What are the best video games released in the year 2016?

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Best video games released in the year 2016	Price	Genre	Steam Rating
-- XCOM 2	$59.99	Tactical role-playing game, Turn-based tactics	Mostly Positive
-- Planet Coaster	$44.99	Simulation	Mostly Positive
-- Overwatch	$59.99	Hero-based FPS	Hero-based FPS
-- Stellaris	$39.99	Hybrid: 4X / Grand Strategy	Mostly Positive

XCOM 2

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It's fun to upgrade and manage your squad

As you progress through the game you can train and promote your soldiers to make them more effective in combat, unlock new abilities and upgrade their weapons armor. The interesting part of it is if a member gets injured (which is really easy to happen on the harder difficulties) they are not available for the following missions until they heal. So if you only upgrade one solider and he/she gets injured, you're in a really tough spot. The weapons, abilities, items and armor you can unlock are varied and interesting enough to make it really fun to progress through the game and build a custom squad based around how you like to go about your missions. See More

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Performance could be better

Even when using well above the recommended hardware the game does show some performance issues as it is difficult to hold 60fps. While not the biggest problem thanks to this being a turn based game it would have been nice to see better performance and a constant 60fps when using what the developers recommended for best performance. See More

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Steam Rating:Mostly Positive

Genre:Tactical role-playing game, Turn-based tactics

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Excellent suspense

You're always against the clock in one way or another. Globally your enemies are moving forward with their plans and unless you actively work towards countering them, they will win. You'll be short on cash, manpower, and will have to work with inferior tech. On the field most missions have turn limits forcing you to act aggressively. This scrambling for resources, making with what you can, racing against the clock creates great suspense that makes it all the more satisfying to win an important mission. See More

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Workshop Mod Support

The game embraces modding and the Steam Workshop is full of modifications for your game. See More

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Addon Business Mentality

The game tries to earn money with Addons that are worth buying. The base game is definitely a full experience an the completely optional Addons deliver loads of content for a reasonable price. See More

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Unlike XCOM EU/EW sharpshooters are useful!

XCOM EU/EW had a class called snipers (reformed into sharpshooters in XCOM 2) and they were not that useful because a) their exclusive long ranged tactics couldn't shine on most maps and b)They had couldn't even benefit from using pistols as a backup weapon. In XCOM 2 sharpshooters were much better balanced in ranged shots and could be trained with many pistol abilities. See More

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Makes you feel more for your characters than most character driven games

One of the more fun parts about this game is managing your squad. You can customize the looks, voices, and even names of your soldiers. As you take your soldiers on missions you'll get attached to them. This will create a lot of tense moments when your soldiers are about to die and you desperately try to save them. If you decide to input the names of your friends or family, multiply the tension by ten. See More

Planet Coaster

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Free and Paid DLC Mentality

The developers still release big free updates and frequently come up with an averagely priced DLC package. See More

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Easy

The game is a little bit easy at most difficulty modes. See More

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Must play game of 2016 See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Mostly Positive

Genre:Simulation

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Workshop Support

You can share all your creations on the Workshop. See More

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Powerful Engine

The game engine is able to render thousands of NPCs plus decadent scenery at the same time without breaking a sweat. See More

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Excellent limitless coaster building system

There are many dozens of prefabbed coaster elements which you don't even need because you can build everything by yourself. See More

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Game rewards creativity

The more scenery you build around your attractions, the more successful your park will be. See More

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Extensive Creative Tools

The game is choke full of possibilities to customize your park. See More

Overwatch

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Genre:Hero-based FPS

Stellaris

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Extensive Home Affairs System

Keeping control of your empire is often complex and comes with hundreds of options to tweak and change the very definition of your people. See More

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Passive Foreign Policy

The game leaves you only a few ways to control what other species think of you. Often if you cross a line through natural growth other nations that you aren't allied with yet will start to hate you no matter what. See More

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Steam Rating:Mostly Positive

Genre:Hybrid: 4X / Grand Strategy

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Workshop Mod Support

The game is highly modifiable, comes with its own mod manager and proper Workshop support. The workshop is already choke full of mods. See More

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Very Slow Paced

The game is very slow paced in terms of progression and reaching high end technologies. The more other races and the more stars are in your galaxy, the longer the game will take. With mods we're talking about weeks. See More

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Still being updated

The developers still work on the game and improve it every day See More

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