ItвЂ™s so good I can barely find words worthy to describe the magnitude of its goodness. Listen, I get that the appearance is anachronistic, but seriously, this game is too good to miss. Planescape: Torment Planescape is one of those games that you occasionally hear is really good and then you look up one screenshot and go вЂњnope, IвЂ™m never playing thatвЂќ and walk away and your life is worse for it. Undead Nightmare set the gold standard for single-player DLC and remains a standout example of reimagined excellence. Turns out John Marston was born to slay the undead and ride the horses of the apocalypse. How do you make your surprisingly-successful open world cowboy game even better? Release a reimagining of the western drama where all the characters you know and love now eat the flesh of the living! Undead Nightmare was pure zombie-blasting bliss with a healthy dose of supernatural armageddon to boot. Fourteen years after its release, Urban Dead remains a captivating experiment in game design. Every corpse you encounter or gang you stumble across is a living, breathing player, and the consequences of surviving in a world where both the living and the dead act with cunning makes this a frightfully exciting simulation. Urban Dead is nearly a decade old, but its innovations are still strikingly unique. You only have a few action points a day to issue commands, after which you have to simply wait to move again, and the tension of anticipating another turn becomes almost unbearable as you start to consider all the awful things that might be happening while youвЂ™re asleep. just thousands of real-world players surviving as scavengers or hunting down their former allies as newborn zombies. Urban Dead Think of it as Animal Crossing for the undead, but online, persistent, text-based, and completely social. Zombies and grappling hooks: a match made in video game heaven. Dying Light combines some of MinecraftвЂ™s greatest strengths like scavenging for materials in an open world, item crafting, and scary monsters that come out at night with solid hand to hand combat, a fun and speedy traversal system, and grappling hooks. Then thereвЂ™s survival mode, where youвЂ™ll need to work together to avoid being devoured by Creepers.Survival mechanics meet grappling hooks in Dying Light, a big, messy genre mash up.

Of courseВ Minecraft, like Fortnite, can be played on any number of systems, but (unlike Fortnite) its place under the Microsoft banner helps it feel more at home here.ДЄ lightning rod for creativity, split-screen gamers can build for hours in the gameвЂ™s blocky worlds, like the worldвЂ™s largest Lego box. Minecraft is always a reliable source for multiplayer (Picture: Microsoft) Just make sure your friend brings their own controller. Thankfully, Cuphead can be joined by co-op partnerВ MugmanВ in this side-scrolling platformer/shootвЂ™emВ up hybrid, making things at least a little easier. Unfortunately, itвЂ™s hard to feel anything other than sheer, controller-throwing frustration when faced with a boss you canвЂ™t get past. CupheadД¬uphead is an absolute gem (Picture: StudioMDHR)Д¬uphead is a beautiful game where every pixel and every animationВ feelsВ perfectly cohesive to the style of early Disney movies. While the entirety ofВ KaitвЂ™sВ emotionally charged story can be played through with a friend, the new Escape mode which involves tense encounters with powerful enemies and unstoppable explosives is also entirely playable in co-op.ДЇactor in the ever-compulsive Horde mode and youвЂ™ve got the complete side-by-side sofa gaming package. Gears of War was always famed for offering a co-operative campaign, but Gears 5 takes things up a notch in terms of content.

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