For the first several hours of Avowed, I was properly transported to its world. Then I stopped caring about the characters. My story choices didn’t matter much, either to the narrative or, more fatally, to myself.

The latest entry in the Sniper Elite series, Sniper Elite: Resistance, takes place in German-occupied France before the D-Day invasion and stars a new main protagonist named Harry Hawker, a British special operations executive.

Although most word games are deceptively simple, they have room for depth. The app game Lok explores those wider frontiers. Based on the critically acclaimed puzzle book, the project introduces players to a mysterious language that uses a 26-letter Latin alphabet.

The list of games auteur David Lynch has inspired seems endless. Lynch never delved completely into horror, but his DNA is all over the genre, particularly in video games.

Virtual reality gaming has come a long way, and here are the best games for both the PSVR2 and the Meta Quest 3.

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How do you create an Indiana Jones game that can stand shoulder to shoulder with other genre masterpieces like Uncharted 2 while still bringing something new to the genre? Developer MachineGames came up with a brilliant solution. The team leaned hard into the lore and the films, capturing the essence of the famed archaeologist’s adventures.

Sony debuted the PlayStation on Dec. 3, 1994. Within just a few years, three of the platform’s games defined the blockbuster video game experience. Technical wizardry - for gamers, a sort of 2007 iPhone moment every few years - came to define Sony’s remarkable 30-year run in video games.

Is a civil, functioning democracy as much a fantasy as a world of magic, elves and fairies? This is the troubling question that drives this year’s smartest, most exciting video game, Metaphor: ReFantazio, from the developer Atlus and famed Persona director Katsura Hashino.

The PS5 Pro, which comes with a generous 2 terabytes of storage, promises higher fidelity visuals, and it meets that promise. The problem occurs when you realize the fidelity can’t get much higher.