The best game of 2022 according to Lifehacker
Miscellaneous / / April 05, 2023
We sum up the results of the outgoing year and choose the best of the best. Here is the opinion of the editors, and you can determine the winner by voting.
This year was quite rich in major game releases, which received high marks from experts and a lot of positive feedback from gamers. One of the new products managed to stand out even against the background of such a variety. This, of course, is about Elden Ring, which we boldly give the title of the best game of 2022.
Elden Ring is an amazing combination of soullike mechanics and RPG with a large open world. It gave players freedom of movement and the ability to explore dangerous locations without too predictable linearity and monotony. And this bet justified itself - the project turned out to be really interesting even for those who have never been a fan of Dark Souls and Bloodborne.
Complementing the picture of Elden Ring is a stunning visual style, a lot of possibilities for personalizing the hero and relatively low entry threshold, which allows everyone to get acquainted with this incredible the world.
For a long time, Elden Ring's main competitor for us was Horizon Forbidden West, which also turned out to be quite an interesting, albeit extremely familiar game. However, at the end of 2022, God of War Ragnarök came out, which really managed to sow a seed of doubt in us.
The new journey of Kratos and Atreus is one of the best adventures of this year. But, as with Forbidden West, the game has built an old, well-known working formula into an absolute. Ragnarök certainly deserves attention and all the praise, but Elden Ring has provided a previously unexplored and deeper gaming experience that will be remembered for a long time.
Also new for this year is Stray's mustachioed masterpiece, the tense medieval drama A Plague Tale: Requiem and Dying Light 2: Stay Human, which gave us the best parkour.
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