Ｔｏｐ 𝟭𝟬 Ｂｅｓｔ Ｇａｍｅｓ ｏｆ 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 (𝗦𝗼 𝗳𝗮𝗿)

 

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a 2023 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. The sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017), Tears of the Kingdom retains aspects including the open world of Hyrule, which has been expanded to allow for more vertical exploration. The player controls Link as he searches for Princess Zelda and fights to prevent the Demon King from destroying the world. 

𝟮. 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗝𝗲𝗱𝗶: 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗼𝗿. 

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is an action-adventure game developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. A sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019), the game takes place five years after the ending of the first and continues the adventure of young Jedi Knight, Cal Kestis, as he and his friends continue in their struggle to survive the tyranny of the Galactic Empire. The game was released for the PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on April 28, 2023.

Dredge is a 2023 indie fishing video game developed by New Zealand studio Black Salt Games and published by Team17. The game follows a fisherman who encounters increasingly Lovecraftian creatures as he ventures out further into an open world archipelago. The game was released on March 30, 2023, for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.

𝟰.𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗮'𝘀 𝗛𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗼𝗻. 

Laya’s Horizon is the newest game from Snowman, the studio best known for serene snowboarding games like Alto’s Odyssey. And in many ways, it’s an experience that builds on what the team has done in the past. Instead of boarding through procedurally generated 2D worlds, in Laya’s Horizon, players are soaring through a handcrafted 3D open-world island full of secrets to uncover. It’s one of the best games to hit Netflix’s fledgling gaming service to date.

Resident Evil 4 is a 2023 survival horror game developed and published by Capcom. It is a remake of the 2005 game Resident Evil 4. Players control the US agent Leon S. Kennedy, who must save Ashley Graham, the daughter of the United States president, from the mysterious Los Illuminados cult. The remake has an updated plot, new visuals, characters, cast, and altered gameplay. 

Resident Evil 4 was announced in June 2022 and released on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on March 24, 2023. It received acclaim and sold four million copies in its first two weeks, making it one of the fastest-selling Resident Evil games.

𝟲. 𝗧𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗮. 

Tchia is an action-adventure game developed by Awaceb and published by Kepler Interactive.The player controls the titular character as she explores a fictional archipelago inspired by New Caledonia. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on March 21, 2023.

𝟳. 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲. 

Dead Space is a 2023 survival horror game developed by Motive Studio and published by Electronic Arts. A remake of the 2008 game of the same name developed by EA Redwood Shores, it was released on January 27, 2023, for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S. It is the first release in the Dead Space series since 2013's Dead Space 3. Like the original game, it is set on a mining spaceship overrun by deadly monsters called Necromorphs following the discovery of an artifact called the Marker, and players controls engineer Isaac Clarke as he navigates the spaceship and fights the Necromorphs while struggling with growing psychosis.

𝟴. 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺: 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲. 

Fire Emblem Engage is a tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the seventeenth installment in the Fire Emblem series, and was released worldwide on January 20, 2023. The game follows Alear, a dragon in human form, who awakens from a thousand-year slumber and quickly becomes embroiled in a conflict with the forces of the Fell Dragon Sombron. Alear travels the land of Elyos gaining allies while fighting against the armies of the rival Kingdom of Elusia and Sombron's resurrected undead forces; the player controls and maneuvers Alear's army in these battles. One of the core parts of both the setting and the gameplay are twelve magic rings that contain phantasmal copies of characters from previous Fire Emblem games. Characters wearing these "Emblem Rings" can "Engage" to gain vast power from summoning and merging with these phantoms. Both Alear and Sombron seek to gain control of the rings; possession of all twelve will allow a feat of immense magic to be performed.

Hi-Fi Rush is a rhythm-based action game developed by Tango Gameworks and published by Bethesda Softworks for the Windows and Xbox Series X/S platforms. It was announced on January 25, 2023 and released worldwide the same day.

After years of rumors and leaks, Nintendo finally dropped this glorious throwback to the legendary 3D shooter/platformer from the GameCube days, Prime. And. It. Rocks. Stepping into Samus’s shiny boots once more, the Switch finally has a 3D Metroid title to pair with its fantastic 2D side scroller, Metroid Dread, which released in 2021. Let’s hope they continue to drop Metroid games–at this rate, we could get Metroid Prime 4 before the Switch’s run over.