In times of pandemic, each of us has played a game at least once. When you stay home in self-isolation you can spend more interactive time in front of a video game. Reddit made the top of the 5 games of 2020, which were the most played and asked.
Bemorepanda has collected information about each of them and is ready to share with you. How do you think the production games of 2020 were in these places? Or the typical games like Minecraft and Fortnite?
Let's see together what games aroused the interest of gamers in 2020, the year of the pandemic and the time spent at home.
Most Popular Video Games of 2020 by Community Activity
League of Legends, abbreviated as LoL, is a role-playing video game with elements of a real-time strategy (MOBA), developed and released by Riot Games on October 27, 2009 for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh platforms. The game is distributed free-to-play. The game has a monthly audience of 100 million players worldwide (September 2016).
Similar to game sports, League of Legends is played in separate parties (sessions). To play the game in a certain mode, you must submit an application and wait for the automatic matchmaking for the next game. Selection is carried out taking into account the player's rating in the corresponding mode. A game session usually lasts 16-65 minutes, depending on the mode. Each game starts with a clean slate, that is, all players have the same lowest starting level, starting amount of resources.
The League of Legends player with his account is called the Summoner. Before the start of the game, through the summoner interface, the player selects a champion (playable character), adjusts his characteristics using runes and selects two additional skills common to all champions - the summoner spell.
The goal of most game modes is to consistently destroy all enemy structures protecting the main building at the base of the team - the nexus. The team that destroyed the nexus wins, and the other team is defeated. Towers and inhibitors are located on the approaches to the nexus. As defensive structures, towers fire at approaching enemy targets, giving priority to non-player characters - minions programmed to move along a certain line in the direction of the enemy nexus, etc., attacking champions in the last turn ; inhibitors summon waves of minions. Denying minions, neutral monsters in the forest, and destroying buildings brings the champion experience points, which increase the champion's level, and gold necessary to buy items that enhance his characteristics.
Each summoner has the ability to control only one champion (with some exceptions), but depending on the set of his skills, he can interact in a certain way with the characters of other players (heal, speed up, improve characteristics, attack, etc.). One of the important goals and components of the game is killing enemy champions, for the first blood (first kill) of a champion in the game is given more gold than for a regular kill. If a champion dies, after a while he comes to life at his starting base. Unlike real-time strategies, the player cannot control minions, and modifications to buildings are not provided.
By default, the movement of the champion in the game is controlled by the mouse, and the use of skills and items is by keyboard keys.
Minecraft is an indie sandbox computer game developed by Swedish programmer Markus Persson and published by his company Mojang AB. Persson published the initial version of the game in 2009; at the end of 2011, a stable version for Microsoft Windows PCs was released, which was distributed through the official website. In the following years, Minecraft was ported to Linux and macOS for personal computers; on Android, iOS and Windows Phone for mobile devices; for the PlayStation 4, Vita, VR, Xbox One, Nintendo 3DS, Switch and Wii U game consoles.In 2014, Microsoft acquired Mojang AB and the rights to Minecraft for $ 2.5 billion. 4J Studios ported the game to consoles, and Xbox Game Studios developed a multi-platform version of Minecraft and a special edition of the game for educational institutions.
Persson wrote Minecraft in Java using the LWJGL rendering library, drawing inspiration from games such as Dwarf Fortress, Dungeon Keeper, and Infiniminer. Minecraft provides the player with a procedurally generated and modifiable three-dimensional world, completely consisting of cubes - it can be freely rebuilt, creating complex structures from these cubes - this feature makes the game similar to the LEGO constructor. Minecraft does not set any specific goals for the player, but offers him freedom of action: for example, the player can explore the world, extract minerals, fight opponents, and much more. The game includes additional modes, for example, "survival", where the player needs to get resources himself, and "creativity", where the player has these resources in unlimited quantities. The mechanics of "redstone" allows you to create complex logic circuits in the game - thus the game can serve as a virtual constructor for programmers and engineers.
Minecraft has received widespread acclaim from the gaming press and numerous awards. Critics have highlighted such main advantages as replayability, minimalistic design, dynamic soundtrack and extraordinary creative freedom, limited only by the player's imagination; they considered the disadvantages of the presence of unfinished items and the difficulty of creating a network game, as well as the lack of a training mode in the game. The developers have eliminated these shortcomings in the following years. As of summer 2020, over 200 million copies were sold across all platforms, making Minecraft the best-selling game in history, with 132 million players launching the game at least once a month. User-generated content, including YouTube videos and many third-party modifications, have played a large role in the popularization and commercial success of Minecraft. A number of spin-off games have been released over the years, including Minecraft: Story Mode, Minecraft Earth, and Minecraft Dungeons.
Animal Crossing is a series of life simulation video games developed and published by the Japanese company Nintendo and created by Japanese game designer Katsuya Eguchi. In the games of the series, the player takes on the role of a human resident living in a village inhabited by anthropomorphic animals and engages in various activities, such as fishing, catching beetles and fossil mining. The series is known for lacking an end per se and for using real time from the console to simulate real time flow.
Five major Animal Crossing games have been released worldwide, one each for Nintendo 64 / iQue Player (enhanced version re-released on Nintendo GameCube), Nintendo DS, Wii, Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch. In addition, three spinoffs were released: the sandbox game Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer for Nintendo 3DS, the board game Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival for Wii U and the life simulator Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp for mobile devices.
4.Fortnite
Fortnite is an online computer game developed by the American company Epic Games and released to Early Access in 2017. Fortnite offers players a choice of three separate modes: Fortnite: Save the World, an open-world cooperative survival simulator in which players are invited to work together to fight off zombie-like monsters with weapons and various buildings; Fortnite: Battle Royale is a competitive battle royale game where 100 players must battle each other until only one is left alive. and the Fortnite: Creative mode added in 2018, a sandbox mode in which players can create various structures of their own, like Minecraft. Fortnite: Save the World was released on Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One platforms, and Fortnite: Battle Royale and Fortnite: Creative, in addition to the platforms listed, also on handheld devices - Nintendo Switch, iOS and Android. The game is distributed primarily through digital distribution on a free-to-play model; physical versions of the game are published by Gearbox Publishing.
While Fortnite: Save the World and Fortnite: Creative have also achieved commercial success, it is Fortnite: Battle Royale that has become extremely popular as a cultural phenomenon; in March 2019, the number of players in this mode reached 250 million. At the end of 2018, the game won the 22nd D.I.C.E. Awards - awards from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, winning the Outstanding Achievement in Online Gameplay category.
5.Destiny
Destiny is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie and published by Activision. It was released in 2014 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
Destiny is set in a sci-fi world. The player takes control of a playable character called the Guardian - the defender of the last safe city on Earth. According to the plot of the game, the Guardians possess a supernatural power called Light, which helps them defend the city from invasions of aggressive aliens.
Bungie has also released four expansion packs to expand the game's storyline, as well as new items, weapons, and missions. In the first year, two small expansions were released: The Dark Below in December 2014 and House of Wolves in May 2015. A larger expansion called The Taken King, which made significant changes to the gameplay, was released in September 2015. The latest expansion, Rise of Iron, was released. in September 2016.
In September 2017, Destiny 2 was released, a direct sequel to the game.
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This year, the video game industry has found a second wind thanks to the pandemic, because many, due to self-isolation, have decided to turn to this particular type of entertainment. Metacritic, a website aggregator of reviews and ratings, has compiled a list of the best games of the outgoing year, which hit the taste of both critics and ordinary gamers.
People searched for a lot of new games titles in 2020, but some of them became famous for everyone. Bemorepanda collected all these famous games that were searched in 2020 for you. Of course we have some good information about all of them.
1) Among Us
Among Us is a multiplayer game in which players must find a traitor among the ranks of the spaceship team, whose goal is to kill everyone. The traitor needs to kill as many "teammates" as possible before being declassified. In fact, this game is an analogue of the tabletop "Mafia", where for successful subversion, players must mislead their opponents and do everything possible not to reveal themselves.
The game offers several different maps, support for a huge number of players and cross-play between platforms. On each map, players have different ways to get things done. For real crew members, this is a fight against traitors, while the latter have completely different methods of committing sabotage, which will destroy the entire crew together with the station or spacecraft.
2) Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is a multiplayer game in which players will experience a mad obstacle race in which they must overtake 99 other participants and remain the only winner. The entire playing space is filled with various traps and obstacles that can prevent you from reaching the end at any time.
In fact, Fall Guys is a "royal battle" in which players should not shoot their opponents, but compete with them in agility, reaction speed and knowledge of cards. The game offers several different modes with completely different conditions. The main goal is to stay as high as possible than all other players, which will bring the crown and victory in the round.
3) Valorant
Valorant is a multiplayer shooter from the creators of League of Legends, in which players are expected to face off against teams in a 5x5 format. The gameplay is familiar to everyone who has played Counter-Strike at least once - one team is trying to plant a bomb at a certain point, the second is trying to prevent it from doing so. The main difference between Valorant and CS is the unique characters-Agents, each of which has unique skills and abilities. "Spamming" with skills, however, will not work here - each skill has a certain amount of charges that must either be bought in the store or received for kills.
4) Genshin Impact
Genshin Impact is an open world action RPG inspired by The Legend of Zelda series. Players will find the fantasy world of Teivat, which is full of ruins of ancient cities, fortresses, magical forests and the like. The world of the game is completely open to exploration, and you can climb every mountain - if only the character has enough stamina. Players are not limited in their freedom in any way - except perhaps by the edge of the map, behind which lies a non-playing space.
Genshin Impact is a party game where you can switch between characters at any time of the battle. The very same characters can be obtained from the "gacha" - an in-game system, similar to loot boxes, where for a certain amount of special currency players get weapons and heroes. The composition of the group must be approached wisely, because the characters have different skills of different elements, the combination of which in battle is the key to victory. The game also has a co-op that allows four players to conquer the vastness of Teiwata at the same time.
5) Ghost of Tsushima
Ghost of Tsushima is an open-world action-adventure game set in the mid-13th century. In the center of the story is a samurai named Jin, who finds himself on the island of Tsushima in the midst of the first Mongol invasion of Japan. It is he who will have to stop the invasion of the Mongols into the territory of the Land of the Rising Sun. The game is based on real events, but the characters are created by the authors themselves.
The island of Tsushima in the game is an open world in which players can move freely in any direction, and in Ghost of Tsushima there are a minimum of different markers and pointers - you need to navigate the local world yourself. Players must not only explore the island, but also fight the Mongols, liberate castles and destroy military camps, and help civilians in trouble.
6) Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a life simulator and the fifth game in the Animal Crossing series that invites players to start a new life on a small desert island. While exploring the island in real time, players must collect resources, get food, and gradually transform the island into an inhabited settlement with anthropomorphic animals as inhabitants. As in all previous games in the series, real time and game time are synchronized with each other, so when the players have winter outside, the game will also have winter.
Players must settle down on their island, invite new inhabitants to it, and also improve and build it up in every possible way to their liking. New Horizons has both single player and multiplayer - up to four players in local mode and up to eight online can be on the same island at the same time. The game also supports Amiibo cards and figures.
7) Assassin's Creed Valhalla
Assassin's Creed: Valhalla is the next installment in the Assassin's Creed series, set in a completely new location for the series - on the shores of Norway and England during the ninth century AD. The protagonist of the game is a Viking named Eivor, who opposes the English king Alfred. Players will face battles for territories, the ability to capture the settlements and cities of opponents, as well as elements of Scandinavian mythology.
In "Valhalla" there is a large base-hub, where the protagonist will have to start all his adventures, the non-linearity of the passage and a large number of RPG elements - even more than in previous games in the series. In the Scandinavian edition, the developers have once again reworked the combat system, improved hunting and progression. Naval battles are a thing of the past - in Valhalla, ships are used for fast travel, not for battles.
8) The Last of Us 2
The Last of Us 2 is a sequel to the action adventure The Last of Us. The game takes place five years after the events of the original, and the protagonists of the original game, Joel and Ellie, again become the main characters. A completely different story awaits players, centered around hatred and revenge rather than love. The main character of the second part is not Joel, but Ellie.
The second part differs from the first one not only in the subject matter, but also in the changed and modified gameplay. The Last of Us 2 relies on stealth even more than the first one - so, the heroine can hide in the grass, bushes, in crevices between houses, under cars, and so on. However, depending on a number of factors, enemies may still notice it - and in this they are helped by improved artificial intelligence. It is worth noting that not only the human enemies have changed - the infected have also become much more dangerous.
9) Madden NFL 21
Madden NFL 21 is the latest addition to the popular American football series in development since 1997. As every year, the game features licensed teams and real, faithfully reproduced athletes that we can lead to victory in subsequent matches. This game is developed by EA Sports, which specializes in sports games.
Madden NFL 21 - American football simulator. The game allows you to play matches against real licensed American NFL teams. The developers focused on the realism of the game - they made sure that the virtual wrestling resembled as much as possible what we know from real sports.
New is a player control mechanic called Skill Stick, which allows you to perform a series of maneuvers both offensively (when you are in possession of the ball) and when defending - these are turns, jumps and slides, as well as passes that can be combined into complex combinations.
It's also worth noting that thanks to the updated Superstar X-Factor (2.0) system, individual stars have their own characteristic moves and games.
In Madden NFL 21, we can play alone or with others. The game offers the opportunity to play both single matches and tournaments - both with a live opponent and with AI-controlled athletes. In this game, we can also find the Madden Ultimate Team module and the Face of the Franchise: Rise of Fame mode, which the creators describe as a documentary career mode.
Madden NFL 21 has very nice 3D graphics. Both stadiums and player models have a high level of realism and detail.
10) Jackbox
The Jackbox Party Pack 7 is a vibrant and dynamic game designed for parties and a great time with friends. In total, this project includes five unique parts, each of which will not let you get bored even for a minute. The first part is designed for a team of three to eight players, where participants need to give answers to interesting, and sometimes even funny questions, gaining points and trying to snatch victory into their own hands. The second part is a kind of collaboration, where players have to go through the various difficulties of the life of ordinary people, going straight to hell. A team of three to eight people will have a great time here. As for the third part, it was performed in the style of a fighting game, where the player needs to make every effort and opportunity to defeat an insidious and equally strong opponent. In the fourth part, everything is rather strange, because the basis is laid in the conversation, whoever speaks more will win. The fifth part is a "guessing game", where from two to six players take part, and the main task is to guess the correct answer to a particular question.
