10 Best Video Games Of 2022

6. Horizon Forbidden West

As the sequel to one of PlayStation's most cherished new-age IP, Forbidden West expanded everything that Zero Dawn set in motion. A gorgeous, year's-best-visuals open world, combat that now comes with multiple RPG skill-trees, unlocks and playstyles.

Machine designs feel even more complex and like living weapon crates, encouraging you to sheer off elemental canisters, firearms and explosives to use on that same target and bring them down.

Forbidden West's secret sauce - and something that was utterly buried under just how much Elden Ring millions of us were playing instead - is how the whole structure of the game actually has a ton of Mass Effect 2 in.

Your home base oozes "captaining the Normandy" vibes, seeing brilliantly written, memorable characters offer side quests, expansions of lore or just great conversation whenever you like. You'll care for this gang of misfits and their interpersonal relationships, and while Horizon Forbidden West is a "more of what you love" sequel, when Guerrilla already knocked it out the park in 2017, there's only so much that can be classed as a negative.