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This time of year, I tend to have a mostly finalized list of my personal favorite games in mind. I just instinctively know what belongs where. Worst case, there might be a tie or two left to break or a few titles in need of a refresher before the deadline. Not this year. Not this year at all.

For the best-of-2016 vote, I’m straight up panicking. But it’s a good kind of panic.

Even if I’m looking at multi-platform releases, this year was stacked, and the voting only gets more complicated (and heated) from there. On the exclusive front, Sony made out quite well just between Uncharted 4 and The Last Guardian. If there was one thing I needed more of this year, it was time.

Here are the nominees for Destructoid’s Best PS4 Game of 2016:

  • The Witness
  • Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
  • Dark Souls III
  • Ratchet & Clank
  • Hitman
  • Abzu
  • Rez Infinite
  • RIGS: Mechanized Combat League
  • I Am Setsuna
  • Gravity Rush Remastered
  • Battleborn
  • Destiny: Rise of Iron
  • World of Final Fantasy
  • Inside
  • The Last Guardian

[Incomplete products like Steam Early Access titles, and episodic titles that are not fair to assess as standalone experiences, without a full episode count, were not eligible for this year’s awards. The cutoff for entry into Destructoid’s 2016’s Game of the Year awards is December 6, 2016.]

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