We Got This Covered’s Game Of The Year Awards 2016

7) Dark Souls III

You might say Dark Souls III offers more of the same as previous entries in the series, and you’d be right — but in a series as good as Hidetaka Miyazaki’s, that’s more than enough to recommend it. After some people felt that Dark Souls II strayed from the original games’ success in a few ways, many were happy to see the franchise back on track with this third entry (fourth, really, if you count Demon’s Souls).

Lothric is as dark, eldritch and macabre a world as anything seen in the Souls universe before, and its difficulty — while perhaps not as formidable as previous entries thanks to ample progress-saving bonfires — is still not for the faint of heart. If you’re looking for something newfangled with a lot of old-school sensibilities, you can’t do much better than From Software’s latest.