The team at Circle Back Gaming ranks the best moments in gaming of 2021! As always, our superlative game of the year awards have 1 winner and 2 runners up. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy!

The team at Circle Back Gaming ranks the games with the best game design of 2021, the best storytelling in games in 2021, the best time loop games of 2021, and the best games that didn't come out in 2021! As always our superlative game of the year awards have 1 winner and 2 runners up. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy!

The team at Circle Back Gaming ranks the best boss fights in 2021, the best game feel in games in 2021, the best multiplayer in games in 2021 and the best surprises of 2021! As always our superlative game of the year awards have 1 winner and 2 runners up. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy!

The team at Circle Back Gaming ranks the best ensemble casts of 2021, the funniest games of 2021, the games that we wish we had time to get around to, and the games with the best style of 2021! As always our superlative game of the year awards have 1 winner and 2 runners up. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy!

The team at Circle Back Gaming ranks the best looking games of 2021, the most disappointing games of 2021, and the best new characters of 2021! As always our superlative game of the year awards have 1 winner and 2 runners up. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy!

Ep. 119 of The Circle Back Podcast. The gang's all here and have a ton of games to discuss since we missed an episode! Shelby and Dan finished Metroid: Dread and both agree it's a bonafide GOTY contender. Dan is very pleasantly surprised that he is enjoying Guardians of The Galaxy as much as he is. Oh and also Inscryption rules and the whole crew has played it to varying degrees. We then have a ton of news to catch up on including some delays and surprise game drops. We wrap it up with our gamepass games of the show, a quick little fantasy check-in and decide out October game of the month. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy!

Games Discussed:

-Inscryption

-Darkest Dungeon 2

-ElecHead

-Guardians of The Galaxy

-Unpacking

-Metroid Dread

-Forza Horizon 5

-Returnal

-Halo Infinite

-Deathloop

-Outer Wilds: Echoes of The Eye

Ep. 118 of The Circle Back Podcast. It's just Dan and Shelby on this one, but they've both been playing lots of games! Shelby started and finished Sable and really loved it despite comparing the frame rate to a silent film. Dan finally got his hands on Inscryption and it has surprises and thrills around every corner (he's in love). We then have a few delays and small news hits to talk about including our beloved Elden Ring slipping about 1 month (take your time!). We wrap it up with our Gamepass games of the show and our September Game of The Month. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy!

Games Discussed:

-Sable

-Deathloop

-Mario Golf: Super Rush

-Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

-Metroid Dread

-Back 4 Blood

-Scarlet Nexus

-Inscryption

Ep. 117 of The Circle Back Podcast. The gang's all here to talk about lots of good games! Dan and Shelby both played and finished the throwback action-3D platformer Kena: Bridge of Spirits and loved the hell out of it. Dan and Dan are playing the long anticipated adventure game Sable and really digging it despite some serious flaws. Shelby also finally finished one of the year's best games Psychonauts 2 and agrees that it is really something special. Dan digs into one of his Demo Corners before jumping into some news including that Nintendo Direct from 9/23(oooooohhhh boy). We wrap it up with our August Game of The Month (1 episode late, sorry!), our Gamepass games of the show, and a quick fantasy check-in. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy!

Games Discussed:

-Deathloop

-Psychonauts 2

-F.I.S.T. Forged in Shadow Torch

-Kena: Bridge of Spirits

-Sable

-Unsighted

-Outer Wilds: Echoes of The Eye

-Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl

-JETT: The Far Shore

-Eastward

Ep. 116 of The Circle Back Podcast. The gang's all here and with a special guest Diana LaMarca to talk some games! Dan and Diana played through Life is Strange: True Colors and adored it. The whole crew has been playing Deathloop and can agree that it's one of the year's best games. Shelby has been working on F.I.S.T. Forged in Shadow Torch and is really enjoying it. We then dig into some news bits including Quantic Dream working on a Star Wars game? :(... We wrap it up with our gamepass games of the show, and a interesting fantasy check-in. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy!

Games Discussed:

-Before Your Eyes

-Life is Strange: True Colors

-F.I.S.T. Forged in Shadow Torch

-The Artful Escape

-Lost in Random

-Deathloop

-Eastward

-Deltarune Chapter 2

-Kena: Bridge of Spirits

-Get in The Car, Loser!

-Psychonauts 2

Ep. 115 of The Circle Back Podcast. The gang's all here and we have a lot of games to discuss including some catch-up for Dan both good (Death's Door) and bad (12 Minutes). Dan finished Psychonauts 2 and adored every second of it. We then dig into some news including a dedicated segment to the big Playstation Showcase from 9/9! We wrap up with our gamepass games of the show and some more fantasy updates. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy!

Games Discussed:

-Psychonauts 2

-F.I.S.T. Forged in Shadow Torch

-Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

-Metroid Fusion

-12 Minutes

-Death's Door

-Axiom Verge 2

-Returnal

-World Flipper