A Plague Tale: Innocence

It’s an incredibly grotesque and spine-chilling sight--one that will linger in your mind hours later.

Assasin's Creed: Valhalla

With its engaging combination of combat, open-world exploration, crafted story content, and settlement management, this Viking saga is an epic with a little something for everyone.

Bastion

The levels, the enemies, the crazy weapon-testing mini-games -- there's always something up this game's sleeve.

Control

Control reminded me of this studio’s knack for crafting engrossing, oddball worlds with an incredible sense of place.

Crusader Kings III

Crusader Kings 3 is always in motion, always jumping to new stories, so it never lets you get too settled. But it also never ventures far out of its comfort zone.

Doom

Software’s latest Doom title, an unrelenting, kinetic, and obscenely bloody return to form for the first mainstream FPS.