[Question] The Gamingforce Game of the Year 2016: Now with microtransations - voting edition

Stardew Valley: 15 points

What the entirely-too-small farm RPG genre should always aspire to be, for the first year or two. It's not too long before you find yourself with nothing to do except some pretty clunky dungeon-delving, which isn't enough to hold the game up long-term. A great time while it lasts.

Death Road To Canada: 30 points

It's basically "Oregon Trail (with zombies <played for laughs>)" which is a dangerous level of premise stacking, but it's salvaged thanks to the devs actually having a sense of humor instead of just pushing /r/dankestmemes onto your monitor. Fix your car by punching it, remove a beefy man from your path by shoving him really hard, and leave your best friend stranded in an infested junkyard because you needed room in the car for this friendly machete-wielding masked hitchhiker.

Overwatch: 20 points

Overwatch's matchmaking remains... dubious, but it allows me to play a cyborg ninja who double-jumps around the map spamming MERRY CHRISTMAS, which is probably worth the price of entry. Plus, when you do occasionally get balanced teams, it's a really solid game... although it's still Blizzard PVP, so bring your salt.

Superhot: 15 points

Do I... do I need to justify Superhot? It's kind of stupid that it took this long to see the Cool Polygon Man Shooty Game we all imagined in 1995, but it's here and it turned out we were right to imagine liking it. Superhot VR (which, admittedly, I haven't personally played) appears to justify the purchase of a VR headset sans any other software.

World of Warcraft: Legion: 20 points

Uhhh, hopefully DLC/expansions are acceptable candidates? Legion took a lot of WoW things that were tedious and made them not tedious, which is a pretty solid design decision independent of the actual new content, which is also pretty solid (although gated behind the inconvenient Mythic mechanics entirely too often). Long story short Blizzard has enabled my desire to turn all games into a fabulous dress-up party and throwing fruit at instance bosses works again and I guess that's worth $40? Yes.

Conspicuously Absent Street Fighter V: NOBODY BOUGHT IT, ALL OF YOU CONFIRMED TERRIBLE

Jam it back in, in the dark.