I didn't make too much gamedev progress in December between holidays, playing Confounding Calendar games, and the year-end wrapup posts. So I'll do an overall year in review instead.

So now that I've posted the 2022 and 2023 top 10 lists, and my previous years' games I played this year, here's the new one! I'm changing my rule about free games because there were a lot of memorable ones this year.

From this list it looks like I just played puzzle games, but the last list is mostly not. It's more that this was a really strong year overall, and I've been especially keeping up with current puzzle releases so I could follow streams/discussion.

I wanted to make the top 10 post more of its own Thing, so I'm breaking out the pre-2024 list into its own post. So here's the list of pre-2024 games I played for the first time this year and enjoyed enough to recommend:

[Happy Geoffsmas, everyone! This felt like a good day to repost last year's list. Not going to post this year's until later in the month since there are games coming out literally today with a shot at it. Here's one hint, at least: like this year's Geoffs, I'm changing the eligibility rules to let one game in particular in.]

(Originally posted on Cohost December 25, 2023)