

The Grey Knights are on a quest to defeat a local plague outbreak brought on by the Chaos god of disease, Nurgle. Chaos Gate is an X-COM-like squad tactics game, where you take a team of Grey Knights: The universe’s equivalent of medieval knights, but each with an array of psychic powers and an over the top arsenal of space weaponry. The Warhammer 40,000 franchise has a bit of a running curse about it, where only one in every five games are actually any good, but the tactics games seem to have the best luck so far. Īdvertisement Complex Games / Frontier Developments plc Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate DaemonhuntersĬhaos Gate is a fantastic little tactics game that has very successfully punched well above its weight. The sense of discovery presented is one unmatched in recent memory, creating a unique game that is a must play for any fans of the genre looking for something that feels like a perfect balance of both old and new. Similarly, the fact that everything in the game is written in a made-up language that might be decipherable but for the most part requires some critical inferring skills. What makes that journal so memorable is that each page must be discovered in tucked away places that require more than a little bit of effort in exploration.
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Featuring some genuinely challenging combat and amazing map and level design, Tunic’s most unique aspect must be its in-game journal that functions as a treasure trove of maps, concept art, and the only means of learning the game’s mechanics. While aping most directly from the original Legend of Zelda titles and wearing that influence proudly, the game also keeps things fresh with an added dash of modern flourishes borrowed from the Souls series, Hyper-Light Drifter, Fez and, probably the most succinct comparison, Devolver Digital’s Death’s Door. If you haven’t yet, check out some of these highlight games of the year that we genuinely enjoyed, and if we missed any of your favorites, we’re sure they’re on our to-play list and haven’t gotten to them yet! But nag us about them anyway, because we do know that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredder’s Revenge and Deltarune Chapter 3 is going to be someone’s game of the year on the TYF staff.Ī splendid mishmash of a wide variety of complimentary influences, Tunic is above all else a love letter to the storied history of top-down action-adventure games. Because of this new list convention, these are not in a ranked order.
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We’re looking to actively update this list as the rest of the year goes on so that our favorites from the year’s first half don’t become obscured by the big releases by the time fall blockbuster titles come around. You could say we’re saving our progress, in a sense. We’re going to be trying out something a little different this year, however.

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While The Young Folks’ staff cranks the AC down low and stock our coolers full of icy drinks, we’ve come to a moment in the summer where we reach out mid-year checkpoint, and chart our favorite video games of 2022 so far.
