10 Best New Video Game Franchises Of The Decade (So Far)

6. Superhot

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Superhot Team

Superhot is a genius title. It's got a simple aesthetic, yes, but its premise alone is enough to warrant a purchase. I mean, who doesn't want to reenact dozens of action movie sequences in game form? No one, that's who.

The crux of the gameplay centres around the use of time. Basically, whenever the player moves, so do the enemies and objects around him. What follows is a methodical style of gameplay that charges the player with eliminating every bad guy in the sequence in creative and effective ways. At your disposal are assault rifles, handguns, swords, and shotguns, but each one is just as much fun to use.

As you chuck your way through levels using what can only be described as blackbelt gun fu, you'll come to appreciate Superhot's simplistic design. It's an FPS for the intelligent gamer, and one I can only hope sees further exploration in the future.

Content Producer/Presenter

WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.