The Best Video Games Released In 2022

Splatoon 3

• Arena
• Multiplayer
• Shooter
• ThirdPerson
• online

Like its predecessors in the Splatoon series, the game consists of competitive online multiplayer matches alongside a story-driven single-player mode. Returning from the previous game is the ability for players to choose between "Inklings" and "Octolings" as their player character. Inklings also have...

.hack//G.U. Last Recode

• Action
• RolePlaying
• Action
• RolePlaying

.hack//G.U. Last Recode – the definitive .hack//G.U. experience for existing fans and newbies – collects the three .hack//G.U. action-RPG titles; Rebirth, Reminisce and Redemption with updated 1080p, 16:9 widescreen picture, and 60 fps frame rate, gameplay balance changes and additional features...

Grand Theft Auto V

It is the seventh main entry in the Grand Theft Auto series, following 2008's Grand Theft Auto IV, and the fifteenth instalment overall. Set within the fictional state of San Andreas, based on Southern California, the single-player story follows three protagonists—retired bank robber Michael De Santa,...

Xenoblade Chronicles 3

• japanese
• anime
• exploration
• JRPG
• ThirdPerson
• RolePlaying
• realtime

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 will feature a narrative centered on a new cast of characters, depicting the respective futures of the worlds featured in Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Set after the events of Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 , Xenoblade Chronicles 3 takes place...

Kirby And The Forgotten Land

• Action
• Platform

Deep Rock Galactic

• Action
• survival
• Horror
• OpenWorld
• Shooter
• Scifi

Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op-first sci-fi FPS featuring badass space Dwarves, 100 destructible environments, procedurally-generated caves, and endless hordes of alien monsters.

Mount Blade II Bannerlord

• adventure
• HiddenObject
• Puzzle
• medieval
• TextBased

Monster Hunter Rise

• Action
• Action
• Action

It has shipped more than 8 million copies worldwide since launch, making it the second best-selling game in the series. As with previous Monster Hunter titles, Monster Hunter Rise has the player take the role of a Hunter, tasked with slaying or capturing large monsters using a variety of weapons, tools,...

BioMutant

• anime
• adventure
• Action
• HackAndSlash
• OpenWorld
• Scifi
• RolePlaying
• anime
• adventure
• Action
• HackAndSlash
• OpenWorld
• Scifi
• RolePlaying

"Explore a world in turmoil and define its fate – will you be the hero and saviour or lead it to an even darker destiny? Biomutant’s unique design lets players change their character’s abilities and appearance with powerful mutations, bionic prosthetics and weapons. Grow claws,...

The King Of Fighters XV

• japanese
• Fighting

This is also the first game in The King of Fighters series created using Unreal Engine 4, and the first to implement GGPO rollback networking. Taking place after the events of The King of Fighters XIV, the narrative primarily revolves around two fighters with multiverse-related supernatural powers, Shun'ei...

Pokemon Legends Arceus

It is part of the eighth generation of the Pokémon video game series and serves as a prequel to the 2006 Nintendo DS role-playing video games Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. The game was announced as part of the Pokémon 25th Anniversary event alongside Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. Pokémon...

Temtem

• adventure
• pokemon
• Action
• mmo
• Multiplayer
• VirtualPets
• monstercollecting
• RolePlaying
• adventure
• pokemon
• Action
• mmo
• Multiplayer
• VirtualPets
• monstercollecting
• RolePlaying

The game uses the Unity development engine, and is a creature-collection video game greatly inspired by Nintendo's Pokémon series. Players explore the area capturing the eponymous Temtem creatures and command them in double battles against other Temtem controlled by an NPC or another player. In the...

Them’s Fightin’ Herds

• Arcade
• Fighting
• Multiplayer
• Party
• Arcade
• Fighting
• Multiplayer
• Party

Them’s Fightin’ Herds is a 2D Fighting game featuring a cast of 4-legged combatants! Beneath the cute and cuddly surface designed by acclaimed cartoon producer and developer Lauren Faust, a serious and mechanically deep, GGPO-powered fighter awaits!

Deathloop

• adventure
• Action
• Stealth
• parkour
• timetravel

In Deathloop, the player takes on the role of Colt, an assassin who wakes up on a beach on the island of Blackreef after becoming trapped in a time loop. The other residents of Blackreef, a former army base where strange experiments were once conducted, have invested in the island and have gathered for...

Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series

• anime
• adventure
• Action
• Casual
• Platform
• remake
• mascot
• anime
• adventure
• Action
• Casual
• Platform
• remake
• mascot
• anime
• adventure
• Action
• Casual
• Platform
• remake
• mascot

It was launched in 1997 with Klonoa: Door to Phantomile for the PlayStation and continued with Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil in 2001 for the PlayStation 2. The main gameplay feature involves using Klonoa's ring and "Wind Bullets" to inflate enemies, which can be thrown at other objects or at the ground, giving...

Factorio

• adventure
• Action
• OpenWorld
• Platform
• Simulation

Factorio is a real-time strategy video game in development by Wube Software. The campaign raised € 21,626 of the € 17,000 goal. Following the crowdfunding success, Wube sold early access editions of the game to raise further funds. He and his crew were to set up a base equipped with missile...

Phantasy Star Online 2

• Action
• mmo
• RolePlaying

Phantasy Star Online 2 is a video game in the Phantasy Star series published by Sega. Players also pick a starting class: in addition to the core classes Hunter, Ranger, and Force, the hybrid classes Braver and Bouncer, introduced in Episode 2 and 3 respectively, are also available. By default, players...

Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue

• adventure
• RolePlaying

Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue is an HD remastered collection of the Kingdom Hearts series, developed by Square Enix exclusively for the PlayStation 4. The first, Kingdom Hearts χ Back Cover, tells a new tale of the Foretellers in HD cinematics, while Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep–A...

Don't Starve Together

• adventure
• Multiplayer
• adventure
• Multiplayer

A Nintendo Switch port came out on April 12, 2018. The game follows a scientist named Wilson who finds himself in a dark, dreary parallel world known as the Constant and must survive as long as possible. To this end, the player must keep Wilson alive, fed, and mentally stable as he avoids a variety...

XIII Remake

Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition

The game is not a direct adaptation of the 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner but is instead a "sidequel", telling an original story, which runs parallel to the film's plot, occasionally intersecting with it. Set in 2019 Los Angeles, the game tells the story of Ray McCoy, an elite detective charged...

Coral Island

• anime
• adventure
• Action
• survival
• Casual
• OpenWorld
• Simulation
• building
• RolePlaying

One of the first works of juvenile fiction to feature exclusively juvenile heroes, the story relates the adventures of three boys marooned on a South Pacific island, the only survivors of a shipwreck. A typical Robinsonade – a genre of fiction inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe – and one...

Mary Skelter 2

• japanese
• JRPG
• DungeonCrawler
• TurnBased
• sexy
• waifu
• RolePlaying
• japanese
• JRPG
• DungeonCrawler
• TurnBased
• sexy
• waifu
• RolePlaying

Mary Skelter: Nightmares is a dungeon crawler role-playing video game for the PlayStation Vita developed and published by Compile Heart and Idea Factory. It was followed by two sequels Mary Skelter 2 and Mary Skelter Finale, respectively. The game is a first-person dungeon crawler role playing game...

Triangle Strategy

Each character has a set value for movement range and attack power and range per turn based on their inherent attributes, and alterable ones, such the terrain they are position on, and weapons or armor they are equipped with. In addition to attacking opposing forces, certain parts of the environment...