35. Cyberpunk 2077 (2020)
What it’s about: A mercenary named V finds themselves in a situation way over their head when a job goes badly wrong, beginning a race against time involving corporate agents, immortality, and the cyber-ghost of a washed-up rock revolutionary.
Why we like it: The fall and rise of Cyberpunk 2077 has been nothing short of miraculous. Few expected the game to be released in such an unpolished state, and even fewer expected just how much would be improved by the time the Phantom Liberty expansion rolled around.
CD Projekt RED’s RPG mastery returns in full force here, with an endless array of bleak and beautiful stories to uncover, weapons to wield, and chrome to customize your V with. Night City may be utterly hostile, sucking the eddies, blood, and eventually soul out of anyone who stumbles into its jaws, but this world shines so bright as to be irresistible all the same.
