Persona games tend have a heavy focus on up-beat teenage stories of a team taking on the world, while the SMT games are typically darker and solitary. While the Persona series has seen more popularity in the west, the mainline Shin Megami Tensei JRPG series is very similar, yet very different at the same time.
Better yet, it’s a strong foundation for updates yet to come, and you can play it for “free” as part of a monthly Xbox Games Pass subscription, the best deal in PC gaming. It’s not quite as deep as AoE 2 is yet-that game has been out and being tweaked for over 20 years-but Age of Empires IV is nevertheless fun and deep. Each civilization brings its own quirks and advantages to the table, and as always, you can win the game in several different ways, from scoring a religious victory to building and holding a late-game Wonder. Age of Empires IVstays true (almost too true, at times) to the classic formula, offering four campaigns (each with branching civ-specific landmark choices that change your empire’s direction in different ways) and eight different empires to play in skirmish battles or multiplayer clashes. “Long War” mods kept both XCOM and XCOM 2 feeling fresh long after the base games started feeling stale, and I can’t wait to try out the new “ Long War of the Chosen” mod that just launched earlier this month, building upon XCOM 2’s fantastic “War of the Chosen” expansion.All these years later, Age of Empires II remains a gold standard in the real-time strategy genre, and it’s only getting stronger with the extra attention devoted to the recent Definite Edition release-but that’s not the only way to scratch that AoE itch. And as always, shout-out to XCOM 2, the alien-toppling tactics game that remains my go-to five long years after its debut. Inscryptionbills itself as “an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie.” And well, yep. Loop Hero is another remarkably replayable game, an RPG with stats and monsters and a story, but one where you don’t directly control the hero-instead, you kit them out and place cards that shape the world around the titular loop. It’s not just great, it’s almost infinitely replayable. Hitman 3 is the pinnacle of the Hitman series’ over-the-top murder sandbox gameplay, nailing absolutely every aspect. Like last year, I dipped in and out of many more games than we could ever list here, so I wanted to cast a spotlight on a few more you shouldn’t miss-mostly indies.
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