Gurn
2022
1999
1997
2021
It is a competent and polished shooter featuring many familiar Halo elements but the story is a horse-by-committee mess and you'll have forgotten about the campaign just as soon as you've finished it. I don't think open world was a particularly good direction for the Halo franchise, although traversing with the grappling hook is fun.
2014
The core gameplay loop is nothing groundbreaking (gather materials to build new items that you can then use to explore new areas to gather new materials...) but fantastic environmental design, joyous mobility and a surprising element of storytelling intrigue make Subnautica a paragon of the survival genre.
2016
2019
There's a concise and creative third person action shooter at the core of this game, and then there's some other stuff that may or may not float your boat. I'm not sure if the bordering-on-pretentious narrative presentation worked for me, especially since it's sometimes at odds with the pacy action gameplay. Nevertheless, Control's oddities and failures were interesting to experience.
1996
2015
2019
2015
2018