Happy ThanksGaming Day! Let's Celebrate the Games That Got Us Through 2023

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For the past couple years I’ve run an article on Thanksgiving (The United States Version of the Holiday) where I urge my fellow gamers to say thanks to the games that got us through the year. The past two years, we usually fill our ThanksGaming plate with staff submissions, but our staff has been overwhelmed with travel plans, and time sensitive opportunities, so I’ll be soloing this year’s ThanksGaming.

This year has been full of some fantastic game releases, and while I’d love to list every game that I’m thankful for, here are three that I’ve come back to time and again throughout the year. After checking them out, head into the comments and let us know what games you were thankful you played this year!

Baldur’s Gate 3 is obviously a game that RPG fans can’t ignore, and it’s the first game on the list because it feels almost a little obligatory to list it. Baldur’s Gate 3 has been around for quite some time. I remember the moment it released into Early Access, I bought it right away, completed the first act, and promised myself I wouldn’t play another moment until release. On August 3^rd of this year, it finally did release, and it was hard to contain how excited I was to jump back in and play the game once again.

Play I did, and I am still playing, never having made it through an entire play through. At some point, I theorycraft a new build, or character, and I just get too excited and start the game all over again. The reason why Baldur’s Gate 3 is so special, is because you can do that, and just repeat your play through, and yet it still feels new, it still feels challenging, and of course, it prolongs a journey that you never truly want to end. Luckily I was able to tell Larian “Thank You” already, as I was able to