10 Best Video Games Of 2024 You're NOT Playing

Not to be An Old Ass Man, but I miss the sheer variety of games that were on offer across the PS2 and 360 era in particular. That perfect mesh of solid production values, fun story or characters, and wide enough sales that your average gamer was actually playing most titles right alongside you.

Kunitsu-Gami is a complete return to that feel. Similar to Capcom also letting Dragon's Dogma 2 exist, here we've got a unique hack and slash-meets-strategy game, with levels rendered from real-world dioramas that were scanned in, a traditional Japanese theatre aesthetic, and a TON of polish throughout.

Path of the Goddess absolutely sings. You play as Soh, an entity summoned to protect the titular goddess, Yoshiro, slicing through hordes of the demonic Seethe in moves inspired by "Kagura", a specific form of movement that gives combat a ton of flair. You'll save villagers from evil too, turning them into a variety of roles from archer to sumo wrestler, healer and much more, placing them around the map or giving instructions to form an effective fighting force across each night.

Come daytime and you need to rebuild, systematically cleansing the mountain landscape from all the damage done, unlocking more moves and abilities for Soh, while training up your villagers for the next bout. 

It might all sound a bit jumbled, but every facet of design feeds into everything else. It's the unique juggling of strategy, hack n' slash and even light farming elements that makes Kunitsu-Gami such a big deal; quadruply so in the current industry, where the majority of third-party publishers are terrified of taking any real creative risks.