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3. What Remains Of Edith Finch

Slay the Princess
Annapurna Interactive

Giant Sparrow's follow-up to their acclaimed adventure game The Unfinished Swan is, like their debut, a title that avoids easy categorisation, offering a unique spin on a seemingly familiar genre, and in turn offering up one of the most unforgettable video game stories ever told.

Yes, What Remains of Edith Finch is a walking simulator in the truest sense, albeit one that goes above and beyond what that reductive label might suggest.

An ambitious, multi-strand tale centered around its embattled title character, the game fluidly skirts from one genre and style of play to the next amid its anthology of fascinating stories, each utterly entwined with the rest and leading towards a mesmerising payoff you won't soon forget.

And given that it's just two and a half hours in length - barely the runtime of a new movie these days - it's also a refreshingly streamlined experience, boiled down to its most entrancing components and yet creating core memories that'll stick with, even haunt you, for years to come.

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