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1 KENA: BRIDGE OF SPIRITS

Kena’s setting is in many ways a large character in the game, seeing as it’s your task to free it of a malicious rot. How? With the help of some more rot, but this time googly-eyed, sentient, and seriously cute.

2 FIREWATCH

After a tragic loss, protagonist Henry becomes a park ranger,. For the most part, however, walking around the forest in Firewatch is a genuinely calming experience, full of multicoloured sunsets and crunchy leaves under your digital feet, proving that forests don’t have to look hyper-realistic to delight.

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