Second Dinner's newest contribution to the card game genre, Marvel Snap, has placed 7th on Polygon's top 50 games of 2022 list. Among the games beat, God of War Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West, A Plague Tale: Requiem, and Stray all made it to the Game Awards' game of the year vote.

While we're not very surprised, with other outlets and plenty of players (including us!) also giving praise to Marvel Snap, this kicks off the end-of-year tradition of the various media outlets spotlighting the best games of the year. Tomorrow night, we'll get to see if Marvel Snap's nomination takes the win for Best Mobile game of the year from the Game Awards. It'll be competing against Apex Legends, Diablo Immortal, Genshin Impact, and Tower of Fantasy - quite a strong selection of games to compete with!

Where does Marvel Snap sit on your best games of 2022 list? What other card games made your list? Let us know in the comments below!

Quote From Polygon

There’s a moment, maybe on your fifth round of Marvel Snap, when you figure out how the game works, where you can gaze into time and space and see a future where you are playing this game for a very long time. Maybe, at this point, you’ll swear to yourself and delete the app, for fear of yet another digital obsession. Or, you’ll grin at the elegant genius of Second Dinner’s mobile card battler, and dive right in. Marvel Snap has cracked the collectible card game code, crafting an accessible, fast, and bite-size game that solves for the length and complexity in most card games, offering something that fits in between swipes on TikTok. That it does so while celebrating its card game lineage is also remarkable: In its pared-back rules and brief playtime, it still gives players the greatest feeling that a good collectible card game can offer: showing them a new card that unlocks something in their brain, making them smile and say, “I have an idea for a deck.” —Joshua Rivera