Wild Gate is a competitive multiplayer game that actually tries to be different. Considering the current homogeneous nature of the game industry, that automatically wins some points from me. The closest game to Wild Gate would be Sea of Thieves, but Wild Gate condenses a similar experience down into 15 to 40-minute match times.
Dead by Daylight is a 9-year-old asymmetrical multiplayer game that is still going strong in 2025. I intentionally ignored the game for the longest time. I’m not a horror fan, be it movies or video games, and I tend to shy away from things that are creepy or gore-filled. That meant the entire concept always gave me the ick, and I just wrote it off.
That was a mistake. A friend recently got me to try it, and there’s a lot going on with this game that makes it really special. To be fair, Dead by Daylight has had 9 years of refinements, but I want to talk about some key things that I think really make it a great game that’s worth playing, even now.
I think my biggest worry going into Death Stranding 2 was the fear that it would stray too far from the original. That fear was unfounded as Death Stranding 2 is still a weird game about making deliveries amid a world filled with beached ghosts, pod babies, and Troy Baker having an absolute blast playing one of the strangest roles ever cast.
It might be blasphemy to say, but I’ve never played Elden Ring despite the fact that I loved the Dark Souls games. Something just always got in the way of me finding the right moment to jump into it. Nightreign’s co-op focus, however, grabbed my attention. Full Co-op is the biggest thing I wanted in any Souls game, and the fact that it’s wrapped in a rogue-lite cloak made it an even better fit for me.