Rogue Factor’s new third-person action-adventure game Hell is Us is enigmatic, bleak, and frequently sublime. Loaded with intricate worldbuilding and downcast wartime themes, it oozes effort and apparent depth, even if this effect can be smudged by the game's combat shortcomings, occasionally shallow puzzles, and burdensome backtracking. Regardless, as a modern AA title, Hell is Us punches well above its weight, offering a slow-burning sci-fi mystery you can lose yourself in.

Directed by Jonathan Jacques-Belletête – whose artistic vision helped make the 2010s Deus Ex duology so essential – Hell is Us will appeal to weird-game aficionados, and its load-bearing lore and unusual structure hearkens back to those halcyon days stumbling around Lordran on a blind Dark Souls playt

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