Enemies have weak points to target and weapons that you can disable, so sometimes it’s worth finding a spare half-second in the heat of battle to pause, aim, and hit your shot, because it will save you a lot of pain later. But, at times, it’s also about restraint. It’s an over-the-top celebration of guts and gore in which you chainsaw enemies in half, rip eyeballs from sockets and stomp on demon’s faces with a giant boot. With new weapons, a more agile Doomguy, and a fresh emphasis on resource management (yes, you read that correct), Doom Eternal somehow 1UPs Doom 2016, which was already deserving of a spot on this list. While Monster Hunter Rise doesn’t beat Monster Hunter World, it’s also a great game, made greater by the addition of the Sunbreak DLC, which adds reams of new content to the game similar to what Iceborn did to World.

If you’ve already been playing Monster Hunter World for a while, chances are you’ve moved on to its sequel Monster Hunter Rise. Plus, finding clues about monsters will automatically lead you to their location, meaning you can travel between its excellent fights faster than ever. A generous loot system means that, even when you’re grinding for a particular armor set, you’re constantly picking up useful items you didn’t know you wanted. With 14 weapon types and hundreds of items to craft, climbing the gear tree can feel overwhelming, but it’s still the most accessible Monster Hunter to date. The monsters are huge yet elegant, and both learning and countering their moveset makes it feel more like a fighting game than a button-mashing hack-and-slash. Its gorgeous maps – from the bright, enchanted Coral Highlands to the toxic clouds of shrouded unbelly of the Rotted Vale – are fitting backdrops for some properly brilliant fights. Monster Hunter: World is an elaborate, extravagant game about slaying huge beasts and turning their tails into axes. Dredge lives from making its players curious – you want(don’t want to see the next strange tale that awaits you in this pleasantly creepy game that never veers into outright horror. Over the course of the game, you have to decide whether your decreasing debt is worth your decreasing sanity. However, there is a catch (hah) – reeling in the otherworldly or witnessing stressful events impacts your sanity, and with decreasing sanity, dangerous things start to happen. Time only passes if you move or fish, and soon you will find out that higher prizes await you for travellig the dark waters at night. Where Dredge comes into its own however, are the quiet, creeping Lovecraftian elements that come with fishing at night. Sometimes, Dredge is just a normal fishing game, our Dredge review points out, a gentle experience centred around a fun fishing mini-game that manages to set itself ever so slightly that even fishing mini-game aficionados will enjoy it.

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