With access to all the consoles and a beefy PC, I devoured plenty of games this year. Here's the top of my crop after some considerable thought.

If you followed the indie game scene back before we hit saturation level omega infinity a couple years ago, you’ve probably heard of Donut County, aka that game where you play as a hole. Developer Ben Esposito has been working on it for more than five years. Now it’s finally out. So how is it? Charming, but far from bottomless.

Earlier this month, a buddy sent game developer Ben Esposito a surprising screenshot: an Instagram ad for a game that looked a lot like the one he'd been working on for five years. Esposito is nearly finished toiling away on an indie game called Doughnut County, which will be released later this year by publisher Annapurna Interactive. At the tail end of this labour of love, now a copycat game called Hole.io is number one on the iOS store, and Esposito feels the need to say something.