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"It's not Escape from Tarkov," but an extraction twist gives open-world roguelike Hyper Light Breaker an edge – plus it comes with one of the best indie games of 2016
By Austin Wood published
Hyper Light Breaker comes with Hyper Light Drifter for a limited time

“We loved making this into a goofy, irreverent, and kind of chill experience”: Wheel World celebrates bike culture with its vibey open world
By Alessandro Fillari published
Big in 2025 | Take your bike onto the open road with this strange yet chill adventure game.

The Switch is the one console with a controller that splits in two, but these AGDQ speedrunners still cuddled up to break Zelda: Breath of the Wild
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Player5 and mikeysgone make speedrunning look so cozy

Ex-Starfield lead looks at the open-world game boom and says "you can see Dark Souls and Elden Ring being a secondary trend: let's make third-person action combat really hard"
By Issy van der Velde published
News "Everything became survival crafting because Minecraft became super popular"

You might be ready for Elden Ring: Nightreign, but not as ready as this streamer who completed the RPG like it was a roguelike – 207 bosses, random items, and permadeath
By Issy van der Velde published
News He makes it look easy

Palworld's Feybreak update adds a built-in Nuzlocke mode to the open-world survival game - and a taste of next year's Terraria crossover
By Issy van der Velde published
News There's a lot to unpack here

Light No Fire: Everything we know so far
By Josh West last updated
Feature A fantasy game from the creators of No Man's Sky, where you adventure, build, survive and explore a true open world together

From Dragon's Dogma 2 to Star Wars Outlaws, here's the best open world games of 2024
By Luke Kemp published
Year in Review Year in Review | Here’s the must-play open worlds games of the year that showed us the sky was the limit
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