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The Fancies 2021: The Big Fanbyte Game of the Year 2021 Roundup

We finally did it. We killed another year — 2021 this time — and now laugh and dance on its atemporal corpse. Its reign of tyranny is over and now we feast… on some very good video games. Specifically, we’re taking a look at Fanbyte Game of the Year 2021…

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The Fancies 2021: Steven Strom’s Game of the Year List

Another year, another landslide of problems to try and escape in the world of video games. I won’t go too deep on just how hard 2021 has been. I edited most of our end-of-year pieces by my coworkers. They already did a much better job of encompassing the struggles we…

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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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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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The Fancies 2021: LB Hunktears’ Games of the Year

Game of the Year, Period, 2021: Wildermyth The reason Wildermyth is my game of the year is pretty simple: it does nothing I don’t like. It’s beautifully balanced. Tonally, it’s the perfect fantasy adventure game — the stakes feel high, but not stressfully so. Sad things happen, and they feel…

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The Fancies 2021: merritt’s Top 10 Games of the Year

Games! Oh my god, games. These games rule. 10. Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective Were you into Where’s Waldo books as a kid? Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective is like one of those come to life — in fact, it’s an adaptation of a Japanese series of books with a similar premise…

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The Fancies 2021: Kenneth Shepard’s Favorite Games That Weren’t Mass Effect

Gosh, 2021 is much harder to define for me than last year. 2020 was full of turmoil, and grief, but it was also a year of putting myself back together and coming out stronger on the other side. Now that 2021 is ending, there are a lot of things that…

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Wildermyth, Which Should Probably Be On Your Game of the Year List, Will Come to Switch After a Year or So

If you don’t know what Wildermyth is, you’re probably missing out. The RPG strategy game has an overwhelmingly positive user rating on Steam and is on quite a few Game of the Year lists here at Fanbyte. For some people, the PC can present somewhat of a barrier for playing a…

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Wildermyth Transformations Guide – All Transformations & How They Work

Wildermyth is an RPG all about options and decisions. You will often see your heroes grow and change together through the course of adventures. But at times, the possibility to transform them forever will appear, leading to all sorts of consequences. This guide covers how transformations work and the full…

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Wildermyth Romance & Relationships Guide – Benefits List, Marriage, & Children

Relationships play a big role in Wildermyth, allowing for the characters you bring to each adventure to develop and grow together, either ending up in marriage or rivalries. This element can have lasting effects both inside and outside combat, so it is vital to know how it works beforehand. This…

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