TYOA: 8 Forgotten Video Game DLCs You NEED To Play
Sleep on these underappreciated DLCs no longer.
DLC can be that sweet, delicious cherry on top of an already brilliant game - a follow-up that adds crucial backstory, introduces new characters, and perhaps even reinvents the core gameplay loop in a stunningly clever way.
But not all great DLC gets the flowers it deserves, as this list will categorically prove.
Some fantastic DLCs simply haven't been given their time to shine - quite the opposite, in fact. Some have largely been forgotten by the masses - if they were even aware of their existence in the first place.
And that's absolutely the case with these eight video game DLCs, each of which came and went in the blink of an eye for one of many reasons.
Perhaps the base game was a disappointment to many fans who simply couldn't be coaxed back with a quality DLC, or maybe the DLC was released long enough after launch that everyone had basically moved onto other games.
Whatever the reason, these DLCs absolutely deserve your attention, because they're some of the most creative, surprising, weird, and downright fun we've ever had the fortune to play...
8. Middle-earth: Shadow of War - Desolation of Mordor
Middle-earth: Shadow of War launched to a relatively mixed reception, many complaining about its bloated open world, poor story, and grotesque implementation of microtransactions.
And so, by the time the Desolation of Mordor DLC was released seven months later, all but the most die hard of players were done with the game and had little interest in returning to it.
But Desolation of Mordor was a brilliantly bold DLC which saw players take control of a mortal man, Baranor, the Captain of Minas Ithil, while introducing a roguelike structure which saw progress reset upon death.
This naturally made the DLC feel very different from the main game, while the dusty new region of Lithlad was a breath of fresh air, and with a mere three-ish hour play-time, it was snappy and concise in all the ways that the core experience wasn't.
But again, Shadow of War's launch left such a sour taste with many that there was simply no coming back for this DLC, no matter how good it was.