Your Games Completed of 2026

The biggest change, for me, was letting you bump up the music volume.

That had to be one of the best soundtracks of all time and they buried it under all the sound effects.

Is there still no jukebox? I think the OST is on the Nintendo Music App at least

Rolled credits on Pokopia, but it would be foolishness to assume I'm anywhere near done with this behemoth.

I’m currently

Spoiler - click to showrepairing the big building in the Skylands

which I’m assuming is fairly close to the end. But I’ve barely dabbled with the whole town-building and prettification side of things which really is an entire game in itself, I keep finding massive new areas I hadn’t suspected were there, and I’ve found less than a third of the available Pokemon so far, so yes - behemoth is the right word.

To roll the credits, you need to Spoiler - click to showdo the Team Membership Challenge stuff for the lighthouse in the Withered Wasteland, which requires getting Environment Level 5 in all the other areas (which also require finishing the "plot" mission for that region)

As far as I'm aware, some Pokémon don't appear until after the credits, and some are only available in the Pallet Town sandbox area—so finishing the Pokédex is a lower priority.

Oh OK, I've got some more building to do then! I've completed the stories in most of the areas but haven't particularly concerned myself with beautifying the areas, and most of my Pokemon are still living in bushes.

Currently stuck because I don't know how to get

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but maybe raising the Environment levels will help with that.

While it is obviously a wonderful game, I am finding some of the wait timers, as I get closer to the end, a little frustrating. It gives it the slight air of a mobile game which is at odds with the quality of the rest of it.

Currently stuck because I don't know how to get

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but maybe raising the Environment levels will help with that.

You can find Spoiler - click to showwaste paper scattered around the sky island location (also inside some trash blocks), and then you can give that to a Pokémon with the Recycle speciality to convert it into actual Paper. You should probably have Trubbish in Bleak Beach (it's required for a plot mission, IIRC?) but I remember there being a sidequest to get Metang in Sparkling Skylands, and they can do it too.

The game could be a little clearer about how those pipelines work, to be fair—but I think it could be a lot better about discovery for the crafting recipes generally.

Yep, I loaded it up this afternoon and immediately got the introduction to Metang, so I was right there.

Trubbish had never asked for anything other than non-recyclable garbage to turn into iron ore, though, so I had no idea it was a general thing. I'm going to see if I can feed him anything else now, I'm sure there are lots of possibilities.

One thing Pokopia does unfortunately demonstrate is how shit a lot of the newer Pokemon are compared to the first couple of gens. Both Conkeldurr and Tinkaton are absolutely awful designs and they've unfortunately got big roles in the story. Also I had never realised how many Pokemon are just straight-up birds. The game very sensibly gives you a load of Gen 1 favourites long before it starts bringing in all the also-rans.

Also completed Pokopia now.

It's a fantastic game. Even a fairly functional run through the main story was enormous fun. And I'd imagine those with a creative bent (which isn't me, sadly) will probably spend hundreds if not thousands of hours on this game, it really does give you all the tools you need to create perfect little Pokemon utopias and go nuts with your creations. Although that isn't my thing, I'm still tempted to try and fill out my Pokedex a bit more and wrap up some of the tasks I haven't completed, so there really is something for everything here. I'm glad it seems to have been a big hit.

Shinobi: Art of Vengeance
Azure Striker Gunvolt
Trails beyond the Horizon
We Love Katamari
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Resident Evil: Requiem
Resident Evil (1998)
Final Fantasy X

Space Marine 2
As a big fan of the first game, which wasn't perfect but a damn good 8/10 if there was one, I'm so disappointed in this game. As a 40k experience I guess it's a step up, if you want to larp as a SPESS MEHREEN you can do that, shout platitudes and zealous chants for the Emperor as you ram a Tyranid mandible through it's face…

As a game I disliked almost every change they made: the new armour system is awful because your armour is straight ass and depletes very quickly, often almost instantly after the execution that gave it to you in the first place, so the main loop of melee-execute-armour was extremely frustrating, terrible change from the health regen in 1. I hated that Titus is on a 2 weapon loadout now because of the co-op campaign stuff, meaning I have to choose between a sidearm and swapping my bolter out for a sniper with much less rounds, thankfully almost every weapon in this feels completely ineffectual in the sense that you'll mulch the little guys but anything else feels like it's being tickled even if you are actually doing damage because the feedback is bad. There really wasn't anything as satisfying as the 'pop' from exploding an Ork skull with a bolter in the first game. :(

There's a ton of co-op gameplay here, with classes and customisation and exclusive missions based alternate routes from side characters in the campaign and it really does feel like the quality of the main campaign suffered for this, both in terms of me thinking that 2 AI buddies would have made firing at the incoming tsunami of Tyranids much more fun and also because it feels like the main meat of the game. I'm happy if this gave the game some longevity but I'm not sure I want to do any of this with randos, or solo if you even can.

Ah well, there's always Rogue Trader next for more 40k fun, played it for 5ish hours last year and I think I can safely say I prefer it to this, but both are definitely better than Boltgun are that's for sure!