The 2020 Destructoid Community Game of the Year is… [Destructoid]

It’s easy to say that 2020 was a hell of a troubling year. So I’ll do just that. 2020 was a hell of a troubling year. Not only did we have the hell of another US presidential election to deal with, but on top of that, there was a pandemic and complete severance of any type of life outside the house. With all of us being told to stay home, it was obvious that video games would rise to the forefront of our entertainment.
While there were many delays and one game that should have continued to be delayed, we got a ton of great games over the past year. So we put it to you, the community, to vote on what you thought was the greatest game of the year. There were nearly a thousand legal votes cast and the vote reached far beyond that of our little community here and brought in more of the gaming community at large.
As always I’ve asked some of the community and staff to write a little bit about what the game meant to them over the year, this both gives us multiple accounts of the year and also covers for me having only played two of the feature five games.
Without any further pomp and circumstance, let’s get to the Destructoid community’s top five games.

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