Our favourite games of the year, revealed one a day through December

Just like last year, our advent image this year comes from Gamer Network design wizard Lucy Grimwood. A smiling Horace? Some will call it heresy, but we in the splinter sect believe the endless bear deserves some Christmas cheer.Note:Most of these links won’t work until the post goes live on the day in question. We could add the links in manually on each day but history suggests that, no, we cannot, so it’s just more efficient to have them all there now.

The rules for our calendar voting are the same as last year:

Voting takes place via everyone on the team writing a list of up to ten favourite games from this year, with the first on the list getting 10 points, the second 9 points, and so on. These lists were collated to make the final advent calendar list, which this year produced a clear winner.