Despite being mainly a port of Dream Drop Distance, the game easily stands alongside the other A-List entries. It’s probably not high up on everyone else’s list, but I want to give a quiet nod to Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue. – Samantha Loveridge Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue If you’ve got a PS4 – or even better, a PS4 Pro – this is a journey you shouldn’t deny yourself. The flame-haired Aloy is a powerful heroine, full of passion and drive, and she guides you on a story full of mysteries and very human drivers – despite the robot dinosaurs. It’s the most beautiful post-apocalyptic adventure we’ve been on and its approach to monster hunting and open-world exploration is unique and ultimately incredibly enjoyable. However, it was the one game that could give Breath of the Wild a run for its money. Although it was the first game of its kind ever created by Guerrilla Games, famed for its Killzone series. It’s a very dark game using sparse light and a limited palette to great effect.Īrriving around the same time as Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild came another open-world game, Horizon Zero Dawn.

Cuphead got beaten to the draw in 2017 because Hollow Knight is already here with fluid cartoon characters. The best part about Hollow Knight isn’t the classic challenge or trendy tone. And like Dark Souls, Hollow Knight is brutally hard and punishes you dearly for deaths. Like many games in the Dark Souls style, your identity and goals are unclear. You’re a tiny cartoon figure wandering the Metroidvania labyrinths and defeating bosses. They all live underground in the ruins of an ancient society. Hollow Knight is a gloomy take on the 2015 game Ori and the Blind Forest and is set in a depressing universe full of bug monsters and bug people. Platforms: PC, Mac and Linux, with Nintendo Switch coming soon So without further ado, here are FANDOM’s best games of 2017 (in alphabetical order), chosen by those who actually play them: Hollow Knight With games like the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Horizon Zero Dawn already proving to be firm favourites, it’s been quite easy to pull together our list of the best games of 2017 so far. As we hit July and start rolling down the hill towards the end of 2017, it’s a good time to reflect on all the gaming goodness we’ve had so far.

Ps4 best games of 2017