GOG GOTY 2022:
BLACKTAIL


Best Good Old Game 2022:
Head Over Heels


Best Indie 2022:
Strange Horticulture/ Wildermyth (can't decide between the two)


Best Raunchy Game 2022:
N/A


Best Thread of the Year 2022:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/games_that_are_unofficially_confirmed_for_release_on_gog_in_the_future_part_3/page1


Best Ongoing Thread:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_gogmmunity_monthly_giveaway/page1


I haven't had the time to play many of the years releases but contrary to what some on here say, I think 2022 was a very strong year for games on GOG with many interesting looking titles being added to its catalogue.

GOG GOTY 2022:
- Please Fix The Road

Best Good Old Game 2022:
- T̶h̶e̶ ̶H̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶K̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶m̶a̶s̶s̶a̶c̶r̶e̶ (if the date was accurate on GOG)
- Alien Breed: Impact

Best Indie 2022:
- Wigmund

Best Raunchy Game 2022:
-

Best Thread of the Year 2022:
- [Giveaway] The Return Of Fight Club... The Fight Just Got Fightier!

Best Ongoing Thread:
- [Giveaway] A series of mini-giveaways.

Even if I haven't finished the game (believe me, it's hard) I nominated Please Fix The Road as my goty because I felt in love with the game the exact moment I saw it on twitter: the art style, the puzzles, the animations. It's also the first time I've ever seen an "official" pirated version of the game, if you don't believe me check here.

I didn't have time to buy the new old games since I'm new here and I wanted to concentrate on old games already here, but I enjoyed playing Alien Breed Impact, even if it has a lot of performance issues and bugs :/

I also played the demo of Wigmund on the other platform and I enjoyed the first couple of hours in it so, in the hope they'll add achievements, I'll buy it here next time it gets on sale.

As for the best thread, how to not nominate the Fight Club, where a lot of people enjoyed creating their characters, and the prizes were there for everyone!

Quick Tally so far:

GOG GOTY 2022:
Islets x 1
Doom 64 x 1
Return to Monkey Island x 1
The Legend Of Heroes: Trails from Zero x 1
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition x 2
BLACKTAIL x 2
Strategic Command: American Civil War x 1
Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed x 1
Weird West x 1
Syberia: The World Before x 3
Two Point Hospital x 1
Citizen Sleeper x 1
The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero x 1
Please Fix The Road x 1

Best Good Old Game 2022:
Saya no Uta x 1
Doom 64 x 1
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition x 3
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine x 1
Doom I & II Enhanced x 1
People's General x 2
Re-Volt x 1
7.62 Hard Life x 1
Avencast: Rise of the Mage x 1
Elasto Mania Remastered x 1
Alien: Isolation x 2
Shadow of Mordor x 1
Head Over Heels x 1
Alien Breed: Impact x 1

Best Indie 2022:
Islets x 1
Flowers x 1
BROK The InvestiGator x 1
Rise of the Third Power x 1
The Planet Crafter x 1
BLACKTAIL x 1
Wigmund x 2
The Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865) x 1
Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising x 1
Wildermyth x 1
Martha is Dead x 1
Chasm: The Rift. x 1
Citizen Sleeper x 1
Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga x 1
Curious Expedition 2 Bundle x 1
Weird Worlds Return to Infinite Space x 1
Strange Horticulture x 1

Best Raunchy Game 2022:
Saya no Uta x 1
House Party x 2
shapez x 1
McPixel 3 x 1
Sengoku Rance x 1
Evenicle 2 x 1

Best Thread of the Year 2022:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/giveaway_the_return_of_fight_club_the_fight_just_got_fightier/page50 x 3
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/secret_santa_2022 x 1
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/good_or_interesting_old_games_which_currently_arent_sold_anywhere x 1
[Giveaway] A series of mini-giveaways (title, no link given) x 2
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_gogmmunity_monthly_giveaway x 2
That monkey island waiting room (title, no link given) x 1

Best Ongoing Thread:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/drm_on_gog_list_of_singleplayer_games_with_drm/page1 x 2
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/what_game_s_are_you_playing_right_now x 2
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/80s_synth_electropop_music_thread/ x 1
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/games_that_are_unofficially_confirmed_for_release_on_gog_in_the_future_part_3 x 3
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/free_open_source_games x 1
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_goty_2022_open_voting x 1
[Forum game] Just Three Words (title, no link given) x 1
[Giveaway] A series of mini-giveaways (title, no link given) x 1

My mistake :) I just added links.

Corrected.

Mine too.

Thanks for the summary, although by one vote, there seem to be some clear winners, just a few more days to see if the situation will remain this or there will be some reshuffling!

My votes:

GOG GOTY 2022:
- Steelrising

Best Good Old Game 2022:
- Alien: Isolation

Best Indie 2022:
- Cult of the Lamb

Best Raunchy Game 2022:
- House Party

Best Thread of the Year 2022:
- The Return Of Fight Club... The Fight Just Got Fightier!

Best Ongoing Thread:
- The Unannounced GOG New Game Thread

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Last hours before the virtual polls close for those who would like to participate!

I also wanted to vote among the last ones so as not to influence the voters. If you think that as an organizer I should not count my votes please let me know, this is the first time I have organized something like this.

Steelrising may not be perfect but it's a great title that perhaps deserved more recognition, so I decided to nominate it as GOTY.

Not much needs to be said about Alien: Isolation except: play it if you haven't already.

Choosing just one indie title is very difficult, in the end I chose Cult of the Lamb, that is the epitome of well-crafted indies and I was able to try it myself, but there would be many more deserving ones.

House Party never takes itself seriously, it's a perfect title to pass the time with the various debauched protagonists of the game.

Don't see why you shouldn't vote. If you wanted to completely avoid any influencing, you could have added your vote in the post announcing that voting's closed, but either way, you're a GOG user, and this is a poll for GOG users, right?
The one thing though would be to specify in that post that those are your votes, since when I saw your name and the categories I assumed that those were the results at first glance.

+1

You're right, I completely forgot to specify that, I have now added it.

The results will come on the 24th since I'd like to close the voting on midnight of the 23rd.

Better late than never?

GOG GOTY 2022:
- ELEX II

Best Good Old Game 2022:
- Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II

Best Indie 2022:
- Dink Smallwood (HD)

Best Raunchy Game 2022:
- /

ELEX II, because it is a nice AA game with decent content.

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II, because I have good memories of it on PS2. Though the Champions of Norrath games where better.

Tbh, deciding on an indie is difficult with just this list, so I went for the one I played ages ago. I first thought of LEGO Bricktales, but this is probably not really an indie.

I can't decide on the last category, because I can't really buy those titles (either not at all, or without the spicey content (well, really only for the story, then? ;))

EDIT: Typo

Voting closed, final results soon, don't miss it!

I am waiting for them :)

Here come the results, and presenting them is a special guest, one of the elusive GOGbears!

GOG GOTY 2022:

Syberia: The World Before (x3)

BLACKTAIL (x2)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition (x2)
The Legend Of Heroes: Trails from Zero (x2)

Citizen Sleeper
Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed
DOOM 64
ELEX II
Islets
Please Fix The Road
Return to Monkey Island
Steelrising
Strategic Command: American Civil War
Two Point Hospital
Weird West
None

Syberia: The World Before with three votes manages to undermine all other games and win the GOG GOTY 2022!

Right after that we have a remarkable trifecta of games, BLACKTAIL, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition and The Legend Of Heroes: Trails from Zero all with two votes each.

Best Good Old Game 2022:

Alien: Isolation (x3)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition (x3)

People's General (x2)

7.62 Hard Life
Alien Breed: Impact
Avencast: Rise of the Mage
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
DOOM 64
DOOM I Enhanced
Elasto Mania Remastered
Head Over Heels
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition
Re-Volt
Saya no Uta ~ The Song of Saya Director's Cut
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine

For the Best Good Old Game 2022 category, we have two tied winners: Alien: Isolation and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition!

People's General was one step away from threaten the winners, but it will have to settle for the second place.

Best Indie 2022:

Wigmund (x2)

BLACKTAIL
BROK The InvestiGator
Chasm: The Rift
Citizen Sleeper
Cult of the Lamb
Curious Expedition 2
Dink Smallwood HD
Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising
Flowers Bundle
Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865)
Islets
Martha is Dead
Rise of the Third Power
Strange Horticulture
Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga
The Planet Crafter
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
Wildermyth

Choosing the Best Indie 2022 from the many releases proved to be very difficult, so much so that we almost had no winner, but Wigmund managed to receive 2 votes that crowned it the winner!

Best Raunchy Game 2022:

House Party (x3)

Evenicle 2
McPixel 3
Saya no Uta ~ The Song of Saya Director's Cut
Sengoku Rance
shapez

And lastly, House Party unquestionably won Best Raunchy Game 2022! Many may have wondered what shapez is doing in this category, but hey, we're not here to judge!

Best Thread of the Year 2022:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/giveaway_the_return_of_fight_club_the_fight_just_got_fightier/page1 (x4)

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/giveaway_a_series_of_minigiveaways/page1 (x2)

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/secret_santa_2022/page1
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/good_or_interesting_old_games_which_currently_arent_sold_anywhere/page1
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_gogmmunity_monthly_giveaway/page1
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/return_to_monkey_island_no_gog_version/page1
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/games_that_are_unofficially_confirmed_for_release_on_gog_in_the_future_part_3/page1

It's hardly a surprise, but Doc0075's thread, "The Return Of Fight Club.... The Fight Just Got Fightier!" wins Best Thread of the Year 2022! And in second place we find "A series of mini-giveaways" also by Doc! His generosity knows no bounds, GOG must surely have a statue of him somewhere in the office!

Best Ongoing Thread:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/drm_on_gog_list_of_singleplayer_games_with_drm/page1 (x4)

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/what_game_s_are_you_playing_right_now/page1 (x2)

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/games_that_are_unofficially_confirmed_for_release_on_gog_in_the_future_part_3/page1 (x2)

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/80s_synth_electropop_music_thread/page1
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/free_open_source_games/page1
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_goty_2022_open_voting/page1
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/just_three_words/page1
JOIN ILLUMINATY thread
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_gogmmunity_monthly_giveaway/page1
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/giveaway_a_series_of_minigiveaways/page1
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_unannounced_gog_new_game_thread/page1

And lastly, Lifthrasil's "DRM on GOG: list of single-player games with DRM" won Best Ongoing Thread. Nowadays, one has to carefully monitor every game to unearth any form of nasty DRM.

Next up is riddler214's decade-old thread, "What game(s) are you playing right now?" and SLP2000's latest version of the thread "Games that are *unofficially* confirmed for release on GOG in the future part 3." Always great community places to chit-chat.

That's all, and don't forget to check out the infographic prepared for the occasion at this link!
https://i.postimg.cc/gzBt7kp9/GOG-GOTY-2022.png