Thirteen layers of parallax scrolling and a David Whittaker soundtrack; the Amiga demo everyone bought.
Four cyborg agents, a Persuadertron and a corporate world map to conquer.
Haggar, Cody and Guy clean up Metro City; the Capcom beat-em-up everyone fed coins to.
War has never been so much fun; squads of little men and a graveyard that grows.
Four heroes, muscle cars and raptors; the arcade beat-em-up of every 1990s games room.
Isometric feudal fantasy on the C64, with one of the best 8-bit soundtracks ever written.
Handball with armour and bribes; the Bitmap Brothers at their most metallic.
Two players, top-down corridors and a self-destruct countdown; Team17's Aliens tribute.
Hand-animated run-and-gun chaos; the prettiest sprites the arcade ever produced.
A drifter with a sword and a cough in a pixel world; Heart Machine's wordless action.
Run a cult by day and a roguelike dungeon by night; cute and sinister.
Eve against the Naytiba in a ruined Earth; Shift Up's Korean action game.
The Nemesis system: orcs who remember killing you; Monolith's Tolkien.
One-hit kills, slow motion and a samurai on drugs; Askiisoft's neon.
Cal Kestis after Order 66; a Souls-lite Star Wars from Respawn.
Walk, survive thirty minutes, watch the screen fill with numbers; the three-dollar phenomenon.
Indy in 1937 between Raiders and Last Crusade, in first person; MachineGames.
Cal five years on, Koboh and more stances; the sequel.
The Batmobile and Gotham on the night it is evacuated; Rocksteady closes the trilogy.
A brutalist bureau that shifts its walls and a telekinetic director; Remedy's weird office.
A Pict warrior with psychosis walks into Helheim; voices in binaural audio.
A cult in Montana and Hope County; the Far Cry formula in America.
Multiverse witches and kaiju summons; Platinum's trilogy closer.
Space ninjas and a decade of free updates; the co-op looter that outlived Destiny's rivals.
Samus hunted by E.M.M.I. robots on ZDR; the 2D Metroid nineteen years late.
Hack San Francisco with DedSec; the sequel that found the fun.
Jin Sakai against the Mongol invasion of 1274, in Kurosawa mode; Sucker Punch's samurai open world.
Two prisoners escape in split-screen co-op; Hazelight's first.
Two writers trapped in each other's stories, co-op only; Hazelight's 2025 hit.
Fimbulwinter, Thor and Odin; the Norse saga ends.
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