Open World Bucket List

Back to Solstheim to face Miraak, the first Dragonborn, and learn to ride a dragon.

Sheogorath’s realm split between Mania and Dementia, and the best writing Bethesda has published.

The walled city of Mournhold and an audience with a living god who has stopped answering prayers.

Montana seventeen years after the nuclear ending of Far Cry 5, in pink bloom and scavenged weapons.

The prequel a year before Shadow of Chernobyl: a mercenary called Scar, a faction war over the Zone you can fight on any side of, and emissions to find cover from.

Open zones for the first time, with a grind rail bolted to a hillside and titans to climb.

A Caribbean island under Anton Castillo, played by Giancarlo Esposito, and a guerrilla war fought from the jungle.

Ten thousand years BC in the Far Cry 4 valley: no guns, a spoken Proto-Indo-European language and animals you tame.

Solstheim in the snow, a werewolf questline and the first Elder Scrolls expansion with a build-a-colony thread.

A reboot in the desert city of Santo Ileso, with a start-up gang run out of a converted church.

Jason and Lucia across Leonida, the state Vice City sits in, due on 19 November 2026.

Olgierd von Everec, a wish that cannot be given back, and a heist on the Borsodi auction house.

The Boss wakes up in a prison hospital and takes Stilwater back, with the whole story playable in co-op.

Stilwater and a gang war played straight, two years before the series worked out it was a comedy.

The Boss is President of the United States, then a prisoner in a simulated Steelport with superpowers.

Three large maps, a proper ending and far fewer bugs; the Zone game to start with.

Canyon duels scored on how close you hold to the car in front, and a crew recruited district by district.

Rico Rodriguez topples San Esperito by stepping off one moving car onto another, with a parachute that never packs away.

Japan as the festival map, with Tokyo as the city you drive out of; Playground Games, May 2026.

Ezio in Constantinople as an old man, closing his own story and finally Altair.

The 1994 first game: a whole continent generated at random and a staff broken into eight pieces.