Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve is an arcade flight-combat game that puts the player in the cockpit of modern fighter jets across a story campaign and online battles. It was developed by Bandai Namco Aces and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, and it follows the numbered Ace Combat line rather than the spin-offs.
Tekken 8 is a one-on-one fighting game built around the Mishima family's long-running feud, with a cinematic story mode, a large roster and rollback-based online matches. It was developed by Bandai Namco Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment for home consoles and PC.
Demon's Souls is a ground-up remake of the 2009 PlayStation 3 game that started FromSoftware's punishing action-RPG formula. Rebuilt by Bluepoint Games for the PlayStation 5, it sends the player through the fog-shrouded kingdom of Boletaria, fighting through five regions and their bosses while souls earned in combat buy upgrades.
Dune: Awakening is a survival game set on the desert planet Arrakis, built around gathering spice, building bases and surviving sandstorms and giant sandworms. It was developed and published by Funcom and launched on PC in June 2025, with console versions following.
Total War: WARHAMMER III is a strategy game that mixes turn-based empire management with real-time battles, set in the Warhammer fantasy world. It was developed by Creative Assembly and published by SEGA, and its campaign can be linked with the two earlier Warhammer titles into one large map.
Burnout 3: Takedown is a 2004 arcade racing game built around high-speed traffic-dodging and Takedowns, slam manoeuvres that wreck rival cars and refill a boost meter. It was developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts for PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
Need for Speed: Most Wanted is a 2005 racing game that mixes street racing with police pursuits in the open city of Rockport, structured around climbing a ranked Blacklist of rivals. It was developed by EA Black Box with support from EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts across home consoles, handhelds and an early Xbox 360 release.
Need for Speed: Underground is a 2003 racing game built around night-time street racing and car customisation rather than the exotic supercars of earlier entries. It was developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronic Arts for home consoles, Windows and Game Boy Advance.
Need for Speed: Underground 2 is a 2004 street-racing game in which the player races through the open city of Bayview and tunes and styles cars between events. It was developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronic Arts for home consoles, Windows and handhelds.
Spyro Reignited Trilogy is a 2018 collection that rebuilds the first three Spyro games — Spyro the Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! and Spyro: Year of the Dragon — for home consoles and PC. The player runs, glides and breathes fire through hub worlds, collecting gems and freeing trapped dragons. It was developed by Toys for Bob and published by Activision.
Assetto Corsa is a 2014 racing simulator developed by Kunos Simulazioni and published on PC by 505 Games, later released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It focuses on realistic car physics and a roster of licensed cars, and its store page lists single-player and online PvP, with VR supported on PC.
Forza Horizon 5 is a 2021 open-world racing game set in a fictionalised Mexico, developed by Playground Games and published by Xbox Game Studios. It launched on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Windows PC, and its store page lists online co-op for two to six players and online multiplayer for two to twelve.
Gran Turismo 4 is a 2004 racing simulation developed by Polyphony Digital and published by Sony, released on PlayStation 2. Its official product page lists more than 700 cars, up to 100 courses and separate Arcade and Simulation modes, with car tuning and a physics model built around realistic handling.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a 2017 kart-racing game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch, an expanded version of Mario Kart 8 that first appeared on Wii U in 2014. It adds a reworked battle mode and, through the Booster Course Pass, additional tracks and characters.
Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition is a 2005 open-world racing game in which players race through three cities in customisable cars and motorcycles. It was developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games, and its name comes from a tie-in with DUB Magazine that adds DUB-sponsored races and customised vehicles.
Trackmania is a 2020 free-to-play racing game developed by Nadeo and published by Ubisoft, in which players chase times on short tracks and the community builds and shares its own courses. It launched on PC on 1 July 2020 and came to PlayStation and Xbox consoles in May 2023.
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is a turn-based tactical RPG developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo, released on Nintendo Switch 2 on September 17, 2026. Its campaign follows four heroes across past and present as they gather allies to defeat the demon god Balor, with customizable protagonists and a Blaze Arts battle system. The eShop lists it at $69.99 and as a single-system game.
Fortnite is Epic Games' free-to-play online game, listed on the Epic Games Store with a release date of July 21, 2017. It holds several modes under one client: the 100-player Battle Royale, Zero Build, Fortnite OG, Reload, Festival, Rocket Racing, LEGO Fortnite and the co-op Save the World campaign. Battle Royale and Creative require no purchase; Save the World's campaign is unlocked through in-app purchases.
God of War Laufey is the next game in the God of War series from Santa Monica Studio, played as Faye rather than Kratos. It arrives on PlayStation 5 on February 16, 2027, with pre-orders opening on September 29, 2026 in standard and Digital Deluxe editions. The studio's post details Faye's combat abilities ahead of launch.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is Warhorse Studios' first-person medieval RPG and the direct sequel to Kingdom Come: Deliverance, released on February 4, 2025 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series. It continues Henry's story through 15th-century Bohemia with melee, archery and stealth combat and without fantasy elements. The Steam page lists Warhorse Studios as developer and Deep Silver as publisher, with single-player as its only mode.
RuneScape is Jagex's online fantasy RPG, launched on January 4, 2001, making it one of the longest-running online games still in operation. It is free to play in its downloadable form, with a paid membership that unlocks additional quests, skills and areas. Jagex released it on iOS and Android in 2021 with cross-platform play between PC, Steam and mobile on one character.
Suri: The Seventh Note is a 2D Metroidvania with a rhythm layer, developed and published by Tathvamasi Studios and set in a mythic version of India. The studio describes timing jumps, dashes and tricks to the soundtrack as the core of play, with the island's music tied to the story. It launches on PlayStation 5 and PC on October 30, 2026 as a single-player game.
The Elder Scrolls Online is ZeniMax Online Studios' online entry in the Elder Scrolls series, launched worldwide for PC and Mac on April 4, 2014 and later brought to consoles. The base game is bought once and played without a required subscription, with the optional ESO Plus membership and Crowns sold separately. It is built around questing solo or in groups, crafting and large-scale PvP in Cyrodiil.
Valor Mortis is a first-person action soulslike from One More Level, the studio behind Ghostrunner, published by Lyrical Games. The studio describes an alternate 19th-century Europe where Napoleon rules after setting the continent ablaze, played as a soldier who rises from death with supernatural powers. It is listed for release on October 13, 2026 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series as a single-player game.
World of Warcraft is Blizzard Entertainment's long-running online RPG, launched on November 23, 2004 and still sold as a subscription rather than a one-off purchase. A single subscription covers both the retail game and World of Warcraft Classic, and Blizzard lists Windows and macOS among its supported systems. The studio is running the WoW Forever beta alongside the live game.
Slay the Spire 2 sends a deck of cards up a branching map again: every fight, relic and event you pick changes what the next floor looks like. Mega Crit's sequel adds a co-op mode where two players build their decks together, and it shipped in Early Access on 5 March 2026.
Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists is a tactical storybook RPG from the designers of King of Dragon Pass and Six Ages. You recruit a team of four heroes, pick a route down through the underworlds and settle each encounter in turn-based narrative scenes.
Tyr is a free multiplayer tank shooter: you drive heavy armoured vehicles with their own abilities and upgrade them between matches, fighting for objectives with a team. Stoke Games put it into Early Access on 2 September 2026 and keeps adding maps and modes.
Blacksmith Master is a medieval smithy management sim in which players mine ore, run a forge and sell finished goods to a town that grows with the workshop. Every furnace, apprentice and display table is placed by hand.
Dungeons of Eternity is a VR dungeon crawler with randomly generated crypts, physics-driven combat and co-op for up to four players. Swords, axes, bows and magic staves are all handled with the hands rather than through menus.
GOLF+ is a VR golf game that puts real courses into a headset, from Pebble Beach to Medinah Country Club No. 3, with swing physics tuned for motion controllers. A few courses are open to everyone and the rest come with a subscription pass.
Minecraft Dungeons II is a co-op action RPG that moves the Minecraft spin-off into procedurally arranged dungeon runs with loot, character builds and boss fights. Players pick a hero, gear up between runs and push deeper in a party of up to four.
PAYDAY: Aces High is a VR co-op heist game for up to four players, built around planning a job, carrying the tools and getting out before the alarm does. It is set in the PAYDAY universe and licensed by Starbreeze.
RENNSPORT is a racing simulation built around laser-scanned circuits, licensed cars and a season structure that mixes ranked racing with community events. It is developed jointly by Competition Company in Munich and the Polish studio Teyon.
Shil is a VR puzzle and horror game set inside a fractured subconscious, drawn in two flat tones that switch as the world reshapes. Players carry a slingshot and a magnet, and take directions from an AI that acts as their guide.
State of Desire is a mobile prison management game that starts with a small facility and grows into a maximum-security institution. Players hire guards and commanders, handle rivalries and contraband, then compete for influence in the criminal underworld.
Among Us puts a small crew on a spaceship where one or more players are impostors who kill the others and sabotage the ship. The crew completes tasks and votes out suspects, so most of the game is played through persuasion rather than mechanical skill.
Apex Legends is a squad-based battle royale in which three players pick characters with different abilities and drop into a shared map. Movement, including sliding and climbing, is central to how fights are won.
ARC Raiders is Embark Studios' extraction shooter: squads drop into a surface overrun by machines, take what they can carry and try to reach an elevator before other players do.
Baldur's Gate 3 is a turn-based role-playing game based on the fifth edition rules of Dungeons & Dragons. The player leads a party infected with a mind flayer parasite and decides how the group deals with it.
BioShock drops you into Rapture, an underwater city built on a philosophy that failed, with plasmids in one hand and a wrench in the other. The recordings you find are the only account of what happened there.
Castlevania is the 1986 Konami platformer that sent Simon Belmont through Dracula's castle, one whip, one staircase and one very deliberate jump at a time.
Celeste is a precision platformer about Madeline climbing a mountain, built from short rooms that demand repeated attempts. The story deals with anxiety and self-doubt alongside the climbing itself.
Cities: Skylines asks you to solve traffic before you are allowed a skyline: zoning, water flow, garbage and road layout all decide whether the population keeps growing.
Control Resonant continues Remedy's Federal Bureau of Control story in an altered Manhattan, mixing third-person shooting with the series' shifting architecture and an RPG layer of upgrades.
Counter-Strike 2 is a round-based tactical shooter in which two teams of five fight over objectives. Weapon purchases, economy management and map control matter as much as aim.
Crusader Kings III is a grand strategy game about a medieval dynasty rather than a state. The player manages a ruler's family, titles, vassals and schemes, and play continues through heirs after each death.
Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world action RPG set in Night City, where the player builds a mercenary character out of implants, weapons and dialogue choices. Several storylines run in parallel and how they are completed depends on the build and on what the character says.
Dark Souls III is the last of the trilogy: interlocking areas, bosses that punish greed and a combat system built on stamina and timing. Other players can be summoned, invaded or read as messages left on the ground.
Dead Cells is a roguelike action game with side-scrolling combat and levels that connect as the player unlocks routes over many runs. Permanent upgrades open new paths, while weapons and mutations change from one attempt to the next.
Death Stranding is a game about deliveries: load a backpack, plan a route over a mountain, and leave a ladder or a bridge behind for whoever comes next. Other players are never in your world — you only find what they left.
Deep Rock Galactic sends up to four dwarf miners into procedurally generated caves to extract minerals and survive alien swarms. Each class carries distinct tools, and the terrain itself can be dug through or reshaped.
Destiny 2 mixes first-person shooting with loot, six-player raids and a competitive mode on the same guns. Its content arrives as expansions and seasons rather than as sequels.
Diablo IV returns to a dark Sanctuary with seasonal characters, loot that comes in tiers and an open world shared with other players. Progress resets each season, which is the point of the format.
Disco Elysium follows a disgraced detective investigating a murder in a city recovering from a failed revolution. Skills argue with each other inside the character's head, and dialogue checks resolve most conflicts instead of combat.
Dota 2 is a five-versus-five game in which each player controls one hero and tries to destroy the enemy base. Heroes, items and map details change with regular patches, so the game is learned over a long period.
Dragon's Dogma 2 is Capcom's open-world action RPG built around pawns: AI companions who fight, learn from the player and can be hired between saves.
Elden Ring is an action RPG set in the Lands Between, a large open world of ruins, castles and underground regions. Combat is slow and punishing, and the game gives few direct instructions about where to go.
Factorio is a construction and automation game in which the player mines resources and builds machines that feed one another. The stated goal is to launch a rocket, which in practice means designing factories that keep getting larger.
New Vegas hands a courier with a bullet in the head a desert split between the NCR, Caesar's Legion and a man running the strip from a tower, and lets you decide which one ends up owning it.
Ghost of Tsushima puts a samurai on Tsushima island during the Mongol invasion and lets him choose between the honourable standoff and the blade in the dark. The wind, not a marker, is what points you at the next place.
God of War restarts the series with Kratos in Norse lands, an axe that returns to his hand and a son who has to be taught what his father was. The whole game is one camera take that never cuts.
Grand Theft Auto V puts three criminals in Los Santos and lets you switch between them mid-mission: a retired robber, a repo man and a pilot who talks too much. The same city is the setting of GTA Online, which has been running as its own game for over a decade.
Hades is an action roguelike in which Zagreus tries to escape the underworld and restarts at the bottom after every failed attempt. Combat mixes melee and ranged weapons with boons from the gods, and each death moves the story forward.
Half-Life 2 puts Gordon Freeman in City 17 with a gravity gun and no cutscenes: every scene is staged while you are still holding the camera. Physics is not decoration — it is a tool and a weapon.
Hell is Us is an action adventure set in a country torn apart by civil war, built so that the player navigates by observation: no quest markers, no map icons, no glowing arrows.
Helldivers 2 is a third-person co-op shooter in which squads drop onto planets to complete objectives against insect or robotic enemies. Friendly fire is always active, and support weapons are called in by entering codes during a fight.
Hollow Knight is a 2D action adventure set in Hallownest, a ruined underground kingdom of insects. The player explores connected caverns, fights bosses and unlocks movement abilities that open routes back through earlier areas.
Hytale is a blocky sandbox survival game from Hypixel Studios, built around exploration, building and combat in a world that ships with its own adventure content and mod tooling.
League of Legends is a team game in which five players pick champions and push toward the opposing nexus. Gold, levels and objectives set the pace of each match, and games rarely play out the same way twice.
Left 4 Dead 2 sends four survivors across the American South while an AI director decides when to send a horde and where to leave supplies, so no two runs of a map play out the same.
Marathon is Bungie's extraction shooter, a revival of the 1994 series as a squad-based raid game with player-run economies and story delivered through terminals and spaces between runs.
Marvel's Wolverine is Insomniac's solo adventure built around Logan's claws and healing factor, trading Spider-Man's acrobatics for weight, damage and a short temper.
The Legendary Edition collects the original Mass Effect trilogy with its save transfers intact: the same Shepard, the same crew, and decisions from the first game still deciding who is alive in the third.
Minecraft is a block-based sandbox in which players gather resources, build structures and explore generated worlds. A separate survival mode adds hunger, hostile creatures and progress through better tools and armour.
Monster Hunter: World is an action game about hunting large creatures and crafting equipment from their parts. Fights involve tracking, traps and stamina management, and most hunts can be played with up to four people.
NieR: Automata follows the androids 2B, 9S and A2 through a war against machine lifeforms, and it expects you to reach the end more than once: each ending changes whose story you were watching.
No Man's Sky is an exploration game set in a shared galaxy of procedurally generated planets. Players gather resources, repair and upgrade ships and travel between systems, with base building and trading available along the way.
Outer Wilds places the player in a small solar system that resets every 22 minutes when the sun explodes. Progress comes from knowledge rather than upgrades, since nothing carries over between loops except what the player has learned.
Palworld is a survival game in which players capture creatures called Pals and put them to work at a base. Pals can fight, farm, craft or be assigned to production, and the game mixes creature collecting with guns and automation.
Path of Exile is an action role-playing game with a large passive skill tree and a socketed gem system, so characters are defined by combinations rather than fixed classes. It runs on a league model that restarts the economy every few months.
Pokémon TCG Pocket is a mobile take on the trading card game with simplified battles and free daily packs, built around collecting as much as around deck building.
Portal 2 is a first-person puzzle game built around a device that creates linked portals on flat surfaces. Chambers are solved by redirecting momentum and light, and a separate campaign adds two-player puzzles with their own dialogue.
Rainbow Six Siege is a five-versus-five round game about destruction: walls can be breached, floors shot through, and every operator carries one gadget that changes how a site can be held.
Red Dead Redemption 2 follows Arthur Morgan and a gang of outlaws through the last years of the American frontier, with a camp to feed, a horse to keep alive and towns that remember what you did there. It is deliberately slow: most of the game is travel.
The 2023 remake rebuilds Leon Kennedy's rescue mission in a Spanish village: a knife that wears out, a merchant who buys everything you drag back, and enemies that keep arriving. It stands in for the 2005 original that established third-person shooter aiming.
Return of the Obra Dinn is a detective puzzle in which the player identifies the fate of everyone aboard a lost ship. A watch shows the last moment of a dead crew member, and names have to be worked out from context.
RimWorld is a colony simulation in which a small group of survivors tries to stay alive on a hostile planet. Events such as raids, illness and weather are chosen by an AI storyteller that sets the pace of the colony's story.
Rocket League is a competitive game in which cars push a large ball into a goal on enclosed arenas. Matches are short, and the physics allow aerial play that takes a long time to control.
RuneScape: Dragonwilds takes the RuneScape setting into an open-world survival crafting game, with gathering, base building and dragons to kill with whatever the world lets you craft.
Sea of Thieves is a shared-world pirate game in which crews sail, dig up treasure and fight other players. Ships are operated by hand, so tasks such as steering, repairing and watching for sails have to be divided among the crew.
Sekiro makes you a shinobi in a Sengoku-era Japan with a grappling hook, a sword and one stance to break. There is no character build and no summoning: the only thing that improves between attempts is how well you read the enemy's rhythm.
Civilization VI is a turn-based strategy game in which a leader guides one civilisation from ancient times to the modern era. Cities spread across the map as specialised districts, and victory can come through science, culture, religion, domination or diplomacy.
Slay the Spire is a deckbuilding roguelike in which the player climbs a tower and fights enemies with a deck of cards. Cards are added and removed between fights, so the deck is rebuilt on every run.
Stardew Valley is a farming simulation in which the player inherits a neglected plot of land and turns it into a working farm. Days are spent growing crops, raising animals, fishing, mining and getting to know the residents of the nearby town.
Team Fortress 2 is a class-based team shooter with nine roles, from the Spy who disguises as your own teammates to the Engineer whose sentry gun everyone ends up standing behind. Each class answers a different question the map asks.
Terraria is a 2D sandbox built around digging, building and fighting. Players explore generated worlds, gather ore and equipment, and take on bosses that gate further progress.
Skyrim sends a prisoner with a dragon's voice across a province of nine holds where nothing is gated: you can walk to the far side of the map at level one. Factions, dungeons and houses are all waiting in any order you like.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt follows Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter searching for his ward Ciri across a war-torn region. Quests often resolve through dialogue and consequence rather than combat alone.
Thronefall strips real-time strategy down to two phases: build a small kingdom by day, then hold the line against the night's attack, one map at a time.
Unpacking is a puzzle game about emptying boxes and arranging belongings in a series of rooms. There are no timers or scores, and where objects end up tells the story of the person who owns them.
Valheim is a survival and building game set in a Norse-inspired world of islands, forests and dungeons. Players gather materials, raise bases and defeat bosses in a set order to unlock stronger equipment.
VALORANT is a round-based tactical shooter in which attackers and defenders fight over a site, and each agent brings distinct abilities. Gunplay stays precise, with abilities used to support rather than replace it.
Vampire Survivors is a roguelike in which the player only controls movement while weapons fire automatically. Enemy waves grow denser over a run of about 30 minutes, and pickups build the character through stacked upgrades.
Warframe is a free-to-play action game in which players control heavily modified fighters called Warframes. Missions are short and movement is fast, and most progression comes from crafting new equipment from blueprints.
