The real problem is that, once one of your soldiers dies, they’re gone for good. (Some of those aliens get pretty scary, though.) The game is a heady mix of turn-based strategy, military tactics, and base management, all with a pleasingly sci-fi twist. XCOM 2 sees you taking charge of an anti-alien task force, fighting the extraterrestrial invaders with a growing group of military personnel, while attempting to regain territory, learn more about your opponents, and co-opt their (much more advanced) technology for you own uses. What’s that? Permadeath means that, when you die, you’re dead, and there’s no carrying on after that point. XCOM 2 is a go-to example for games that feature permadeath. With three Dark Souls games in the past decade, a samurai successor in the form of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and the thrillingly gothic Bloodborne, developer FromSoftware has given us plenty of gruelling games – but we can’t stop grinding our way through them.ĭark Souls Remastered is available on PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Nintendo Switch (Thanks a lot.) More than anything else, Dark Souls proved there was an audience for truly challenging titles, and that many gamers didn’t want to be hand-held throughout the process. It also featured quite unforgiving mechanics like dropping all of your currency at the point of death, and having to journey back to same area to pick it up – naturally coming face to face with the monster that felled you in the first place.
The original Dark Souls game released in 2011, and kicked off a new craze for difficult combat and unrelenting enemies, requiring players to die, again, again, and again in order to progress through its bleak – if lovingly realised – medieval fantasy world. You can’t talk about unforgiving games without mentioning Dark Souls. You’ll be able to revisit the place of your passing to pick up the currency you dropped at your death, but you may have to crawl through a lot of dangerous tunnels to get there. It’s not easy, and checkpoints – usually benches for your character to rest on – are just sparse enough to make every encounter feel tense. Hollow Knight separates itself from other Metroidvania titles with its distinct art style (mysterious underground bug city? Count us in), and its nods to the Dark Souls series, with tough boss fights and the strangely aloof citizens of its subterranean setting. Secrets sit around every corner, and the sense of satisfaction you get when you backtrack to a previously-inaccessible location once armed with the right skills is unsurpassed in all of gaming. You know the score – you're placed in the center of a sprawling map that slowly reveals its scale as you unlock new abilities to traverse increasingly difficult traps, and take on ever-more monstrous foes. Hollow Knight is one of the best games of recent years in the metroidvania style.
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