Ichiban in Hawaii with a Pokemon parody; the biggest Yakuza.
Atlus's fantasy Persona: an election to become king; the 2024 JRPG.
A 16-bit JRPG with mechs made by one German; the best homage to the SNES.
A replika searches a frozen facility; PS1-era survival horror with Evangelion in it.
A point-and-click through a Louisiana refinery town with a cult and a robot; Southern Gothic sci-fi.
An artificial body on a space station, dice and rent; Jump Over the Age's tabletop RPG in prose.
A murder in a 16th-century Bavarian abbey, drawn like a manuscript; Obsidian's history game.
Three unreleased films and an actress who vanished; Sam Barlow's FMV puzzle box.
Twins in Alaska and a shared memory; Dontnod's quiet mystery.
Two brothers on the run to Mexico; Dontnod's road trip.
Camp counsellors, werewolves and a cast of film actors; Supermassive's summer slasher.
Eight teenagers in a mountain lodge and a butterfly effect; the slasher as game.
Three androids in a 2038 Detroit; Quantic Dream's branching flowchart.
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.
A divorcing couple shrunk into dolls, co-op only; Hazelight's 2021 Game of the Year.
Two siblings in plague-era France pursued by the Inquisition and rats; Asobo's stealth.
A Pict warrior with psychosis walks into Helheim; voices in binaural audio.
Time moves only when you move; the FPS as a puzzle.
Slice blocks with lightsabers to the beat in VR; the best-selling VR game.
Sixty beans through obstacle courses; the friendliest battle royale.
Four ghost hunters with a spirit box in a dark house; scream and it hears you.
A plane crash, cannibals and a son to find; build a fort in the woods.
Pokemon with guns and factories; the 2024 phenomenon.
Tame dinosaurs and build a tribe; survival with a T. rex.
Wake naked on a beach, build, get raided at 3 a.m.; the survival game about other people.
Ten friends build a Viking longhouse and sail to fight trolls; the 2021 early-access hit.
Crash on an ocean planet and build a base while something huge swims below.
Eighteen quintillion planets and the comeback from a broken launch; Hello Games.
Crew a pirate ship with friends and sing shanties; Rare's shared world.
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