Ars Technica’s best video games of 2022
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2022 was a bit of a weird year for video games. For a start, quite possibly the most anticipated game of the year came out in March, well ahead of the usual holiday season rush of releases. But that holiday rush was itself muted this year, thanks to delays of big-name franchises from Diablo to Starfield to The Legend of Zelda.
That's led some commentators to call 2022 a "slow year" for a games industry still recovering from the development chaos of COVID. And it's true; we did have some collective trouble getting to our usual selection of 20 games for this year's best games list, a possible sign that there were fewer "obvious" picks than usual.