

Getting to know your favourite and romancing them has become just as important as the action, if not more so. Mass Effect features epic shootouts in space, but thanks to great writing it shines more for its characters. It’s imbued with the soul of Star Trek – a close-knit crew ventures out into space to solve political tensions, eventually coming across an alien threat. And with the Mass Effect Legendary Edition bringing the second entry in the stellar trilogy back with enhanced visuals and improvements, now's a great time to experience Shepard's space-faring adventure for the first time, or all over again. Doom (2016)ġ0 years on, the saga of Commander Shephard and their crew is still one of the best and most engrossing sci-fi RPGs out there. Stunningly, that makes the payoff even bigger when you find a hint and the hunt for your ancestors suddenly looks promising again.Īvailable on PC, PS4, Xbox One 10.

Some pathways can only be found if you’re willing to let the planets and their carefully thought-out physics do their thing, and sometimes the journey can get lonely. Ironically, sometimes you need exactly what Outer Wilds doesn’t endorse – patience. That may sound very stressful, but a weird tranquillity sets in wherever you’re creeping through a cave on the hunt for left-behind messages or meet a previous explorer on his lonesome near a campfire. You go out to uncover the history of a prior civilisation in your little solar system, because solving the mysteries they themselves were working on it the only way to save everything you’ve come to know from certain doom. Seldom has a game captured the feeling of giddy discovery as well as Outer Wilds. Games are about exploration, about traversal, and about uncovering secrets.
