From Sherlockian murder mystery to Hollywood missing person via the mystical Lands Between, it’s been a gripping year
1. Elden Ring
FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Hidetaka Miyazaki’s expansive fantasy game, conceived in collaboration with Game of Thrones author George RR Martin, brings to fruition the themes and ideas explored in his previous games in the Dark Souls series. Mystical, challenging and often intimidatingly open-ended, this is a sumptuous world that rewards curiosity, inspires resilience and promotes collaboration with strangers.
2. Immortality
Sam Barlow; Half Mermaid
An intoxicating blend of film and game, Immortality tells its complex, decades-spanning story via a series of disparate but interconnected clips snipped from three unreleased Hollywood films. The movies share a lead, an apparently ageless actor whose identity and fate you must uncover. Best played with a notepad and pen, you assume the role of a cinematic gumshoe in an editing suite. Groundbreaking work.
