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  • Game of the Year 2013 – Kentucky Route Zero
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    Game of the Year 2013 – Kentucky Route Zero

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    Have you ever wondered what it would be like to play a game inside a dream? That's exactly what Kentucky Route Zero feels like. Everything is normal, except it's not. Everything makes sense, except it doesn't. Context ceases to apply. Every bit of strangeness is met with a mix of hesitation and acceptance.You're in an office building that seems to be both inside and outside simultaneously. The third floor is populated solely by bears. Yet all the while, business as usual is being conducted. People are at their desks. Proposals are being looked over. There's a receptionist who insists you jump through the necessary red tape before seeing someone. Moments like this are what Kentucky Route Zero is made of: that strange sense that lives inside of dreams, where no matter how fantastic the elements at play may seem in retrospect, they're merely unsettling at the time - like puzzle pieces that don't quite fit.It helps that you're not the only one that feels this way. Conway and Shannon, the game's protagonists, seem to share this mixed sense of unease and acceptance. And as unsettling as it all is, it's also quite beautiful. Kentucky Route Zero is a game that capture a familiar feeling that I've never seen another medium successful recreate. I suppose the closest comparison might be a David Lynch film, but even those fall short by comparison.
  • The Best Games of 2013: #5-#2
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    The Best Games of 2013: #5-#2

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    When you get this deep into a year-end countdown, you're starting to look at the best of the best. Everything on today's list, without exception, was a serious contender for Game of the Year. And while none of them snagged that brass ring in the end, there's no denying it: these are some of the best games that 2013 had to offer. If you only play five games from 2013, this is where to start.Of course, if you're looking to play even more than that, be sure to check out our previous best of picks for the year, which you can find at these handy links: #20-#16, #15-#11, #10-6, and +13.
  • The Best Games of 2013: #10-#6
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    The Best Games of 2013: #10-#6

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    There were so many terrific games in 2013. SO MANY. It was incredibly tough to nail down our top 10. Almost everything you've seen so far in our picks for #20-#16, #15-#11 and even the +13 were all in consideration for the hallowed halls of 'ten'nery. Even some games that didn't even make our top 20+13.In the end we knew that our top 10 had to meet some pretty tough criteria. Maybe they were original; the sort of thing we've never seen before. Maybe they were impeccable; the absolute top of their game, with no competitor even coming close. Most importantly though, these were the games that stuck with us. They games we kept playing month after month or, if not that, that we've never stopped bringing up in conversation. These are the games from 2013 that we're going to remember.
  • The Best Games of 2013: #15-#11
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    The Best Games of 2013: #15-#11

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    If you thought our picks for #20-#16 were great, wait until you see what we've picked to outrank them. Today's best of list features a healthy mix of puzzling, strategy, timing, and… zombies? Oh well - I suppose it wouldn't be a video game top 20 without a little zombie in there. After all, our 2012 Game of the Year was all about them!As we count down our favorite games of the year, we'd love for you to play along at home. Like our picks? Trying something new based on our recommendations? Have a "best of 2013" list of your own? Be sure to let us know in the comments.
  • The Best Games of 2013: 20+13 Edition
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    The Best Games of 2013: 20+13 Edition

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    If 2013 proved anything to us, it's this: video games get better every year. For our year-end retrospective, we decided that we'd try something different this year: we'd pick the top 20 games from everything we covered this year to select the very best.But the list was too good to contain it to just twenty games.So with the year 2013 coming to a close, we thought it fitting to select the best 20+13 games. We're still going to count down the top twenty - but before we do, we wanted to mention thirteen tremendously good games that were deserving of your attention this year. They didn't quite make the top 20, but if there's a single game in our +13 you've missed, now's the time to fix that.
  • The Best Games of 2013: #20-#16
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    The Best Games of 2013: #20-#16

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    We kicked off our best of the year coverage a little early with our special +13 Edition yesterday, but if you're looking for the real meat and potatoes of this countdown, it begins here.We reviewed nearly a thousand games in 2013. That's a staggering number no matter how you slice it. But of the thousand or so games we looked at, only twenty could rise to the top and be called best of the year. (well… 20+13, but you already knew that, right?)But enough jibber jabber. Let's kick things off right. Here are our picks for #20-#16.