Best new games of 2016?

jhkim · July 25, 2017, 01:05:41 PM

So what were the best new games released in 2016, for you?

(Asking for last-minute expansion of the Indie RPG Awards.)

K Peterson · July 25, 2017, 01:16:21 PM

The Delta Green: Agent's Handbook.

Hermes Serpent · July 25, 2017, 01:20:20 PM

Blades in the Dark

Apparition · July 25, 2017, 01:26:16 PM

Mongoose Traveller, Second Edition.

Cepheus Engine.

Michael Gray · July 25, 2017, 01:41:10 PM

Quote from: Hermes Serpent;978103Blades in the Dark

Ditto on 'Blades in the Dark', it's pretty fantastic.

Dumarest · July 25, 2017, 01:47:04 PM

Didn't buy or read any new games in 2016...who knew there were any!

Brand55 · July 25, 2017, 02:02:50 PM

Godbound and Adventures in Middle-earth. Rippers Resurrected is great, too, though technically the first non-core PDFs for it released at the end of 2015.

Llew ap Hywel · July 25, 2017, 02:03:14 PM

Quote from: Dumarest;978119Didn't buy or read any new games in 2016...who knew there were any!

You need this site worse than I do

K Peterson · July 25, 2017, 02:53:23 PM

Quote from: Dumarest;978119Didn't buy or read any new games in 2016...who knew there were any!

Everyone but you, ostrich.

jhkim · July 25, 2017, 03:54:59 PM

Was Blades in the Dark 2016 or 2017?

I thought it wasn't actually released until 2017.

Michael Gray · July 25, 2017, 04:37:35 PM

Quote from: jhkim;978154Was Blades in the Dark 2016 or 2017?

I thought it wasn't actually released until 2017.

The PDF has been out quite a while; physical books were what took a long time. DTRPG has it listed as Jan 10, 2016. Though the 'final' PDF version wasn't until Jan. 30th of this year. I'm comfortable calling it 2016.

Pat · July 25, 2017, 04:46:39 PM

Quote from: Michael Gray;978162The PDF has been out quite a while; physical books were what took a long time. DTRPG has it listed as Jan 10, 2016. Though the 'final' PDF version wasn't until Jan. 30th of this year. I'm comfortable calling it 2016.

That's a 2017 release date, to me. Otherwise, how do you draw the line? In the social media age, early drafts are often available long before a game is actually published.

jhkim · July 25, 2017, 05:56:04 PM

Quote from: Pat;978163That's a 2017 release date, to me. Otherwise, how do you draw the line? In the social media age, early drafts are often available long before a game is actually published.

Conversely, in the social media age, many games are *never* published in physical book form. So that makes dates trickier.

I'd say that if the final form of Blades in the Dark was published in PDF in 2016, with the same content as the physical book published later, then it was published in 2016.

The Exploited. · July 25, 2017, 07:35:16 PM

Hmmm... There's not that much that I can think off.

Pat · July 25, 2017, 07:38:19 PM

Quote from: jhkim;978185Conversely, in the social media age, many games are *never* published in physical book form. So that makes dates trickier.

I'd say that if the final form of Blades in the Dark was published in PDF in 2016, with the same content as the physical book published later, then it was published in 2016.

But it wasn't, which was my point. The "final" version of the PDF was released on 1/30/2017. I was never talking about the print version.