Author: Jesse Snider

[Editor’s Note: Authors were told to approach their game of the year lists however they wanted, including listing their favorite games they personally played this year regardless of release year.] 9. Anachronox (2001) Perhaps my favorite forgotten game, Anachronox was the brain child of a team led by id Software alum Tom Hall, that took the Quake 2 engine and crammed into it the mechanics of a party-based JRPG and a deeply weird, original, and delightful universe. Every line of dialogue is clever to the point that being introduced with a room full of new people to talk to feels…