It’s our official Game Of The Year 2022!

We’ve reached the very last day of our RPS Advent Calendar for this year!

That means that behind this door is our actual Game Of The Year.

A cartoony drawing of Horace The Endless Bear, in a Santa hat and snuggled by/atop a fireplace, regarding three Christmas stockings hung above it. Each contains something from a different game that came out this year

The GOTYest goat for 2022.

How on earth are we going to get through all this?

Bybecoming the bullet hell, motherfuckers!

Cover image for YouTube video

Our Game Of The Year 2022 isVampire Survivors!

And with EXP come levels, which nets you a choice of power-up.

Will you take the garlic that gives you a damaging aura?

A colourful mess of screen-obscuring explosions in a Vampire Survivors screenshot.

The dove that for some reason is the equivalent of a Call Of Duty harrier?

Alice0:Vampire Survivors was one of my favourite early access experiences.

What a pleasant eleven months of gentle strolls through obscene ultraviolence.

A frantic battle with plant enemies in Vampire Survivors

Sure, it’s essentially a fidget spinner.

But it’s a fidget spinner that makes you proclaim “oh, now, what’s this?”

every 30 seconds to the legions of werewolves feasting on your personal space.

A colourful burst of violence in a Vampire Survivors screenshot.

That makes it thebestfidget spinner.

Plus, I can play it while also petting my cat.

It is therefore a worthy game of the year.

A warrior is surrounded by monsters in a library in Vampire Survivors

I didn’t think so.

Rachel:I cannot stop playing this game.

It has taken over my life.

Hellish bullet hell in a Vampire Survivors screenshot.

(Except he wrote “videogames”, because he’s one of those people).

This is entirely correct, of course.

But mostly I voted for Vampire Survivors because it’s really really fucking fun.

Love you, Poe.