Metroid is a long-running series, and Dread is one of the best entries, but it might be easier to recommend an earlier entry because Dread is really difficult. But for those who want a challenging title, Metroid Dread is an easy recommendation.
Based on a fan-made homage to DOOM, Jupiter Hell is a turn-based strategy game that actually plays almost as fast as a shooter, assuming you want to approach the game that way. You will be outnumbered, outgunned and surrounded. So you have the demons right where you want them.
Samudra offers a chill underwater gameplay experience, but one that also strives to teach players about environmental awareness and the pollution that is adversely affecting the world’s oceans. It’s all about fun and learning this week with the Modern Gamer.
Dripping with atmosphere that is both spooky and campy, Rogue Lords could be a perfect way to kick off the Halloween season. Unfortunately, the game is brutally difficult, which kind of takes away much of the potential fun for most players.
Lake is probably unlike most other games you have played. It’s a chill non-adventure that finds main character Meredith pulled from the big city to help her dad delivering mail in the small town where she grew up. Thus, Lake is a slice-of-life heaven.
A dachshund with a wheelchair. A deadly pet alligator. A backpack that fires rockets. Giancarlo Esposito. One person taking down a dictatorial regime on a tropical island. Anywhere else, this group would seem strange, but not in Far Cry. Welcome to Far Cry 6.
With one of the most beautifully rendered cyberpunk megacities ever created for a game, you will be amazed just walking around within The Ascent’s sprawling arcology. There are not too many role-playing or story elements, but the combat is smooth and satisfying.
The world’s Newest MMO is appropriately named New World. Representing the first big foray into video games from Amazon, New World is a massive endeavor that reimagines the colonial time period, but one where magic, monsters and even the undead rise up to challenge a nation’s God-given right to rule the world.
Tales of Arise is an epic action RPG adventure that starts as a standard fight the oppressors type of story and evolves into something much bigger as you play. It also has some of the most gorgeous visuals you will ever see.
An amazingly helpful tool for game masters, The Ultimate Random Encounters Book is ready to be dropped into almost any Dungeons and Dragons or roleplaying campaign to add much needed flavor to the points between major story elements.
