If you go to last year’s results, you can see the proportions of total votes for the winner, going back to 2018. Oh, for the epic days of Battletech vs Subnautica!
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[Elden]
If anything was surprising about this year’s winner, it certainly wasn’t actual “who won?” All throughout the voting, people were acknowledging that the winner was basically a foregone conclusion. Vampire Survivors actually made a pretty nice showing, considering. A very distant third was Marvel’s Midnight Suns, followed by Pentiment in fourth. (I kept typing “Penitent.”)
[top 5]
But by the time we got to Immortality at #5, it only had 25 points, which wouldn’t have been…