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story-rich · under-20h games

For story-rich games under 20 hours, here's what we'd play tonight.

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Path of Exile 2

Punches above its Early Access tag if you want Diablo combat with PoE1's depth — wait for 1.0 if you hate league build wipes.

  • Updated 601h ago

Sword of the Sea

Giant Squid's at the height of their flow-state powers — Sword of the Sea is sand-surfing as meditation, and Wintory's score makes every dune feel monumental.

  • Updated 631h ago

Split Fiction

Hazelight's wildest co-op yet — Split Fiction trades It Takes Two's gentle tone for genre-hopping chaos, and it's their best game in years.

  • Updated 631h ago

Cronos: The New Dawn

Bloober's strongest original IP yet — Cronos pairs 1980s Krakow with post-apocalyptic dread and the kind of sound design that earned them Silent Hill 2.

  • Updated 631h ago

Mafia: The Old Country

Hangar 13 finally remembered what Mafia is — Old Country trades open-world bloat for tight 1900s Sicily linearity, and it's a real comeback.

  • Updated 631h ago

Battlefield 6

DICE finally remembered what made Battlefield Battlefield — modern combat, real destruction, 64-player chaos, gunfeel from the BF3/BF4 era. The comeback the franchise needed.

  • Updated 631h ago

Silent Hill f

Silent Hill comes back swinging in 1960s Japan — Ryukishi07's writing and Yamaoka's score carry it past combat that's still the franchise's weak spot.

  • Updated 631h ago

Doom: The Dark Ages

id traded Eternal's mid-air chess match for medieval ground combat and a parry button — heavier, slower, and divisive in ways Eternal wasn't.

  • Updated 631h ago

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