You can use a cellphone to call up the various characters you’ve befriended, and they’ll have different comments for practically every screen of the game. Undertale isn’t a lengthy game, insofar as you can pretty much get through it in maybe six hours, but it is a very broad one. It marries very real characters, a quirky and knowing sense of humour, and actual emotions in a way that’s pretty much unmatched. On the other hand: it’s possibly the only game I’ve ever played in which I’ve tried to date a skeleton, debated as to whether or not anime is real, fought my battles by dodging attacks and showing mercy, and then followed all that heartwarming delight with a genuinely horrific playthrough that actually caused me some emotional damage (Peter refuses to do this, which is probably the sane choice, but he’s missing out on a lot). Because you might still play it, and dammit, you should experience it as blind as possible. I could give details about the ways it messes with your expectations, makes you feel bad about every other RPG you’ve ever played, creates characters that I like so much I pretty much consider them friends, and toys with the usual mechanics of games and RPGs in heart-rending and harrowing ways (while still being witty, funny, and having some of the finest music to have touched my ears this year)… but I shouldn’t.

As noted in my review, it’s the sort of game which is vastly improved by knowing as little as possible about it. The thing is, I still don’t feel comfortable talking about Undertale. Yeah, okay, the 10/10 game is a really obvious choice. Instead, I rattled off a big long list of the games that I really liked from the past 12 months, and squeezed that list until a few particularly special ones popped out of the top. How do you compare Way of the Samurai 4 to Pillars of Eternity? Does it matter if I pick multiple games that kinda do the same thing, or should I try to spice things up a bit? Should I make special note of a few games that didn’t really get the attention they probably deserved? I mean, these are my picks, and there are certainly a few games that really need a lot more highlighting than they actually got. As per usual, I’ve had a bloody awful time trying to narrow down my personal list of the best PC Games 2015.

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