GOTY 2021 Shortlisting the long list - Most Anticipated

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Like previous year I present you the long list of most anticipated games from our database. The goal is to get the right games in the top 30, because that is the number we'll use for the short list to vote on.
Our editors had a first go already.

The list is ordered by h-index, which could be seen as an indication of how often the game was discussed in our forums. Next to that there are also the comments and posts given for further sorting.
ID|Title|News Posts|Comments|Ratio|h-index
1|Baldur’s Gate 3|73|2671|36.1|30
2|ELEX II|16|569|33.5|14
3|Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness|46|862|18.3|13
4|Vampire - The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2|35|503|14|13
5|System Shock (Remake)|73|487|6.6|13
6|Expeditions: Rome|23|257|10.7|11
7|Elden Ring|17|313|17.4|10
8|The Waylanders|51|276|5.3|9
9|Starfield|8|251|27.9|8
10|S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2|13|144|10.3|8
11|Alaloth: Champions of the Four Kingdoms|20|174|8.3|8
12|Urban Strife|11|129|10.8|7
13|Broken Roads|16|120|7.1|7
14|Gothic Remake|7|218|27.2|6
15|Weird West|12|92|7.1|6
16|King Arthur: Knight's Tale|12|72|5.5|6
17|Sacred Fire|13|59|4.2|6
18|Hogwarts Legacy|5|56|9.3|5
19|Monomyth|11|86|7.2|5
20|Lost Eidolons|15|108|6.8|5
21|Project Haven|9|59|5.9|5
22|Wartales|17|64|3.6|5
23|Arcadian Atlas|14|41|2.7|5
24|Avowed|4|161|32.2|4
25|Dying Light 2|6|63|9|4
26|Archaelund|5|41|6.8|4
27|Steelrising|4|33|6.6|4
28|SKALD: Against the Black Priory|7|42|5.2|4
29|Cyber Knights: Flashpoint|13|54|3.9|4
30|Dark Envoy|9|36|3.6|4
31|Marvel's Midnight Suns|3|72|18|3
32|Zoria: Age of Shattering|4|51|10.2|3
33|StarCrawlers Chimera|3|41|10.2|3
34|GRAVEN|3|32|8|3
35|Atomic Heart|4|32|6.4|3
36|Skullstone|4|29|5.8|3
37|Empire of Ember|6|34|4.9|3
38|Forspoken|4|24|4.8|3
39|Within the Cosmos|4|22|4.4|3
40|The Way of Wrath|8|24|2.7|3
41|Prisonscape |12|33|2.5|3
42|Pixel Noir|16|31|1.8|3
43|Age of Grit|18|27|1.4|3
44|The Blades of Netheril|2|30|10|2
45|Wizardry: The Five Ordeals|2|27|9|2
46|Queen's Wish 2: The Tormentor|2|21|7|2
47|The Invincible|2|12|4|2
48|Thymesia|4|16|3.2|2
49|Last Epoch|5|18|3|2
50|Reverie Knights Tactics|3|11|2.8|2
51|Together in Battle|2|8|2.7|2
52|The Hand of Merlin|5|10|1.7|2
53|Scarlet Republics|3|6|1.5|2
54|Divinia Chronicles: Relics of Gan-Ti|7|10|1.2|2
55|Star Trek: Resurgence|1|13|6.5|1
56|Rollers of the Realm: Reunion|1|12|6|1
57|Minimal Affect|1|11|5.5|1
58|Shieldwall Chronicles: Realm of Madness|1|10|5|1
59|Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong|1|10|5|1
60|Stormrite|2|13|4.3|1
61|Achilles: Legends Untold|1|8|4|1
62|The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero|1|8|4|1
63|Vendir: Plague of Lies|1|8|4|1
64|Asterigos|1|7|3.5|1
65|Chained Echoes|1|7|3.5|1
66|Aye Captain!|1|6|3|1
67|Zodiac Legion|2|8|2.7|1
68|DISGAEA RPG|1|5|2.5|1
69|Star Ocean: The Divine Force|1|5|2.5|1
70|Telepath Tactics Liberated|1|5|2.5|1
71|Babylon's Fall|2|6|2|1
72|Peripeteia|2|6|2|1
73|Chrono Ark|1|4|2|1
74|MONARK|1|4|2|1
75|Soulborn|1|4|2|1
76|Trail of Ayash|1|4|2|1
77|VED|1|4|2|1
78|Gatewalkers|2|5|1.7|1
79|Mother of All Secrets|1|3|1.5|1
80|Nautilus Epoch|1|3|1.5|1
81|Vestaria Saga Gaiden: The Sacred Sword of Silvanister|1|3|1.5|1
82|Code of the Savage|2|3|1|1
83|Live by the Sword: Tactics|2|3|1|1
84|Curse of Eternity|1|2|1|1
85|Manafinder|1|2|1|1
86|Salt and Sacrifice|1|2|1|1
87|Shores Unknown|5|5|0.8|1
88|Spire of Sorcery|4|4|0.8|1
89|Rising Mist|2|2|0.7|1
90|Shadow of the Road|2|2|0.7|1
91|Dolmen|3|2|0.5|1
92|Sea of Stars|3|2|0.5|1
93|Grim Tranquility|1|1|0.5|1
94|MidKnight Story|1|1|0.5|1
95|Nobody Saves the World|1|1|0.5|1
96|Fate of WINDSHIFT|2|1|0.3|1
97|Luckless Seven|2|1|0.3|1
98|Stray Blade|2|1|0.3|1
99|Cloud Exiles|0|0|0|0
100|Coridden|1|0|0|0
101|Dark Dragonkin|1|0|0|0
102|Farathan|1|0|0|0
103|Granblue Fantasy: Relink|1|0|0|0
104|Infernax|1|0|0|0
105|Mists of Noyah|3|0|0|0
106|Souldiers|1|0|0|0


Let us know what games should be in the top 30 instead of what we have now.
 
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As mentioned in the other thread, Knights of the Chalice 2 should be on this list rather than the GOTY list as it hasn't released yet and is still in kickstarter.
 
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Sorry, what did you want us to do? Give you our top 5?

Mine would be:
Elden Ring
Starfield
Dying Light 2
Stalker 2
Tainted Grail (not on this list)
 
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JFarrell71 said:
Sorry, what did you want us to do? Give you our top 5?
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No, this is just the filtering stage.

Just point out anything that should or shouldn't be there (wrong genre or platform or wrong placement or missing games etc etc) to get a shortlist of 30 games that we vote on later. So also if you see something you like or think you saw other people liking but it's above 30 then point it out.
 
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JFarrell71 said:
Sorry, what did you want us to do? Give you our top 5?

Mine would be:
Elden Ring
Starfield
Dying Light 2
Stalker 2
Tainted Grail (not on this list)
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Wasn't Tainted Grail on your GOTY list (best RPG of 2021)? If so, it shouldn't be in most anticipated list as well (since we are talking about which game we look forward to most in 2022)
 
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I feel like Colony Ship (RPG) should be on the top 30. Not sure why it's not on the list at all. Last I heard they're targeting a late 2022 release.

The Iron Oath- while Steam page says TBD recent comments from them have said they're targeting 2022.

Honorable Mentions
Probably too niche to get many votes but things I'm personally interested in: Prometheus Wept, Death Trash, Space Wreck, & Call of Sarengar

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Isn't Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 basically vaporware at this point? Paradox said it isn't canceled but we don't even know for sure who is working on it and there's no release date. Perhaps HBS has taken the reigns, but given the troubled status I'm not sure how many members are highly anticipating it right now.

Waylanders may have been discussed a lot but how much of it was positive? I probably bashed it in every thread because the developers are so shady.

Questionable:

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 & System Shock. Are these actually RPGs? They sound more like action adventure / shooter games with light RPG elements, unless the new ones are going to be very different from the originals? I know fans of these games would probably grumble if they're excluded but if they're included there's probably other upcoming Action Adventure games with RPG elements that should arguably be included as well. Might as well include Monster Hunter because many people call that an RPG for some reason.
 
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From what I understand, Myrthos asks for deltas, not our top 5 - that will be for the vote itself. I may be wrong though.

I agree with Colony Ship too, but did they intend to release it in 2022? If they had a timetable, I lost track of it.

I was expecting Atomic Heart to be higher since there was some enthusiasm about it, but there are already a number of good titles up there. Let's just see if others think the same.

To add to other comments,
  • About S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 & System Shock (Remake), they may not be "pure RPG" if such a notion exists, but I'm afraid that if we go down that route we'll eject many other titles and start arguing for weeks. ;) RPG is a very volatile definition, we should probably trust our list at this point.
  • I was wondering about Expeditions: Rome too the other day, but it's a list for 2021.
 
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Redglyph said:
I agree with Colony Ship too, but did they intend to release it in 2022? If they had a timetable, I lost track of it.
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That is the current plan. The timetable's on the steam page, with "Nov 2022 - Endgame (chapter 4)" Of course it could get pushed to 2023 but the same thing could be said for BG3 and probably many of the other games on this list which are not even in EA and in many cases have no announced release date.

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Wasn't Tainted Grail on your GOTY list (best RPG of 2021)? If so, it shouldn't be in most anticipated list as well (since we are talking about which game we look forward to most in 2022)
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There's apparently two different Tainted Grail games: Conquest, which released last year and Fall of Avalon which may release this year.
 
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daveyd said:
There's apparently two different Tainted Grail games: Conquest, which released last year and Fall of Avalon which may release this year.
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Ah ok, that makes sense.

I reckon we will see BG3 in most anticipated list 3 years in a row ;)
 
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purpleblob1 said:
Wasn't Tainted Grail on your GOTY list (best RPG of 2021)? If so, it shouldn't be in most anticipated list as well (since we are talking about which game we look forward to most in 2022)
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Different game. The game that's out and that I've played is a card based roguelite. The game that I'm referring to here is an upcoming RPG.

...and I see now that Dave already answered this. Thanks, Dave.
 
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It is very unlikely that Colony Ship releases in 2022. Their target date is the very end of the year and if you think they're going to make that first target date you must not follow many games in development, much less Age of Decadence.

So not this list. Maybe most anticipated for 2023, though.
 
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JFarrell71 said:
It is very unlikely that Colony Ship releases in 2022. Their target date is the very end of the year and if you think they're going to make that first target date you must not follow many games in development, much less Age of Decadence.

So not this list. Maybe most anticipated for 2023, though.
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Sure, but what about all of the games on this list that don't even have a precise target date? Looking at their Steam pages, many of these are currently vague "TBD" or "hopefully" 2022 releases. Lost Eidolons lists Q3 2022 and that's only for their Early Access release.

Then there's others with specific dates, but very late in the year:
Starfield has gives a release date of Nov. 11. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 lists Dec. 8th.
 
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JFarrell71 said:
It is very unlikely that Colony Ship releases in 2022. Their target date is the very end of the year and if you think they're going to make that first target date you must not follow many games in development, much less Age of Decadence.

So not this list. Maybe most anticipated for 2023, though.
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It doesn't say most anticipated in 2022 though. Or did I miss something?
 
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stalker, atomic heart and dying light - out, a few rpg elements doesnt make them rpgs, even the recent call of duty games have the same "rpg" elements
 
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