Sam Porter Bridges connects Mexico and Australia; the 2025 sequel.
Deliver packages across a broken America with a baby in a jar; Kojima's walking game.
Fimbulwinter, Thor and Odin; the Norse saga ends.
Saga Anderson and Alan Wake in two realities, with a musical; Remedy's survival horror.
A brutalist bureau that shifts its walls and a telekinetic director; Remedy's weird office.
A solar system that ends in 22 minutes and a loop to learn it; the best game about curiosity.
Sixty dead sailors and a pocket watch that shows the moment of death; Lucas Pope's 1-bit mystery.
Melinoe against Chronos; the sequel out of early access in 2025.
Climb a tower with a deck you build as you go; the deck-building roguelike.
A roguelike Metroidvania with combat that flows; Motion Twin.
Mae drops out of college and comes home to a dying town of animals; a game about being 20.
A house of dead relatives, each death its own little game; the walking sim as anthology.
Madeline climbs a mountain and her anxiety; the platformer with an assist mode and a message.
Run-and-gun bosses drawn like 1930s cartoons; hard and gorgeous.
The Forbidden Lands and a Seikret to ride; the 2025 hunt.
The hunt goes mainstream on consoles; Anjanath in the Ancient Forest.
Guardians, raids and the loot loop; Bungie after Halo.
Space ninjas and a decade of free updates; the co-op looter that outlived Destiny's rivals.
Squads of three with a ping system; Respawn's battle royale.
BJ Blazkowicz in a Nazi-occupied America; MachineGames' pulp.
Talos I, mimics that look like coffee cups and the GLOO gun; Arkane's System Shock.
The village, the chainsaw and the merchant, remade; what a remake should be.
Leon and Claire remade with Mr X in the corridors; the best remake.
The Baker family in a Louisiana plantation house, in first person; the series returns to horror.
Aloy to a ruined San Francisco; the sequel with underwater machines.
Aloy hunts robot dinosaurs in a post-apocalyptic America; Guerrilla's open world.
The Phantom Thieves steal hearts in Tokyo; the most stylish JRPG.
Androids fight machines for a humanity that is gone; ending E asks for your save file.
The end of the world and Gael; the last Souls DLC.
Line puzzles on an island that teach you their rules without a word; Jonathan Blow.
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