It’s also a workout: it’s unlikely any other 2018 release will make you sweat quite as much as Beat Saber. It manages to satisfy that long-held desire by many of us to wield a Star Wars laser sword, while also just being a great rhythm game. The concept is simple, but when you strap on a headset and get in tune with the music, it’s an absolutely absorbing experience. Beat Saber is a mashup of Star Wars and Guitar Hero: blocks of color fly toward you in time to the music, and you have to swat them away with a pair of humming lightsabers. It took much longer than anticipated, but virtual reality finally has its killer app. There was a lot to choose from, and we’ve whittled it down to the best 15 games of the year. Meanwhile, Tetris Effect made the case that stacking blocks can be an emotional experience. Florence used interactivity to show what it feels to fall in love, and Return of the Obra Dinn is perhaps the best whodunit to ever grace the medium.
But 2018 was also a fantastic year for smaller games. There are the blockbusters, of course, like the free-wheeling Spider-Man and the meticulously detailed Red Dead Redemption 2. There was even a great Sonic the Hedgehog game, which doesn’t happen very often.īut this year was also surprisingly strong, offering up an incredibly varied mix of interactive experiences.
Meanwhile, we were surprised and delighted by brand-new names like PUBG, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Cuphead. Last year saw some of the biggest names in video games reinvented and rejuvenated, from the lush open world of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to the heart-pounding Resident Evil 7 to the manic wackiness of Super Mario Odyssey.
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