The weather outside is frightful, but the gaming is so delightful! This month we take stock of our favourite games of 2019. Stay tuned for Old Man Steve's Grinch List, Milos' bizarrely dark, post-apocalyptic Favourite Game of All Time, and Pix's agony in this month's MindGames game.

Today's Games (in order of appearance):

Pokemon Sword & Shield (Game Freak)

Dragon Quest (Square Enix)

Lisa the Painful (Dingaling Productions)

Final Fantasy: Tactics Advance (Square Enix)

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark (6 eyes studio)

Wildermyth (Worldwalker Studios)

Fire Emblem (Intelligent Systems)

Greed Corp (W! Games)

Stardew Valley (Eric Barone, Sickhead Games)

Harvest Moon (Amccus)

Factorio (Wube Software)

House Flipper (Empyrean)

Battletech(Harebrained Schemes)

Return of the Obra Dinn (Lucas Pope)

Doom (2016, id software)

Rimworld (Ludeon Studios)

MindGames Games:

Stardew Valley (Eric Barone, Sickhead Games)

Elder Scrolls Online (ZeniMax Online Studios)

Cities: Skylines (Paradox Interactive)

Stellaris (Paradox Interactive)

Terraria (Re-Logic)

Fallout 4 (Bethesda)

Orcs Must Die: Unchained (Robot Entertainment)

Subnautica (Unknown Worlds Entertainment)

HBomber's analysis of Lisa: the Painful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-5_zoEsY6c

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the MindGames team!

Thanks to Robinhood76 for free use of jingle bells sound effects via FreeSound.org

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