10 Best Video Games Of 2022

7. Tunic

Formerly an Xbox exclusive now available everywhere, Tunic is that rare type of game that feels built for gamers themselves to apply their knowledge, seek out secrets, and just poke and prod at the world on display.

Very much a tribute to pre-Breath of the Wild, dungeon-crawling Zelda, Tunic's greatest card is using real world-looking scans of old instruction manuals as a tutorial, as a way to flesh out the lore.

Finding another page of these forgotten books millions of us remember from a different era of gaming means more context you'd otherwise have going in, and Tunic's combat slowly rolls itself out with additional mechanics you didn't know were there all along.

Better still, map design here is genuinely outstanding. By using fixed perspective and an original Dark Souls-style overlapping series of pathways taking you back or around older areas, you'll come across a screen from hours ago, emerging from the foreground or from behind a waterfall, revealing a connective path you never realised was there from the beginning.

It is VERY hard for games to maintain mystery in a world of hyper-connectivity and encouraged secret-sharing online, but Tunic's tight combat and supremely impressive design is built for people like you and me.