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Silver Pines (Switch 2)
This one arrived with almost no warning and immediately became one of the best things I’ve played in months. The atmosphere is the hook, thick and genuinely unsettling, and it maintains that pressure without leaning on the usual tricks. It’s also gorgeous, with an art direction distinct enough that you’d recognize a screenshot instantly.
I love finding hidden gems that weren’t even on my radar. Even though some have been following this for awhile, it was a Halloween surprise for me!
The real surprise however is how much fun it is underneath all the dread. Plenty of atmospheric games forget to be enjoyable to actually play. This one didn’t. Halloween may be behind us, but that’s a terrible reason to skip it, and the price makes the decision easy. Go get this.
The Wolf Among Us Remastered (PC)
I came to this one completely fresh, having never touched the original, and it holds up remarkably well as a first-time experience. It’s dark, grimy, and willing to sit in uncomfortable places, with a version of fairy tale characters that feels closer to a crime drama than anything you’d expect from the source material.
What struck me most is that nobody really makes games like this anymore. The deliberate pacing, the weight given to conversations, the sense that your choices are shaping a story rather than a score, that style has largely fallen out of favor, which makes revisiting it feel less like nostalgia and more like discovering something that got left behind.
The remaster is a solid piece of work too, cleaning things up without sanding off the character. Easy recommendation, whether you played it a decade ago or not at all.
Sword of the Sea (Switch 2)
Another beautiful game making the trip to Switch 2, and another one that arrives intact. It’s a graceful, flowing thing to play, and the visuals survive the transition with everything that made them special still in place.
Whether this is new to you or a return visit from another platform, the handheld option suits it particularly well. The Switch 2 library keeps filling out faster than anyone expected a year and a half in, and this is one more reason the hardware is worth owning.
Crimson Desert Enhanced: Charting the Unknown (PC)
We loved the base game, warts and all, and this expansion carries the same ambition. It’s genuinely huge, with the kind of environmental detail that suggests nobody on the team was phoning it in. On scope alone it stands up next to plenty of full releases.
The problems are structural rather than creative. We hit a lot of bugs, enough that they stopped feeling like one-offs and started shaping the experience. More significantly, most of the story content is gated behind finishing the base game, which the majority of players haven’t done. If you’re deep in and already invested, this is a feast. If you’re a more casual player still working through the main campaign, hold off until you’ve actually cleared it. Buying it now mostly means owning content you can’t reach yet.
Either way, just like the base game, there is a ton of amazing content here for a fair price but you have to work for it. Regardless, Pearl Abyss has been fixing issues and issuing patches faster than we can keep up with it so this has very bright future indeed.
