

I find it a bit amusing how Stardew Valley ended up sandwiched between DOOM and Grim Dawn. Besides that, a vast array of guns that both look and feel great, a soundtrack that pumps you up for every fight and a mode that allows you to create your own levels are what make DOOM one hell of a package. With an excellent handling of pacing and fights that have a perfect rhythm, often requiring you to get in close while you’re low on health, as executions replenish your HP, DOOM succeeds at delivering a FPS experience that very much contains a part of the soul of the original DOOM. The no nonsense approach, focused on killing demons because they’re demons and you happen to have a gun or ten with you, is exactly what DOOM needed to be. Darkest Dungeon may feel intimidating and first, and punishing all throughout, but manages to draw you back in every time you swear to yourself you’re not touching it after having your high level characters get slaughtered by unspeakable horrors for the millionth time.ĭOOM managed to dispel any skepticism that could be had starting with its intro sequence. Finally coming out in January, the game brought with it a unique art style, brutal difficulty and a marvelously well done implementation of madness as a gameplay mechanic, fitting of a game that draws inspiration from Lovecraftian tales.

With the other platforms already covered, we’re left with the PC, so, without further ado, let us get into our list.ĭarkest Dungeon came to people’s attention during its time in Early Access, being a notable presence on Twitch for a while.

As yet another year full of releases comes to a close we do what must be done and take a look at the games released in 2016 that impressed us the most.
