Just a few days remain for this month's Topic Challenge - time to wrap up your games and post/update your answers below!
Thank you to everyone who celebrated female protagonists in the last challenge! Here's the heroic wrap-up:
🏹 Hunter's Logs
- Total Heroines: 12: under-the-island, horizon-zero-dawn, stellar-blade, control, touhou-luna-nights, celeste, little-nightmares, life-is-strange, portal, portal-2, rise-of-the-tomb-raider, as well as gaming-history
- Questions posed: 12 (across 8 tags)
- Answers given: 7 (1 self-answer)
- Edits Performed: 15 (Including 1 tag wiki)
- Bounties Raised: 2 (1 awarded, 1 expired)
- New Tags Created: 1 (under-the-island)
🏆 Top Heroes
- pinckerman eked out top spot with 2941 views on the question: What's the first videogame with a female antagonist?, barely beating Malady's What's the first game with an all-female cast? at 2879 views! Well done to you both!
- pinckerman again, showing us how it's done with 8 votes on their answer for What's the difference between the Remastered and Complete Edition of Horizon Zero Dawn?.
- SPArcheon earned Wondercricket's bounty for +100 rep, for their answer to Why do some skills glow?, congratulations!
- xtropicalsoothing smashed through 8 edits across 4 tags. Well done!
Special shoutout to Malady this month, who dove into the history books with two gaming-history questions, made several edits, answered a question about control, answered another question about horizon-zero-dawn, and continued to be the sole asker on the touhou-luna-nights tag!
April's Topic Challenge: 'Game of the Year' Games
There's a reason these games won awards! This month, we're highlighting incredible games that have won The Game Awards' "Game of the Year" title!
The Topic: We're specifically looking at the winning games, not the nominees. Winners are listed in the table below, as pulled from Wikipedia:
| Year | Game |
|---|---|
| 2014 | dragon-age-inquisition |
| 2015 | the-witcher-3-wild-hunt |
| 2016 | overwatch-classic - The original is no longer playable, so instead play its replacement: overwatch (formerly known as Overwatch 2) |
| 2017 | zelda-breath-of-the-wild |
| 2018 | god-of-war-2018 |
| 2019 | sekiro-shadows-die-twice |
| 2020 | the-last-of-us-2 |
| 2021 | it-takes-two |
| 2022 | elden-ring |
| 2023 | baldurs-gate-3 |
| 2024 | astro-bot |
| 2025 | clair-obscur-expedition-33 |
How to Participate
- Play: Fire up a game that fits the topic.
- Contribute: Post organic questions you encounter during gameplay, or provide high-quality answers to existing ones. Edit old posts, improve tag wikis, or fix formatting to bring the topic up to date.
- Enter: Post an answer to this meta listing your contributions (questions, answers, major edits), and any other info about your experience: reviews, goals, or funny moments you've had, it all counts!
- Engage: Vote, comment, and review entries from other participants.
What is a Topic Challenge?
It’s a friendly opt-in monthly event to have some fun, play some games, and explore specific corners of the gaming world. For more information, see: Gauging community interest in running a Monthly Topic Challenge
Have an idea for the next challenge?
We're always looking for new ideas! Please add your suggestions as an answer on our Topic Collection Post.
The Fine Print
- Quality over Quantity: This isn't a race for the most posts; we're looking for genuine content. Arqade’s standard quality and closing rules still apply!
- Keep it Genuine: Only post questions you’d actually want to know the answer to, and answers about games you've actually played.
- The Payoff: At the end of the month, we’ll highlight the top contributions, including the highest-scoring posts, most prolific editors, and most-viewed questions.
