67. Draglade [Nintendo DS, 2007, brawler]
Clear time (Guy's story): 3h 45m

I played this solely to see the Shroud Lord (from Distorted Travesty) in his original context.
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66. Z.A.T.O. I Love the World and Everything In It [PC, 2025, visual novel]
Reading time: 5h 6m

A fairly engaging, short kinetic novel. Nice visuals and great sound design/music. It's free, so no harm in checking it out yourself.
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65. Skigill [PC, 2025 (early access), survivors-like]
Clear time (all current achievements): 9h 54m

A decent survivors-like at a cheap price, though it doesn't really do that much different from the rest
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Currently at 64 for this year, probably somewhere similar for last year

64. [DE:]Fanastasis [PC, 2024, turn-based RPG]
Clear time (true end/no postgame): 37h 30m

One of the best JRPG's I've ever played by far, thanks to the highly freeform exploration and interesting story.
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63. Hades II [PC, 2025, action roguelike]
Clear time (credits): 23h 52m

tl;dr it's fun, and better than Hades 1 in a lot of ways, but ultimately not THAT much different in terms of raw gameplay
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61. Type-Noise: Shonen Shojo [PC, 2025, visual novel]
Clear time: 19h 49m

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For Silksong's combat, I really respect that they didn't give you an iframe dash; you end up having to pay attention to your positioning a lot rather than just pressing the dodge button for every attack.

(Nine Sols is also great though)

Distorted Travesty 3! Pretty challenging freeware action platformer

The power of having a non-silent protagonist with a cool personality

If I were to nitpick, the only real "issue" is that the game probably didn't need so many fetch quests; looking for people is fine, hunting down 25 random items drops is less fine. There were also some visibility issues on some bosses but it's not really that big a deal.

60. Hollow Knight: Silksong [PC, 2025, metroidvania]
Clear time (true end): 35h 49

Excellent game, superior to Hollow Knight in every way. Hornet feels great to control, the world is vast and expansive, and many of the bosses and enemy arenas actually put up a decent fight! Solid art and music too.

59. Dungeon Warfare III [PC, 2025, tower defense]
Clear time (all main maps Flawlessed): 11h 12m

Pretty decent tower defense game. The difficulty balance is a bit weird, but they're updating stuff every day so it makes sense. Nice game to chill with.

58.5. Hollow Knight
Clear time (two bosses): 51m

Back when I first played Hollow Knight I was a lot worse at games, so I never actually beat the Radiance or Nightmare King Grimm. Luckily, going back to beat them didn't really take any time at all. Nice fights though

a bit annoying, so I sort of just stopped instead of running around the entire map again. I've seen plenty of people talk up the difficulty, but I didn't really have any issues; the generous checkpointing makes things a lot easier. Also shoutout to instant retry on bosses instead of runbacks!!!!