![2015: The Year of XCOM-likes](https://haywiremag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Kyn-150x150-1456090477.jpg)
2015: The Year of XCOM-likes
Classic Ironman! Today with Kyn, Hard West, Darkest Dungeon, Invisible Inc., and Massive Chalice.
![2015: The Year of Choices](https://haywiremag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Sunset-150x150-1456083756.jpg)
2015: The Year of Choices
Choose your path in today’s retrospective, with Sunset, Until Dawn, Life is Strange, and Tales from the Borderlands.
![2015: The Year of Stealth](https://haywiremag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Volume-150x150-1456078907.jpg)
2015: The Year of Stealth
We need to be very quiet today with Volume, The Swindle, Neon Struct, Hotline Miami 2, and The Marvellous Miss Take.
![2015: The Year of Walking](https://haywiremag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Knossu-150x150-1455933295.png)
2015: The Year of Walking
Let us take you for a good, long walk with Knossu, Submerged, I am Bread, Home Is Where One Starts…, and Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture.
![2015: The Year of Stuff](https://haywiremag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/CobraClub-150x150-1455838987.jpg)
2015: The Year of Stuff
Unfortunately we did not find a connecting theme between these games. Anyway, here are Cobra Club, Stick Shift, Toren, Mortal Kombat X, and State of Decay: Year One Survival Edition.
![2015: The Year of Puzzles](https://haywiremag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Cradle2-150x150-1455749511.jpg)
2015: The Year of Puzzles
We’re pushing boxes and connecting dots today with Cradle, Snakebird, Infinifactory, and The Talos Principle: Road to Gehenna.
![2015: The Year of Gravity](https://haywiremag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Flywrench-150x150-1455622763.jpg)
2015: The Year of Gravity
What goes up must come down, like Flywrench, Kerbal Space Program, Gravity Ghost, Super Mario Maker, and CRAP! No One Loves Me.
![2015: The Year of Friends](https://haywiremag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/KeepTalkingAndNobodyExplodes-150x150-1455377631.jpg)
2015: The Year of Friends
Today we reconnect with our old buddies Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, Subterfuge, Borb the Birb, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, and Rock Band 4.
![2015: The Year of Metroidvania](https://haywiremag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Apotheon-150x150-1455309957.jpg)
2015: The Year of Metroidvania
We unlocked five new doors today, taking us to Apotheon, Titan Souls, Axiom Verge, Kero Blaster, and Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows.
![2015: The Year of Cards](https://haywiremag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/GuildofDungeoneering-150x150-1455232944.jpg)
2015: The Year of Cards
We mulliganed for a fresh set of games and drew Guild of Dungeoneering, Chaos Reborn, Regency Solitaire, Hand of Fate, and Concrete Jungle.
![2015: The Year of Crafting](https://haywiremag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Fallout4-150x150-1455147823.jpg)
2015: The Year of Crafting
We combined a bunch of sticks and ended up with Fallout 4, Subnautica, The Long Dark, ARK: Survival Evolved, and Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate.
![2015: The Year of Space](https://haywiremag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/EliteDangerous-150x150-1455059236.jpg)
2015: The Year of Space
We’ve taken to the stars with Elite: Dangerous, Rymdresa, Pulsar: Lost Colony, Galak-Z, Deadnaut, and Duskers.
![2015: The Year of Competition](https://haywiremag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/RocketLeague-150x150-1454718120.jpg)
2015: The Year of Competition
Another five games meet in our arena today: Rocket League, Duelyst, Heroes of the Storm, Killing Floor 2, and Starcraft 2: Legacy of the Void.
![2015: The Year of Adventures](https://haywiremag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Dropsy-150x150-1454620422.jpg)
2015: The Year of Adventures
We’re looking at a dead but very lively genre today with Dropsy, Deer God, else heart.break(), Hot Tin Roof, and Read Only Memories.