and disregard the nuances.

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        December 31, 2020 3:01 PM

        Sorry, it is the one time a year that we use pagination.

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        December 31, 2020 3:46 PM

        I liked it because you had to scroll down past the article to click next page. So you might as well read the article!

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      December 31, 2020 3:43 PM

      For the Chatty crowd,

      YOUR Top 10 influenced this Top 10 quite a bit. It wound up bumping up Hades, The Last of Us: Part II, Ghost of Tsushima, and Cyberpunk 2077 to higher spots on this list.

      Chatty's GOTY vote for Half-Life: Alyx basically cemented it for #1 overall on our list.

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        January 1, 2021 4:08 AM

        That's pretty awesome, thank you

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        January 4, 2021 6:29 AM

        I hadn't been following SoR4 so I didn't realize it was actually as good as it was and thought that maybe we had trashed the list but I feel like, as far as Shacknews goes at least, this is a startlingly accurate list for this year.

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      December 31, 2020 3:55 PM

      I really gotta play Alyx. lol

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      December 31, 2020 9:53 PM

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      December 31, 2020 9:58 PM

      Great list

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      January 1, 2021 4:08 AM

      So good.

      What I would give for a sequel or expansion without having to wait 10 years.

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