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So we arrive at the third and final part of my 2023 in gaming. Another classic year for my gaming habit, an even more classic year for compiling lists of games played that year. Indeed as I've come to the end of this year and reflect upon my gaming in general I feel like I am in some way on top of it for the first time in ages. Oh I'm sure there are still games from the last decade I've been meaning to get around to for ages but they are definitely becoming a rarer sight in my various game libraries. Heck I even played a game on the fabled 'Day 1' I hear so much about this past autumn, imagine that? So hip, so cutting edge, any further ahead of the curve and this may become the first blog to travel in time. So what about those games eh?

Wasting no time and taking no prisoners let's dive into the second part of my 2023 in gaming. The dizzying highs, the subterranean lows, the odd bit in the middle. Truly I am a man of many seasons but only so many games. We got platformers, we got RPG's, we got beat em ups, we have whatever Hypnospace Outlaw was exactly? Indeed we have it all, let's crack on...

It is that time once again! As the clock ticks down to years end, triggering a wave of reflections and retrospectives not entirely dissimilar to the one you're reading now. My free time is a precious thing and as such I've tried to be a little discerning in choosing what games to play this year. Nonetheless my game time eventually expanded to over 50+ games in 2023. Some of the below are large games, some are small, in fact I daresay most of them fit the latter more than the former. I have cleared a whole bunch of stuff that has been on my radar for years now so in that sense I feel it was time well spent. What did I play and what did I think of it? Read on...