2023 Visual Novel of the Year: Seventh Lair. With the disclaimer that I am a House in Fata Morgana fan, Seventh Lair somehow managed to be a mixture of JRPG affectionate parody, isekai, and Fata Morgana reused sprites, yet a fresh and sincere story about indie game dev and the parasocial nature with the players. As expected per Novect title, everything about it just perfectly makes sense in the context of an utterly messed up cast.

A more in-depth, spoiler heavy post about it: https://toot.cat/@BigShellEvent/111692639528369337

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2023 Game of the Year (exclude VN): Narcosis. I adored the stage design, as it it gave me Layers of Fear kind of otherworldly feelings, and the plot is spot on. I've never experienced such realistic horror like this, the adult fear of what if you, an otherwise perfectly harmless person, is too arrogant to consider basic safety protocols apply to you because you are the protagonist of the world, and caused great harm because of that?

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#EldenRing was my favorite #VideoGameOfTheYear, until I started playing as a cat in #Stray