The first horror franchise I ever fell in love with finally has a game that actually feels like Halloween even if the launch is way rougher than Michael Myers deserves.
The Viking survival game that ate entire friend groups for years is finally finished and somehow still feels worth starting from scratch.
Capcom brought Onimusha back after twenty years and somehow made the swordplay feel better than most modern games built around it.
The vampire RPG I have wanted for years is finally here but clunky combat and open-world busywork keep me from loving it as much as I want to.
The dungeon-to-shop loop is still dangerously addictive even if the sequel occasionally overcomplicates the parts that never needed fixing.
Escape the Backrooms turns an internet horror meme into a surprisingly good co-op game that is much scarier before your friends start screaming.
Seven years of impossible expectations should have crushed this game and Team Cherry somehow delivered one of the best Metroidvanias ever made.
Delta Force gives you a surprising amount of shooter for free but cheating and matchmaking keep getting in the way of how good it could be.
Hell Let Loose: Vietnam doubles down on everything I already hate about this series: slow matches long dead stretches and deaths that often arrive before the fun does.
A creepy Lovecraftian survival horror that finally gives The Sinking City the gameplay its world always deserved.