Alessandro Fillari Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Its handling of both an enigmatic story and slick shooting gameplay that pushes you to get better with each playthrough made it a standout in 2021. Returnal offered that "this is next-gen" moment I was waiting for ever since buying a PS5. This is all amplified by the game's fantastic use of the PS5's DualSense and 3D Audio to enhance immersion, making it a stellar showpiece for the console. It also has an incredibly touching story about loss and grief with its protagonist, Selene. You think you're getting a gorgeous sci-fi shooter that could make for fun afternoon entertainment, but you end up with a game set in a cosmic time loop that has elements of psychological horror and intense action - RPG gameplay, too. With masterful sound design constructed with over 14,000 different audio files, the game feels comfortably familiar from the very first time you place an object. Over the course of various apartments and houses - some big, some painfully small - we witness a snippet of the protagonist's life at formative stages, telling a beautiful story of self, relationships and growth. This cozy organizational puzzle game is easily one of the year's most unexpected hits. Death's Door is a game that wears its influences on its sleeves, but ultimately becomes more than the sum of its parts.
Imagine Link to the Past with dialed-in, layered combat systems and you're halfway there. Alessandro Fillari Death's DoorĪ top-down, combat-focused RPG, Death's Door is razor sharp in its combat, stripping everything else back to base elements. Seeing it unfold is shocking, and it'll be hard to forget just how far down the rabbit hole this game goes by its completion.ĭon't look up anything just play it and really let yourself be taken by what this inventive and enigmatic game has to offer. Think Magic The Gathering crossed with the most unnerving elements of internet horror stories. However, the game cleverly uses the conceit of a deck-building game as the backbone for its surprisingly unnerving and meta storyline, which truly goes places that you would least expect. Without spoiling anything, Inscription is an extremely stylized take on the familiar genre of turn-based card battle games. The less you know about Inscryption before playing it, the better your experience will be. Oh, and outside of weird Battle Pass issues, the multiplayer is awesome. It's the Halo that exists in your imagination, and it rules. Better yet, it takes Halo back to its roots: strange and alien, but familiar. Its polished, endlessly engaging encounters work seamlessly in its new, gorgeously rendered open world. But as an end product, Halo Infinite is startlingly good.
It suffered multiple delays, lost many of its key developers and by all accounts had a nightmarish development period. Halo Infinite should have been a disaster.
Halo Infinite came out a little too late to make it into our Game of the Year discussions, but we'd be silly not to include it here. We also added three honorable mentions because 2021 was a very good year for video games. So with that, these are the CNET's favorite video games of 2021, including honorable mentions and our Game of the Year - as decided by the staff at CNET.įor reference, we've chosen a Game of the Year, a runner-up and eight additional, unranked, games to round out our top 10.
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