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The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

This list recognizes games many of us love, but it devotes as much space to ones a few of us are passionate about.

The 25 Best Video Games of 2018
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In video game journalism, the desire for consensus is often wielded like a cudgel in an attempt to silence dissenting voices. Calls for so-called “objective” analysis—for a number-crunching product review rather than a thoughtful critique of what a game means, or doesn’t mean, to say—suggest a desire for the process to be all but automated. The cycle can be disheartening, especially when it suggests that what is said matters less than whether it lines up with impressions gleaned from marketing materials, or when it demands that a review score remain in the ill-defined bounds of an industry that feeds on hype and demands flattery.

But, then, it’s easy to conflate how people weaponize consensus with the concept itself, meaning it’s easy to overlook its uses. In such a loud, dense, and expensive medium, where everything seems to be crying for our attention all the time, it’s indispensable to be able to cut through the noise. It’s invaluable to see a handful of games everyone else is pointing to as something you should consider spending your money on. Those games—God of War, Marvel’s Spider-Man, and even smaller but no less beloved titles like Celeste—are on this list, the ones that captured our imaginations and dropped our jaws just the way they did for thousands of players.

Just as useful, though, is to be able to champion the unsung in the face of consensus. We can laud the expansive world of Red Dead Redemption 2 and the underwater alien vistas of Subnautica in the same breath. This list recognizes games many of us love, but it devotes as much space to ones a few of us are passionate about: the outsider art of Arbitrary Metric or Hidetaka Suehiro, the RPG-mirrored journey of a man named Gary, a cooperative prison break, a pulsating neon-tinged platformer. We prefer to think of consensus less as a means to silence dissent than as a way to hack away at the brush and clear a path for our own individual passions, as well as leave space for you to find your own. Steven Scaife


The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

25. Forgotton Anne

Players waited for ages to see a game that captured the visual imagination and deep, earnest emotion of Hayao Miyazaki, and after Studio Ghibli helped work on Ni No Kuni, well, they were left waiting. Whatever magic the game contained was drowned out by one clunky RPG mechanic too many. The specific thing players yearned for has finally been conjured by Forgotton Anne, which goes beyond doing an admirable job of aping the look and feel of Studio Ghibli’s animation. Yes, the concept of a girl finding herself the orphaned enforcer of a world made by and for every forgotten object the human world has ever lost is ripe for the exact kind of emotional allegory that Miyazaki himself is famous for. Even still, Forgotton Anne has a power all its own when it comes to how it uses player choice against the player. The narrative sinks its teeth deep into exploring the idea of people struggling with being able to see immigrants as human, even despite the fact that Forgotton Anne’s immigrants are very much not, and it’s soul-crushing how relevant that plot element became this year. It’s even more so when our heroine’s choices and hypocrisies and so-called altruism comes back to haunt her later on. Forgotton Anne goes to beautiful, unexpected places, and while it wears its inspiration on its sleeve, it’s very much its own remarkable creature. Justin Clark


The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

24. A Way Out

What’s fascinating and successful about A Way Out is its insistence on a forced split-screen—even for online co-op. The game wants you not only to do your job, but to be aware of how the other player has gone about doing his or hers. This choice mirrors in players the begrudging trust that’s built between Leo and Vincent when the game’s prison-break narrative forces these two strangers to work together. You’ll chisel a hole in the wall while your partner in the next cell stands watch for guards. Then, it’s your turn to return the favor, by causing a distraction or breaking up a fight, knowing that you may need to rely on your partner later to do the same for you. But A Way Out actually shines brightest in its action-free sequences, which focus less on familiar cooperative activities and more on illuminating how players think—what they choose to focus on interacting with and how they respond when the stakes aren’t necessarily a matter of life and death. Aaron Riccio

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The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

23. Donut County

Donut County is an absurdist comedy game about a raccoon inexplicably gifted with a phone app that causes mass destruction via remotely controlled holes in the ground. Similar in tone to cult classics Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy, the game’s abstract concept is executed via simple gameplay wherein the player moves an ever-expanding hole around familiar settings to suck furniture, people, and buildings into the earth. There’s a sense of accomplishment in successfully annihilating everything in sight, from smaller items such as fence posts and pot plants, to larger ones like animals and gardening utensils, then cars and entire buildings. Nothing can escape you and your inexplicable instrument of doom. Donut County matches its one-of-a-kind gameplay with clever comedy writing, best demonstrated in an in-game encyclopedia—with its detailing of the raccoon’s ludicrous beliefs, such as cliffs being an alien-created trap—that satirizes the overused video game trope of collectables. Ryan Aston


The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

22. GRIS

At the heart of GRIS is the idea of recovering from anguish through coping strategies and empathy. As the game commences, a girl has undergone some kind of devastating trauma. Then, the player avatar, Gris, falls through the world and into a derelict and hopeless place devoid of color. A first, Gris can barely walk, her movements seemingly encumbered by her psychological tolls, but she perseveres through barren wastes to find a monument where she restores the first ounce of color to the world and gains the ability to jump. From here, each wordless and strikingly artful section of GRIS symbolizes a different aspect of dealing with a psychological trauma, which is represented here by predatory animals that manifest from black ink. Crushing depression is exemplified by gray colors and empty landscapes, which Gris brings color and form back to as she helps others, as well as reforms the girl’s fractured psyche. That the narrative is intentionally ambiguous is important, as the game would not have the universal appeal that it does if it only dealt with a specific traumatic event. GRIS is a triumph of deeply affecting interactive poetry. Aston


The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

21. The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories

When The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories starts, it’s a bog-standard indie platform-puzzler—albeit with an eye-catching, fluid animation style—starring a girl trying to save her missing girlfriend on an abandoned island. The very second lightning strikes, frying the girl to cinders, and a moose in a lab coat brings her back to life, The Missing takes a hard left swerve into the realm of the surreal and never looks back for most of its play time. Death isn’t a teacher in the game, but a most morbid, all-purpose skeleton key that fits every lock to every door if you’re creative enough. It’d be a bonkers gimmick worthy of stunned applause by itself, and then it becomes clear exactly what all this suffering was meant to represent, and suddenly, it’s the most progressive and affecting game of the year, an exercise of excruciating sympathy toward the marginalized that has absolutely no parallel in gaming. Clark


The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

20. Paratopic

Breathe it in, the grime and the decay and the desperation rendered in Paratopic’s stark, lo-fi polygons. The game’s world is ambiguous and anonymous and empty, leading you through wilderness and concrete sprawl. It pulls you into garbled faces, pushes you down highways with no company but a suitcase and a distorted radio. You become disoriented as the game cuts away, throwing you into other perspectives and then back again. Are you in control? Is your fate truly your own? The long, still moments between cuts leave space for the dread of this world to seep in and build anticipation for something terrible. It seems inevitable. A short, experimental game from designers Jessica Harvey and Doc Burford and composer BeauChaotica, Paratopic is the nightmare version of so-called walking simulators, revealing the existential horror simmering just beneath their constraints. Scaife

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The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

19. Yoku’s Island Express

It’s tough to picture how a game could mix pinball with Metroid-style exploration, and even tougher to visualize how it might be pulled off well. But any skepticism melts away after just a few moments with Yoku’s Island Express as its title character, a postmaster beetle attached to a ball, careens across the screen. Instead of jumping, he’s propelled by pinball flippers seeded throughout the beautiful island environment, and the pinball/platforming combination immediately feels so fluid that it becomes less a strange gimmick than a natural extension of Yoku’s delightful journey. It’s a warm, friendly game filled with moments guaranteed to win you over from as early as the very first upgrade: a tiny party horn for Yoku to blow on and get a character’s attention. He might need it in-game to compensate for his short stature, but even in this crowded exploration-platforming subgenre, the blissful mechanics of Yoku’s pinball adventure ensure he stands tall as the rest. Scaife


The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

18. Legendary Gary

It’s no secret that the game industry attempts to exploit our desire for escapism, and most developers seem fine with reinforcing this dubious status quo. But Legendary Gary, created by Evan Rogers, addresses the tension between art and responsibility with a tale about a young adult who spends hours playing a computer game called Legend of the Spear in order to forget about his duty of supporting his mother and girlfriend. As the titular protagonist advances further in Legend of the Spear, he notices weird connections between the game’s world and the real world. While the line between fiction and reality crumbles, Gary is forced to face the hurdles of life—a friend overdosing, the emotional hole left behind by his dead father, shady managerial politics at his supermarket job—as a man and human being. Many years ago, filmmaker François Truffaut famously asked, “Is the cinema more important than life?” The touching conclusion of Legendary Gary seems to respond, “Of course not.” Jed Pressgrove


The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

17. Dandara

Dandara is the most distinct platformer of 2018, as it involves no running or jumping. Instead, you must shoot the protagonist to select sections of floors, walls, ceilings, and suspended platforms from myriad angles. This fact alone puts the game in less-traveled territory, but developer Long Hat House doesn’t stop there. Sometimes when you travel from one surface to another, the entire screen rotates, giving the action a beautiful yet disorienting rhythm, especially when you’re evading the attacks of adversaries. Dandara is also built around unlocking segments of an interconnected world, but the game frequently subverts one’s expectations, as when you discover an area that’s plagued by an unhittable, bullet-firing enemy that chases you from one screen to the next. In another case, opening new paths comes with the catch of having to navigate around suddenly activated obstacles in previously completed sections of a level. After playing Dandara, you may never look at platforming or Metroid-inspired exploration the same way again. Pressgrove


The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

16. Red Dead Redemption 2

Told from the perspective of a cowboy wrestling with a cultural shift in society, Red Dead Redemption 2 is a philosophical take on the American frontier. Arthur Morgan is a lawless man wanting to be lawful, but he’s too mixed up in gang affiliations to believe his life can ever truly be redeemed. Especially in its profoundly heartbreaking depiction of the demise of the Van der Linde gang, Red Dead Redemption 2’s theme of loyalty in the face of hopelessness rises to the forefront of the gameplay experience. Just as impressive as that feeling of heft to the kick of revolvers is the level of detail that went into rendering all the towns you come across, each and every part of these locales informed by its socioeconomics. But what makes the game something truly special is how it examines its main character’s moral dilemma. Red Dead Redemption 2 tells us that sticking to our guns may leave us deader than a deer on a riverbank, and assimilation doesn’t always mean defeat. Jeremy Winslow

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The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

15. Into the Breach

This turn-based gem certainly lives up to the ominous implications of its title. From beginning to end, the goal of protecting cities from hostile aliens that burrow out of the ground frequently appears downright unmanageable. After much frustration and incredulity, you realize that trying to eliminate every threat is a fool’s endeavor and that the key to victory is a stingy, uncompromising, and cerebral defense; performing a non-damaging shove on a foe in order to block the entrance of another pest often guarantees more success than trying to outmuscle the existing opposition. Every decision is ultimately critical here, so to survive a tough battle is to feel an immense relief that’s nearly unparalleled in a video game industry that tends to reward and encourage more simplified approaches to problem solving. Into the Breach is the most chess-like video game in recent memory, an intense rebuttal to the titles that spoil and satiate us with their frequently meaningless choices. Pressgrove


The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

14. ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission

Every console has had a game like ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission, some sort of instantly giddying title that astounds with the world it conjures and the control within it that you’re afforded. This being a VR title, however, it seems safe to say that ASTRO BOT goes a bit further than most with its immersion. There’s no fixed camera here to rotate about. Instead, it’s you who has to stand on tiptoes to see what lurks atop a construction site’s high-up girders, or crane your neck around in order to look—from cliffs or behind corners—for your missing robotic crewmates. At times, you even have to literally use your head to interact with in-game items—to break down barriers obstructing your miniature, controllable character, or to blow apart a giant white dandelion to reveal a new path. But the most wondrous part of ASTRO BOT comes when, after spending most of a freeform level swimming beneath the ocean, you surface and find your view partially obscured. A well-placed mirror reveals your robotic, controller-wielding self—and the bright yellow snorkel you’re wearing that now has seaweed stuck in it. It’s a brilliant nod to one’s desire to truly be a part of a game. Riccio


The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

13. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Conventional logic says that a game as enormous as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate should be collapsing under its own weight like a dying star. It feels like the Mr. Creosote of video games, a title almost disgustingly distended with content. The series roster has grown enormous beyond belief, and already another announced DLC character—Joker from Persona 5—threatens to be the wafer-thin mint that makes the whole thing explode. And yet, it’s undeniable that the title lives up to its name beyond anyone’s wildest imagination. Not just an all-inclusive compilation of nearly every piece of content from its predecessors, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate uses standard Smash Bros. fight mechanics as the foundation for a full-blown RPG. It also beefs up the series’s familiar Classic single player romp from being a bunch of random fights with LittleBigPlanet-style recreations of entire games and their most iconic moments. Even after cramming in everything you’ve ever seen in a Smash Bros. game, Nintendo still has a plethora of surprises to spring on the player—tiny delights waiting to be unlocked hundreds of hours down the road for any player of any skill level. Clark


The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

12. The Messenger

Though The Messenger may resemble classic side-scrolling platformers like Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Ninja Gaiden, it’s more than just a nostalgia trip. This boldly colorful title is consistently entertaining in both its gameplay and storytelling—challenging the player in ways that never feel gimmicky or punishing. But this Metroidvania is most impressive for the way it seamlessly leaps from 8-bit to 16-bit. The increase in pixel count allows Sabotage Studios to play around with player expectation: A stage that required a simple jump here and a well-timed dodge there in 8-bit may suddenly require avoiding swinging spiked balls across a series of slow-moving platforms in 16-bit. Even after multiple playthroughs, it feels as if the memorably scored The Messenger isn’t done finding new ways of throwing exhilarating curveballs at the player. Jeremy Winslow

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The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

11. Dead Cells

Everyday it seems another miserable, demoralizing roguelike hits stores, trying to be the next Dark Souls but utterly oblivious to the specific recipe of tone, timbre, and ethos that makes Dark Souls work. The success of Dead Cells comes from beckoning its players onward. You wake up a formless blob of organic matter, squeezed into a suit of armor. The game then promises power, answers, and awe, and though it refuses to offer these things for free, Dead Cells is rightfully confident that these things are worth it. It’s an impressively grotesque, gothic world that our unnamed hero has to make his way through in order to achieve freedom, but it never puts mastery over one’s environment or the enjoyment of the journey too far out of arm’s reach. There will be a whole class of games we dub “Cells-like” in the near future, and it would be folly for us not to honor the one that got the trend started. Clark


The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

10. Octahedron

Octahedron is a rave in video game form. Here, you create your own platforms as you attempt to climb shafts filled with electric neon obstacles and viral creatures that scrabble about on their glowing fibrous legs shooting sound waves at you. Each level adds some new interpretation of the electronic soundtrack’s thumping beat, layering on the complexity until you’re contending with missile-launching turrets spinning in unison, avoiding platform-eating piranha plants, or manipulating blocky speaker-like cannons so that their streams of sound no longer block your path. This synesthetic experience feels like a close cousin to that of rhythm games, though Octahedron affords the player more freedom, since you’re restricted only by the number of platforms you can create before needing to land on a fixed surface. Hypnotically satisfying, the game is the song you can’t—and don’t—want to get out of your head. Riccio


The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

9. Hitman 2

In the exclusive VIP room of the Isle of Sgàil castle, the five members of the Ark Society council gather to discuss their plans to hold power over the world. During this Illuminati-esque gathering, the members of this privileged elite wear masks to conceal their identities—to discuss how they will profit from fixing the climate change disaster they created. But unbeknownst to them, one member isn’t who he seems. The elusive Agent 47, having earlier tossed member Jebediah Block over a balcony, has infiltrated their ranks, and he sets out to murder them all, dishing out his unique brand of darkly comedic justice. The game, a fusion of escapist wish-fulfillment and satire, has the player deploy its familiar and new stealth mechanics across inventive scenarios. Whether in an exotic jungle or a Vermont suburb, 47 exploits the hyper-detailed nature of his surroundings to complete his executions, and frequently in hilarious disguise. Hitman 2 gives players the tools to make their own amusing stories within the game’s open worlds, from choking an F1 driver while disguised in a flamingo outfit, to blowing up a Columbian drug lord using an explosive rubber duck, to reprogramming an android so it can gun down an MI5 agent turned freelance assassin played by Sean Bean. Aston


The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

8. Celeste

The dash jump of Celeste’s protagonist, Madeline, is one of the great platforming mechanics of recent years, but it’s not what makes the game remarkable. No, what makes Celeste remarkable is context. In the hands of Matt Makes Games, the familiar framework of ultra-hard platforming becomes an affecting narrative about mental health as naturally as if the subgenre had been building to it all along. Thoughtful character interludes punctuate Madeline’s dangerous climb up Celeste Mountain, moments of dialogue or anxiety that show her journey to be more than a physical one. She controls a monster, concludes a boss battle with an embrace, and all but flies while Lena Raine’s excellent soundtrack pulses in the background, as the game tosses off mechanics as satisfying as they are thematically resonant. Best of all, the difficulty-adjusting Assist Mode frames Celeste’s narrative as one of triumph accomplished by any means necessary rather than through the lone correct path to the summit. Scaife

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The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

7. Guacamelee! 2

Guacamelee! 2 is the best-paced action game since 2005’s Resident Evil 4. This sequel just never takes a breath as it throws every possible type of challenge at Juan, the player-controlled Mexican wrestler hero who picks up various skills throughout the game at an absurdly rapid clip. Unlike the references in the first Guacamelee!, the allusions here to game history and trends don’t feel obligatory, instead serving as a way to satirize everything from player empowerment to convoluted plot structure. All of this wild material is anchored by some of the most flexible mechanics of any era; throughout, punches, slides, body slams, flying techniques, and more must be performed in succession to overcome numerous platforming and combat tests. DrinkBox Studios has delivered one of the better video game sequels with Guacamelee! 2, further cementing itself among the most exciting developers working today. Pressgrove


The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

6. Subnautica

Subnautica’s open world, an expansive ocean on an alien planet, is frightening and mesmerizing in equal measure. As a survivor of a water landing, you must manage your oxygen wisely as you delve deeper into a sea full of never-before-seen life. As you uncover resources from caverns, long coral tubes, ship wreckage, and more, you will create more sophisticated forms of technology that can help you advance the game’s unobtrusive story or grant you access to the darkest corners of the underwater setting. No stretch of water in video game history has offered such an enlivening and humbling experience, from when you first lay eyes on the majestic alien equivalent of a whale to when you struggle to swim to the surface on zero oxygen. Drowning in Subnautica leads to gaming’s most existentially provocative moment of the year, as the protagonist’s slowly fading sight is so convincing that you might find yourself believing that you’re crossing over, in an unexpectedly peaceful fashion, to an undiscovered dimension. Pressgrove


The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

5. Florence

Florence relates the story of a twentysomething woman who falls in love with and ultimately separates from a cellist she meets in a park after her phone dies during her commute to a dead-end job. The narrative-focused game unfolds, and without a single word of spoken dialogue, as a series of puzzles. Though they may be rudimentary, they effectively capture the complex, overwhelming, and often warring feelings—frustration, joy, nervousness, and wonder—of people in love. Ultimately, Florence’s message is one of self-acceptance and self-discovery. It’s easy to settle into a routine, especially after acquiring a comfortable gig, but the game illustrates that by doing so we sell ourselves short, turning our back to an even more fulfilling life. As Florence Yeoh spreads her wings and takes a chance on her dreams, players get to see the fruits of her commitment. It’s a subtle nudge from the Australian video game developer to do the same, because you’ll never know the outcome unless you try. Winslow


The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

4. Iconoclasts

While Iconoclasts’s bright and imaginative 2D pixelated graphics would look right at home on a 16-bit console of yore, its themes and ideas are very much that of the modern day. The game’s silent protagonist, Robin, is trapped in a fascistic society ruled by fundamentalist dogma, where her skills as a mechanic are outlawed, positioning her as a criminal and counterforce in a setting that opposes scientific advancement and free-thinking. Robin’s journey to escape execution and expose the truth of her society’s dominating political organization aligns her with other well-crafted characters who oppose the tyrannical theocracy both in ideology and ability, and it’s through its characters’ unique facilities that Iconoclasts demonstrates a kind of Ludonarrative harmony, as the gameplay and themes are in lockstep, crafting an experience that tackles important issues of faith, religion, and totalitarianism. Throughout, Iconoclasts’s varied gameplay mechanics directly serve the narrative. Consider Robin’s special tool, an illegal wrench, and how it not only symbolizes suppression of science and personal freedoms, but is used as a weapon against enemies and a means of controlling technology and traversing obstacles, often directly modifying and rearranging objects in the world. It also pushes Robin toward her ultimate goal of fixing the broken world for good. Aston

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The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

3. Return of the Obra Dinn

The Obra Dinn is silent, with the ship’s crew either dead or disappeared. Gifted with a kind of supernatural pocket watch, you observe freeze frames of each person’s last living moments, looking for clues to their name, occupation, and cause of death to jot down in your little book. For insurance purposes, of course. Lucas Pope’s follow-up to Papers Please places soulless, dehumanizing record-keeping on a collision course with unimaginable horror, morphing the story of the crew’s last days into a logic puzzle as an indictment of capitalism. Many games have flirted with crime scene investigation in a guided capacity, but Pope actually turns you loose to sift through myriad, missable details on your own. Tattoos, accents, crew assignments, blood trails, and more must all factor into your calculations in one of the most satisfying, complex detective games ever created. One scene finds you jammed into a narrow space that restricts your movement, forcing you to only peek through a hole in the wall at the frozen terror beyond. It’s one astounding composition among many, proof that Return of the Obra Dinn is as meticulously wound as the pocket watch that sets it in motion. Scaife


The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

2. Marvel’s Spider-Man

This was the year Insomniac Games taught us the crucial difference between inhabiting a superhero and actually being one. Heroes rarely get to relate to the people they save on a personal level. In gaming, it’s even rarer to see a hero who saves a specific person’s day for no reward, and in ways that don’t involve breaking bones. Video games excel at letting players wield great power, while ignoring the great responsibility that comes with that. Marvel’s Spider-Man, miraculously, excels at both. As breathtaking and awesomely kinetic as it feels for Spider-Man to swing through Manhattan before taking out bad guys in a wild death-defying mid-air dance, the game’s most daring feat is when the acrobatics take a sidestep to poignancy and humanity. The inherent coolness of being Spider-Man never overwhelms the portrayal of every character as human beings trying desperately to accept or transcend their problems, their sworn duty, even their mortality, and Peter Parker showing nearly infinite empathy in coping with his and their mistakes. Spider-Man, the webslinger, is cool. Spider-Man, friend of an entire city, is phenomenal. Clark


The 25 Best Video Games of 2018

1. God of War

The eighth entry in the God of War series is full of classic, epic combat, as you’ll slay your share of elemental trolls, winged dark elves, and giant thunder dragons throughout the game’s campaign. But whereas its precursors placed mindless violence front and center, this game brings a new weight to protagonist Kratos’s every move. It’s in the heavier Leviathan Axe that he wields this time around, as well as in the lessons his actions convey to his son. The new Nordic setting also refuels the franchise’s creative roots. The game overflows with ideas and fresh locations throughout Kratos’s journey across the Nine Realms, with some side quests so expansive that they don’t just introduce an extra area, but an entirely different dimension with its own set of rules, like fiery Muspelheim or poison-fogged Niflheim. The regions that remain on the main path are central to Kratos’s literal and figurative journey: a witch’s autumnal sanctuary speaks to peaceful isolation; a giant’s frozen corpse, perilously climbed, illustrates the bitter results of war; and Helheim, the green-hued land of the dead, gives a firsthand demonstration of the implacable calling of the dead. Even God of War’s central hub is something more than it immediately appears: The water level recedes multiple times over the course of the game, each time exposing new islets and interconnecting pathways to existing ones, much as Kratos’s taciturn surface is gradually stripped away to reveal his deeper nature. There’s a double meaning to everything, especially the more visceral combat, which forces players to think about how to best engage foes, but about what they’re teaching their in-game son. This collection of mythic stories is made more relatable, not more mundane, through the lens of parenthood. Riccio

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