GOTY 2020 Day 2: Most Surprising Games

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GOTY 2020 Day 2: Most Surprising Games

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Dec 29, 2020

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To say that 2020 was a surprising year would be an understatement, I think we would all agree. Thankfully, not everything that surprised us this year was yet another tragedy -- some of them were video games, and we're here to talk about them.
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Dec 29, 2020

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