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Taylor Hicklen Dec 31, 2021. 4 minute read
The Fancies 2021: Fanbyte Community Picks
Community Picks include any game that prominent members of our community enjoyed this year, regardless of release date, genre, or format! (They’re really good, too. Last year’s list introduced me to some of my new favorites.) These goofballs genuinely made my year. Thanks to everyone who read, watched, kicked my ass…
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John Warren Dec 29, 2021. 8 minute read
The Fancies 2021: John Warren’s Top 10 Games of the Year
In a year I promised myself I’d play more Final Fantasy XIV to prepare for Endwalker, I ended up playing everything besides the best MMO on the market today. It’s not that XIV isn’t great, nor that I don’t want to see it to its magnificent conclusion. It’s more that…
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Nicholas Grayson Dec 28, 2021. 9 minute read
The Fancies 2021: Niki’s Normal and Regular Game of the Year List
I spent my last night as a 25-year-old weeping on the floor. The floor is an underrated place to cry, imo. You can just kind of writhe there and not hit anything. The rug that I wept on used to sit under my coffee table and couch in LA. It…
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Danielle Riendeau Dec 24, 2021. 8 minute read
The Fancies 2021: Danielle’s Top Games of 2021
Content warning for a mention of a COVID 19-related death in this article. I’ve been writing about video games professionally since 2006. I’ve done it full-time since early 2013, when I joined the staff at Polygon, and I think this is the first time since then I haven’t had a…
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Natalie Flores Dec 23, 2021. 8 minute read
The Fancies 2021: Natalie Flores’ Game of the Year List
2021 has often been pretty terrible, but at least it’s been a fantastic year for video games. I genuinely mean that. Video games are in some way tied to every source of happiness I’ve had throughout the last 12 months. That they’ve had such a spectacular year, offering plenty of…
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Nerium Jun 15, 2021. 2 minute read
The Gorgeous Indie Game Sable is Nothing Like I Expected
Sable, an absolutely beautiful upcoming indie game about traversing a brightly colored desert, got a surprising demo this week. I don’t just mean “surprising” in that we didn’t know it was coming. I mean it actually served the purpose of a demo — teaching me more about the game than…
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Natalie Flores Jan 3, 2021. 13 minute read
You Should Be Excited For These 20 Indie Games Coming Out in 2021
New year, new me writing a list of indie games I am excited to see more of and play. If there’s something that helped me get through all the hardships of 2020, it’s the many video games I loved — over half of which were indie games. It’s getting increasingly…
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