10 Video Games You’ll Still Be Playing Long Into 2016

By Robert Zak /

1. Rocket League

No overpriced DLC packs, new 'abilities', characters or side-quests are required to keep Rocket League replayable over and over and over again. This football-micro-machines hybrid has captured the imaginations of everyone who has come into contact with it, and skyrocketed it to AAA-level popularity. The fact that matches only last five minutes is incredibly deceptive, giving it a 'one more match' compulsiveness that's impossible to resist. Before you know it, you've played 25 'one-more-matches' in a row and put the controller down only out of mental fatigue and thumb-cramp. The beauty of Rocket League is that the only progression is your own skill level - no de-balancing level-ups or abilities to gain here. The fact that the game quickly became anointed as an e-sport soon after its release is a testament to how high a skill ceiling it has. There's no limit to how much you can keep refining your Rocket League game, and once you get into it you start treating it like training - "need to get in my six hours a week otherwise I'll start going rusty". Psyonix have been generous with the DLC and unlockables too, offering new cars, accessories, and other decorative gizmos both for free and at a small price. But these are just the cherries atop an infinite cake - if you can imagine such a thing - which is set to be a mainstay of the video game scene for years to come. Which games have kept you coming back for more? Leave a comment, or let the whole world know by writing for us!