Some early favorites for what’s already shaping up to be a marquee year in gaming
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Nintendo, Bandai Namco, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sloclap/Microïds and Iceberg Interactive The first few months of a new year are always lousy with new video games. Developers who can’t meet the deadline for the holiday season often cut bait and shunt the fruits of their labor into January or February to buy crucial time for some extra polish. Still, I don’t think I’ve seen anything quite like the beginning of 2022.
Diablo Immortal Free at Apple App Store Buy Free at Google Play Buy Eternal Threads You’re a time-traveling detective standing in the ruins of a burnt-out boarding house. Six people died in the flames, and the goal is to survey the dimensional feedback that led up to this tragedy and edit a few choices made by the residents in order to forge a timeline where they get out alive.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe $25 $25 Buy at Steam Buy Dune: Spice Wars It’s incredible that Dune, a franchise that has laid in total dormancy for decades, has suddenly stirred from its licensing slumber thanks to the all-powerful Timothée Chalamet bump. We are suddenly inundated by Dune movies, Dune board games, Dune comic books — and someone at Warner Bros. had the good sense to hand the universe over to Shrio Games for a Dune-themed RTS.
Ghostwire: Tokyo $50 $60 now 17% off $50 Buy at Amazon Buy $50 at Amazon Buy Norco Norco is a real place. It’s located just outside of New Orleans, hosts a population of around 3,000, and is dominated by a monolithic Shell oil refinery that both supplies and oppresses the town.
Nobody Saves the World $25 $25 Buy at Steam Buy Rainbow 6 Extraction Rainbow 6: Extraction feels like a generous expansion pack. The game includes the same arsenal and characters as Ubisoft’s venerated first-person shooter Rainbow 6 Siege, but it trades the squad-based multiplayer for a horror-flick romp through an obscene, viscerally unsettling alien apocalypse.
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